JUST YOUR AVERAGE JOE!

The defeat of Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut democrat primary has implications that can not be ignored. A number of conclusions are immediately apparent. Dancing with the administration on the Iraq war may be political poison within the ranks of the Democrat party. Heck it makes many Republicans uneasy. Prior to this primary loss, Lieberman was about as far to the right of his party as one could get. Unfortunately for Democrats he is only a centrist. With his loss the clear message is that moderates are no longer welcome in the democrat party unless you are antiviolence.

This imprint is joyous news to the far left of the Democrat party. They have officially arrived to control the party. Howard Dean is its poster boy, and the politics of exclusion is now its standard. There is no room for someone who votes the party line in the Senate 95% of the time as long as they are someone who supports the war in Iraq. So the core value of the Democrat party is once again antiwar ala 1968.

They have been vocal, determined and looking for their generation’s cause. They have found it in the pacifism they practice. Desperate to appear united and salivating to control the levers of power once again has blinded them to the long term consequences. There is no longer room for someone who agrees with them most of the time if they are not a lockstep conscientious objector.

Not even the average Joe or run of the mill American is fit for the Democrat party. For the majority of Republican 1960’s baby boomers the phrase “I didn’t leave the Democrat party it left me” is commonplace. The succeeding 21st century generation is ready to be sent out looking for a party. The Democrats, sliding once again further to the left are marginalizing themselves, in the long term. They have abandoned the political middle.

This sets the stage for the next George McGovern to take the political advantage. Al Gore might just be such a candidate. Nevertheless the 30% of the U.S. population who occupy the extreme wing now in control of the democrats are in a better place than they should be because the Republicans have driven their own scruples over the cliff. They too have abandoned all of the standards on which they were built. The Republicans like the Democrats have neglected the middle in favor of being drunk with power. Now is the time for the average Joe of a third party to sweep into office.

Joe Lieberman commented on his humility about running for such a high political office when he was Al Gore’s Vice Presidential running mate in the year 2000. That political zenith may be dwarfed by what follows next. He is potentially going to win his senate seat to spite his party giving him the high hard one. His election may be a template for things to come if he wins reelection despite his primary loss. Such a political earthquake will wake up those in the middle to forge a viable third party and field a candidate to capture the White House. The loser would be one of the other two parties. The Democrats stand the most to lose due to their marginalizing the party to the far left wing. They would all have to thank average Joe for changing the American political landscape for decades to come.