Goldfarb compares them:

Perhaps Lieberman was more committed to the fight than his counterpart on the Obama campaign, Chuck Hagel, but any sense of proportion has been lost by the hysterics leading the anti-Joe lynch mob. And there are no pitchfork wielding Republicans intent on burning Chuck Hagel at the stake. There was hardly a peep from the right over his heresy because nobody cared.

Hagel didn't endorse Obama. And he has been anathematized by Goldfarb's friends and fellow apparatichiks. Jason Zengerle has more considered thoughts.

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