Insurgents Vote in CT

Some 7000 Connecticut voters switched their party affiliation to Democrat in order to be able to vote against Joe Lieberman in the Democratic Primary. In a few hours, we’ll find out whether or not that swing helped challenger Ned Lamont defeat Joe Lieberman.

This morning, Lieberman accused Lamont supporters of hacking the Lieberman website and asked the Connecticut district attorney and “state and federal authorities” to begin a criminal investigation. Lamont, responding to a challenge by Lieberman, responded, noting on his website:

“If Senator Lieberman’s website was indeed hacked, we had absolutely no part in it, denounce the action, and urge whoever is responsible cease and desist immediately,” Lamont says in a message on his Web site. “It is our sincerest wish that everyone planning to vote for Ned Lamont or Joe Lieberman does so today.”

Lieberman’s campaign spokeswoman noted that the attack was a “denial of service” attack, and then noted that a virus had been placed on the website through a “SQL Injection” attack. If this is true, Lieberman needs a new website administrator. Denial of Service attacks can be filtered by the hosting provider within a matter of minutes, and a SQL Injection attack is easily stopped with a simple ruleset provided by mod_security. The claim that their website has been offline for over 24 hours because of these two incidents is quite outrageous. A quick restore from backup and filtering of the attacking addresses should have had this site back up and running in an hour or so.

I don’t know if anyone has noted the possibility that Lieberman has, himself (or his staff), brought the site down to garner sympathy as polls show the gap between he and Lamont narrowing? It certainly gives Lieberman something visible to complain about (not that he ever needed anything truly substantial to complain about), and offer up another excuse why he will run as an independent should he lose the primary.

Connecticut Democrats are already planning a show of unity, standing behind whomever should win the Primary.

I wonder for whom the Clintons will campaign in the general election if Lamont wins today — Ned Lamont (D) or Joe Lieberman (I)?

While you’re waiting on election results to see just how angry at least one state is by a representative that has chosen to lie down with the Bush Administration, check out Newt Gingrich’s take on the CT Democratic Primary, where he so carefully uses the word “insurgents” to describe those who would vote against Joe Lieberman. Here’s one blogger’s reaction to those comments. Nice one, Newt… This isn’t Democracy at its best — American citizens looking to fire a guy who has looked after his own interests instead of those he is paid to represent, it’s an insurgency. Thanks for deliberately lumping American citizens exercising their right to vote in with those whom you consider terrorists.