QOTD: Lowell Weicker
by digby
From an interview with former Republican Senator Lowell Weicker:
Q: You mentioned your own “purge” from office. What’s your assessment of Sen. Lieberman’s record in Congress?
Weicker: I know I’m not supposed to comment on my fellow senators or congressmen, but I think Lieberman was a god-awful United States senator. I think that he was all over the map as to what his beliefs were. And very much, by the time he got out of politics, I think was totally irrelevant to the needs of the people of the state of Connecticut. I think everybody should understand, and I fully acknowledge, that Joe Lieberman beat me — but with the help of William F. Buckley. So you had a sort of a maverick fight a Democrat — but one who owed a lot to conservative Republicans.
The day Al Gore picked Lieberman to be his running mate, I nearly lost it. It just couldn’t have been worse. And when I saw Lieberman on TV during the Florida recount handwringing over the military ballots, I figured maybe he was still answering to William F. Buckley.
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