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From a realistic perspective will this happen?

If the grassroots GOP can get Schlesinger to drop out it will -- Orchulli is itching to run, and has said so publicly.

Personally, I like Loserman, but his politics sucks

That's not much of a reason for voting for a guy. I'm sure Ted Kennedy is a great raconteur, but we need every vote we can get in the Senate. This is the only chance we'll have to pick up a seat in Connecticut for the forseeable future. Orchulli will be way to the right of Lieberman, and he's very well-known. In a two-way race, he'd have no chance, but with the Dem vote split, now's our chance.

"I'm sure Ted Kennedy is a great raconteur"

I remember reading somewhere that Ted Kennedy is liar, an acoholic, a womanizer, at the least guilty of manslaughter and very possibly a rapist.

Losermann is at least personally unsullied.

But a good Republican beats a so-so Dem anyday IF HE CAN GET ELECTED.

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.