Stamford, Conn., Oct. 12—Conservative Republicans face a problem in Connecticut, at once personal and ideological. Connecticut’s Lowell Weicker presents problems that are quite special. To begin with, if a blind profile of his votes were taken (he has voted on the other side from the Republicans 60 per cent of the time), he would be characterized as a liberal Democrat. And the second problem is, well, personal. He is in love. An all-consuming, passionate, undiscriminating, endless, eternal love. With himself.
There is an interesting theological insight about self-love in the preachment that one should love one’s neighbor as oneself. If you love yourself not at all, then what good does it do that you love your neighbor as yourself? But in the case of Weicker, it is the consensus of people who watch him that it would be absolutely impossible for him to love his neighbor as himself, because there simply isn’t love enough left over.
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