Today's developments

Lieberman is blaming Lamont's supporters for hacking his Web site. The Netroots are internet-savvy.

Down in Jawjuh, the polls predict Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, best known for asserting President Bush had prior knowledge of 9/11 and hitting a Capitol policeman with her cell phone, will lose her run-off election today against longtime opponent Hank Johnson.

Prominent non-Republicans have weighed in on the Netroots' embrace of the "politics of hate": Cokie Roberts earned the contempt of MediaMatters.org for saying a Lamont win would "push...the party to the left ... [which is] the position from which it traditionally loses ... presidential elections." The truth hurts.

Former Clinton staffer Lanny Davis lamented the "McCarthyism" of the far left, saying "[t]he far right does not have a monopoly on bigotry and hatred and sanctimony."

Finally, Patrick Buchanan, who is as far right as they come but opposed the Iraq War from Day 1, asserts:

"Whatever happens to Joe Lieberman in Connecticut, the new center of gravity of the Democratic Party is antiwar."

My belief: the Democrats, after cynically supporting the war before the 2004 presidential election in order to align themselves with majority public opinion, are now cynically against the war for the same reasons. Without principle--or alternatives to admittedly flawed Republican policies--underlying their political platform, Democrats will be on eqaully shaky (and losing) ground in 2008.

Hillary-Howard-Whoever is going to lose again.

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