TIME: Why the Republicans are loving the Lieberman loss

[Rude Horner]

I'm telling ya folks...I'm just about to blow a fucking gasket. I'm beyond pissed at the right slanted media. If I had my hand on a button to launch the missiles at the media right now, I just might.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1224692,00.html?cnn=yes
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Gleeful Republicans across the country mocked their opponents as isolationist "Defeat-ocrats," as Mehlman put it, and even some Democratic officials said they can already imagine the ads in November races saying that Lieberman, once within a few hundred votes of being Vice President of the United States, is now "not liberal enough" for the Democratic Party. Republican officials, who have had little but bad news for months as Iraq festered and U.S. voters showed increasing signs of pessimism and discontent, said the Lamont victory gave them a chance to paint Democrats as a party that had become captive to the liberal wing symbolized by the MoveOn.org civic action group. Mary Matalin, an outside adviser to the White House, signaled the message when she said on Fox News Channel shortly after the polls closed: "MoveOn is not fringe. They're the heart of the party."
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Lamont winning was the result of a Democratic election. The same kind of Democratic elections that repubs are always saying that we need to push onto Iraq and the rest of the Middle East. Yet when that Democratic process chooses someone they don't agree with, they say it's due to a bunch of radicals. A majority of the people chose one candidate, and the media lets them portray this MAJORITY of voters as being far left wing!! I'm so pissed right now....:nuke:

[Monkeyman]

1. SWiftboating will start hard

[wanpete]

2. yep, the lies are ramped up and in full bs mode.

[Botany]

3. The goal matters not the facts

[TN al]

4. Mike Allen was on KO tonight

and he showed his rightward leanings there too. This is just an editorial dressed up to look like a real news story.

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Forget it, man, the 'Pukes are whistling past the graveyard. . .

and pissing in the wind.

:evilfrown:

[Cha]

6. They can frame it anyway they

want..joe lieberman kisses bush in public and he's gonna pay baby. bush's polls are in the toilet and lieberman can smooch him to his heart's content.

[AX10]

7. The media in this country is on par with that of the USSR.

[fencesitter]

8. Didn't every one see this spin coming?

I did

[bronxiteforever]

9. American foreign policy in the crapper because of the boy prince

and his war-a major supporter of that war loses his primary and this is good for the repthugs? Trying to cover up the DISASTER that is obvious shows that this is just another LIE.
If we lose because of what we believe so be it-but no more mealy mouth rethug lite DLC swill.

The country has been ruled by the fanatical right wing for 5 years and they have crushed the spirit of the country and killed its daughters and sons.-Its not the left wing but the fanatical right wing and their clerics who have driven the republic to the ground and it will be progressives who bring her once again to her feet!

[quisp]

10. easy now, bro...

the DLC are having some VERY serious discussions tonight 'bout whether NoMo Joe will run. Faux News just have their panties in a wad because they only wrote one story arc and Lamont wasn't in the first one.

[yurbud]

11. tough shit--here's a way Dems can look tough stand up to GOP & DLC

[Vidar]

12. I cancelled my subscription in 1990 & have never regretted it.