Can it really be that as yet only one writer in the political mediasphere, bloggers or journalists, has thought to compare Joe Lieberman’s Tuesday night concession speech non-concession:
As I see it, in this campaign we just finished the first half and the Lamont team is ahead. But, in the second half, our team, Team Connecticut, is going to surge forward to victory in November.
With his infamous 2004 New Hampshire primary self-delusion:
We are in a three-way split decision for third place!
Apparently so. Beating me to the punch is none other than David Sirota:
You may recall that after he was crushed in the New Hampshire primary, he proudly boasted that “we are in a three-way split decision for third place” — as if he really thought voters were stupid enough to think that was a good thing and that he was well on his way to winning the nomination. Similarly, today he is claiming that the Democratic Party primary election is just the “first half” of the election process — again, thinking voters are so stupid they don’t see that what he’s really doing is giving the big middle finger to American democracy.
I wouldn’t call Lieberman’s stubborn refusal to admit the obvious after the first primary a “middle finger to American democracy,” but it strikes me as a valid argument this time around.
The comparison is reason enough for me to believe that, despite the rumors, Lieberman will stay in this one to the bitter end. And really, no matter what happens, bitter is how it will be.
P.S. If that wasn’t reason enough, this might be.
