Cash to burn

It may be time for him to step aside in Connecticut, but Joe Lieberman, according to MSNBC, "will be able to raise the funds necessary to mount a campaign to keep his Senate seat, both Democratic and Republican donors say". Indeed, "Lieberman loyalists know he’s still a Democrat," and his campaign will be well financed by both these loyalists and "new Republican" donors.

All of which is to say that money likely won't be a factor. And that Lieberman could be in this race to the bitter end. And that it could get really ugly along the way.