The Lamont campaign fizzles
Michelle Malkin
The big buzz out of the Lieberman-Lamont debate today was generated by......GOP candidate Alan Schlesinger.
Yup. Greg at The Political Pit Bull thinks he was a bit over the top, but agrees Schlesinger made the most of the debate. He's got video highlights.
The New York Times notes that nobody talked much at the debate about the one issue that was supposed to guarantee Ned Lamont his Senate seat--Iraq:
...the three-way debate was a stilted and at times awkward exchange punctuated by sarcastic swipes from the candidates, who stood at podiums in front of a large audience in a hotel ballroom here, and it did not appear to break much new substantive ground. ...
Methinks it's too late for Johnny One Note to change his tune.
The most significant development of the campaign is how dispirited some of the unhinged Left now seem to be about the once-indomitable Lamont campaign. At HuffPo, Arianna's begging for readers to "help save Lamont" and lamenting Lamont's move to the center: ...
Schlesinger steals the show at Lieberman-Lamont debate?
Allahpundit
That’s the word on the street, although the reality-based community has been known to confuse electoral reality with wishful thinking. Tinti’s not worried and says Connecticut Republicans realize that a vote for Schlesinger is a vote for Lamont. Just like, er, Democrats “knew” that a vote for Nader was a vote for Bush in 2000.
Of course, if we acted like Democrats we wouldn’t have two chambers to lose.
HuffPo’s already working on the empty suit’s concession speech. ...
