Well, since comments on CQPolitics.com are collected and edited before posting, I thought I'd share this long-form comment to
this article debating the likelihood of a Lieberman loss on August 8th.
I'd like to note that Lieberman learned that being the first to attack a Democrat would get you on television back when Bill Clinton was president, and he's only sharpened his claws on his own party in the years since.
This month alone has seen Joe using a time-worn Reagan line on challenger Lamont, and the Republican line "retreat and defeat" on the Senate floor against John Kerry (who I'm sure heard more than enough of the phrase in his 2004 campaign).
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Democrats, it seems, are willing to tolerate votes and positions in opposition to the issues we care about - the same "outsiders" who are backing Lamont have also been spotted praising Harry Reid in NV, Jim Webb in VA, and even Robert Byrd in WV.
But publicly joining a partisan Republican chorus that scolds Democratic positions while excusing torture, domestic spying, and the most extreme judicial nominees of the present administration may just be over the line. Apart from the war, this primary may show just how weary Democrats are of being lectured with conservative talking points, especially by national figures within our own party.
Senator Lieberman has, perhaps, focused too much on winning the Russert / Matthews / cable-news pundit primary, and may soon find that the out-of-the-mainstream positions he's taken to satisfy that base are exactly what make a Democrat in Connecticut unelectable.
And, for those both inside and outside the state who've watched the Senator in action over the last decade, seeing him hoisted by his own petard will be a delicious treat second only to having a northeastern Senator who actually advances a Democratic agenda in public debate.