OK, I've been hearing the anti-Lieberman drumbeats on this site and among the grassroots in general. It reminds me of the old
story about the scorpion and the frog.
The fact is that Lieberman has always undermined Democrats, and more to the point it's EXACTLY that behavior that made him famous in the first place. Let's recall the spring of 2000....
... and Al Gore is on the way to locking up the nomination. At the time the kool kid conventional wisdom was that he needed to "distance himself" from Clinton, despite the fact that their record was utterly stellar in every way except Clinton's penile activities, which hardly reflected on Gore, and that Clinton is one of the most naturally gifted and instinctive politicians in the history of politics.
Nonetheless, the consultants and the media whores and pundits and whoever else decided that Gore needed distance from Clinton. Needed to separate himself. Who does he turn to? The guy who spoke out earliest and most loudly to UNDERMINE THE DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION that Gore was in. That was