JoeMentum: Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry OR You're Finished!

Joe Lieberman is showing that he's far more like today's rabid right Republicans than he might think: why should he care what voters want when his ambition is at stake? It worked for George W. Bush in both Elections 2000 and 2004, right?

Lieberman, long-time Dem senator from Connecticut, my former home state, has said that if Dems don't nominate him after the primary vote, he'll run regardless, even if it means leaving his party to do so. Of course, one can argue that he left his party at least six years ago, if not longer. This announcement comes on the heels of results that show his main challenger, Dem Ned Lamont, had raised oodles and oodles more in Netroots campaign donations than dear ole Joementum (who came away with just a few hundred dollars).

How like the rabid GOP (which I differentiate from normal Republicans) it is for Joe to think that he can force himself down voters' throats regardless of whether the people want him or not. Anyone who votes for him now perhaps deserves what they get: a politician so ambitious that what is best for him matters thousands of times more than what is best for the people of the state he serves.

Perhaps Jilted Joe can get his kissing pal George W. Bush to let him borrow some of those rigged voting machines when they get sent back up from Mexico later this month.

Elsewhere, Hillary Clinton (who is about as much of a Dem as Lieberman which means, not bloody much) says she won't support Lieberman if he loses his state's primary in August (Hil can't support a loser, after all - she's just too important).

You remember Hillary, right? The supposed Dem presidential candidate in 08 that only the Republicans want to have run? This way, she and Condi Rice can cancel themselves out and big "men" like Jonah Goldberg and Chris Matthews can smirk and assure themselves we don't have to worry about a woman president for another fifty years.