We’re sitting here listening to an interview with Sen. McCain. And he’s just made the argument that if the message of the 2006 election were really to wind up our involvement in Iraq, then Joe Lieberman wouldn’t have been reelected in Connecticut. Now, I know Lieberman’s a pretty touchy topic. But even in the most generous interpretation, didn’t Lieberman run his whole general election campaign asking Connecticut voters to look beyond his position on Iraq which most of them disagreed with?
Late Update: As a number of readers have noted, in the general election, Sen. Lieberman was actually talking about ending the war in Iraq, just not in perhaps as precipitous a way as he claimed Ned Lamont would do. He certainly wasn’t talking about an open-ended commitment or an escalation. Here’s one of Joe’s ad for an example.
