could Cruz Bustamante help Lieberman in CA ?

[JI7]

since bustamante endorsed lieberman ? i mean mostly if bustmante ends up winning most votes, and especially if recall also passes and he becomes governor. he will get a lot of attention.

[cjbuchanan]

1. Isn't he the Calf. chair of Lieberman's campaign?

I thought I read that somewhere. If that is true, then yes this helps Lieberman. I guess the big thing now is to stop the recall.

[JI7]

2. he endorsed lieberman, so probably is

and he is the second top official in california (if you take out senators feinstein and boxer).

[CMT]

3. at best Cruz will win the recall election

with 30-35 percent of the vote. In a heavily democratic state and being the only significant democrat on the ballot--that ain't so good. I don't see California as a Lieberman state even with Cruz's active support as Governor of California. Besides if he wins he is going to be pretty busy on other matters.

[liberalnurse]

4. That remains to be seen.....

Bustamante just turned self-serving as he wants to reject the vote no on the recall. It appears he and Lieberman have similarities amongst the party peers....

If he looses, which I now think he will, then Lieberman won't want to be seen on the same side of the street with him...Not even a DINO would....

[JI7]

5. what ?

you said he wants to reject the "vote no on the recall". where did you hear that ? you might have misunderstood. bustamante is opposed to the recall. in fact if he supported it some loyal democrats may not vote for him.

[liberalnurse]

11. It was in a previous post this am and just on MSNBC...

[JI7]

6. what ?

you said he wants to reject the "vote no on the recall". where did you hear that ? you might have misunderstood. bustamante is opposed to the recall. in fact if he supported it some loyal democrats may not vote for him.

[David__77]

12. That is not correct.

Bustamante is not rejecting a no vote on the recall. He is simply going to campaign as a candidate in his own right. He is urging a no on the recall, but believes that he should focus on his own campaign. I agree with this. Every Democrat is fighting the recall. But Bustamante also needs to ensure that we don't get some kook in the governor's office.

[Le Taz Hot]

7. Nope

Lieberman is toast here in CA and NOTHING can jump-start his candidacy. My guess is that he's out after New Hampshire, if not before. Bustamonte is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, his appeal to Latino voters (Latino voter registration up 300% since Cruz announced) will, most likely, save our ass from the Republicans overturning ANOTHER election. On the other hand, Cruz has made some pretty powerful enemies in this state for a variety of reasons. He just made more by dropping his "no on recall" AND he just lost some Democratic voters. I don't see Latinos backing Lieberman over the other Dem. candidates, despite what Cruz may say. My guess is that after Lieberman drops out, Cruz will go for Kerry.

[JI7]

8. dropping "no on recall" ?

someone else mentioned this, but i haven't really been watching the news. i live in california also so would like to know what this is all about.

[Ernesto]

9. You should check

the LBN forum

[Le Taz Hot]

10. He announced that Monday

and it was a huge mistake, IMHO -- it makes him an accessory to this recall debacle. I completely understood the reasons for his candidacy -- we needed a viable Democrat in Part 2 of the ballot when Davis loses the recall effort; however, now he's being an enabler. Needless to say, Lockyer and Angelides are fit to be tied over this. Sorry, I'm too lazy to find a link but I think it's still in LBN.

[David__77]

13. Ack! He's not supporting or enabling the recall!

The media are hyping this thing. He's campaigning in his own rigfht. So what? We have two shots at this thing. We need to win one of these, preferably the recall. But it's not anti-party or anti-Davis for Bustamante to campaign for the governor's race. He's making sure that Davis' enemies do not get into office.

[David__77]

14. Won't really help Lieberman.

I'm very supportive of Bustamante's candidacy, but I don't support Lieberman. I don't think that this will matter too much. People will decide based upon the candidate's positions and how they fare in debating eachother, reaching out to the people and so on.