[Non-Sequitur]

So how warm a welcome did the GOP give Jim Jeffords?

[dawn53]

No, no. You can't compare Jeffords to Lieberman.

Jeffords ran as a Republican, won, and then switched to an Independent.

Jeffords abandoned his party.

Lieberman was abandoned by his party, and now he is running as an Independent to save his "political skin."

[when the time is right]

Jeffords abandoned the Republican party and gave the Democrates control of the Senate. Liberman was abandoned by the Democrate party which did not affect control of the Senate. There is a BIG difference there and if you can't understand that you don't under stand politics.

[srmorton]

There is a BIG difference between what Jeffords did and what Lieberman did. Jeffords won the election in Vermont as a Republican and was needed for their slim one vote majority in the Senate. He chose to switch to an Independent and caucus with the Democrats after the election, creating the 50-50 split that led to Trent Lott's stupid decision to "share" power.

Even though Joe ran in the primary as a Democrat, he has now officially switched to an Independent and will be elected as such. This is what Phil Gramm from Texas did years ago. Instead of switching from Democrat to Republican after an election, he resigned his Democrat seat and ran as a Republican and was re-elected.

[VeniVidiVici]

So how warm a welcome did the GOP give Jim Jeffords?

If I remember correctly, Jumping Jim switched parties in midstream and in doing so, forfeited the Republican majority.

He should have been tarred and feathered.

[polymuser]

So how warm a welcome did the GOP give Jim Jeffords?

Surely, you jest.

[mkjessup]

So how warm a welcome did the GOP give Jim Jeffords?

No comparison.

Jeffords abandoned ship and stabbed the GOP in the back and immediately began giving aid and comfort to the enemy, err, the 'Rats, ahh what-the-Hell is the difference?

In Joe's case, the left-wing moonbats seized control of the party machinery, Comrade Ned poured enough of his own personal fortune into the primary, and with enough daggers in Joe's back, the primary result was inevitable.

And come election day, Lieberman will be returned to the Senate by a wide margin as an Independent, the Kos/Lamont/Murtha faction of the 'Rats will be beside themselves, and Dana Milbank of the Washington Post will still be an ignorant slut.

[JayNorth]

So how warm a welcome did the GOP give Jim Jeffords?

The other huge difference is that Jeffords was, at best, a RINO, while Lieberman votes the DIM ideology baloney 95% of the time. The DIMs are so narrow-minded they can't accept their own vice-presidential candidate if he deviates on just one issue.