"Let's hope the voting public doesn't believe Joe's vicious and misleading ads, and, instead, votes to put a real Democrat into the U.S. Senate."

"As an ex-pat Connecticut Citizen (Woodbury), I wanted to tell you that was one of the best pieces on Joementum's duplicity I have ever seen. Nice stuff! Thanks!"

"Your citations of Lieberman's past heinous acts which predated my interest in politics show me that his behavior was not something that changed recently..."

"Your article was hands-down one of the best pieces of journalism I have read in the past five years. And believe me, I'm reading a lot."

As a practical matter, I can appreciate Lieberman's dilemma. If he loses in the primary, Lieberman can very likely run a very competitive, if not successful, campaign as an independent. Indeed, the Quinnipiac poll shows him winning a three-way race fairly easily.

But if, in the short term, Lieberman hopes to win over primary voters, talking openly about possibly abandoning his party strikes me as a spectacularly bad strategy. He is, in effect, telling Democratic voters, "I want to be the Democratic nominee, but my allegiance will disappear if you choose someone else." (For the record, Lamont has said he'll back Lieberman if the incumbent wins the primary.)

If I were a potential presidential candidate looking for a way to jump start my campaign, get a bit of news, and get a bit of blogger support what I would do is be the first big name to endorse Ned Lamont.

If I wasn't quite courageous enough to do it now I'd make sure that if Joe leaves the party I'd be the first person to run to the microphone to do it then.