What?  We hold different views therefore I must work for the RNC?

Puh-lease.

We know Joe. He's an old dog and will never change.

Obama - I hope - learned a lesson here, and he should give McCain back exactly what McCain gave him - the back of his hand.

Obama - like Digby sez - needs to quit saying what we "should do" and "should say" - and start doing and saying them.

Today.

Rick was on the host committee but he wasn't there. It was a cool event and Lamont seemed very different from yer run of the mill candidate comin' to use the California ATM. He's a really personable guy bristling with ideas and a genuine sense of curiosity about other people's points of view. I don't want to rub it in, but you picked the wrong one to miss. To be honest, I had no intention of giving him any money until after I heard him speak and after I got to, so to speak, kick the tires. Now I'll max out on his campaign. I WISH the DCCC was recruiting candidates like Lamont. And when it comes to the DSCC... well compare Lamont to that reactionary jerk Bill Casey they came up with in PA and weep. If Lamont wins a Senate seat progressives will have a new hero. If Casey wins, we'll have another... Joe Lieberman.

What?? Do you realize that every democrat has a picture of them with bush in a equally "toolish" pose?  even the liberal heroes....

At first I couldn't understand why so much criticism of Lieberman misses the mark or is many times utterly baseless. I think I get it now. Many in the so called 'netroots' particularly despise Joe for his Iraq war support and want him out of office, but beyond some observations about him valuing bipartisanship too much and existing in a pre-Newt, pre-Norquist political mindset, there's not too much really stick him with. To compensate for this problem, many of his seething antagonists, most notably Kos and Matt here, instead rely on a scorched earth tactic similiar to those often run in GOP campaigns. Throw everything you can at Joe even if it's baseless & doesen't stick, take any innocuous quote of his and reframe it into the most comically negative light possible, keep up a consistent singular focus to keep up the meme that Lieberman is a malicious renegade who's constantly causing trouble and 'selling out' his own party.

The most recent addition to this strategy is the ridiculous one just conceieved by Matt Stoller where instead of spinning an issue as negatively as possible, he creates one out of thin air. He highlights the recent tiff between McCain & Obama and puncuates it by asking the bizarro question "How will Lieberman respond?" and creating an artificial choice of resonse between coming down against McCain...or, selling out a member of his own party. Lieberman speaks on the matter and the most damning thing he says about Obama is "He probably wished he made himself more clear!" which Matt interprets as "Lieberman knifes Obama in the back!"

Matt, anticipating some skepticism over whether some will interpret Lieberman's inoccuous remakr as 'knifing someone in the back' reminds us that the Senator who allegedly can't stop bashing & criticizing fellow Democrats is "a very nice & polite man" and some times you have to dig deep and interpret his words for what they really mean. Make no mistake says Matt, he's clearly made his choice.

The choice of course, that Matt invented just yesterday.

>Would a DINO favor the environment?  Would they be pro-choice?  

If one comes from a state where the environment and choice are deal breakers for even Republicans, of course he would support them.  There is no downside.

He is a disgrace....as is any Democrat who attempts to excuse his behavior.