True, but the last R senator we had was Lowell P.'LP Wacky' Weicker, a RINO who could make Dodd look conservative. LP Wacky was one of the few R I ever voted against - in his Senate rack against Lieberman and when he wanted to screw up CT as Governor. (In 1994, I voted for Tom Scott - he would've repealed the INCOME TAX!!)
Psst, Rell, see if Gary Franks would like to be Senator.
Although Barack Obama and his hard-left domestic policies, complete naiveté when it comes to the real and deadly intentions of our enemies toward the U.S. coupled with his obvious disdain for our country both offends and frightens me, John McCain is simply politically unpalatable for all the well-known reasons, specifically his penchant for promoting amnesty for illegal aliens. I don't believe he's changed his attitude on that crucial issue one bit, despite his rhetoric to the contrary.
I'm voting for an independent presidential candidate in November because in Connecticut, the majority vote is always overwhelmingly Democrat and that party's presidential nominee always receives our puny 7 electoral votes. That being the case, my vote for an independent presidential candidate is effectively moot and won't change the outcome of the election in any real way. I regret that is the case but I simply cannot cast a vote for John McCain, a man I oppose on so many serious issues.
If McCain does choose Lieberman as his running mate its true that the Connecticut governor (Jodi Rell) would then appoint the person to fill Lieberman's senate seat, were he elected to the vice presidency. I have absolutely no confidence that Governor Rell, a proven RINO, would appoint anyone but another RINO, at best, if not a 'conservative' Democrat to Lieberman's seat in the senate. The Democrat party totally controls the Connecticut legislature. The Connecticut GOP is basically moribund and could not retaliate politically in any real manner against Rell's choice.
Unfortunately, the majority of Connecticut's voters are politically liberal. Proof: Christopher Dodd has been our senator for 27 long years (a Congressman for 6 years prior) and he is a joke. A venal, abrasive, narcissistic little man who does next to nothing for Connecticut in the senate and never met a Latin dictator he didn't embrace. That Connecticut voters send this useless politician back to the senate every six years is depressing but that is the reality. Dodd is not an anomaly in Connecticut politics.
Liberal Joe Lieberman has been 'our' U.S. senator for 20 years and only fell into disfavor with the national Democrat party when he rightly supported the war in Iraq. They ran Joe out of the party and nominated some multi-millionaire ultra-liberal to run against him in 2006. Lieberman adroitly switched to 'Independent', ran on that basis and won, mostly on better name recognition and a slighter softer image than the annoying leftist (Ned Lamont) that he ran against.
Connecticut is politically infested with liberal Democrat politicians and voters. They are slowly killing the state economy and don't care. We lose most of our bright young college graduates to other states because of the ridiculously high cost of living in Connecticut, abetted by stratospheric tax rates and a legislature that is wholly 'owned' by the powerful government employee labor unions.
With all that being the case, as a Connecticut resident/voter, I see absolutely no reason to vote for John McCain in November and if he choose Joe Lieberman as his V.P., I won't cheer or change my vote.
Voting against any Republican senate candidate is VOTING AGAINST A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY IN THE SENATE.
Even a vote for a RINO counts as an “R” when tallying up the majority.
Without good, decent conservatives voting for RINOs when they have no other choice, NONE of the conservatives from other states could EVER get into positions of leadership.