Lieberman's Gone Over To The Other Side (Hartford Courant) [View All]

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Bill Curry

In 2006, Joe Lieberman vowed to help elect a Democratic president in 2008. Three weeks ago, he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that by supporting John McCain he didn't break his word because his party has changed so much since John Kennedy.

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Unless he's off his rocker, Joe actually doesn't think Obama and Clinton are extremists or that one party is more partisan than the other. What gives? To see what Joe's up to, you should catch him not on ABC but on Fox, where he really lets his hair down.

Joe recently told Fox that Democrats opposing the war suffer from "their warped way of thinking ... that America is the problem." That isn't new stuff; Joe bought himself his 2006 primary not by backing the war but by attacking the patriotism of those who didn't. But in a later Fox radio interview he did break new ground. Asked if Barack Obama was "a Marxist," Joe replied:

"Well you know, that's a good question ... I will tell you that during this campaign I've learned some things about him, about the kind of environment from which he came ideologically ... I'd hesitate to say he's a Marxist but he's got some positions that are far to the left of me and I think mainstream America."

Welcome to Joe Lieberman, the 2008 edition. Angling for a star turn with the Republicans — convention keynoter, defense secretary, vice president — he has not only deserted his old party but set fire to it on the way out.

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