No way should we take Lieberman. He agrees with us on the War on Islamofascism and support for Israel, but disagrees with us on everything else under the sun. A 5% conservative is a 95% liberal, and we can’t have a 95% liberal in the Senate GOP caucus (it’s bad enough that we have 50% liberals in Snowe, Collins and Kirk).
Lieberman knows that he won’t beat Chris Murphy in a Senate Dem primary, so he’ll run as an Indie. While the GOP has virtually no bench in CT, maybe Tom Foley, who had the governorship stolen a few weeks ago with all that funny business in Bridgeport, can run for the Senate and, with the liberal vote split between Murphy and Lieberman, win with 35% (Foley got, what, 48% for governor?).
I had forgotten about Foley. He originally ran for the Senate this time as I recall, then switched to the governor’s race. He ran better than most expected him to and assuming he hasn’t spent all his money on this year’s election maybe he would have the bucks to run a credible race. But he would only have a shot if there is a big Demo/lefty split between Lieberman and Murphy.
Not sure what other Dems might be interested. There is no heir apparent, as there was with Blumenthal this year.
He could be Sarah Palin’s Secretary of State.