Not Liberal Enough

Found a note running around the news that Joe Lieberman may face a Democratic primary challenger for his upcoming Senate race. No big name state democrat has challenged Joe in years, but it seems that Moveon.Org is trying very hard to find someone to try and knock him out of the Senate.

Tom Matzzie, Washington director of Moveon.org's political action committee, took umbrage at those comments, saying Thursday that Lieberman was "dead wrong" about Iraq. Matzzie went on to float the idea of challenging Lieberman with a candidate from the ideological left next year. "If there was a strong, viable opposition candidate to Lieberman in the Democratic primary we would ask our members what they want to do," Matzzie said. "Lieberman’s position on Iraq might handicap his ability to win the support of MoveOn members -- and other Connecticut voters." Lieberman's office declined to comment on Matzzie's remarks.

I don't know that MoveOn is going to find a candidate to beat Joe in a primary, but what they can do is weaken him, as has happened to others in the past, for the real election, though he won with 63% of the vote or more in his two other re-election campaigns.

Go to "The Fix" and read the comments if you want to see the part of the Democratic party that MoveOn is playing to.