Apparently the LieberButt Munchers are claiming that their site joe2006.com was victim of a Denial-of-Service attack because it was down. Now, Holy Joe has the media, most of whom would not know a flash drive from a flash bulb buying his story.

But wait. This might actually be a calculated move on the part of Liebemans' otherwise not-so-competant DC campaign staff.

Follow me here: ISP's usually sell their hosting plans with a fixed bandwidth allocation. Go over it, and they'll cut you some slack up to a point. Go way over it, and they'll put a message up that your site is suspended until you contact their billing/customer service department to pony up for extra bandwidth (after all, the InterTubes are not really free). Everyone who has ever bought a hosting package knows these rules going in, most ISPs want to avoid becoming another dot-bomb and enforce things like bandwidth that affect profitability.

Now, supposing as Christy over at FDL says, that the Lieberman folks knew that the 24 to 36 hours before the polls open would logically be the highest/peak usage time. So they underbuy knowing that their quotas will be pushed to the limit, before primary day, but not enough to cause problems. But in that magic window, BOOM! Out goes the site for the bandwidth qouta, and out comes a ready made explanation, it was the HaX0rz. Particularly of the Lamont variety.

Makes sense to me, and it's a perfectly untraceable "dirty trick". All you have to do is underbuy and blame Lamont for bringing down the website and you get Noron and Tweety being shrill about the mean old bloggers.

Update: apparently the Lieberdems were only ponying up $15/month for hosting. Would it have been irresponsible to speculate about the LieberLovers Asshattery? It would have been irresponsible not to.