John Kerry says the current fighting between Israel and Hezbollah wouldn’t have broken out if he were president. Al Gore thinks his election as president in 2000 would have held the earth’s temperature constant. If a Democrat wins the White House in 2008, will he put an end to death itself?
Joe Lieberman’s four-point loss to Ned Lamont in the Connecticut Democratic Senate primary was close enough to make his Election Night pledge to run as an independent seem feisty, not a fit of pique. The early line is that he should win in a three-way race in November (the Republican, Alan Schlesinger, is a former mayor of Derby, and a card counter at casinos). But the early line was that Lieberman would win the primary. Lamont, a rich-kid cable exec and political tyro, was hardly a dream candidate. But the anti-war Left pushed him ahead of a three-term incumbent and former vice-presidential nominee. The zeal of the Lamontniks will be redoubled by victory, and re-redoubled by turmoil in the Middle East. Lamont’s strategic vision? “Our nation is stronger when we work with our friends and negotiate with our enemies.” Republicans should ask every Democrat running for office this fall whether he agrees. It is a sad comment that many Democratic voters do.
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