Now that a working majority of Connecticut voters see Holy Joe Lieberman for the lying swine he is, the trick is to get these messages across IN TIME

"The public can see the truth, whether it is the truth about Lieberman or any other corrupt warmonger in any other part of the country. That reality should encourage us all in our ongoing work to get the truth out."
--David Sirota, in a new blog post, "Another Poll Shows Public Sees Lieberman's Lies"

Say, didja hear where Connecticut's finest (not!), Sen. Holy Joe Lieberman, is ticked off at being accused of warmongering just because of that resolution laying the grounds for war on Iran which he and that other peerless prince of peace Arizona Sen. John Kyl shoved through the Senate? No, no, His Holiness pules! Dontcha see, we're trying to prevent war!

Unfortunately for the Ghostly One, it's getting harder for him to fool anyone with:

(a) an IQ in the double digits or higher, and

(b) a shred of honesty.

Have you noticed how quickly these days serial Democratic turncoats--like California's Senator DiFi--are branded "the new Lieberman"? And everyone knows what it means. (And there sure are a bunch of 'em.)

For many months now we've heard rumblings from Connecticut that significant numbers of the Lying Likudnik's constituents have caught on to the fact that during last fall's general election campaign they were hoodwinked by the shameless one's unremitting barrage of outright, bare-faced, utterly unapologetic whoppers.

Last night David Sirota posted this blog entry:

Another Poll Shows Public Sees Lieberman's Lies

Back in September, Kos commissioned a nonpartisan poll that found that if Lieberman-Lamont election were held again, Lamont would win. In a post about Kos's poll, I cross-referenced the poll with our internal poll numbers from the campaign, showing how the voters who would change their votes are those who realized Lieberman lied when he promised voters he would help end the war if they reelected him. Now, a Quinnipiac University poll confirms that Connecticut voters have woken up to Lieberman's dishonesty.

Here are the key results, as reported by the Connecticut Post:

Among the 52 percent of those polled who said they voted for Lieberman in 2006, 78 percent said they would vote for him again today if given the chance, and 15 percent would switch to another candidate.

Among those who would switch, 58 percent cited his stand on the Iraq war while 41 percent said they would switch for different reasons.

As a whole, 61 percent disagree with Lieberman's position strongly supporting the war in Iraq. Meanwhile, 71 percent said they disapprove of the way President Bush is handling Iraq.

By my math, 78 percent of 52 percent is just 40 percent - pretty damn abysmal for a sitting U.S. Senator. Most of that 15 percent attrition would likely go to Lamont, of course, meaning Ned would have won in a landslide.

Why mention any of this? Because it is just another reminder of the value of educating the public on the issues. Lieberman won for no other reason than the fact that he successfully tricked a public that desperately wanted to believe he opposed the war they hated. It was very difficult to break through his lies - but it is nonetheless encouraging to know that in just a year since the election, the public has seen the truth. It means the public can see the truth, whether it is the truth about Lieberman or any other corrupt warmonger in any other part of the country. That reality should encourage us all in our ongoing work to get the truth out.

As he usually does, I think David's got the angle on this exactly right. It's too late to rerun the Connecticut Senate race. But rumor has it that there are some other elections coming up in the next year, starting with rounds of primaries at all levels.

As we've learned repeatedly, especially in the years of the Bush regime, it's often difficult "to get the truth out." There are powerful forces arrayed against it. (I'm not sure that Cheney, Bush, and their cronies have perpetrated any single more lastingly harmful outrage than their deadly assault on the very concept of truth.) But the very terror those forces feel in the face of the truth underscores the importance of getting it out.

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