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Despite the Senator's graceful claim that his defeat represented a repudiation of his views, Weicker's loss was due less to the abilities and ideology of his Democratic opponent, state Attorney General Joseph Lieberman, than to the his being abandoned and ostracized by the conservative wing of Connecticut's Republican Party, which has never been thrilled by his outspokenly liberal views. In fact, William F. Buckley Jr. and other prominent conservatives in the state bankrolled Lieberman's campaign and made it explicit that they were doing so in order to pave the way for a politician with appropriate conservative...
...also had political troubles at home. Weicker was never one to do the dirty work of cultivating constituents and local politicians for donations and support, and Lieberman successfully exploited this weakness by portraying Weicker as a "slumbering giant" who ignored local interests...
Connecticut's Lowell Weicker, the most liberal Republican in Congress, faces opposition from State Attorney General Joseph Lieberman, a moderate-liberal Democrat backed by a weird combination of political forces. Even National Review Editor William F. Buckley--who can't stand Weicker--supports the Democrat in what may be the best modern example of politics making strange bedfellows. Lieberman is running even with veteran Weicker in the polls, but even if the incumbent loses, conservative Republicans won't be too upset...
...party most of the time makes renegade Republican Lowell Weicker a pest to the party pros. But he is their pest. His fabled contrariness (he waged a one-man battle against the party's antiabortion plank) attracts Democrats and independents. This makes it hard for state attorney general Joseph Lieberman, the appealing Democratic nominee, who can't go after Weicker's voting record hard because it is too similar to what his own would...
Westheimer's book, co-authored with Louis Lieberman, an associate professor of sociology at the City University of New York, says the public schools should prepare students more fully through moral education for life in a sexually permissive society...