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Captain Ed thinks that that’s what he’ll do if he runs as an independent. I’ve long thought that myself. Having Captain Ed opining that way leads me to believe that I’m on the right track. David Broder’s Sunday column in the Washington Post seems to have gotten Captain Ed thinking about that possibility.

In an interview, Lieberman sounded a note of nostalgia for the old days. “John Bailey genuinely believed that primaries were not only divisive but often didn’t pass the ultimate test of finding the candidate who could win,” he said. If Bailey were alive, his attitude would be, “We have an incumbent senator who is quite popular in the state; we have an opportunity to elect three Democratic congressional challengers; we have a very tough race for governor. Why would we want to challenge an incumbent senator who could lead the other candidates to victory?” The answer is simple: the war, which has lost support among Connecticut voters, especially those likely to vote in a Democratic primary in the heart of summer-vacation season.

This is further proof that the Kos influence is turning the Democratic Party into the “Let the Terrorists Run Free Party”. Likely gone forever is the “Bear any burden” Democratic Party of the Kennedy era.

That was the point of a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece Lieberman wrote last November endorsing the president’s announced strategy to defeat the insurgency and establish a democratic government in Iraq. That article infuriated Lamont and launched his candidacy. “It was decisive,” Lamont told me in an interview. “Lieberman suggested that the critics were undermining the credibility of the president. I thought he was wrong.”

“My opponent says it broke Democratic unity,” Lieberman said. “Well, dammit, I wasn’t thinking about Democratic unity. It was a moment to put the national interest above partisan interest.”

If there’s one thing that the American people don’t like, it’s that they don’t like “party unity” if it means playing politics with the war. Regardless of the polling, the American people know that pulling out of Iraq now that we’re there isn’t the right thing to do.

Lamont can be infuriated all he wants but the truth is that he’ll never represent Connecticut in the Senate. He’s just the Kossacks’ latest tool to pull the Democratic Party to the extremist pacifist left.

This move to the pacifist left is what will be the Democrats’ demise this November. Everyone’s been predicting doom and gloom this fall. I’ve never been of that mindset because I’ve never misunderestimated Democrats’ ability to say totally boneheaded things to lose big elections. I’ve also never misunderestimated Mr. Rove’s ability to frame issues to the GOP’s advantage. This year won’t be any different, thanks in large part to the Moonbats’ outrageous statements.

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