From Zero to Hero - You Gotta' Love It!

I love politics. Honest to God I can't get enough of them. I've taken that little spot in my brain that's usually reserved in men for their favorite sports stats, and transformed it into a political dumping ground! Why do I love politics? Let me show you an example and I can do it in two words - Joe Lieberman.

Here is a guy who is a sitting US Senator. He looses his primary election, decides to drop his party affiliation, and run as an Independent. The Democrats pour money against him like pounding sand down a rat hole. But it didn't work.

He won.

MSNBC was commenting on this same fact this morning. Joe Lieberman woke up today the same man, but a changed man. He went from down and out, to being able to write his own ticket in the new Senate. Now, I've never been that big a Lieberman fan and I hated that he took the President's view on the war. But my hat's off to him for believing that he knew his constituents better than his state party did.

Oh, one more thing. Can you IMAGINE the butt kissing that he's going to be getting in Washington from both parties? I'm sure he'll LOVE it! Senator Lieberman, please step forward and pick your committee chairmanship...