Steve Clemons is a very smart man and he wrote a very stupid post on Marshall Wittman of all people. Steve needs to get out of Washington more if he believes this:

What those heaping scorn on Wittman are missing, however, is what his employment by Lieberman really means. When political giants tie up, it's not an accident.

Lieberman's acquisition of Marshall Wittman, who is very close to John McCain, signals a calculation by some that McCain and Lieberman might tie up for the 2008 Presidential run. The progressive left will start choking at this point, coughing and convulsing uncontrollably -- but reason needs to be gripped for a moment.

McCain and Lieberman would be a formidable challenge for any Democratic opponent because even though both are now self-described neoconservatives and strongly supported America's botched war against Iraq, to many pundits they would "seem like" the very epitome of centrism.

John McCain is having enough trouble convincing the GOP base he is one of them. Marshall Wittman does not help. And neither does Joe Lieberman. David Broder does not decide who the GOP nominee will be. And I guarantee you that McCain is not a fool who will run as an independent. Lieberman and Wittman may be stupid enough to believe he will. It surprises me that on this narrow point, Clemons seems as obtuse as they.

The rest of Clemons fluff piece on Wittman is frankly embarrassing to Steve. I think the less said the better. I'll prefer to forget Steve wrote this clunker.