Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Miscellany on Lamont

The guy who defeated Joe Lieberman:

Well there's more to his background that the press didn't report. He's a blue blood, social register type WASP whose grand-uncle was the famous humanist, pacifist ACLU leader, Corliss Lamont.

The family, all Ivy League Wall Street types were eastern establishment Republicans like the Rockefellers and the Bushes until they went over to the Democrats in the seventies.

One can hardly hold his grand-uncle's problems against him, but...

2 comments:

Disgruntled Car Salesman said...

The good thing is that Liberalman is going indie, and the pubbies will pick up another seat. Thats dummocrats being dummocrats.

Dad29 said...

The Pubbies will NOT win a seat in Connecticut.

The choice is Lieberman or Lamont.