Feingold on Lamont win in Connecticut

[DeclinetoState]

U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) today threw his whole-hearted support behind Democrat Ned Lamont, who defeated U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman in a Connecticut primary yesterday.

Many analysts are looking at the race as a referendum of sorts on the Iraq war, which Lieberman supported.

Here is Feingold's statement:

"I congratulate Ned Lamont on his primary victory and enthusiastically endorse his candidacy. In this primary election, Democrats in Connecticut showed the Washington establishment what Democrats and Progressives all over the country are demanding - elected officials that stand up for the core American values we all share. From fighting for universal health care to demanding an Iraq policy that makes sense and puts our focus back on the terrorist networks that wish to do us harm, the Connecticut primary was about the core issues Americans talk about around their kitchen table every evening.

"I have a lot of admiration for Joe Lieberman. He's a fine man and he helped me a great deal on campaign finance reform. But Ned Lamont's positions on the critical issues facing our country today are much closer to mine. We need more leaders like Ned Lamont in Washington and I look forward to working with him on a wide range of issues in the U.S. Senate."

Feingold is in Milwaukee today to attend a luncheon at the Milwaukee Press Club. This evening, he will headline a fund-raiser for Democrat Bryan Kennedy, who is running against U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.).


JS Online (http://www.jsonline.com/watch/?watch=1&date=8/9/2006&id=9734)

Just what we need: another Democrat named Kennedy in the Senate.

[DesertFox]

I wonder when it became a "core American value" to leave a job half done just because it was hard.

[DoctorDoom]

How surprising that a Bush-loathing RAT leftist would heap effusive praise on another Bush-loathing RAT leftist.

In this primary election, Democrats in Connecticut showed the Washington establishment what Democrats and Progressives all over the country are demanding - elected officials that stand up for the core American values we all share."We" of course means DemocRATs and "Progressives", not the American people.

As for their "values", since when do hatred, defecating on the Constitution, compromising with evil, appeasing terrorists, betraying our fighting forces, and giving aid and comfort to America's enemies constitute "American values"? Have cowardice and treason become "values" in the RAT lexicon?

"I have a lot of admiration for Joe Lieberman. He's a fine man and he helped me a great deal on campaign finance reform. But Ned Lamont's positions on the critical issues facing our country today are much closer to mine.Translation: "Joe is a liberal, but he doesn't monomaniacally detest President Bush or want to cut-and-run in Iraq. Lamont does, and thus he's the kind of sleazy, worthless RAT son of a bitch that I and my fellow RAT bastards admire."

We need more leaders like Ned Lamont in Washington and I look forward to working with him on a wide range of issues in the U.S. Senate."There are only three "issues" that interest Feingold and his fellow RAT scumbags: 1: satisfy their obsessive lust for regaining power in Congress; 2: destroy President Bush no matter what it takes; 3: sell out America to those who want to destroy her.

If the RATs ever retake Congress, the USofA will die.

[Beowulf]

Core values of America, eh? Guys like Ted Kennedy represent alcoholism and murder but Massachusetts voters (minus Doc) keep electing him every 6 years.

Anyway, Democrats seem to think those core values are the slaughtering of the unborn, campaigns based on hatred, government control over everything and turning on those who fight for this country.

Feingold, you're a putz.

[PaulRevere]

... they also stand for weakness, cowardice, and defeatism. Their dream of seeing the world including the USA fall to communism in a fatalistic inevitability seemed to be happening after the 'Rats Congress cancelled support of South Vietnam in 1975 and the whole region quickly fell, with mass murder and a flood of refugees fleeing Indochina. Clear up until Ronald Reagan assumed office, communism was on the march worldwide.

If the Rats have their way, the same fate will befall Iraq: the Iraqi government is a bastard child of George Bush and must be killed. However many millions of people are killed in Iraq and the region is of no consequence to them. It's fate, and for the greater good.