Limb-Climbing

With 94. 45% of precincts reporting, Lawyers, Guns, and Money is projecting Ned Lamont as winner of the Connecticut Democratic Senate primary. Hey, if Mariano Rivera can give up a homerun to blow a save, I figure this is a night where justice can triumph for once.

Here’s a thought: what happens if it’s close enough for the outcome to be contested? If you thought you hated Lieberman before, imagine if he actually makes a serious effort to fight this time…I don’t have enough fibers in my being to despise him as much as he would deserve. (And, obviously, an independent candidacy amounts to basically the same thing.)

UPDATE: LIEBERMAN CONCEDES! As is appropriate, I’m watching it on Fox News…

…TBogg makes a good point; it will be interesting to see how the media portrays an incumbent winning 51-48 in 2004 versus a massive underdog winning 51-48 over an incumbent this time. Three guesses and the first two don’t count. And this is also right: Lieberman’s reprehensible independent run “will result in cash and resources that should be going to the real Democrats down ticket being spent fighting off a Vichy Democrat.” Indeed.

…this indeed would be a good start.

…I’ll give Henley the last word:

Lieberman came to personify the effort to cast all opposition to the Administration’s war policies as disrespectable fringe behavior. As a matter of principle, this is noxious. As a matter of practicality, it’s ridiculous in a member of the nominal opposition party. I foresee a future in which Lieberman becomes as bitter and menacing as Robert Bork became in the years after he was rejected for the Supreme Court.