I believe that can be referred to as “the culture of incumbency” mixed with “follow the leader”. On the one hand, Lieberman is the incumbent and thus everyone knows he can do the job, but Biden is obliged to be a mouthpiece for the party so he has to support the winner of the CT primary.

I am sick of the culture of incumbency though, our Congressmen and Senators seem to think they are the freaking millionaire’s club above all the rest of us. When that William Jefferson(D-LA) got caught with 90K in his office fridge, what I expected to hear from the house majority leader was: “So, who ‘polices their own’ and will deal with ‘the culture of corruption’”. Instead what I got was “I’m Dennis Hastert and I feel you have engaged in an affront to all Congressmen by searching a Congressman’s office (even though you had a signed warrant).” When I heard that my thought was: “O Really? How about we kick you out of office next election then, you pompous SOB.” I wish our Congressmen realized we send them their to represent us, not to be a bunch of overly pampered whiners.

What will be interesting is if Lieberman switches any of his voting patterns, now that he won’t have to answer to a senate minority leader breathing down his neck.

At the end of the day, sans his damning(inside the party) Iraq stance, Lieberman is still among the most liberal of Democrats. He’s going to win the general election and the Kos Kidz will finally be able to put up something higher than 0-ever increasing number. It will now by 0.5-ever increasing number.

Joe Liberman is essentially a John Kerry that is willing to engage in a productive analysis on Iraq rather than just put a fleeing option on the table. This makes him infinitely better for the country than Lamont, and the voters in CT will realize it and vote as such.