Then your exact points and this appearance need to be in a Lamont ad, pronto. People don't take well to politicians lecturing them, especially when they're arrogant about it.

That if Lieberman's challengers had weighed the foreseeable consequences of the challenge in their entirety, versus their own perceived political interests in their entirety, they might not have undertaken the challenge.

Too late now. Lamont's not going anywhere. Lieberman's not going anywhere. The scene must play out.

It is what it is.

Lieberman is clearly going to switch parties if he wins.

oe's response? "Well, they should have thought of that before they had the primary."

In fairness to a man I disdain in a big way---he said the word "during" ---not "before".

That changes the whole context of the quote.

If you go to the CTBlog link, it will talk about how Liberman, who is always quick to criticize a democrat about his/her middle east stance, remained silent during the whole Katrina tragedy. I personally thought he made a few perfunctory comments, but even if I am correct, I do not think they smacked of any outrage.

Yet Mary Landrieu supports this guy. Democrats in Lousiana are one fucked up bunch (No offense to you Vikas).

I really don't like Lieberman.  He makes my skin crawl...

...during the primary should have thought about the likely outcome. Had they not intervened, Lieberman might have been crushed in a landslide, which definitely would have hurt his prospects now. I's still not too late. Given that, at this rate, Lieberman is going to singlehandedly give control of the House to Republicans -- Democrats really need those three seats -- the DSCC and the DCCC should throw their weight and very big money behind Lamont.

Or, perhaps the DSCC could help matters by offering Lieberman charter flights in small planes.

The 3 gop congresspeople (Shays, Simmons, Johnson) have been able to remain in power with the help of Joe Lieberman.

Lieberman has been hurting the Democratic party for a long time.  Enough voters have finally caught on to the fact that Lieberman is a power hungry, senator for sale, hypocrite who will say or do anything for power.

The key is to make sure more voters see it.  True independents and moderate republicans have far more in common with Lamont than they do with Lieberman.

Lieberman is such a shocking weasel that it takes my breath away.  And when we have so many weasels at the top who bully and cheat from Bush to Rumsfeld, to Abramhoff to Limbaugh to your boss, our kids all want to grow up to be weasels and Gordon Gekkos. I see it in every state I've lived that once men get into power they prefer the bully approach to reason.  They hate democracy and prefer the back room deals. And they surround themselves with cronies who are loyal, but not necessarily smart.  They hate "The Wisdom of Crowds".  We have got to put up a united front against bullying and blackmail like this in every place it rears its ugly head. And especially in Connecticut where it couldn't be more clear that Democracy is in grave danger.

This is the guy who in 2000 refused to allow a perfectly good local Democrat to run for his Senate seat while he ran for VP.  He thus set up a situation where had Florida not been rigged, he would have allowed CT's Republican governor to pick his replacement -- and the replacement probably would have been Philip "Baby Raper" Giordano.

Lieberman is a whiny, sniveling weakling. He gives off a whiff of death, of decay, of entropy. I can smell his stink from watching the damn video. Ugh.

What I see is Lieberman's arrogance.  The Connecticut voters have spoken - they want him to take a hike.

Joe's hanging on because of what Phoenix Woman said about his wife's value as a lobbyist.  She won't have very much if he's no longer a U. S. Senator.  And I also understand she's behind his "Indy" push.

I'm convinced if he wins, Joe will turn ReThug, so what difference will it make to the Democratic side of the Senate if that happens?

Additionally, I think that at worse, Joe turns into Zell Miller for the Democrats, and I'm confused as to why Harry Reid wants to continue providing him cover to behave this way.  

The State of Hawaii's Democratic Party already laid into Dan Inouye - told him if he continued to back Lieberman, the state Democratic party would discipline his ass.  Something to do with adhering to State party rules, and that would include endorsing and supporting the winner of any Democratic primary.  Inouye has since backed off, and many of the members, including those who trekked to Connecticut to support Lieberman, have now taken Hillary's lead and are backing Lamont in the general election.  Hillary's throwing money and support into Lamont's coiffers, so that can't do anything except help Lamont and eviscerate Lieberman.

Should Lieberman regain his seat, and by some miracle, the Dems take back the Senate, Lieberman should not be rewarded for his treachery with any Chairmanship positions.  Period.  He should be stripped of his seniority and have to start over as a Freshman.