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Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: Senator John Kerry REFUSES to Endorse Lieberman in Democrat Primary election

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Incumbent U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., with his wife, Hadassah, left, left, greet supporters and he announced outside the state Capitol in Hartford, Conn., Monday, July 3, 2006, that if he should lose the upcoming Democratic primary against challenger Ned Lamont, he will collect signatures for an independent campaign.

The Boston Globe: Unlike some peers, Kerry not endorsing Lieberman in primary

Senator John F. Kerry announced yesterday that he will support whoever wins next month’s Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut, despite the decision by incumbent Senator Joseph I. Lieberman to run as an independent candidate if he loses the primary.

The announcement was made a day after a similar declaration by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who, like Kerry, is considering a presidential run in 2008.

These are such bold moves by Kerry and Clinton……

NOT

Of course, they will support the winner of their own Democrat Party’s primary elections – DUH.

However, what is not been said in these statements is that they are appeasing the far Democrat Left in quasi supporting anti-Iraq War candidates, like Ned Lamont in Connecticut.

But unlike Clinton, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee — all of whom pledged to support Lieberman in the primary — Kerry is declining to choose between Lieberman and his Democratic challenger Ned Lamont, said Amy Brundage , a spokesman for Kerry’s political operation.

Further evidence of a split between mainstream Democrat leaders and the netroots politics of the Democrat LEFT typified by Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga and his blog, The Daily Kos.

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And what is Kerry’s rationale for not supporting a neighbor incumbent Senator?

Lieberman is NOT a veteran.

Kerry is endorsing only candidates in contested primaries who are veterans.

`Since Kerry has made his personal mission for 2006 electing veterans to the House and Senate, he’s likewise only taken sides in Democratic primaries to back candidates who are veterans,” she said. “Connecticut will choose the Democratic Senate nominee, and John Kerry will support him.”

What loyalty but then again Kerry has demonstrated his disloyal nature in selling out the Swift Boat Veterans, hasn’t he?

The Democrat Left will be burning many bridges with the moderate wing of the party. 

This will only help the GOP in the Fall.

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Ned Lamont, left, who is challenging incumbent Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, talks to Walter Chambers, right, of Storrs, Conn., while Lamont’s wife Annie looks on at the Boom Box Parade in Willimantic, Conn., Tuesday, July 4, 2006

Flap would love to hear the Senate cloakroom conversation when Senator Lieberman confronts Senator Kerry for Kerry’s lack of cojones to endorse him for re-election.

More bad blood in Democrat primary elections means easier races for the GOP in November.

Stay tuned…….

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