From a reader:

Exactly right in your closer on that post. Same goes for retiring Republican Senators who want to sell books and get speaking engagements. I mean how many conservatives would flood a room to hear an ex-Senator—from either party—speak? But liberals tend to flock to such things, and so the best way for a Republican to keep himself under the limelight is to go left. I went to hear Jack Danforth speak in Chicago yesterday (had hopes of getting in his hair), and he couldn’t say enough bad things about Republicans. He says stem cell research jump started his effort to “take back” the Republican party (he wants to somehow take back the party and win elections without all those people who think a fertilized egg is life). He defended Clarence Thomas in answer to one question, but then raised his finger and warned “but mark my words, the Republicans are looking for payback! They are just as bad as the other side.” Hmmm…seems to me we would have paid back during the Clinton administration. And then there was Alan Simpson who spoke in Chicago a little while back to a liberal audience. When asked to give the highlights of his career he could only mention social bills that he co-sponsored with Ted Kennedy. You know, you have to vote for the most conservative candidate, but it’s really, really tough to stomach any of these guys.

Update: From a reader:

That while The Governator is an “independent” statesman for reaching across the aisle, Lieberman is a traitor to his party. Is Lieberman ever described in such glowing terms? What a crock.
WSJ had an article yesterday (A4) about how republicans are at each others’ throats and many republicans are actually rooting for their candidates to lose, citing specifically the chafee/lafee primary. The article/opinion piece notes that democrats seem to be “less fractured”, completely neglecting the Lieberman situation.