Any marginalizing of your party you can do, I can do better

A friendship that emerged under similar circumstances as the kids who aren't really friends, but sit together at the school lunch table, because none of the other tables want them there, John McCain and Joe Lieberman have been buddy-buddy.

When McCain needed a quick reminder in Jordan last week on how to characterize Islamic radicals in Iraq receiving aid from Iran, Lieberman was there to whisper into his colleague’s ear. A day later in Israel, the Connecticut senator proved equally helpful, stepping in to help McCain clarify the meaning of the Jewish holiday of Purim.

Whether wearing yarmulkes together amid the throngs at Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall, meeting reporters outside 10 Downing Street in London or sporting matching suit-and-sweater combos at a snowy New Hampshire town hall meeting, the two have been nearly inseparable since Lieberman endorsed McCain last December.

The second paragraph makes the duo seem less like political allies and more like retired gay vacationers. The Democrats' rejection of Lieberman a few years ago may come and bite them in the ass when trying to portray McCain as another Bush lackey. In fact, McCain probably has more in common, in terms of policy, with Joe Lieberman than many of the Republican evangelicals in Congress, a fact the DNC is trying to mask.