Newshour Interview.
GWEN IFILL: OK, well, that leads to my first question: Why are you doing this? Why are you running as an independent?
SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN: Well, I'm doing this because I want to continue the discussion that barely got started during the primary campaign when my opponent distorted so much of my record.
I'm doing it, also, frankly, because I'm fed up with the partisanship in Washington and the way in which primaries have skewered our whole political system, where people on either end of the spectrum tend to dominate primaries and it leaves out all the people in the middle. I want to offer a choice to all of the people in the middle in November.
And the premise of my campaign to the people of Connecticut will be quite simple: This is about the future. This is about your future. And you've got to decide which one of us, Joe Lieberman, Ned Lamont or the Republican candidate, can do a better job for you. And I think, on the record, I'm the person who can do that better job.
Sheesh.
Lieberman [link|http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-senmoney0729.artjul29,0,2988497.story|outspent] Lamont, he has been Senator for 18 years, and Lamont has only been running for 8 months, yet Lieberman just barely was able to get his message out.
What a whiner.
Lieberman has the incumbent disease. He thinks he's entitled to die in his seat in the Senate (unless he decided to do something else). If someone gets more votes than him for his seat, it's because the system has been corrupted.
Earlier, I thought Lieberman would drop out after putting up an effort for a few weeks and receiving enough entrieties from Lamont and the party big-wigs. But after hearing that interview tonight, I'm not so sure. He sounds like he believes he has to save the party...
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.