Joe Lieberman and Cynthia McKinney weren't the only incumbents rejected by their party on Tuesday. Joe Schwarz, a pro-choice Michigan Republican who voted for McCain-Feingold, against drilling for oil on government land in Alaska, and for federal funding of stem-cell research on embryos, felt the agony of defeat too. Tim Walberg played Ned Lamont to Joe Schwarz's Joe Lieberman. Embarass the party and feel the party's wrath. Cynthia McKinney didn't learn this lesson when she lost in 2002, and it's doubtful she learned it last night. Insult the party's base and the party's base will insult you. A pair of irregular Joes learned this on Tuesday. The activist base of both parties gets ignored in general elections. Candidates who ignore the ultras of their parties on primary day risk getting ignored in the ballot box.