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    http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/09/dem...ries/index.html

     

    GOP: 'Defeat-ocrats' won

    GOP leaders were quick to jump on Tuesday's primary results, saying Lamont's victory indicated that the 'defeat-ocrats' were taking over the Democratic Party.

     

    While campaigning in Ohio, Republican Party Chairman Ken Mehlman said the vote reflected "an unfortunate embrace of isolationism, defeatism, and a 'blame America first' attitude by national Democratic leaders at a time when retreating from the world is particularly dangerous."

     

    Mehlman also tried to tie Lamont's victory to the Senate race in Ohio in which DeWine trails the Democratic candidate Rep. Sherrod Brown in the latest polls.

     

    "Sherrod Brown is Ohio's answer to Ned Lamont," Mehlman said.

     

    "Defeat-ocrats"? The RNC has been taken over by middle schoolers.

     

    Lieberman will not accept results

    Lieberman, however, said Tuesday night that he could not accept his primary loss and vowed to run for re-election as an independent this fall. (Full Story)

     

    But he told his supporters: "For the sake of our state, our country and my party, I cannot and will not let that result stand."

     

    Lieberman told CNN's "American Morning" that he would say "no, no, no" if the Democratic Party asked him not to run by himself in the fall poll. (Watch Lieberman reveal how he will fight on -- 6:39)

     

    "I am in this race to the end. For me, it is a cause, and it is a cause not to let this Democratic Party that I joined with the inspiration of President Kennedy in 1960 to be taken over by people who are so far from the mainstream of American life that I fear we will not elect Democrats in the numbers that we should in the future," he said in an interview with CNN's Soledad O'Brien.

     

    Lieberman's team filed petitions for him to run for re-election to the Senate just hours after his defeat, The Associated Press reported.

     

    Lieberman -- who six years ago ran as former Vice President Al Gore's running mate -- is seeking a fourth Senate term. Lamont, a former Greenwich city councilman, is running his first statewide campaign.

     

    Time to pull back out those "Sore Loserman" signs from 6 years ago.

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    Isn't McKinney the batty representative that Ripper was stuck dealing with and couldn't explain for a minute why people kept voting her back into office?

     

    I'd love to say this is the last we'll hear from her, but I know she'll be back. Crazy people always come back. Except Ross Perot, he hasn't come back.

    Doesn't 1996 count?

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    From CNN.

     

    McKinney beaten but unbowed

     

    ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Rep. Cynthia McKinney is controversial and outspoken, independent and unrepentant, all of which have endeared her to a dedicated corps of supporters in her metro Atlanta district, but not to a majority of her fellow Democrats who turned out in Tuesday's primary runoff.

     

    For the second time in three election cycles, McKinney was defeated in a Democratic primary in Georgia's 4th District, this time by Hank Johnson, a former DeKalb County commissioner who thumped her 59 percent to 41 percent.

     

    Despite her defeat, McKinney was unbowed, unleashing a stemwinder of a concession speech in which she barely mentioned her opponent but praised leftist leaders in Cuba and Venezuela, took aim at the efficacy of electronic voting machines and offered several swipes at the media.

     

    "Members of the press, as well as our political leaders, don't give us explanations that explain, or conclusions that conclude," McKinney said. "There comes a time when people of conscience are compelled to dissent."

     

    Before she began her remarks, she played the song "Dear Mr. President," an anti-Bush anthem by Pink, and sang along, somewhat out of tune, with its critical lyrics.

     

    "We love our country, and that is why we dissent, because we care," she said. "Either we can be a force for good, or we can rely on force and upset the world. Sadly, this administration has chosen the latter."

     

    McKinney has been in this situation before. In 2002, she lost her primary bid after suggesting members of the Bush administration stood to profit from the war that followed the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Two years ago, she made a successful comeback with a low-key campaign in which she largely avoided controversy.

     

    Her denouement this time around may have come in March, when she drew national headlines with a physical confrontation with a U.S. Capitol Police officer, who challenged her after failing to recognize the six-term lawmaker at a security checkpoint.

     

    After first claiming she was the victim of racial profiling, McKinney changed course and apologized on the House floor, and a District of Columbia grand jury refused to indict her. But the episode played into Johnson's charge on the campaign trail that she was an "embarrassment" to her constituents in the 4th District, a majority black, heavily Democratic district on the east side of metro Atlanta.

     

    After being forced into a runoff by Johnson in the July 18 primary, McKinney went on the offensive, accusing him of accepting money and votes from Republicans who wanted to drum her out of Congress. He called her charges "desperate" and vowed to be a less divisive figure.

     

    Given the 4th District's Democratic tilt, Johnson will be a prohibitive favorite in the fall against the Republican nominee, Catherine Davis, a human resources manager from Stone Mountain making her third bid for the seat.

     

    Without mentioning Johnson by name, McKinney concluded her remarks by saying, "I wish the new representative of the 4th Congressional District well."

     

    She said not a word about her own plans or political future.

     

     

    Teeh-hee. :D

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    I'm watching the debate between Cynthia McKinney and Hank Johnson in the 4th House district in GA on C-Span and Johnson is making her look really foolish. McKinney is blabbing on about how Osama isn't even connected to 9/11 and looks clueless about when US military force would ever be justified. I'm really rooting for Johnson because while I don't agree with all his views at least he's sane.

    Please tell me Johnson actually stands a chance of winning.

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    Yeah, but you said that was the one that was definitely rejected, right?

     

    Yes, but they need to really shake things up, not go back to the Kirk era and rehash it with different actors. It will come off like the Brady Bunch and Leave it to Beaver movies.

     

    My bet is that they'll create a new ship and crew just for the new movie.

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    On a related note...

     

    That was the worst joke I think I've ever read. What the hell's wrong with you?

     

    I was ignored by my parents as a child, and basically use the internet to make up for it by getting attention for myself (negative or positive) from complete strangers.

     

    :ph34r:

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    There was an interview with Abrams in TV Guide this week where he basically reveals nothing. As tight-lipped as he's being with his plans, I'll take everything I read online about casting and plot with a grain of salt. In other words, I'm calling 100% bullshit on the "Matt Damon is playing Captain Kirk" rumor. From what it sounds like in the interview, they've yet to set any concrete plans as to what it'll even be about. Abrams' script for Superman may have been too-Matrixy, but he's done some great work in the past (i.e. the first 2 seasons of "Alias" and "Lost"), and some not-so-great work ("Felicity") that causes me to think that the Superman script was just a fluke (even though it did have a few good ideas in it). People shouldn't judge the guy's abilties based on some uncomfirmed speculation and a 3-year-old script review from "Aint It Cool News." In other words, I'm going to need more info before I start bad-mouthing this thing.

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