It sure sounds that way. Read Marc Ambinder.
Over the past two years some progressives have said that Lieberman — who has been at the side of at GOP presumptive Presidential candidate Senator John McCain in major campaign appearances agreeing with McCain and increasingly criticizing the Democrats — has morphed into the 2008 Zell Miller.
But perhaps it’s more than that. As Amdinder shows, perhaps Lieberman’s increasingly high-profile direct campaigning against the Democratic party and its likely nominee indicates he is ready to abandon ship. OR, failing that, perhaps he will eventually run as McCain’s Veep. That would be another historical first: in 2000 he was the first Jew to run for Vice President and if he ran with McCain he’d be the first politico to run for that slot on both partie national tickets.
Even if that doesn’t happen, Lieberman is inching farther and farther away from what was once his party — but he and his supporters will argue it’s the Democratic party that has inched farther and farther away from him (choose the one you believe according to your political bias.) But it could also be symptomatic about how the county’s political center has shifted to the left.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.