[weegee]

It came from the top of the Party to take Lieberman out.

It wasn’t a grass roots effort to get rid of him. It was the political machine running him over.

And he showed that a third party candidate CAN win in an election. The will of the wrongheaded Party be damned.

[Alter Kaker]

It came from the top of the Party to take Lieberman out. It wasn’t a grass roots effort to get rid of him. It was the political machine running him over.

Really? Have any evidence to support that? Ned Lamont came out of nowhere, and I recall the DSCC and the Dem party leadership supporting Lieberman in the primary. Obama and Bill Clinton actually campaigned for Lieberman.