So much Lieberman in the news today. First, Joe gave a speech at the annual Commentary Fund dinner at New York's University Club. I haven't seen a copy of the text yet, but it is getting rave reviews. Jennifer Rubin has a write up of the speech here and there's another from Larry Kudlow at the Corner here. I'll post the transcript when it becomes available. Also, John Podhoretz has a great post on the left's hack attack against Lieberman :
One of the oddest tropes on the Democratic liberal-left is the reference to Sen. Joseph Lieberman as a "hack," which has been a fairly steady refrain on The New Republic's blog for two years now. No politician on earth would have wanted to take the journey Lieberman has taken - from his party's vice-presidential nominee in 2000 to defeat in a primary battle in his home state six years later. To hold views so discordant with your long-time comrades and colleagues is the sort of thing that can cause even the strongest of men to lose faith in his own views.... And yet there he remained, and remains, unbending. This is the opposite of hackery. It is the antithesis of hackery. It is the quality everyone says he yearns for in Washington - principled consistency, a willingness to work across the aisle in a bipartisan fashion, and a refusal to kowtow to the loudest voices merely because they are so loud.
And finally, playing off today's New York Sun editorial on the logic of Lieberman as McCain's VP, Hot Air runs an unscientific poll to determine the preference of their readers in a hypothetical Huckabee vs. Lieberman head to head for the bottom of the ticket. The result: Lieberman in a landslide.