GOP PRIMARY IN MICHIGAN MAKES LAMONT/LIEBERMAN MATCH UP LOOK LIKE A GAME OF PATTY-CAKE

Although as Lieberman keeps sinking in the polls and his campaign gets more and more desperate and he calls for more assistance from GOP storm troopers instead of just the Republican-lite DLC clowns, in reality this primary has been pretty mild. I mean the media has tried to sex it up a little but a truck driving around the state with paper mache figures of Lieberman and Bush smooching is as close to "wild" as it's come. (We'll see if this changes now that Lieberman has hired thousands of Young Republican fart boys frat boys from all over the East Coast to invade Connecticut between now and Tuesday. But I'm guessing they'll be too drunk to do any serious damage to anyone but themselves.)

The media is falling all over itself bemoaning how the "Democratic crazies" are "purging" the party just because the fine incumbent is pro-a-little-tiny-inconsequential-thing-like-the-Iraq-war. They never seemed to get too upset when the far right of the Republican Party (financed by the Club For Growth) went after Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter last year or how right wing nutcase Steve Laffey (again, financed by the Club For Growth) is "purging" Lincoln Chafee. And they certainly don't mention the primary in Michigan's 7th congressional district. "Huh?" you ask?

Last May I looked at this district because some progressive groups were thinking about supporting the fake moderate there, Joe Schwarz, because he's being challenged by a far more right wing Club For Growth loon, Tim Walberg (by now you should have figured out what the Club is trying to grow: a cadre of dedicated fascists inside our government).

This week the Jackson Citizen Patriot reported a far more violent Republican primary-- albeit one ignored by the mainstream media-- than anything going on between Connecticut Democrats and Lieberman. "A combative congressional race took a criminal turn Monday, when U.S. Rep. Joe Schwarz's Jackson campaign office was vandalized with an anti-gay slur. Someone scratched a slur into Schwarz's head in one poster and scratched out his eyes in another..."

Although Walberg's decidedly far right, hate-based campaign is hysterically denying having participated in the vandalism, the campaign can't deny that they have done all they could to arouse passions and anti-gay hysteria in the district. Walberg's whole campaign, in fact, sometimes seems to be based on gay-bashing. Schwarz, a conservative (though non-fascist) Republican-- i.e., more a Reagan Republican than a Coulter Republican, which is exactly what Walberg is)-- is against gay marriage but has not backed the lunatic right's demand for a Constitutional Amendment.

With every big name Republican celebrity in the country campaigning for their boy Duplicitous Joe, no one is paying much attention to MI-07. The Republican primary there is this coming Tuesday, the same day Connecticut Democrats determine the fate of Lieberman and his Republican sponsors.