Why Lieberman Matters

There's been all this talk recently about Lieberman. My first impression was something along the lines of "who cares?" There is one issue to bring up here, though.

Lieberman is like Dean and Kucinich in the last presidential election. They never really had the full support of the Democratic Party, but they were very useful in bringing in votes. Lieberman is actually the reverse of this, in that his defeat by another rich man whose only difference is that he's opposed to the war in Iraq. Will this make a difference in how the Democrats support the war? Not really. But it will have the effect of pulling people into the Democrat fold when they should rightfully toss the Democrats on the trash heap where they belong. It helps create the illusion that the Democrats might actually oppose the war.