Okay, this is getting too silly.

You couldn't find one person who's in support of this proposal Fred?

This sore-loser proposal is a no-brainer and make sense. Why have a primary if you can just ignore the results of your party and run as a independent? The primary battle between Ned Lamont and Joe Lieberman ultimately was a great waste of money and time for the party as a whole as Lieberman used a loophole to his advantage. If Lierberman would have just ran as an independent in the first place, the Democratic Party could have saved a great deal of money but instead, Lieberman used the party to his advantage (money, GOTV), only to dismiss the results of the primary and run as an independent.

Many people would support fixing the loophole that allows politicians to file as a third party candidate after the primary and Connecticut is only one in four states that doesn't have a law like this in place. Unfortunately, you wouldn't get that impression if you read Lucas' article as it's clearly one-sided. In fact, why did he need to get comments from politicians in the first place, Lucas could have simply wrote about the proposal, talked about the loophole and left it at that. Instead, we get an opinion piece as Fred gets reaction from selected people and it doesn't make any sense.

If you look at his past articles on the senate race, has the oppurtunity to watch Lucas' strange senate question during the 5thCD Congressional debate, heard his question Chris Murphy about Joe Lieberman last week, and Lucas'current blog entiry, you begin to see a disturbing one-sided political pattern.

Here's Lucas's last blog post.

Lieberman said on Meet the Press Sunday he would not rule out caucusing with Republicans under certain circumstances. True, the statement came from some high pressure questioning from Tim Russert, but Lieberman nonetheless left the potential open.

The Economist magazine called him the nation’s most influential senator. Most political analyst say the slim 51-49 Democratic majority, makes Lieberman ultra powerful.

If the Dems irk him and he caucuses with the Republicans, it creates a 50-50 Senate. That would put Vice President Dick Cheney in charge of casting tie breaking votes.

Joe knows how powerful he is, and he's letting Democrats know he knows how powerful he is.

Now this is silly on so many levels but when you add this with everything else Lucas has wrote in the past, alarm bells should go off in your head.

Joe Lieberman is never going to caucus with the Republicans because doing so would be political suicide. The Democrats are in great position to capture more senate seats in 2008 and Lieberman knows this. If he jumped ship, Lieberman could kiss his senority goodbye come 2008 and he would be toast come 2012. Every political pundit and insider in D.C. knows what Joe is doing right now and are not threatened by Lieberman's statements. In the end, people in the know realize that Joe Lieberman is in the game for one purpose...Joe Lieberrman. As a blogger who's watched and know people in the media it's fair to say that most reporters who know about Joementum know what Lieberman is doing right now...just stirring the pot and attempting to keep the spotlight on himself for as long as possible.

Unfortunately, Lucas didn't get that memo or failed to read it.

Several people are beginning to take notice and are criticizing Lucas' reporting.

The only reason The Economist calls him influential is because they know his vote can be bought. Lieberman can bloviate all he wants about crossing the aisle.

LET HIM! I dare him to. I double-dare him to! lol

He can go ahead and do that but a look at the Senate elections in 2008 shows that it would slip Lieberman into obscurity as fast as fast can be.

Does anyone think the "Lieberman For Lieberman" party is going to let its only candidate slip into the abyss of 4 years of irrelavence in the Senate that is in store for any GOP members left after 2008?

And ALSO consider the cold hard reality that Lieberman has been salivating over becoming relevant in a committee for ages. He has that job on the Dem side of the aisle. Do you think the GOP would bump its senior members to make room for Liberman? They are already battling a completely fractured base and don't need Joe to become another HUGE wedge in their already feuding base.

Show a little common sense Fred. Joe can talk until his face turns red BUT he will stay on the blue side of the aisle unless the Democratic party kicks his lobbyist bought'n'paid-for-ass to the curb AGAIN!

And don't be too surprised if the Democratic party does kick him to the curb if wahbaby Joe tries to hold the voter approved Democratic agenda hostage...

AGAIN, Lieberman isn't going anywhere. He knows that jumping ship would be like putting a knife to his throat as all the leadership needs is a reason to cut him loose and they'll do it in a heartbeat.

EVERY SINGLE REPORTER INVOLVED IN REPORTING POLITICS KNOWS THIS which is why this lovefest Lucas has with Lieberman is borderline annoying.

Again, can he find anything else to report on in a local newspaper such as LOCAL NEWS?!?

Can we have a followup on the Common Council broadcasting ad-hoc committee?

Can we have a followup on the various ad-hoc committes that haven't met yet?

Can we get a followup on the progress with the magnet school?

Can we get a followup on the Danbury 11? How many are out of jail? How ay were ACTUALLY deported?

Anyday now Fred? I know this might require you to leave the office but it's called reporting and that's what your paid to do. If you didn't know, there is a mayoral election coming up next year, it might be smart to start reporting on issue happening in this city. I'd be more than happy to show you how it's done and I don't work for the paper...

UPDATE: Whoa! I heard several complaints about Lucas and his reporting during the Congressional race between Johnson and Murphy. Since I didn't read much of the political stuff from the News-Times during this period, I didn't dig into those allegations. Now that the elections are over, it seems like several people are attempting to do a background check on him.

From a reader:

HA! you mean FRED LUCAS, BOY REPUBLICAN...!! he's so biased it's sad. His articles about Nancy Johnson read like LOVE LETTERS.

"Fred Lucas, born into a prominent Republican family in London, Ky."
from : http://tinyurl.com/ydrzxd

I checked out the site to verify the quote and this is what it had to say about Lucas.

“For every Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune and R.W. Apple of The New York Times at the Republican National Convention, there's a Fred Lucas of the Danbury (CT) News-Times,” Editor & Publisher noted yesterday. “We have quite a few papers who have sent just one person,” said Laura Reed of the convention's media credential center.

Fred Lucas, born into a prominent Republican family in London, Ky., is one of dozens of reporters who are representing small newspapers at the Republican National Convention in New York this week, and who also attended the Democratic convention in Boston.

Lucas and other reporters from small newspapers face the challenges of lack of funding and resources, Joe Strupp wrote for E&P. As opposed to the large spaces leased by large news organizations, small newspapers are confined to small media filing centers, starkly equipped with pay phones and Internet access, but no computers.

Now, this is not to say that someone from a Republican household can't be a "fair and Balanced" reporter but it does raise eyebrows when you read some of Lucas' political articles.