Liberal warblog celebrity Ned Lamont was last in the news back in 2008, when he sat down for a lengthy interview (“Hey are you Ned Lamont?”) with Wonkette’s Jim Newell aboard a shuttle bus in Denver, can’t remember the occasion. And before that, Lamont was a pin-up for the Daily Kos webzine, and then poor Ned proved he could not even beat Joe Lieberman, the world’s most hated sack of medical waste. So what will Ned do now, many years after people quit asking?
His “2010 Exploratory” website is not open to the public — we tried every variation of “Lieberman” and “shit dildo wriggling around” at the user/password prompt — but reports from the liberal media say that today, possibly this morning, Ned Lamont will announce that he’s running for governor of Connecticut, which is the same state that keeps electing Lieberman as its senator.
Republican Gov. Jodi Rell isn’t running for re-election, and Lieberman hasn’t yet announced that he’s running as an “independent,” so who knows, and ultimately, who cares? [Hartford Courant]
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Quick, start a Draft Letterman movement!
What kind of perks do you get for being Connecticut’s governor? All the nutmeg you can eat?
He’s a decent human. There’s no way he can make it as a politician.
Jodi Rell? Who ever heard of him (her?)? And why do all these wealthy people have to run for office? Why can’t they just buy art and houses in Aspen, or whatever, but most of all, why can’t they STFU? So many questions, so little time.
So who’s gonna run against LIE-berman? Considering he’s finally exposed himself fully for the card-carrying scumbag loser he is it shouldn’t take much to defeat him. Then again, this IS the Dems we’re talking about. They’ve made snatching defeat from the jaws of victory an absolute art form.
Too bad he can’t run on “I’m not Joe Lieberman, the guy I’m running against” or “I will vote against the Iraq War” this time.
[re=513470]Joshua Norton[/re]: At least according to Wikipedia, there’s a rumor of Nader running as a Green. That would truly be an epic battle of egocentric douche versus egocentric douche.
Ned should run as the candidate from the Lieberman for CT party.
Must have been a slow day for shuttle passengers if that many seats were empty. Mrs. Lamont (or whoever is in the window seat, too busy to pose along) could recline/ play handheld wi-fi or even perform low-impact yoga without fear of neighbors’ reprisals being taken out on her travel companion.
This country needs more great public servants like Rell, Bayh, and Palin to admit they suck and just quit.
I hear that Ned Lamont never blinks. Kind of like Hannible Lecter.
Ned’s disavowed Comintern papa, Corliss, ran twice (lost) for a Senate seat in NY: 1952 (American Labor Party); 1958 (Independent-Socialist Party).
Ned’s hobby day job is running a smallish cable/data services company that generates some cash flow, particularly the captive-audience homeowner association market, through HOA fees and some closed-circuit college systems, too.
He should just as soon start a boutique financial services firm, with Evan Bayh.
[re=513490]JMP[/re]: Is Nader the Levantine version of Harold Ford? I mean, doesn’t Ol’ Ralph live in DC? How’d he run in Connecticut, then?
Ned, how about a “I’m not Joe Lieberman” platform? That’s probably better than anything you got.
[re=513584]Long Form Def Certificate[/re]: Ralphie is a native of the Constitution State. I believe Winsted… or some place up there in the NW – where the indigenous population completely hates him.
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