Lieberman starting petition drive (just in case)

Clicking the graphic above will take you to the "No Republican Lites" section of jc's Cafe Press store. There are so many pictures I *could* have used to accompany this story, but refrained out of consideration for those among you, my readers. This, for example, would have been right out. This would have turned a few stomachs as well.

Okay, who are the Democrats who stepped forward and endorsed Joe Lieberman in the primary--presumably because sticking together is what good Democrats do? I know that Barack Obama did, and that was certainly a disappointment. But I'm pretty sure a number of other Dems with national name recognition did as well. We should start contacting them and asking if they plan to withdraw their endorsements in light of today's news.

From the Hartford Courant: Lieberman To Start Petition Drive

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is to announce today he will petition for a place on the November ballot as an "independent Democrat," giving him a chance to stay alive politically should he lose an Aug. 8 primary for the Democratic nomination.

Read the rest here.

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Update, courtesy of Time Magazine, some of the Democrats who have thrown their support behind Joementum.

Lieberman, of course, also has powerful backers. Reid, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have all spoken or written letters encouraging Democrats to back him. He said Joe Biden, another Democratic foreign policy hawk and a likely 2008 presidential contender, will come to the state and campaign for him. And Lamont says as recently a few weeks ago, even as he was investing hundreds of thousands of dollars into his campaign, Charles Schumer, the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, asked him to drop out. Schumer has told colleagues he thinks that if Lieberman lost the primary, it would send a bad signal to moderate voters and might hurt the party's chances of winning Senate seats in places like Montana and Missouri in November.

Will they be withdrawing their call for loyalty to Lieberman now that Lieberman has made it clear that his own feelings of "party loyalty" will not keep him from running as an "independent Democrat" if the voters of Connecticut do not choose him in the primary?



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