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To: Brumar89 who wrote (773)	8/10/2006 12:02:59 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1695

Agreed, those are all true Stalin-style purges. Lieberman was more of an excommunication. No, excommunication is when the Pope casts you out of the Roman Catholic church, denying you its sanction etc etc. Maybe lesser officials, Cardinals/Archbishops or even Bishops can do it, I'm not an expert, but it's a unilateral top-down thing. Lieberman was deselected in a democratic vote of his party members, who no longer wanted him to represent them. That's democracy. I don't see why you need any more extreme analogy. He's standing again presumably either to split the vote, or in the belief that standing against the elected nominee of the party he claimed to support, he can still win, or both. That's either vengeful pique, or sheer hubris, or both.