Lieberman / Lamont

It's hard to write anything about the liberal extremists in Connecticut voting for Ned Lamont over Sen. Lieberman that hasn't been written in about one gazillion places already but I haven't seen anything like the letter I sent to the Wall Street Journal earlier this week:

The letter:

Editor,

First, I hope that before readers got to the letters today, they read on the front page that Sen. Joseph Lieberman defeated Mr. Ned Lamont in Connecticut's Democratic primary.

Second, am I the only one that noticed the symmetry, and irony, in two articles from yesterday's Wall Street Journal?

In "Lieberman Woes Scratch Surface of Anti-Incumbent Sentiment (August 8, A7)", Ms. Jeanne Cummings wrote, "One of challenger Ned Lamont's most potent weapons is a photo of Mr. Bush planting a kiss on Sen. Lieberman's cheek after the 2005 State of the Union speech." I'd say substantial evidence of a person who is, in fact, a "uniter, not a divider" who is also routinely mocked on this account. And, quite a gesture given that Sen. Lieberman votes against the President 90% of the time.

Then, in "Liberal McCarthyism (August 8, A10)", Mr. Lanny Davis, former special counsel to President Clinton (his liberal bona fides firmly established), laments that the hate-filled extremists of the Democratic Party will have prevailed if Mr. Lamont defeats Sen. Lieberman given the vicious attacks on Sen. Lieberman that Mr. Davis claims to have seen on the liberal weblogs.

Simply, just maybe the Left cannot be "united" with the rest of the Country as it prefers to "divide". (End of letter.)