No, I'm not shitting you this is what Republicans and Lieberman himself are saying about Lamont's win.

The attacks came in searing remarks from, among others, Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee and Vice President Dick Cheney, who went so far as to suggest that the ouster of Mr. Lieberman might encourage "al Qaeda types."

"It's an unfortunate development, I think, from the standpoint of the Democratic Party, to see a man like Lieberman pushed aside because of his willingness to support an aggressive posture in terms of our national security strategy," Mr. Cheney said in a telephone interview with news service reporters.

And Lieberman:

"If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England," Mr. Lieberman said at a campaign event at lunchtime in Waterbury, Conn. "It will strengthen them and they will strike again."

Some people are understandably upset by the assertion that you're a terrorist if you don't like Lieberman, and that's fine. But I love this statement. Can't you just smell the desperation? You know that these guys aren't stupid, they don't actually believe what they say, that no one but Joe Lieberman can represent Connecticut, and election of someone who represents the district better is an Al Qaeda victory. But they are desperate, and when they get desperate they whip out the fear card. That they've had to whip it out so early? Good sign. They don't have any ideas, all they can hope to do is distract from their failures on the economy, the deficit, Katrina, Iraq, Afghanistan, the environment, on energy policy, etc. They simply don't have a leg to stand on. They're toast, and they know it. Besides, Lamont can defend himself just fine.

"Wow," Mr. Lamont said, after asking a reporter to read Mr. Lieberman's remark about him. "That comment sounds an awful lot like Vice President Cheney's comment on Wednesday. Both of them believe our invasion of Iraq has a lot to do with 9/11. That's a false premise."

That's right Ned, don't let it upset you. And you're right to point out that no Democrat should sound so much like Dick freaking Cheney.