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I lived in Connecticut until 2000. Who on earth is Orchulli??? If he is a worthwhile candidate, he can easily, ummmmm, hire Schlesinger as a tax lawyer (being sensible enough not to let him do any actual work, if you get my drift) and Schlesinger will (for enough money) regretfully announce that his personal workload and obligations make it impossible for him to continue his campaign. I suspect I would vote for Lieberman anyway but Orchulli is irrelevant unless and until Schlesinger drops out and the GOP State Central Committee has time to schedule a special meeting in its capacity as committee on vacancies.

Bear in mind that Lieberman was elected in 1988 over Weicker when Bill Buckley, Tom Scott and other principled conservatives decided it was time for Weicker to go. Lieberman's promise to the conservatives (which he has kept) was to be sound on foreign policy and defense. Weicker had gone scuba diving with Castro that year and had the film shown on Connecticut newscasts such as Eyewitless News. Lieberman copied the tapes, made a commercial showing the corpulent Weicker in swim trunks with Fidel and then showed wife Hadassah's parents' concentration camp tattoos, whereupon Joe said: In my family, we understand the evil of totalitarianism. If I am your Senator, I won't be scuba diving with or supporting anything resembling Castro.

Bear in mind that Lieberman was elected in 1988 over Weicker when Bill Buckley, Tom Scott and other principled conservatives decided it was time for Weicker to go. Lieberman's promise to the conservatives (which he has kept) was to be sound on foreign policy and defense.

I knew Buckley formed a group to toss Weicker, I didn't know Leiberman made that promise. Interesting.

Orchulli is a businessman and the GOP candidate for senate against Dodd in '04. He ran an acceptable campaign against a popular incumbent -- O'Connor and McKinney would definitely be stronger candidates, but neither has the same ability to self-fund that Orchulli has. Why settle for Lieberman when we can win this? Do we have enough seats in the Senate that we can afford to burn them?