Just For Fun: Weicker On Lieberman

Lowell Weicker was one of those professional politicians, professional Republican politicians, that we don't see much any more.  He was nothing special, but he was pretty far from an ignorant reactionary or fundie lunatic teabagger.  He lost to Lieberman because the Republican party wanted him gone--mostly because they knew Lieberman was much more likely to be a reliable, predictable, conservative vote than the apostate and self-consciously "independent" Weicker.  As we all know--check that, those of us with fucking brains--it was the choice of Lieberman that cost Gore the election in 2000.