Clear your mind a moment and join me in a short thought experiment.

Imagine that the Supreme court had not installed GWB back in 2000, and that we're finishing up with Al's 2nd term.

Our de-facto candidate would be Holy Joe Lieberman.

What kind of Joe would this be? Recall (though I may be mistaken on the timing) that Joe's evil side did not fully mature until sometime around 2004-2005, and were he entrenched as VP, we might not have caught that glimpse of color from the inside of his coat. Leave aside for a moment that 2 terms of Gore would have resulted in a dramatically different America, and that much of the pressure that has built behind the democratic and populist movements likely would be absent in that less-desperate and more open society, and consider who Joe would have been for us as an incumbent VP trying to lead us into 4 more years of Democratic leadership.


Would we be screwn?