Joe Lieberman, the recently reelected Senator from Connecticut, was forced to run as an Independent after he lost the Democratic Primary to radical Ned Lamont in August. He is a moderate Democrat, and had the gall to actually admit that the war in Iraq is winnable. He was isolated and reviled by many Democrats for this, and establishment Democrats cast their support for the radical Ned Lamont. Radical bloggers on the left put him in blackface and railed at him, while composing post after post in adulation of Ned Lamont. (Wait a second, who are the people who keep on rambling about bipartisanship?) But Lieberman won, and now Democrats are forced to depend upon him to support their tottering 51-49 majority in the Senate. Joe Lieberman has refused to eliminate the option of becoming another Republican like John McCain. If he did switch, that would put the balance of the Senate into a tie, with Vice President Dick Cheney as the tiebreaker.
So, we have Joe Lieberman who is a moderate and sometimes votes Republican as the keystone that holds the Democratic Senate majority together. This could be interesting.
WORLD Magazine has a quotable on this.
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