Isay: Pro-Lieberman, Not Republican
Josh Isay may be new to the Lieberman campaign, but not to Lieberman himself.
"I have actually known the Senator's family for almost my entire life," said Isay. "I grew up in New Haven."
Hometown loyalties aside, Isay said he is a great admirer of the Senator, and expressed confidence Lieberman will take on and win against Democrats, Republicans and anyone else going into November's showdown with Ned Lamont.
"I think he is going to do very well with Democrats and unaffiliated voters and Republicans who want to end partisan bickering and who want progress," Isay told me.
Lamont's campaign has already jumped on the Lieberman's campaign hiring of Isay -- who recently worked on the reelection campaign of Mike Bloomberg -- and a Republican pollster as another opportunity to question the senator's Democratic credentials.
"It makes you wonder who the real Joe Lieberman is," Mr. Lamont's spokeswoman, Liz Dupont-Diehl just told us. "He has been Republican, Republican, Republican for some time. Now we are seeing it manifest itself."
But Isay, who helped reelect Republican Mayor Bloomberg, said he was a true-blue Democrat.
"I'm a Democratic political consultant who represents both elected officials and progressive causes, I believe Joe Lieberman has been a great Senator and is the best choice in this race. And I believe that this is totally consistent with my clients and my beliefs."
--Jason Horowitz
Dear Ned,
Congrats on your primary win, nice job. Now WTF are you doing? Your campaign is not ready for prime time and the Q poll shows you are losing, by double digits. Most disturbing, the poll shows your negative rating higher than your positive. You have given Lieberman a free pass since primary night allowing him to dictate terms of the debate. Where are your ads? What is your message to Independents in CT? You can't re-run the primary in the general, a primary you only won with 52%. C'mon, show a pulse and get after it. The race is yours to lose, and right now you are.
Sincerely,
Concerned Dem
Josh Isay all show no ability
I'll have to agree with Concerned Dem. It appears that Dupont-Diehl is in denial mode. Instead of blaming Lieberman for their substantial losses in the polls, they should be focusing on salvaging Ned's image. Lamont's the poster boy of the far-left progressives. He's progressively aligned with the limousine-liberals and profoundly entrenched in Kos' ever-reaching strangle-hold on his campaign. Lamont hasn't been his own man since Tom Swan and Kos started thinking for him. They made Lamont a product and have drilled it into him so much that Lamont doesn't even say "I", when referring to himself.
Maybe if Lamont wakes up from his torpor he'll replace Swan who is Snoopy when he needs a Pappy Bowington in this political dogfight. If and when Lamont wakes up, should he actually find himself needing to control his own life again, it will still be too late to recover the lost numbers as Nedmentum in now NOmentum and the far-left is too far gone for his election chances.
Joe's campaign for political unity, geared to stop the horrendous waste of partisan bickering, is a refreshing and lively hope for the public who can envision a congress that works for the good of the people instead of spending time in political snits over who has done what and to whom. Hooray for Lieberman for bringing the hope of political unity to America. Connecticut will not be the only state to embrace this new non-partisan idealism, they will be the bellwether to a newer and better future for us all where our congress works for the good of the people and partisanship becomes the bane of law-making.
Whoever commented that Lamont lost the campaign on Primary Night was absolutely correct. The night most people saw Ned Lamont for themselves, they saw Rev Al and Jesse Jackson standing behind him.
the reality is that lieberman being in this race jeopardizes 3 opportunities for Democratic pick ups.
josh knows that, but doesn't care because joe lieberman's money is green.
isay doesn't care about the party. every cycle he justifies working for a different republican.
he'd work for satan for a nickel.
Lieberman working "for the good of the people"?
hahahahaha
you been smokin' them seeds again
Ned Lamont born on 3rd Base, thinks he hit a triple. Now his campaign is calling Lieberman a Republican for hiring a lifelong Dem who worked for Mike Bloomberg, the very Democratic Mayor of NYC who happens to have won as a Republican candidate. This is the problem with howard the hack dean's dems; they are one issue wackos and then it's about loyalty when they run against a guy who was loyal to party 95% of the time...Deans Dems are gonna be destructed. They shoulda won the House and Senate but they'd rather take out another Dem like Lieberman.
Isay's sidekick Micah Lasher created the racist Al Sharpton flier in 2001. This is not what the Democratic Party needs - race baiting consultants.
So lemme get this straight, only 35% of CT Dems support Lieberman vs. 75% of CT GOPs. And he still wants to caucus with the Senate Dems when he gets back to DC?
Steven Colbert's TV alter-ego was prophetic when he called Lieberman 'my kind of Democrat.'
The race bating author of the Shapton ass kissing piece Micah Lasher is part of a scam working with Ratner as his lobbyist and working with candidates Ratner wants to help like Tracy Boyland, Clarke others.
You think Josh is charging full price for Boyland and Clarke. Where the campaign finance law? Where the press?
Is there gambling going on at Ricks place.
The slasher and Isay are going to F#$@ lamont up! sweet, his whole candidacy is an ill-conceived distraction from a legit chance to take the house this year
The slasher and Isay are going to F#$@ lamont up! sweet, his whole candidacy is an ill-conceived distraction from a legit chance to take the house this year
Isay forgot to mention that he also is a lobbyist who forgets to register with the State Lobbying Commission.
You are fogetting that Isay orchestrated Schumer's defeat of Al D'Amato in 1998. All you whinning Lamont lovers should just say "Thank you Josh" and kick yourselves for not investing some of Lamont's silver spoons in Isay's expertise.
Yeah, Chuck Schumer was just another go along sit on his ass politician until Josh Isay came along and saved him. C'mon, Chuck is the most natural politican in the world. Josh was his press guy on the campaign (as if Chuck needed help with the press.) Hey Josh, what ever happened to your job at Double Click.
Josh Isay is the best consultant in New York.