I think this reader makes a very sound point:

G, Good stuff. One point worth mentioning. The latest polls have Lieberman up 55-to-40 over the challenger. All the talk about momentum and the liberal blogs aside, that’s a big lead. If Lieberman wins with that sort of margin (I think he will), maybe it is time to stop taking these liberal bloggers so seriously. Repeatedly we have seen the big claims of the coming left-blog revolution in the Democratic Party, but it always fizzles. My spidey-sense tells me the DU and Daily Kos are exerting a disproportionate amount of influence on the media, but have little impact on the real world of politics. So, perhaps the best way to look at this race is as a final test of the lefty blogosphere. If Mr. Kos wants to be the George Washington of this revolution, he better find a Trenton soon. Otherwise, it may be time to view these folks as nothing more than well-organized cranks, along the lines of the John Birch Society.

Me: As we’ve all noted around here from time to time, the lefty blogosphere’s successes are far, far, far more humble than their rhetoric. The new Deniacs are Nedheads. And the conditions are far more friendly to them in the Conn. primary than they were in Iowa. Kos has gotten literally millions of dollars worth of media exposure. The war is vastly more unpopular than it was in 2004, particularly in the liberal northeast as opposed to Iowa. If they blow it after all of this drama, the burden will be on the Kossacks to demonstrate why anyone should take them seriously.