Lieberman, The Bush Kiss, Bloggers, and Tuesday's Connecticut Democrat Primary

Think Progress wrote of the Newt Gingrich appearance on Fox this morning that riled me substantially; during it, Newt once again spins propaganda, and accuses Connecticut of having a dangerous "insurgency" of people who want to remove Joe Lieberman. Some of you will remember Newt from about three weeks back when he suggested it would be great for the Republicans and GOP candidates in November if they can whip the Israel-Lebanon-Hezbollah (Hizbollah) mess into World War III and scare the populace into voting GOP. Lovely, eh?

This was followed by Lanny Davis, former Clintonite who serves as part of Lieberman's campaign machine in which he partially blames bloggers for hateful rhetoric against Lieberman and called "The Kiss" (the one where Bush kisses Lieberman while giving the metaphorical finger to all the rest of the Dems) a propaganda spin.

Hey, I will agree with Lanny - but hardly nasty Newt (aka Gangrenous Gingrich) - that spinning a campaign around the infamous kiss IS wrong. The kiss speaks more about Bush than it does about Lieberman, although I am left to question why he allowed it to happen.

But bloggers aren't going to sink Lieberman. Lieberman has and will sink Lieberman, and that would happen probably even without a strong a candidate as Ned Lamont has shown to be. Lamont himself, we must remember, was an ardent Lieberman supporter. It was Lieberman who turned on a dime to support everything Bush said and did and Lieberman who scolded Dems and Independents for not "playing ball" with this president who demands that everyone agree with him or be ostracized and invalidated.

If Lieberman found it politically expedient to become a Bushie, fine. But he will pay the price on Tuesday when the Democrats in Connecticut choose Lamont. And he'll pay the price in November when his indy run loses again to Lamont.

And for Newt to call Connecticut - the state of my birth and where I spent most of my life - an insurgency just speaks to Newt's desperation to be considered still a player. No one will elect Newt president in 2008, regardless of the crap he pulls.