Jacob Wiesering writing in the left-of-center e-zine, Slate:
“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.”
BTW, here’s a blogger who thinks that the red security alert following the foiling of the terrorist plot in the UK was designed by the Republicans to make the Democrats look weak on national security following Lamont’s victory!
“And isn’t it queer that the emergency is declared within a day of Republican party leader Ken Mehlman launching an all-out offensive against Democrats following Joe Lieberman’s loss in Connecticut, an offensive in which Mehlman, the White House and Republican operatives are claiming that Democrats no longer care about national security or the war on terror. And just at that moment we get our FIRST ever red alert. Beam me up, Scotty.”
An interesting strategy here: defend the change that you’re weak on national security by doubting a major national security breakthrough!
