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C'mon folks, I may just be a dumb Minnesotan out here in the hinterlands, but the head-pounding and hand-wringing of Dems and pundits alike about the meaning of this primary is boring me already. My impression is that Ned Lamont is far less important for who he is than for what he represents, which is outrage and exhaustion in the electorate from witnessing our ill-conceived and well-deceived misadventure in Iraq. Lamont is to Iraq what Gene McCarthy was to Vietnam, notice to the elected officials that we're tired and angry about losing American lives in the cause of God-only-knows-what. Like Vietnam, this war has long since become a hopeless quagmire, and the only way we'll get out is by sending messages like Ned Lamont's. Even, I might add, if Joe Lieberman wins the general election.
