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Backing McCain is worse. And attacking Obama, as Lieberman has recently begun doing, is an unforgivable sin. “He has no allegiance to the party he was once a part of,” says a consultant to two former Democratic presidential candidates. “He says he’s an independent, but if you speak at the GOP convention, if you endorse McCain for president, you’re a Republican, end of story.” The political press has been even less restrained. Salon.com labeled Lieberman an “ideological turncoat.” “Watching Joe Lieberman go around the bend … is one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen in politics,” wrote Jonathan Chait in The New Republic. And Wonkette, the Washington gossip blog, turned the hatred of the senator into something like a literary extreme sport: “It’s like two quarter-pound stools of alien space shit crashed into a toxic-waste dumpster in Stamford, Connecticut, fucked, and out came their mutilated, blood-soaked carcass of a baby rat-child, Senator Joseph Lieberman.”