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Joe-mentum Turns to No-mentum

by James Buchanan

In a stunning upset victory, Ned Lamont has unseated three-term incumbent and “conscience of the Senate” Joe Lieberman. The only thing that most voters know about Ned Lamont is that he opposes the Iraq War, but that was enough for Connecticut voters to pull the lever for Lamont. This upset must be especially troubling for all the Republicans whose popularity has been eroded by one embarrassing failure after another by the Bush administration.

Lieberman has threatened to run as an independent in November. It’s unclear how someone, who can’t even win his own party’s primary, thinks he can win a general election. Most voters will see Lieberman as a sore loser, who has no chance of winning. The Democrats want to win in November and voting for Lieberman is a sure way to lose. Also, the November election may prove that there are swarms of anti-war Republicans in Connecticut. Their votes could easily make up for any die-hard fans of the nerdy and obsolete Joe Lieberman.

Contrary to the propaganda on Fox News, there is MASSIVE opposition to the Iraq War. A Zogby poll of American soldiers in Iraq found that 72 percent thought the war should end in a year or less. If the soldiers don’t support the war, why should anyone else? Most Americans do have a conscience and don’t want the blood of American soldiers on their hands. Every single American death in Iraq has been unnecessary. There is not one real accomplishment that Bush can point to that justifies staying in Iraq and losing scores of dead and hundreds of horribly maimed soldiers every month.

The one thing that could save the butts of the Republicans would be a strong stand against illegal immigration. Too bad for them, Bush insists on pushing his guest worker/amnesty program, which has all the appeal of a barrel of poisoned Kool Aid. Still, many Republican Congressmen will defy Bush and take a tough on immigration stand and survive the November election. Republican Senators have been notoriously pro-war and soft on immigration. It’s entirely possible that the worst carnage in November will take place in the Senate.

The defeat of Joe Lieberman is a great victory for the anti-war movement and will energize millions of Americans, who thought their main issue would be ignored in November. Hopefully a number of Republicans will desert the pro-war neocons and come out against the war in Iraq. That would be the sweetest victory of all –if the rabid, Zionist neocons suddenly found themselves deserted by the party they hijacked in the year 2000. With the defeat of the neocons in November, then, finally, we could get out of Iraq and get on with the impeachment.