The Rational Liberal

Ramblings and rantings of a tired liberal who in no way will become a conservative.

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Joe.Joe.Joe

Now Joe decides to blast his own party (and his own constituents) and he wonders why he lost? So he goes to cry to Waterbury and he gets this great quote from Mayor Jarjura; "I think in a primary you are dealing with a very limited audience." So why the FUCK! do they decide to run in a primary anyway? Why spend money and waste party voters' time when anyway regardless of the decision you are going to run? Because it is easier to run under a label. However, our friends refuse the label and then wonder why the base of the party rejects them.

The funny thing about Joe is that he supposedly refuses to play partisan politics. But in these times where partisan feelings are the rule, intending to go to the so-called center, is basically diminishing the strenght of your own side? If then, why don't you Joe switch to the Republican Party? Maybe because you're too liberal for them, what a conundrum. On one hand you have a guy who is too conservative to be a Democrat, on the other he is too liberal to be a Republican. That might be a good thing, except that you undermine your own party in the ISSUE that matters the most at this moment!!!!!!!!!! Dude, get over yourself and realize that many of us who rejected you did it because we had no option...we have to stand up to Bush and the Republicans and if you don't have the balls to do so, we do. We haven't become more liberal, just angrier.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Ned Lamont in The Colbert Report

Ned Lamont just appeared as a guest in The Colbert Report. If his idea was to lure the stoner, college-age type like me...well he got my vote. Anyone who has the balls to speak truthiness with the King of Truthiness should get our vote. While he didn't do a great job, he was able to hold his own against Colbert's nonsense and that's worth something. Ned you got a true believer tonight, I finally jumped the fence