Lieberman to speak at Republican Convention

[Brittain33]

He was kicked out of the Democratic party back in August of 2006, which must have been a very personal and humiliating experience for him. I'm not sure whether to blame the activists for alienating him so profoundly or give them credit for seeing into his character earlier than others.

The key date in Lieberman's alienation from the Democratic Party was in 2004, when he went from 1st in the polls to 5th place in N.H. in the Democratic primary, and wasn't handed the nomination for the Presidency he felt he deserved. At that point, he transitioned into full spite mode and started attacking the Democratic party and its elected officials in every interview and media appearance he was given. Not surprisingly, he started getting a lot more on Fox News.

The 2006 primary was the activists' gamble they could finish him off. It failed. At that point, Lieberman was totally liberated to become the power player he couldn't be as a Democrat. He was bound by campaign promises to support the Democratic caucus, but that only lasted a few months. However, his future prospects look worse than he ever could have imagined.

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It was about far more than that, as has been discussed many times. Lieberman is also the first person to start calling people who disagree with him traitors, and he meant it in a literal sense.

[Brittain33]

And become the most liberal republican?  No.  If the Dems don't want to list them on their rolls, then when he goes up for reelection, he should run as a true independent, and not as an independent democrat.

I don't think his reelection is anything to waste energy thinking about. It's all about the course he'll chart for himself in the next two Congresses.