Joe Lieberman is the new spokesman for the Republican strategy...

[kentuck]

..in November. The sooner Democrats realize that, the better. Governor Dean hammered him on MTP this morning for some of the comments he made. Joe Lieberman is the Republicans secret weapon for the fall election, they think. They plan on using him to divide the Democratic Party and uniting the Republicans on their "war" message. Joe Lieberman should be disowned by every Democrat, in my opinion. What he is doing is nothing short of betrayal.

[kentuck]

1. And I see that Jane Hamsher thinks the same...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/karl-rove-and-joe-lieberm_b_27100.html

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Except Allen neglects to mention that he won't be doing it alone. Rove now has a mole deep within the Democratic party helping him out, and the mole's name is Joe Lieberman. Rove has put the word out that Connecticut Republicans are no longer supposed to push Alan Schlessinger and his awkward gambling problem out of the race, because he wants Joe Lieberman and his giant wounded ego running against the Democrats from within the Democratic party. It doesn't look like Joe will see his dream fulfilled of getting the GOP nomination in CT after all. His useful idiocy depends on his willingness to keep the Democratic party in chaos and running against their own in November with silly narratives like "hippies, negros and communists vs.
rational centrists (hat tip Marty Peretz).