Lamont Continues To Blunder

What an obnoxious post at the official Lamont Campaign blog. Let me get this straight, to hurt Lieberman, his opponent is bragging about what looks like a fascist tactic of denying someone an ability to be heard via the Internet? Is that what Lamont's idea of democracy is? I hardly see this as a positive, and certainly not something worthy of bragging about.

And these vendors who are allegedly denying Lieberman service don't have much to brag about either. Suddenly independent, or heaven forbid, Republican dollars are no good, assuming one happened along? That isn't business. It's trying to close off debate and limit one's speech. There was a time when I thought that was precisely what the Democratic Party was about.

Evidently it's no longer true. And bragging about it on his website does not make Lamont look Senatorial at all. I thought he kicked the web kids off the show for the general election? Pity the Lamont Campaign has absolutely no class. I hope the voters of CT do.

But there’s even more interesting information on that front. It seems major Democratic technology groups are turning down Senator Liberman’s(sic) (Lieberman-CT) offers to provide technology support in his go-it-alone re-election campaign.

First was Blue State Digital. When approached by the Lieberman campaign, their response was “Thank you for your inquiry about Blue State Digital’s technology services. Unfortunately, we cannot be of service to the Lieberman campaign. We work exclusively with Democratic candidates.”

Many ironies here, folks. First, Blue State Digital does our technical work, and provides our tools for meaningful online participation. That Senator Lieberman’s staff didn’t know that is another sign of their web-incompetence. Second, it’s the Blue State tech team we offered to send them on election day as they cried foul over their website “hack” to anyone with a camera, microphone, or steno notepad.

And after Blue State Digital, Plus Three closed the door as well. In a similar fashion, the company told Senator Lieberman to find another vendor, they too will not work with the Connecticut for Lieberman Party.

I wonder … what Democratic technology vendor would work with Senator Lieberman this election cycle? With all the damage he is doing to the Party in CT and across the country, coupled with the online support we have earned … who?

Comments

[OR]

Well of course you expected no less from the party of tolerance.

[Peacerose]

Thanks for the heads up! I wrote about this also in Rat Chat. What a way to follow up the whole "where the forces of slime meet the forces of evil" debaucle?

[dg]

Is it really possible that you are this dense? Since when is it "fascist" for a private company to decline to provide services to an individual when such services are freely available elsewhere?

In case you're interested, here's a portion of Blue State Digital's mission statement.

"Who We Work With
We work with Democratic candidates, progressive institutions, and corporations. We are partisan in the candidates we work with-- we work with Democrats and progressive organizations. We look for opportunities and causes we believe in. We have a solid track record in helping Democratic candidates and organizations win."

Last time I checked, Joe Lieberman was NOT a Democratic candidate.

[rwilymz]

"Last time I checked, Joe Lieberman was NOT a Democratic candidate"

Yet he's still a Democrat. That's a mighty sharp blade you got on that hair-splittin knife.

[Sherlock]

"Fascism: any movement, ideology, or attitude that favors... centralized control of private enterprise..." (MSN)

Granted using the word "fascism" is over the top here, but it is not completely irrelevant, given the way that these particular private businesses define themselves rather strongly along one political dimension, and how the Democratic candidate's organization openly calls for like-minded businesses to refuse to do business with their opponents.

And then there is the guffaw factor inherent in watching Democrats lecturing on the proper use of the term "fascist" - a word they apply at the drop of a hat to anyone that they regard with disapproval (see Dixie Chicks, Howie Dean, Al "digital brownshirts" Gore, Kos, DU... shall I continue?). Democrats complaining about hyperbolistic use of the word "fascist" - now that's a true "man bites dog" story!!

[clearwaterconservative]

Lieberman is now the republicans' darling.

After winning in November Lieberman is planning to resign to take the position of Secretary of Defense. Afterwards the republican Connecticut governor would appoint a republican to replace Lieberman in the senate.

For us republicans it's win-win. For Lieberman it's sweet revenge.