Freudian slip?

A lot of people have demonized Joe Lieberman for being on the far right of the Democratic Party, and deservedly so. In fact, a lot of people (yours truly especially enthusiastically) like to maintain that he's really just a Republican, given that he's 1) in the pocket of the Hartford insurance industry, 2) extremely fiscally conservative, 3) alarmingly hawkish and 4) just generally a frightening guy.

But this contention seems justified by Lieberman's own remarks during the debate of Democratic presidential hopefuls in New Hampshire earlier tonight.

Harping on the theme of electability that's become Democratic chic since Iowa, Lieberman insisted he would be the hardest candidate for Bush to attack.

"The reason is that the Republicans can't run their normal playbook on me that they try to run on Democratic candidates."

That's right, he just confessed that he wasn't a Democrat, but is actually a Republican. Newsworthy only in Lieberman's admission, not the substance of it.