( Connecticut Democrats haven't been reading the Daily Kos blog site. They're supposed to dump Lieberman. A new Quinnipiac poll of Democratic voters finds Lieberman trouncing his primary opponent, Ned Lamont, 65 - 19 percent. The poll also found that "only 15 percent would vote against a candidate based only on his position on the war.") Posted on April 30, 2006: Unlike John Edwards, who supported the Iraq War when running for president before abandoning his position to cozy-up with the Left, Sen. Joe Lieberman remains a profile in courage. From today's Washington Post:
"I'm not surprised that there's a primary challenge," Lieberman conceded. According to a February poll by Quinnipiac University, 61 percent of state voters said invading Iraq was the wrong thing to do. But the former Democratic vice presidential nominee said he will not back down from his position. "It's one that I believe is in the best interests of the country," Lieberman said recently, after a trip to the Middle East. If he has put his job at risk, he said, so be it.