A favorite disparaging remark about Joe Lieberman in recent years was to refer to him as the Republican senator from Connecticut. That’s become closer and closer to the factual truth in the last couple of weeks. It was shameful that Lieberman abandoned the Democratic party by thwarting the will of its voters in the 2006 primary. According to an article in the NY Times, the GOP has all but officially endorsed Lieberman in the race. The GOP’s own candidate is a complete joke, registering the lowest polling numbers of any major party candidate ever in some polls.

Lieberman is the choice for Weekly Standard editor and neoconservative leader William Kristol. In the Times article, Kristol states “Foreign policy hawks and Bush doctrine believers and prowar types, we want Lieberman to win.”

There’s the choice for Connecticut voters. Do you want the pro-Bush, pro-war candidate of the neoconservatives, publicly endorsed by the likes of Kristol and Newt Gingrich? Do you want a mainstream democrat with well developed positions on a wide array of issues? If it’s the former, you vote for Lieberman. If it’s the latter, you vote for Lamont.

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