Jane Hamsher, the lefty blogger who once unrepentantly portrayed Joe Lieberman in blackface while working “unofficially” for his opponent Ned Lamont, has concocted a scenario by which John McCain picks Joe Lieberman as his VP. In this fantasy McCain dies in office and President Lieberman then throws her and all the other bloggers who backed Ned Lamont into Gitmo.

No, really.

Ace picks apart this conspiratorial fever-dream with his usual aplomb and then gets to work on Hamsher and her lunatic leftist compatriots.

This isn’t politics for the left. It’s some sort persecuted-messiah psychodrama fantasia they’re playing out in their own badly addled heads.* Politics are just the vehicle for acting out this consensual mass hallucination. If there weren’t any politics to shape their delusions, they’d just be talking about Men in Black and Voice-to-Skull technology the same as any other muttering, eye-twitching schizophrenic.

Casting these paranoid delusions in terms of political oppression gives them the veneer of sanity. But only the veneer.

Read his whole post.

I have another idea entirely. I was struck by the thought that Hamsher genuinely believes that not only does the President of the United States know exactly who she is, but would persecute her personally. Not only is that just crazy, it’s incredibly arrogant. I’m pretty sure that if you asked Joe Lieberman right now who Jane Hamsher is, he might vaguely recall the name. If you said she was the woman who portrayed him in blackface and smeared him all over the internet while working for Ned Lamont, he might muster an “Oh, yeah. Her. Guess that worked out well for her, didn’t it?”.

Just because Jane Hamsher and a good chunk of the left-wing blogosphere is consumed with hatred and willing to harbor vendettas for a decade doesn’t mean that everyone is similarly deranged. Hamsher isn’t even a blip of Joe Liberman’s personal or professional radar. It’s only her self-important blustering that puts her in such a position.

Here’s the thing. This isn’t, as Hamsher portrays it, a nightmare for her. It’s a fantasy. This is what she really wants to happen. She wants to be the object of Lieberman’s vengeance so that she can do a couple years in the country-club atmosphere of Guantanamo Bay, come out a folk hero, and achieve all the fame and fortune that her vitriolic blogging and political ass-kissing hasn’t brought her.

The biggest problem with her fantasy is that she’s not nearly as important as she thinks she is. Joe Lieberman doesn’t know Jane Hamsher and that absolutely tears her up inside.