Joe knows what's best for you stupid Democrats who turned out in record numbers to vote in the primary:

"I've made this decision. I'm sticking with it. I'm doing it for a reason. I believe it's the right reason," Lieberman said. "I think it's important for my state. I believe it's important for my party."

Update: Thinking more about this, the sheer contempt for the Democratic Party coming from Sen. Lieberman (Lieberman-CT) in this quote goes far beyond anything he's said yet. He thinks that he alone is the arbiter of what's "important" for the party whose expressed opinion through the democratic process he is disregarding, whose local and national leaders he is ignoring, and whose values he is now attacking in the person of Ned Lamont (D-CT).

It's one thing for Joe to say he wants to run as an Independent because he believes he is no longer part of the Democratic party, and wants to allow his strong base of Republicans to vote for him (although making that case after running in the party's primary trying to burnish his progressive credentials would be pretty hard).

But it's another thing entirely to run as an Independent - playing footsie with Karl Rove, Ken Mehlman, and the state GOP - while having the audacity to claim he is doing so because he alone knows what's best for "my party."

Anytime Joe Lieberman attacks Ned Lamont (D-CT) now, he is attacking the Democratic Party itself.