Thank-you Ned Lamont

Ned Lamont, you lost the battle. But I think you won the war.

You stood up against the war when too many people were afraid to. And other, less courageous politicos realized they could as well. Even Senator Lieberman began to hedge his support for the war at the barrage of your campaign. I woul dlike to hope that he has learned something from this campaign. I would like to think he has paid a price for his hubris and ambition, in terms of loss of his party, loss of his reputation, loss of standing. You were the innocent child calling out "The Emporer has no clothes"

I have small, very small hopes that Senator Lieberman will come back humbler and softened. I have expectations that he will cling tighter to his Republican friends. And I am curious to see how and if some of Colin McEnroe's speculation about "what next" play out.

Mr, Lamont, your campaign energized a democratic and independent base that brought voters to the polling places in record numbers, helping to sweep out Nancy Johnson, and maybe others in CT. I have no doubt that hadyou not run the campaign you did, that we would have a status quo congressional deligation. Not anymore.

Your campaign made national waves as you took on an established democratic centrist, an incredibly quixotic fight, and won the primary. Other democrats found their spines, critics of the national policy in the middle east found their voices and their way to the polling places.

Ned Lamont, you rock. Sleep well, soldier. You kicked ass. Go back to your business, your family, your life. I am honored to have tossed in some bucks, churned up some energy, held up some signs, did some phone banking. I will keep your name on my bumper for a while - as a reminder. Senator Lieberman needs to see your name every day of his term - to remind him. To humble him.

THANK YOU, NED LAMONT!