Democracy on the march

This verges on the insane.

Although Mr. Lieberman has attracted support from several of his Senate colleagues — and former President Bill Clinton appeared with him in the state last week — only a handful have pledged to remain loyal to him if he loses to his antiwar challenger, Ned Lamont, and mounts an independent campaign.

Furthermore, some forces within the party, including Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, will be willing to campaign actively for Mr. Lamont if he is pitted against Mr. Lieberman in the general election, many Democratic officials said. Some Democratic officials also say the Democratic National Committee will probably support Mr. Lamont if he wins the primary, though Howard Dean, the party’s chairman, has been neutral leading up to the primary.

"Probably?"

Despite all the talk that the Lieberman/Lamont race is...ahem...a fight for the soul of the Democratic Party, if the DNC fails to support the candidate that the Democractic voters of CT choose, it will be proof that the Party has no soul to fight for.