The New York Times reports former Connecticut Governor and U.S. Senator Lowell Weicker says that if no one challenges Senator Lieberman in the 2006 election, he would consider running.
He said that Mr. Lieberman, a Democrat, currently had no challengers, either from within his party or from Republicans, in his campaign for a fourth term. Mr. Weicker said he believed that no Republican would challenge Mr. Lieberman on the war.
"If he's out there scot-free and nobody will do it, I'd have to give serious thought to doing it myself, and I don't want to do it," added Mr. Weicker, an independent, who said he had been opposed to the war from the beginning.
Senator Lieberman remains popular in opinion polls, but there is a small faction of the antiwar Democrats that strongly object to Lieberman's support for the war. There was talk of a primary challenge being mounted against Lieberman earlier in the year but because of his popularity, fundraising and support among the Democratic hierarchy it hasn't and wont amount to much.
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