The Connecticut for Lieberman Party

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Connecticut for Lieberman is the name ofincumbent Connecticut U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman's new personalist political party. Party members were recruited from among supporters who rallied to him after his humilating 2006 Democratic Party primary election by the real Democrat in the race, Ned Lamont. Liberman would go on to win the general election because he recieved so much support from pro-Iraq War Republicans.

Ironically, and sadly, Lieberman got his start as an anti-Vietnam War Democratic candidate. Howevver power corrupts and Lieberman either lost sight of the values that once motivated his entrance into electoral politics or his other loyalties to the purposes of the neo-conservative agenda trumped his former liberal values. Before he became the patheric "independent Democrat" in the U.S. Senate, Lieberman served as the second Bush administration's favorite Democratic politician because of his enthusiasm for the War in Iraq. He and the tiny handful of Democrats who still support Bush's imperialist adventure have become contemporary throwbacks to the Democrats for Nixon.

Neo-conservatism emerged first among Cold War Democrats who continued to support the U.S. War in Vietnam long after most Americans realized it was an awful mistake.

The Lieberman 25

The twenty-five people signed the senator's papers to kick-start the new political party.

Williams Henderson from Niantic
Lynn Fusco Hughes from Guildford
Bishop Theodors L. Brooks from New Haven
Sandra McKinnie from New Haven
Dominic F. Balleto Jr. from New Haven
Vincent Mauro Jr. from New Haven
William Donahue from New Haven
John Courtemanche from New Haven
Eileen M. Donahue from New Haven
Nicholas Neely from New Haven
Barbara Segaloff from New Haven
Mary M. Heslin from Hartford
Barbara Hennesy from Hartford
Juan A. Morales from Tolland
Mary Ellen Cody from South Glastonbury
Patricia M. Russo from New Canaan
Carla Squarito from Manchester
Kiley Gosselin from Suffield
Charles J. Duffy from New London
Susanne Brody from New London
Cleveland Christopher from Stamford
Harold Berstein from Stamford
Harvey F. Bellin from Weston
Wiley Mullins from Easton
William J.Carroll from Stratford
Daniel Papermaster from West Hartford
Beth Papermaster from West Hartford
John R. O'Connor from West Haven
Robert C. Shanley from Orange

External links

• "Connecticut for Lieberman" article on Wikipedia