It's Time For Him To Go

Lawrence O'Donnell on The Huffington Post is writing that Joe Lieberman will drop out of the Connecticut Senate race.

"He probably knows right now that the day will come in late September when he will announce his withdrawal from the race. No one is going to have to talk him into it. By that time, the Democratic Party power structure will be doing its thing for Ned Lamont and Lieberman will be trailing by double digits.

It won't be a hard decision for Lieberman. He will drop out to avoid career-ending humiliation."

I find it surprising that a politician who is as self-consciously religious, moralistic, high-minded and patriotic as Joe Lieberman is (or claims to be) should, at this crucial time in American history, with all the tough decisions regarding war and peace that this country faces, be more concerned with salving his wounded ego than what is best for his party or his country.

"Lieberman is going to have one very big news day in late September and he'll milk it for all its worth. That's all his independent candidacy is going to be about--stage-managing his own exit. He didn't want an eighteen year Senate career to disappear under 'Lamont Wins' headlines. He wanted his own news day, his own headline. He knows how and when to get it."

Am I the only one who finds this unutterably pathetic?

Tom Moran