Lieberman logic

I’m not sure, but I think I’ve figured Joe Lieberman out.

His first instincts nowadays is to defend the President, no matter what he says or does. And most people take this as a betrayal of party, of high-order obeisance. But I realized that he’s laboring under an entirely different delusion.

He actually thinks he’s the Vice President.

Like many people in this country, he believes deep down that the Gore/Lieberman ticket really won in 2000– a position that seems to be borne out by the ballots, if not the Supreme Court. And he thinks that the first duty that a Vice President has is to defend the President in all areas, and that’s exactly what he’s been doing. Okay, so he’s not quite made the linkage that Bush is considered President– again, not an uncommon opinion in the world.

So rather than be infuriated by him, we should take a certain degree of pity on the poor soul. Of course, that still doesn’t mean that someone with such a passing familiarity with the way things are on the ground now should be kept in office… which is why I’m so happy to see Ned Lamont gaining traction.