--- Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:54:29 -0400 "Jerry Monaco"
>
> > Mike,
> >
> > The campaign staff might be nice and generally
> wish for a better
> > world, but
> > frankly Mike I don't get it. Why work up
> enthusiasm over a guy who
> > has a
> > moderately liberal program? He might be a good
> protest vote but
> > what else
> > is he? Eugen Mccarthy in his time was a genuinely
> contradictory
> > conservative in a very classic sense, and a good
> protest vote
> > against the
> > way. Lamont is a genuinely middle of the road
> liberal and a good
> > protest
> > vote against the war. Is there any reason to
> think otherwise?
>
> None that I am aware of, even though as Marty Peretz
> reminded
> us the other day, he is from the stock of Corliss
> Lamont. But
> despite Marty's best efforts to smear and redbait
> Ned in this
> manner, there is no indication that his politics are
> anything
> but a tepid liberalism, much more in the tradition
> of Thomas
> Lamont than in the tradition of Corliss.
>
> Jim F.
>
> >
> > Jerry
>
He's a solid progressive, well to the left of most
other Senators. That's worth a couple cheers. Plus my
friends on his campaign staff are not just "nice,"
they're hard-nosed ball busters who helped bring down
a Repub gov and passed all sorts of progressive
legislation in CT. They're poised to do the same in DC
if they can get there. That's worth a couple of beers,
and I've had some tonight, so good night now from the
People's Republic of Connecticut.
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