Reply #22: You know, I generally take a dim view of trying to de-seat Lieberman...

[liberalpragmatist]

... because the danger is we'll get a "moderate" Republican who will vote for Republican leadership and all the party-line issues instead of Joe who pisses us all off over the war but otherwise pretty much votes party-line. I also tend to think that a lot of the Lieberman-hatred is a little unnecessary. Every party has its lone wolves and Lieberman - such a lone wolf - is no more a Republican than Chuck Hagel is a Democrat. Plus, he's increasingly irrelevant, ignored by all Democrats and with no influence at all on Democratic Iraq policy.

But in spite of all of that, if I were a Connecticut resident and Weicker were to run as an independent (caucusing with the Democrats), I'd easily vote for him over Lieberman.