Reply #12: Ture, but virtually the whole national Democratic Party backed Lieberman

[Tom Rinaldo]

across the board. And it is also true that Barbara Boxer came out to CT from CA just to campaign for Liebeman, in the Primaries. Barbara Boxer that DLC stooge. The strong support shown Lieberman crossed ideological lines - in the Primaries.

Hillary had that weekend meeting with Lamont after he won the Primary and after that came through with some concrete support for Lamont, beyond a basic endorsement. She could have done a lot more to help him than she did, granted. Few National Demorats went out of their way to help Lamont and our Senate leadership was being very careful to promise Joe in public, AFTER the primary, that he would not be stripped of Seniority if won as and Independent and caucused with the Democrats.