Well, my comments were specifically aimed at William Weld and whatever office he would seek under our party label. If he wants to run, let him do it as a Democrat. Seems to me, like another "political giant", the city-killing ultraRINO apostate named John Vliet Lindsay, they'd not want that bull charging through their china shop, either.
And where Lowell Weicker is concerned, at least he had the common courtesy to LEAVE the Republican party after CT voters bounced his despicable ass from the Senate before he ran as the self-created Independent wingnut party candidate for Governor. That's one thing that puts him just a cut above Herr Weld in the intellectual honesty department.
Oh please, you are just talking crazy now. I don't care how RINO Weld is in the tax & spend department, he was and is tough on crime and, most imporatantly, is good on the WOT.
Weicker is a standard anti-American hack. He endorsed Howard Dean for God's sake.
Any comparison between them is intellectually dishonest.
And besides, Weld never lost re-election like Weicker did. He'd have won a 3rd term as Governor had he stuck around for it.
And you still haven't managed to justify Helms reasoning. Are you actually going to argue that having the federal government control pot for medical reasons, should be the 'conservative' position? If so, you are a dying breed indeed. Most conservatives I know believe in this thing called 'federalism'.
It's not like Helms was beating on him for his tax policy.