Even Worse News Than The Quinnipiac Poll

Nothing I’ve written has ever generated as much critical email from friends and acquaintances as my tortured, anti-anti-Lieberman column from a couple weeks ago. So says The New Republic ’s Jonathan Chait, who goes on to say that he’s coming around to the anti-Lieberman position. Now, it’s easy to get the impression from the blogosphere that, at this point, Lieberman’s entire base of support consists of immediate family members and Marshall Wittman , but I still think it’s safe to say that if even TNR writers are wavering, that means trouble . The real shock here, though, is that a single Lieberman column generated more critical email for Chait than his excellent Diary of a Dean-o-phobe blog. It is to be hoped that Chait will develop a similar burning antipathy towards one of the 2008 candidates - which one really doesn’t matter.