Sooooooooooo............... hating Lieberman, feeling conflicted about his senate position. And I was thinking, if Lieberman represents his "constituents" in Conn, he vote's with Democratic positions 75-85% of the time (basically most things except the war and defense, right?), wants to bash weak liberals, is old, old friends with Reid, McCain, etc., is respected(read:tolerated) by a faction of the Republican party, does not "count" as a Dem, but an independent, in the senate already, and Iraq and us are practically agreed already to shifting forces from Iraq to Afghanistan over the next 18 months, besides the hard feelings we have for him, wouldn't Lieberman be WELCOMED by Dems as a bipartisan-leader of the Republican Party? Perhaps even respected-as a republican-a little?
Imagine a Republican Leader that actually agrees with centrist social positions? Forgetting this being about Lieberman revenge or what he deserves, isn't this the perfect trojan horse to use to plant seeds of republican support for our social policies into a wide-open crack in the weakened GOP right now?
Hell, start with Lieberman, and then go ahead and take all our Blue Dogs(assuming they are replaced by more centrist, or dare i audaciously hope, progressive, dems), i'd much rather have the Republicans in office looking like Blue Dogs to our progressives instead of their ignorant southern righties. We'd get a few "guaranteed" votes from the republican side for certain issues, ensuring a veto-proof 60 member coalition with these [new] republicans, further strengthening the Bipartisanship image both parties seem to clamor for.
Only for once, it might actually be on our terms instead of theirs.