I am puzzled by Democrats who think they only need Democrat votes. No Democrat has won a majority of the vote and the Electoral College since I was a child. Their last overall winner was a man, Jimmy Carter, who was a Southron and ran as a “born again.” He was the last Democrat to make a serious bid for my kind of voter. He got them and then betrayed them. Clinton ran from his playbook, but there was less trust (and Perot) . . . and he never got half the vote.
In the same period, Reagan accomplished the job twice, Bush I once, and Bush II once. Nixon did it before that twice . . . and that brings us back to the formation of the modern versions of both parties.
Of course, Democrats have the perfect right to become the party of New England, California, and the Pacific Northwest. Of course, Lieberman is no conservative . . . but he gets the Biggest Issue of our time right. Andrew Johnson sided with Lincoln and Liberty in 1861 (to quote someone I read on the web) . . . and Lieberman is serious about the War on Terror. Now instead of having two parties who will debate means to ends we all agree on . . .and there is plenty to be critical about in any war . . . we will get one serious party and a party with a clownish foreign policy.
Lamont simply has no serious plan for the WOT. That disqualifies him from the Senate . . . the Senate is not the school board of some Yale-dominated exburb.