Senator Kerry, Secretary Lieberman?

On Monday, John Kerry called on President Bush to replace Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary, according to The Raw Story: "The President owes it to our troops serving in Iraq to remove Secretary Rumsfeld and replace him at the Pentagon with a Defense Secretary who understands the situation on the ground in Iraq and who will advance, not undermine, American values around the world."

Well, sure. I would wholeheartedly support Rumsfeld's long-overdue removal. But is it possible that his successor would be Joe Lieberman, a vaguely Democratic Democrat who is, as Kos puts it, "corrosive to Democratic unity" and "tragically wrong on the war"?

I've never disliked Joe-mentum as much as many on the left, but it would certainly say something about him (something rather unpleasant) if he finally took that last step and sold out to Bush's corrupt regime.