It’s Pandemo-Ned-ium
247 words.
I haven’t read any news or commentary yet today, mostly because I don’t particularly want to hear anyone gloating about Ned Lamont. His primary win is pretty depressing news.
On one side, we had Joe Lieberman, a guy who was crucified essentially for having an opinion and sticking with it. (A politician actually lost because he didn’t flip-flop!) On the other side, we had Ned Lamont, a crazy-looking media millionaire who will say or do anything to win, backed (with plausible deniability) by an Internet hoard of DoS hackers and Photoshop artists desperate for validation. (As a side note, we also had Kos running around all over the cable shows before the primary trying to tell everyone that the blogs have nothing to do with anything — an obvious attempt to distract regulatory attention away from his growing thought-control empire and his prominent hyperlinks to sites that raised some $300k for Lamont.)
The Connecticut primary result shows that elected officials must never be authentic and voice a challenging opinion; they must always speak in bland, nebulous language that can be interpreted to represent any side of any issue. America is starting to look like an episode of Futurama. Sign me up for that Voter Apathy party!
Anyway, I for one congratulate Lieberman for taking a stand against this madness by running as an Independent. It’s an excellent statement about how first the Republican Party and now the Democratic Party are both too icky to associate with anymore.
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