Is not that he is "conservative." Whatever that may mean, he's been one since before he was elected to the Senate; for the voters of Connecticut, what they saw is what they got. And it isn't that he is a whore for the insurance industry: every senator, bar none, is in the pocket of his dominant local constituency. And it isn't even that he is against "health care reform;" there are a lot of wonky issues in the fabric here and it is (would be) possible to go a long way with particular issues without exciting quite so much ire.
The thing about Lieberman is that he seems determined to do it all in a way that is calculated to irritate the maximum number of Democrats.
I really haven't any good idea why this might be so. I guess you could say that he's always had a bit of a chip on his shoulder, although that doesn't explain very much. Or that he is still mad about the Ned Lamont challenge, though heaven knows why that would be enough to set him off: politicians win some, and they lose some. That's politics.
There really is something different about his determination to put a different stylistic stamp on his opposition; to make sue that when St. Peter (or whoever does it for orthodox Jews) checks his clipboard, he'll say "aren't you the guy who....?" I had a cousin who, as an infant, when frustrated, would sit on the floor and shout "pisty hog!" We've always remembered that.
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