...This is precisely the sort of tactic that makes me so incredibly hostile to the entire anti-Lieberman movement. As I’ve said repeatedly, if Connecticut voters feel so strongly about Lieberman’s stance on the war that they want to vote against him on that basis alone, I have no problem with that, even though I disagree. But instead of running an honest campaign on the issue(s), Lamont and his allies — and before anyone tries to distance Kos from Ned, let’s recall that they appeared in a campaign ad together — have consistently smeared Lieberman’s character and distorted his record, painting him as a liar, a power-hungry scoundrel, a friend of Bush, a DINO, a traitor to his party, a conservative in liberal’s clothing, and so forth, even though none of these things are factually correct. (And I’m talking before the primary, before Lieberman bolted the party, as well as after. These lies are a big part of the reason Lieberman lost the primary and thus wound up running as an independent in the first place.)...