Susan Bysiewicz, a former Connecticut Assemblywoman and Secretary of State, has announced her intention to challenge Independent Senator Joe Lieberman in next year's much-anticipated Senatorial election. The Senator is expected to seek his fifth term next November, but odds are he will be unable to survive the election.
Bysiewicz is known for successfully pushing an Amendment to the Connecticut State Constitution in 2008* that will allow seventeen year-old residents to vote in future Presidential primaries if they turn eighteen before the general election in November. The Progressive Huffington Post has already declared Bysiewicz a challenger "from the left".
Joe Lieberman famously left the Democrat Party in 2006 after Ned Lamont defeated him in the primary, due to Lieberman's unwavering support for the War on Terrorism, and particularly in Iraq. Most Republicans united behind Lieberman during the general election, but with an increasing focus on fiscal, and governmental issues within the movement - the right is bound to support their own challenger as well next time around. Unless the Republican Party is able to convince Lieberman to either join our ranks: unlikely, or moderate his policies - even more unlikely since he's a man of devout principles and convictions, he will face a two-pronged threat in next year's Senatorial election, leaving him with very little hope of finding an outlet of supporters.
Any thoughts?
* - Passed with 64% of support.
I always admired Senator Lieberman as a man of principle. That is, until he ran with Kerry. I felt that he abandoned them during that campaign. However, that being said he has more principles than all of the Democrat senators combined.
ReplyDelete