for helping knock Dean off of the frontrunner's perch.
From today's Note:
Sources close to the campaign agreed that 2004 just wasn't Lieberman's year. His friend and DLC head Al From told ABC News that Lieberman's critiques were instrumental in Howard Dean's collapse, but he was not the beneficiary of his own efforts. Nevertheless, From said, he "ran a good and honorable campaign."
And the Village Voice reports Rev. Al's dealings with GOP dirty-trickster Roger Stone, who helped Bush win the recount fight in Florida:
While Bush forces like the Club for Growth were buying ads in Iowa assailing then front-runner Howard Dean, Sharpton took center stage at a debate confronting Dean about the absence of blacks in his Vermont cabinet. Stone told the Times that he "helped set the tone and direction" of the Dean attacks, while Charles Halloran, the Sharpton campaign manager installed by Stone, supplied the research. While other Democratic opponents were also attacking Dean, none did it on the advice of a consultant who's worked in every GOP presidential campaign since his involvement in the Watergate scandals of 1972, including all of the Bush family campaigns.