Voters of Connecticut, Think About What You're Doing

While the Lieberman campaign tries to make a show that their candidate is a regular guy who stands for himself as an independent candidate, let's make one thing perfectly clear:

A vote for Joe Lieberman is a vote for George Bush.

If you vote for Joe Lieberman, you're voting to support an indefinite and criminally corrupt war effort in Iraq. Never mind the window dressing of Lieberman's half-hearted call for Rumsfeld's resignation: it's easy to throw a sailor overboard and still support the captain. Lieberman is a Bush ally through and through and will support the war in Iraq as long as Bush and his allies ask him to do so.

If you vote for Joe Lieberman, you're voting to support the corrupt campaign tactics that the Bush team and its cohorts have been perfecting to undermine any real discussion of important political issues in this country. Whether you are a Republican, Democrat or an independent voter, you have to be appalled that our election system has degraded into a system of smear tactics and big-bucks ad campaigns that are designed to confuse and mislead voters at every turn. Joe Lieberman is using the same consultants, advisors and tacticians used by the hate machine behind George Bush. A public servant is not a can of coffee or a tube of toothpaste: the voters of Connecticut don't need Madison Avenue or "K" Street Washington think tanks to tell us how to think for ourselves and to make intelligent decisions about our future.

If you vote for Joe Lieberman, you're voting for a man who has supported far-right causes at every crucial juncture that they required his vote and support. His support of social issues that are not affecting the monied interests that are behind Joe Lieberman allows him to be the "wolf in sheep's clothing" that has made him such a useful figure to the radical interests that are behind his tenure as a Senator. Joe Lieberman is a tool of the Bush interests that are turning the lives of average Americans into a horror show as we struggle to get medical care, decent jobs and a sense of security based not on surrendering our liberties but on using our liberty to look fearlessly at our most pressing problems. He will vote one way and act another, supporting the Bush interests again and again.

Joe is not alone in this. There are many politicians who have fallen prey to the siren's call of power politics, be it for their own personal gain or their vanity. He's a person who has values that have been corrupted by that desire for power. The people of Connecticut need to take responsibility for the leaders who we send to Washington to represent us. It cannot be a "he's a good guy" vote if that "good guy" is not shooting straight once he gets down to Washington. Think about how YOU would want our government to run. If you want to continue crony politics, shady under-the-table deals that cost taxpayers untold billions, the corruption of our political process and support for a phony war on terrorism that has taken the lives of our sons and daughters while failing to address our real security needs, then vote for Joe. But if you want to take responsibility for the real needs of Connecticut and stand up to the corruption of the Bush administration then you have to vote otherwise.

A vote for Joe is a vote for Bush. It's that simple. Make your choice from there.