You may not have seen it, but there are a number of folks here that think we are spending too much time on CT-Sen. So strongly do they feel this way that they have repeated this sentiment in 8 million comments and 900 diaries. Most of us remain unpersuaded by their argument. Now some in the other blogs have decided that they too should add their voice to this call. Josh Marshall's
guest poster adds his important voice:
Should progressives shift their money and attention from the Connecticut Senate race to more important contests? Absolutely.
. . . Lamont v. Lieberman is a carnival sideshow, a titilating and distracting spectacle. Rove is the carnival barker. So ignore the hoopla and keep moving on down the midway, folks. The main event is still to come, and it will be in places like Montana, Missouri, and Ohio. We've come too far to get side-tracked now.
Heh. Thanks for that insight. So original the thinking. Anyway, this DK person gets worse. I'll you about it on the flip.
Atrios responded with a very strong point:
I always get annoyed when people write something like this:
Should progressives shift their money and attention from the Connecticut Senate race to more important contests? Absolutely.
I'd like more of that advice going to, say, the people who gave money so that Hillary Clinton could have $22 million cash-on-hand. Does Bill Nelson need $12 million to run against Katie Harris? On the House side, does Marty Meehan, who won with 67% of the vote last time, really need to have 5 million bucks in the bank?
This genius guest poster at TPM has a petty response:
Call me crazy, but I think I'll stick with criticizing the circular firing squad that is the Lieberman-Lamont race, rather than focusing on whether everyone has their fair share of bullets, as Atrios seems to want to do.
What a boob. A circular firing squad? He thinks Joe Lieberman is in our circle? Frankly, I am left scartching my head as to why Josh has him guest blogging after that one. Josh's call of course.
He prefers to start a circular firing squad is what is obvious. Presumably he is comfortable with Lieberman. His choice of course. Most of us are not.
Anyway, Atrios delivers the smackdown:
The point is that the amount of money that has come from "progressives" to Lamont is a drop of the bucket in the grand scheme of things and most of it is "found money" and not diverted money. While the Lump of Campaign Cash fallacy is popular it's one of the more annoying ones.
Look, there's always a more important cause and a more worthy candidate. I don't know why someone who thinks that there's too much attention paid to the Lamont/Lieberman race thinks the best use of his/her time is to "stick to critcizing" that attention. If the thing is bad, presumably the meta-thing is worse. Some float above, some dive in.
But, anyway, this race is about more than Lamont now, it's about 3 important House races that Lieberman's going to ratfuck with all of his Republican pals. Attention must be paid by time wasters like myself because too many of the powers that be have apparently forgotten that they do, indeed, have a Lieberman Problem. It's not a circular firing squad, it's the implicit Republican candidate (Lieberman) versus the explicit Democratic one (Lamont). Joe's going to try to win by bringing Republicans to the polls, and when he does it won't be the fault of Lamont supporters, it'll be the fault of Lieberman and Dems who failed to confront him.
I hope TPM Guest Blogger understood that. Personally I sincerely doubt it. I imagine he will revel in his newly created circular firing squad. Nice job there TPM. Way to fight for the Dem team.