It's true, Lieberman is on the outs with the establishment-types at the NYT.

Mr. Lieberman prides himself on being a legal thinker and a champion of civil liberties. But he appointed himself defender of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the administration’s policy of holding hundreds of foreign citizens in prison without any due process. He seconded Mr. Gonzales’s sneering reference to the "quaint" provisions of the Geneva Conventions. He has shown no interest in prodding his Republican friends into investigating how the administration misled the nation about Iraq’s weapons. There is no use having a senator famous for getting along with Republicans if he never challenges them on issues of profound importance.

If Mr. Lieberman had once stood up and taken the lead in saying that there were some places a president had no right to take his country even during a time of war, neither he nor this page would be where we are today. But by suggesting that there is no principled space for that kind of opposition, he has forfeited his role as a conscience of his party, and has forfeited our support. Mr. Lamont, a wealthy businessman from Greenwich, seems smart and moderate, and he showed spine in challenging the senator while other Democrats groused privately. He does not have his opponent’s grasp of policy yet. But this primary is not about Mr. Lieberman’s legislative record. Instead it has become a referendum on his warped version of bipartisanship, in which the never-ending war on terror becomes an excuse for silence and inaction. We endorse Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary for Senate in Connecticut.

I think they really nailed it. Joementum keeps on saying it's all about the war, but that's just not the case. It's everything. His complete and total capitulation to Republicans when it comes to Iraq, civil liberties, appointments, anything (except flag burning - big deal).

This is good news for Lamont who is leading in the polls. It's still worth contributing to his campaign though as well as all the other actblue candidates, because he'll probably face a nasty fight with Lieberman after Joementum goes the traitor route and runs as an independent.

Some Democrat. The voters in your party reject you and you're answer? No one but Joe gets to decide who will be the Democrat from Connecticut. What an asshole.