I am afraid to admit that, in 2000, I liked Gore's pick of Joe Lieberman as his running mate. In those pre-blog days, I thought it was a brave, inclusive gesture to pick a Jew. And that's about all I thought about it.

How times change.

Lieberman will likely lose his August 8th Democratic primary in Connecticut, and it really is the energy of the leftie blogs that have propelled his challenger, the estimable Ned Lamont. I'm super-excited to watch it happen.

This thread on MyDD discusses Joe Lieberman. What happened to him? How did he transform from a courageous, progressive civil rights activist in the 60s to a tone-deaf, whiny Bush stooge?

Here's one take:

He sold out or lost his way, it doesn't matter which.

It's like Ronald Reagan's transformation from good union man to union buster and Keystone Kop Konservative. People change, and not surprisingly the change is often in the direction of returning the favors of powerful interests. They slowly mythologize their past and rationalize their present.

Go read the entire thread.

UPDATE: This one is good too.

In the Shakesperean sense of a befuddled old douche ambling around offering his kingdom for a horse, Lieberman is tragic.

But, he's still a douchebag.