Lieberman needs to get out of this race, ASAP. I don't think I stand alone when I say that, as an American patriot, the last 6 years have been unbelievably devastating. When Bush was elected in 2000, I didn't agree with the result, but I did not see a reason for alarm. After all, he supposedly belonged to a new brand of "compassionate conservatives." How much harm could be done in 4 (fuck, 8) years, after all? And Lieberman has done nothing to stand up to Bush's transgressions, hence his loss.
Then 9/11 happened and Bush rode that wave to re-election in the most obscene fashion in 2004. Watching the Republican convention that year was like a Halloween scarefest. Not to mention the "heightened alerts" every 5 minutes on the news.
Whatever happened to those? But I digress.
Today's race was extremely close. We cannot claim a mandate with 52%. This, from redstate.org:
"At the end of the day, movement Democrats have told the Lieberman Democrats that the latter are no longer welcome at the table. The Lieberman Democrats cannot be expected to take this lying down, and they won't. The result of this clash will likely look hauntingly similar to the clash over the Scoop Jackson Democrats in the 1970's. In politics, there is rarely anything new under the sun, after all."
We absolutely cannot allow a Lieberman independent run to fracture the Democratic party at a time when we have an unprecedented opportunity to retake both houses of Congress. We cannot allow the mainstream media to use Lieberman's candidacy against us. We must do everything possible to keep this blue seat blue.
I implore you to write to your Democratic Senators and Congresspeople to encourage them to discourage Lieberman from his smuggly egotistical independent candidacy.
Lieberman must withdraw, for the good of the party.