I saw Martin Frost on FOX News the other day. Frost is the so-called moderate Democrat who just dropped out of the race against Howard Dean for chairmanship of the Democratic Party. Frost’s line was just the usual Democratic nonsense: Bush lied, where’s our exit strategy, etc.. It makes no difference whether Howard Dean or Martin Frost becomes Democratic Chairman. The only real Democratic alternative is Joe Leiberman, and he’s already been rejected. The Democrats don’t seem to realize that the Lieberman position is a political winner. If the country believed the Democrats were just as tough on foreign policy as the Republicans, elections would be decided on domestic issues, where the Democrats are strongest. Maybe instead of calling for a purge, Peter Beinart should have called for the Democrats to take the Lieberman line. If that actually happened, the Mooreites would purge themselves. But of course, if the Democrats got taken over by Joe Lieberman instead of Howard Dean, the party would split in two and we’d see a massive shift to a third party of the left. So the Democrats are trapped by their own post-60’s anti-war instincts. Given all that, the Howard Dean question is moot. Whoever the Democrats choose, it makes no difference. Only when we start seeing Democrats on TV taking the Leiberman line will we know that something of significance has changed.