Joe Lieberman will not leave his fellow Democrats alone

I didn’t leave the Democratic Party — the Democratic Party left me.

There’s a lot of mutual disappointment between Lieberman and his fellow Democrats. By the time he’d left office, in 2013, the gentleman from Connecticut had left a series of Lieberman-shaped dents in the Democrats’ 21st-century ambitions. Officially he’d ended his 24 years in the Senate as an independent, but when he moved to the Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale, Lieberman registered to vote with the party he’d joined amid heady idealism of the Kennedy years. He still wanted a say.

“Because I am a Democrat!” he said, “and I’m hopeful that the Democratic Party will return to what I hope it will be.”

He has a plan for how to do that, and it involves challenging President Biden. Lieberman is working with No Labels, the centrist group that is preparing to stand up a bipartisan “unity ticket” as an “insurance policy” against the possibility — likelier by the day — that the race will come down to two unpopular nominees: Biden and Trump. In which case, No Labels would strongly consider fielding an alternative candidate who might appeal to disillusioned voters on both sides. “Based on the conditions as they are, we expect to be putting up a ticket early next year,” said Ryan Clancy, chief strategist for No Labels.

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