Of course, every time I bring up the "pointless waste of time and resources that could be better applied elsewherre" argument, I get shouted down as a freeper or a DLCer or some other such nonsense, despite the fact that I dispise Lieberman as much, and probably more than the netroots crowd, and for a lot more reasons. The netroots have succeeded in proving that they can influence the primary process, which is important, and also extremely frightening considering the utterly pointless way in which they chose to exercise this power. Unfortunately, they didn't chose to influence the primary process anywhere where it might have made a difference. Don't get me wrong, I respect their commitment to making this country a better place. I just have to wonder what fucking planet they think this country is on.