MARTIN PERETZ: “I actually believe that, had Lieberman won the nomination, he would have won the election. . . . John Kerry would not have been a good president; he might even have been a dangerously bad one. Next time, Democrats need to nominate not merely a candidate who they imagine can win but a candidate who deserves to.”

UPDATE: Read this, too: “I think its safe to say that a majority of American voters have rejected the ‘not-Bush’ doctrine.”