SORE POINT

Can we please put the phrase "Sore Loserman" to bed forever? There's plenty to criticize about Joe Lieberman's independent run, but surely we on the left should be creative enough to come up with a pithy pun of our own, right? No need to ressurrect a Republican phrase (it sounds like Gore-Lieberman! Get it?!?) designed to disparage the Democratic ticket's (woefully insufficient) objections to the willful and systematic disenfranchisement of voters of color in 2000. The invocation of the "Sore Loserman" line by progressives betrays the same maddening tunnel vision evinced by the "Chirac for President" signs I would run into at anti-war rallies back in the day.