Listen to the leftist shouts as Democrat Joe Lieberman faces serious political trouble in his re-election bid for a Connecticut Senate seat, and you would think you were watching one of those movies about a gallant gladiator going down in the Roman Coliseum.

The hero is wounded, on one knee, and the frenzied, blood-thirsty, bug-eyed mob wants him finished off. “Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill,” the people are chanting.