Expect Dems to Run From War on Terror

Michael Goodwin, writing in the New York Daily News, thinks that a bunch of Dems will get cold feet on the war on terror now that Joe Lieberman has lost the primary in Connecticut:

Leftward, march! The sucking sound you heard from Connecticut last night was the air going out of the war on terror. At least among many Democrats.
The party's voters have spoken - and they are wrong to try to fire Joe Lieberman after three distinguished terms in the Senate. Now we know what a nutmeg really is. It has something to do with a nutty decision.

Don't buy the baloney that Lieberman lost his primary race because he had lost touch with his home base on a range of issues. Rich upstart Ned Lamont was all about Lieberman's support for the Iraq war and coziness with President Bush. That's what this election was about, period.

So now that the wackadoo wing of the party has a bloody scalp, what are they going to do with it? Wave it at Islamic terrorists in Iraq and Lebanon and Afghanistan and Indonesia and Great Britain and Spain and Israel and New York and declare peace? That will work for sure. They better also wear armor and duck.

Lieberman is the first casualty of the war against the war on terror. If last night's results are a window on the party's tilt, then a huge slice of the Democratic party is ready to sit out the war to protect America. God help us if the Republicans also get the wobblies. Let's hope the Connecticut Condition isn't contagious. And let's hope last night's decision is overturned.

You know the wacky left is already working on the hit list for their next targets, and any Dem who ventures into Connecticut to campaign for Joe Lieberman in the general election will be quickly moved to the top of the list.

Whether the wacky left can really do anything about pro-war candidates is another story. Not every state is as blue as Connecticut, and there aren't that many places that will be as tolerant of the nutroots as the voters were yesterday. Don't forget that Cynthia McKinney was an anti-war as they come (even Cindy Sheehan campaigned for her) and she got skunked in her primary race.

So, after 18 straight losses, the nutroots finally win one and it's against a liberal Democrat. They still haven't managed to change one seat in the balance of power in Congress, and their efforts for Lamont are likely to be in vain once the dust settles in November.

UPDATE: Here come the threats against pro-war Dems, starting with Michael Moore.