Joe Lieberman has apparently learned nothing by his defeat last Tuesday. He did, however, learn long ago that the tactics of fear, demonstrably refined and spread by the Republican Party Machine, have proved very effective at distracting a large percentage of the American population. So impressed has Joe been by the effectiveness of this GOP message that he has apparently adopted it wholeheartedly in his quest to win back his senate seat in Connecticut as an Independent.

Just three days after his defeat, Mr. Lieberman is taking the recent terror plot in Great Britain and seizing upon it as a reason why the voters of Connecticut were so wrong to kick him out. Speaking at a pizza house in Waterbury, Joe noted the following:

“If we just pick up, get out by a date certain, like Ned Lamont wants us to do, 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, it will strengthen them, and they will strike again.”

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“I’m worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don’t appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us – more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet Communists we fought during the long Cold War.”

You’re “worried,” Joe? You think we don’t appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security when the worst terrorist attack on American soil occurred right in our backyard? Who better but the voters of the Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, etc. understand the threat to our security?

In the article referenced above, Joe says he “got the message.” His comments today speak otherwise.