At least Joe's got his priorities straight. It's Connecticut's reponsibility to be for Lieberman, not the other way around.
The Connecticut Post has an article today on the deceptive Lieberman
ad which shows a fake, mocked-up Lamont bumper sticker - done in the
exact style that Ned has his own bumper stickers. And a fake website.
In other words, the entire political advertisement is based on a lie.
William Scher, of Northampton, Mass., exposed the phony bumper sticker Sunday on his Web site, liberaloasis.com.
The ad ran Sunday on Hartford's WTIC-TV, during "Fox News Sunday." It
was also shown during C-SPAN's airing of the Lieberman-Lamont debate,
where Scher saw it.
Scher said his wife wanted to purchase the bumper sticker to
display her anger at Lieberman, but he found that nomorejoe.com was not
an active site; it had been used two years earlier in a county
sheriff's race in Arizona.
"Their central argument is that Ned Lamont has nothing to say beyond
'I hate Joe Lieberman.' They couldn't find any tangible evidence of
that, so they had to make it up," Scher said.
His discovery was quickly picked up by other liberal bloggers whoexpressed outrage at Lieberman's use of a false image - even though
many of them have embraced images "doctored" to highlight their claim
that Lieberman is too close to President Bush.
Yep,. you are absolutely right that people are disgusted by politicians who lie in their campaign commercials. Again, from FactCheck.org:
Further, the website on the sticker featured in the ad,
www.nomorejoe.com, does not exist. The page is currently blank.
Nomorejoe.com is registered to Highground Inc. of Phoenix, AZ. A
spokesperson for Highground told FactCheck.org that the domain name was
purchased in 2004 as an independent expenditure for a local campaign
against Sheriff Joe Arpaio and has no affiliation with the Connecticut
Senate race.
Overall, the Lieberman campaign is well within its rights to
argue that Lamont's campaign lacks a positive message and is simply
"anti-Lieberman." But creating false campaign material and
passing it off as authentic? That seems at odds with the ad's praise of
Lieberman's "principles." (emphasis mine)
When you have reached the point in your political campaign where
you have to openly lie about your opponant to find some basis of
attack, you have gone way over pathetic into desperation and crapola.
Joe just keeps making things worse for himself. And I don't think he's
capable of stopping his tailspin, because it would require a depth of
character he doesn't possess. We'll just keep seeing more of the same
as Joe digs his own grave, and whines himself into it.
