Media-crity

In response to the unfortunate situation I found myself in last week in which I felt unable to refuse to sign the Lieberman as Independent petition last week, I’ve decided to use my blog here to quite enthusiastically endorse Ned Lamont.

I’ve had my reasons over the years to dislike Good Ol’ Joe. We just don’t agree on most things. His witchhunt for media he felt was corrupting our children. His assertion during the height of the Terri Schiavo mess that government should get a say in such personal matters. The war. The war, the war, the war.

Always humming underneath those more pressing issues has been his inability to just accept defeat. He’s always gotta have a back-up plan. When he was Gore’s running mate, it was his trusty Senate seat. Now that he’s in a forced primary for that Senate seat, it’s … his trusty Senate seat, but this time with a scarlet “I” on his chest.

He’s a political whore that needs to keep his options open, rather than settling down with one role. If he got VP, it would have been “See ya, Nutmeggers!” but since he didn’t get VP, the state was all too happy to welcome him back like a litter of kicked puppies hoping that maybe, maybe, maybe this time master would let them sleep in the house. Now, if he doesn’t get the democratic nom, he’ll just run in the back door as an independent and split the vote. That bastard is going to split the vote. If he truly cared about the direction of this state, and the democratic stake in the Senate, he’d let the chips fall where they may.

Joe, if the chips hustle your ass into political obsolescence, the Joementum yourself to the shuffleboard court. More than your political prostitution and your cuddly Republican-in-sheep’s-clothing stances, you’re trying to cheat this state the chance at fresh blood it deserves.