Reply #8: Unbelievable?

[Boston Critic]

Why? Candidates who are behind always ask for more debates. Candidates who are ahead almost always refuse them. One of the rare example to the contrary was when Ford said he's debate Carter when he accepted the nomination in '76. And look where it got him.

Of course if, as you said, Lieberman was on the record agreeing to another debate, there's reason to attack him for cowardice now. Althought I have to wonder if a Lamont/Schelesinger debate doesn't play into Lieberman's hands, letting him argue that if the "extremists" on either end are against him he must be doing something right.