I heard such a wild slur against Lamont today...

that I had to look it up when I got home, so I let my fingers do the walking through Google.
I was at a birthday party and had a very interesting discussion with a conservative, who was at least willing to hear what I had to say. However, he started out by saying that Lamont's father was a Communist and that the Democratic party had pushed Lamont into the race against poor Joe, the defender of Israel. I let him know that Lamont had put himself in the race and that the party wasn't sure how to react to him. However, the other comment intrigued me and I found Ned's write-up on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Lamont
"Lamont is the great-grandson of former J.P. Morgan & Co. Chairman Thomas W. Lamont, and has an inherited net worth estimated between $90 million and $300 million. His father, Ted, was an economist who worked with the Marshall Plan which helped reconstruct Europe after World War II. He later served in the Nixon administration in Housing and Urban Development. Ted Lamont is now an unaffiliated voter, having last voted for a Republican in 1988. He has told The Hartford Courant that "Eastern Moderates no longer have a place in the GOP."

Lamont is also the nephew of humanist philosopher Corliss Lamont, a socialist <2> who was director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1932 to 1954, president emeritas of the American Humanist Association, author of 16 books, and a lifelong peace activist."

To which I say, Wow! That sounds like a very distinguished family to me. Pretty well mops the floor with the Bushes. I was wondering how the man I met could travel to Communism in that biography, so I also found this drivel:
http://www.thomasbrewton.com/index.php/weblog/the_paradox_of_wealth/

"An interesting question is whether growing up in families of great wealth inherently turns one toward liberalism, or whether education in Eastern prep schools and Ivy League liberal-socialist universities is the cause. The latter, of course, is greatly facilitated by the former.

Will the pattern so evident in the 1920s and 1930s be repeated with the scions of today’s newly wealthy families? Or was the source of moral degeneracy simply immersion in the emerging atheistic materialism of Ivy League schools at the beginning of the 20th century?

Ned Lamont, who is endeavoring to unseat Senator Joseph Lieberman in the Connecticut Democratic primary race, is an example of the inheritor of private wealth adopting socialism as his religion. He is the darling of the far-left wing of the Democratic Party and attracts support from all of its most radical elements. "

Note that this loon also glosses right over Prescott Bush's Nazi sympathizing, while calling Ned's uncle his grandfather. You can actually hear the drool hitting the keyboard while reading this. It really is amazing what people are willing to believe, no matter the evidence.

That this came out of the Lieberman campaign.

"An interesting question is whether growing up in families of great wealth inherently turns one toward liberalism, or whether education in Eastern prep schools and Ivy League liberal-socialist universities is the cause. The latter, of course, is greatly facilitated by the former"

He was born into great wealth and educated in those Eastern prep schools and ivy league universities. Oh wait, I'm trying to use logic again.....

"This same pattern is manifest in the relative liberalism of Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush.

Prescott Bush, the father of George H. W. Bush, was the son of an Ohio steel company president. He graduated from Yale in 1917, seven years before Corliss Lamont graduated from Harvard. Prescott Bush joined the American forces in the First World War as an artillery captain in France. Mr. Bush’s business activities culminated in a partnership in the Wall Street private banking firm of Brown Brothers Harriman & Company. In 1952 he was elected United States Senator from Connecticut, serving until 1963. He was a staunch supporter of President Eisenhower, who did not challenge the New Deal and Truman Fair Deal welfare-state, but sought to keep the Federal government role as modest as possible.

Senator Bush’s son George H. W. and grandson George W. both graduated from Yale, where all three were continually exposed to the religion of atheistic socialism. William F. Buckley, Jr. documented the dominance of socialism in “God and Man at Yale,” published in 1951, two years after George H. W. Bush’s graduation. "

From the same idiot.

Nominated for being so timely to the topic of rising authoritarianism.

:thumbsup:

- in the 1950's. More info on him in this obit piece:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol20/vol20_iss27/record2027.15.html