NYT endorses "Not Lieberman" *Updated*
The NYT today wrote an endorsement of Ned Lamont that strangely mentions almost nothing about Ned Lamont. For the NYT, it all boils down to one thing:
He and Mr. Bush are still on the very same page, encouraging the American people to believe that there is a happy ending for American involvement in Iraq, and that all it takes is the perseverance to keep marching toward the end of the rainbow.
Save for the war, Ned Lamont's positions are not mentioned. For that matter, Leiberman's aren't either. The entire endorsement is a nutty wild-eyed "Leiberman = Bush so vote Lamont because he's not" rant.
It's so pathetic and narrow I'd be surprised if it wasn't taken as an insult by Connecticut voters.
BTW, I cheer for neither. Lieberman, despite his views on the GWOT, is a liberal through and through. Ned Lamont is simply an empty shirt who apparently can't form complete sentences without his handlers flapping his lips. I just think it's a pity that the NYT apparently thinks the voters in Connecticut are that one-dimensional.
Update: What does Ned Lamont's biggest fan and full-time cheerleader think of the Times belittling the voters of CT as sad one-dimensional comic-strip characters mindlessly blinded to all but the NYT's BDS-driven hatred for Joe? No surprise here:
"I think this rocks."
And from the comments, a somewhat dark and disturbing reason to vote for Lamont. Well, what apparently passes for one from this FDL commenter:
...Joe has a lot of nose hairs and that really bothers me.
Hmmm. Is that what it really sounds like?
Gee, I sure hope not. Such tolerance. Very, very sad.
Update 2: Here's an example of an endorsement that actually considers the candidate being endorsed.
Update 3: Come to think about it, I can't imagine this spurring a whole lot of high-fiving over at Lamont headquarters. Lamont can't be happy about getting an endorsement based on nothing more than "we hate Joe". Kinda like being the next to the last guy picked at a sandlot game - nobody wants him, but they want the last guy even less....
