Informed Speculation

Kevin Rennie has been no fan of the Lieberman campaign, as regular readers of the Hartford Courant know, so when a man with friendly eyes looks at Lamont and finds the man wholly lacking in qualifications, you know there’s something to it:

Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont is having trouble moving from the small stage of a primary campaign with its appeal to partisans to the main stage of the general election, which requires the attention of the state’s 2.1 million voters. Since the Aug. 8 primary, Lamont has done little more than repeat his opposition to the war in Iraq and carp about Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s independent bid for a fourth term.

Part of the problem in getting to know more about Lamont is that he has no record in a public office that required him to take stands on issues. He is mostly free to make it up as he goes along. Lamont did get nabbed when he recently took a swing at Lieberman for criticizing then President Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal. Oops, turns out he sent a rambling letter to Lieberman in 1998 praising Lieberman and calling Clinton’s behavior “outrageous.”

The public has to look at the fragments it can find of Lamont’s private life to figure out what sort of public figure he would be. The man who seemed a fresh force in the spring is starting to look like a contrivance as the fall begins.  

I urge you to read the whole thing here…