There was a good article in the Hartford Courant Sunday about Lieberman, and his oblivious self-immolation.
The whole thing is painful 
to watch. At least to me. I still can’t help liking the guy.
But he brought it on himself. And he really has no one to blame but himself. Hubris, certainly. But even more than that the obliviousness that is born of hubris. He turns out to have been as oblivious about what was happening in his own state as he was about what was happening in Iraq.
People on Lieberman’s side talk a lot about him as a man of principle sticking to his beliefs in spite of public opposition. But it’s one thing to stick to your guns when you know you’re going to pay a price, quite another to stick to them when you’re totally out of touch with the consequences.
Set aside the great issues of the day that are implicated in this race. I’m fascinated by it on a personal level — or at the level where personalities and character intersect with the subterranean tides of politics. What happened to this guy? No one seems to have had any grasp of the brittleness of his hold on the support of his constituents. Was it the sting of his rejection in 2004? The possibility of getting the Sec Def nod?
There’s a great 10,000 word magazine article in this story.
