Now comes the time to look back on the Lamont victory last night, and ahead to the irritation of needing to continue to deal with Joe “How Can I Miss You if you Won’t Go Away” Lieberman. As I do, it occurs to me that Lieberman’s signal failure in the campaign was that he didn’t take the right play out of his own playbook.
Remember 2000, when Joe managed to keep his name on the ballot twice by standing both for VP and re-election to his Senate seat? Remember how he could’ve given the Repubs immediate control of the Senate had he won both (since his Senate replacement would likely have been a Republican – not to mention the perils of giving Joe the casting vote as VP)?
Well, Joe forgot his own playbook. Maybe he thinks that his “independent” gambit is just as good, but it lacks elegance. I insist that Joe should’ve gone for a sure-bet strategy for being a legitimate candidate in the general election. It’s a strategy based on his experience running two races at the same time. And it’s simple.
Joe should’ve gone for the Republican nomination, too.
Personally, I would’ve liked it because the resulting meltdown would’ve been so much bigger. But I can’t believe nobody from Fox suggested it.