Posted on 12/17/2009 8:35:48 AM PST by The Old Hoosier
Extremist elements of the party railed and rioted against the alleged moderation of their candidate. The result was an overthrow of the local party establishment and an exciting three-way election in which the extremists were ultimately defeated.
This is not about events in 2009 when liberal upstate New York Republican Dede Scozzafava was handed her party's nomination and faced a conservative opponent in what has become an infamous congressional special election. It refers, rather, to the 2006 race in which the angry Left tried to end Connecticut Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman's career.
The episode is especially relevant now that Lieberman has changed the course of the congressional health care reform debate with his objections to a government-run insurer and expansion of the fiscally crippled Medicare program...The resulting outcry against Lieberman from supposed Democratic "thinkers" is as immature, nasty and shrill as anything town hall protesters dished out to their members of Congress this summer.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
*ping*
False equivalence.
Lieberman was dropped by his party in favor of a leftier leftist, yet still won reelection as an Independent.
Scozzafava was selected to replace a GOP candidate, and her extreme liberalism prompted a conservative challenger. She then promptly supported the Democrat, who still only won over the third-party candidate by a few thousand votes.
Lieber-ping
Scozzafava/Romney 2012
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Thanks hp. Another helpful reminder from the partisan press that Joe Lieberman is a Jew.
Impossible Numbers Certified in NY-23
Gouverneur Times | November 28, 2009 | Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.
Posted on 11/28/2009 5:09:14 PM PST by TBP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2396090/posts
Thanks hp. Another helpful reminder from the partisan press that Joe Lieberman is a Jew.
Impossible Numbers Certified in NY-23
Gouverneur Times | November 28, 2009 | Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.
Posted on 11/28/2009 5:09:14 PM PST by TBP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2396090/posts
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