Washington Post politics blogger David Weigel provides some important context on today’s “news” that Joe Lieberman might endorse Republican Linda McMahon.
Blumenthal and Lieberman have a long and complicated relationship, one that was severely strained by the 2006 Senate race. Blumenthal endorsed Lieberman early that year, but, like most of the rest of the state’s Democratic establishment, united behind Ned Lamont when he won the Democratic primary.
UPDATE: The fact that Lieberman is toying with the idea of backing McMahon is suprising in another way as well. Lieberman co-sponsored the Family Entertainment Protection Act, which would have made it a federal crime to sell videos with “mature” content to minors. (The bill did not become law.)
It makes you wonder what a family-values guy like him thinks of the push-the-envelope-on-sex-and-violence content that reigned during the WWE’s “Attitude Era.”