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Dumber Than A Bag of Hammers

Thu Aug 10, 2006 at 10:15:29 AM PDT

What separates Jacob Weisberg:

Political analysts tend to overinterpret the results of isolated elections. But you can hardly read too much into Ned Lamont's defeat of Joe Lieberman in Connecticut's Aug. 8 primary. This is a signal event that will have a huge and lasting negative impact on the Democratic Party. The result suggests that instead of capitalizing on the massive failures of the Bush administration, Democrats are poised to re-enact a version of the Vietnam-era drama that helped them lose five out six presidential elections between 1968 and the end of the Cold War.

and John Gibson?

Hang on, Dems. Here come the Pol Pots of your party. And if you were for national security, you are now emphatically not. Or else. Remember the mountain of skulls in Cambodia? It's the Democrats new reality now that the anti-war rabble has tasted blood by taking Lieberman down,"

Nothing but a few four syllable words. More.

A lot of smart folks are writing long persuasive posts demonstrating why Weisberg is wrong. Me, I'll just quote him:

Lieberman's opponents are not entirely wrong about the war.

What a moron. The good news is they don't matter anymore. 3 months out and Dems are ready to take on Iraq and the Rubber Stamp Bush Republicans. We'll see how they explain how they knew it all along in November.

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