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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (224927)	3/21/2007 7:41:07 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

thenation.com Only difference is one is a liberal rep and the other a conservative dem. "After he (weicker) was defeated in 1988, he turned around and won the governorship as the candidate of his independent "A Connecticut Party" in 1990. And, as recently as 2000, he was encouraged to run for the presidency on the Reform Party line. "...... "Colin McEnroe explains, "I think it's almost impossible to overstate the degree to which, psychologically, Weicker has identified himself as a third party, independent guy. When you get him talking about that stuff, you realize it's really at the heart of how he sees himself these days." Weicker's independence -- and the fact that he has already won a statewide election without the benefit of major-party backing -- makes him all the more attractive as a challenger to Lieberman. "