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What is one of the main jingo knocks on Ned Lamont and his supporters?  They are supposedly single-issue people.  Now this is supposed to be proof that they are unserious, lacking any interest or understanding of any other problem.  Of course, Lamont has a whole platform, most of it typical liberal Democratic boilerplate with some extra-fine support […]

What is one of the main jingo knocks on Ned Lamont and his supporters?  They are supposedly single-issue people.  Now this is supposed to be proof that they are unserious, lacking any interest or understanding of any other problem.  Of course, Lamont has a whole platform, most of it typical liberal Democratic boilerplate with some extra-fine support for gay marriage that you might expect from a New Englander, but let’s suppose for a moment that they really are single-issue people and that this represents a shallow and limited political vision.  What, then, does that say for the hacks who have rushed to embrace the imaginary “McCain-Lieberman Party,” which is not an example simply of a single-issue candidate or single-issue voters but a single-issue political movement?  The issue is none other than supporting the war in Iraq (which its supporters deviously smuggle into the broader war against al Qaeda).  There is something less ridiculous about a single-issue protest candidate, whose popularity has risen because of one particularly important policy question, than an entire political reliagnment defined by nothing except a position on a war most Americans don’t even support.

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