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Reply #93: You're still confusing the primary and the election. [View All]

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Donald Ian Rankin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-10-06 06:21 AM
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93. You're still confusing the primary and the election.
They're to decide two completely different things.

I find very striking the number of people who keep saying "Lieberman LOST", while carefully glossing over *what* he lost. As I pointed out elsewhere, "lost" is a verb that requires an object - you don't just lose, you lose *something*, and what Lieberman lost was *not* the election to the Senate.

Lieberman lost the election to decide who would be the Democratic candidate for the Senate, not the election to decide who would be the Senator.

"He should have run as an independent in the primary" is not a sensible argument. In the primary, Lieberman was *offering* to run as a Democrat. The Democratic voters decided not to accept that offer, as they were perfectly entitled to do, and so he was freed of all obligation towards them. I'd have even less sympathy for him than I do currently if he *hadn't* made that offer, and had simply left the Democratic party unilaterally.

Not to mention the impossibility of running as an independent in a Democratic primary...
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