Lieberman out?
Certainly his constituency doesn’t seem happy with him, as this post, written by at The Swingstate Project shows:
Now, let’s get back to DTCs. If the state Democratic convention were held right now, Lieberman wouldn’t have the votes to get the nomination without doing some very, very, very serious arm twisting–and even then he might not have the votes. Maybe the population still likes Joe Lieberman, but his friends in the Democratic Party are having second or third thoughts about him. To some it’s the votes, to others it’s the war, to still others it’s the Dem-bashing rhetoric, while others are concerned about the spectacle of Lieberman at Bush’s elbow when Bush signs some particularly un-Democratic piece of legislation. But even more telling is that his good friends, people who’ve known him for 20 or 30 years and who came into politics with him or came up in the party with him, don’t want to be associated with him. Months and months ago, many of them, independently, contacted Joe or his close associates and made it clear that Joe was doing himself and the party no good by kowtowing to the Bushies and by continuing his strong support of the war.
After I asked my polite question to Lieberman at State Committee last week, I started getting emails and calls from people telling me that they, too, are seriously disturbed about Lieberman’s political stances. The day after the State Committee meeting, there was a meeting of 4th C.D. town chairs at which Mitchell Fuchs, the Fairfield DTC chair, lambasted Lieberman for his votes, his coziness with the Bushies, his stance on the war, etc. One town chair sent me the following email: “Tell him he doesn’t have to come to XXX either, unless it’s to announce he isn’t going to run again.” Another town chair told me, “We hate him here!” He probably doesn’t have many friends on State Committee either. When he responded to my question by saying that he had a 70 percent favorable rating, someone in the back yelled out, “From Republicans!”