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I'm not really sure how to make a direct link to this particular piece, but be sure not to miss Jeffrey Goldberg's "The Unbranding" in the 21 March 2005 issue of The New Yorker. It's mostly a whole lot of 2004 election analysis and state-of-the-party musings from Joe Biden ("No goddam chairman’s ever made a difference in the history of the Democratic Party"), but I especially love this bit about Joe Lieberman:
Lieberman is a study in the dangers of steroidal muscularity, becoming an outlier in his own party. (He has edged to the right as his running mate in the 2000 election, Al Gore, has moved leftward.) His fate was sealed with a kiss, planted on his cheek by Bush, just after the President delivered his State of the Union address. “That may have been the last straw for some of the people in Connecticut, the blogger types,” Lieberman told me. But he is unapologetic about his defense of Bush’s Iraq policy, saying, “Bottom line, I think Bush has it right.” When I asked if he was becoming a neoconservative, Lieberman smiled and said, “No, but some of my best friends are neocons.”Ha, ha. That's definitely going in the Drollery Hall of Fame.
Joe Lieberman's vilification by the Left is one of the strangest things I've ever seen in politics. To know that this man was as close as Florida to becoming the Vice President of the United States a little more than four years ago ---and to see him routinely pissed upon by his former supporters today--- is a useful indicator of where the Democratic Party is heading.