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The New Democrats

Bill Kristol, of the Weekly Standard, looks at how the primary in Connecticut tells us about the present and future of the Democrats and their lurch to The Angry Left. For in that state, as you probably know already, Ned Lamont is on the verge of winning the primary and thus the Democratic slot on the ballot in November. And the kook fringe is on the march to unseat Joe Lieberman. And it's not because Senator Lieberman is a conservative. He most certainly is not. On most economic and social issues he is reliably liberal and votes with the bulk of his party 90 percent of the time. But for the nutroots that is just not pure enough.

And so instead of a political party of adults who argue for their positions predicated on the assumption that the rest of us are smart enough to understand and weigh the issues at hand, we get pictures of Joe Lieberman in blackface from the Huffington Post via Lamont staffer and Angry Leftist blogger Jane Hamsher. The Democrats have been carjacked by their Angry Leftist base and show no signs that they understand the folly of letting their most immature and extreme members drive the tone and policy of the party. We should have two serious political parties in this country. But for the foreseeable future it seems that at least one party will be composed of spoiled emotional brats who have yet to grow up.