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October 12, 2006
New Lamont Ads: Vote for the Entrepreneur
No sooner did Kesher Talk plead for more details about Ned Lamont's business career than he obliges with new TV ads that highlight exactly that. The Thursday New York Times fishes the turbulent waters of the CT Senate race and brings forth this tasty tidbit:
Mr. Lamont, for his part, is promising a new strategy this week to better coordinate his message that Mr. Lieberman abandoned his duties to the state, and try to turn his own inexperience into an asset by saying he can help change Washington. Whereas his earlier television advertisements focused on the war in Iraq and labeled Mr. Lieberman as a turncoat — a message that conflicted with his campaign-trail emphasis on his own business experience — the new ads will center on his own career and the overall agenda he would bring to the Senate.
The move comes as polls show Lamont lagging incumbent Joe Lieberman. And the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles has a new column by its editor in chief, Rob Eshman, with the provocative title, "Democrats Have No Beitzim." Going against the progressive Democratic line, Eshman says this:
American Jews are moderate, pragmatic about security and idealistic about what government can and should achieve. And they prefer to win. If the Democrats can run campaigns -- and candidates -- that excite a broad swath of the Jews, they will appeal to a broad swath of America. Perhaps that's why the current state-of-the-art treatises on reinvigorating the Democrats have been written by Jews: Peter Beinart's "The Good Fight: Why Liberals -- and Only Liberals -- Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again" and "The Plan: Big Ideas for America" co-authored by Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel.
A gathering this week at the Bel Air home of Mitch and Joleen Jubis, scheduled for after press time, can only bring this point home. Dozens of Jewish supporters of Joe Lieberman are paying $1,000 per person or more to hear the Connecticut senator. Lieberman lost his bid in the Democratic primary to the anti-war candidate Ned Lamont, so he is running as an independent, cut loose by his party. The list of supporters on the invitation is a who's who of well-heeled Democratic and Republican Jews. Republicans may like Joe because he'll deprive the Democrats of one more Senate seat. But then many Democrats like him for displaying what has long gone missing from their party leadership: toughness, a desire to win and an adherence to principle. In a word, beitzim.
If you don't know what beitzim means (I didn't), just read the article.
Van | 10/12/06 at 05:58 PM | Categories: - GOTV '06 to '08
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Beitzim ...... I haven't read the article yet, but I can guess. :-)
Judith | October 12, 2006 06:50 PM
Judith, "beit" is Hebrew for "house," of course, while "zim" is a corruption of "zinfandel," so the term "beitzim" is a reference to wine cellars.
Van | October 12, 2006 07:41 PM
