Dilemma

From the Times via Eschaton:

Former Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. on Monday criticized Senator Joseph I. Lieberman's continued support of the war in Iraq and said that if no candidate challenged the senator on the issue in the 2006 election, he would consider running.

"When you've become the president's best friend on the war in Iraq, you should not be in office, especially if you're in the opposing party," Mr. Weicker, 74, said in a phone interview from his home in Essex, Conn. "I'm going to do everything I can to see that Joe Lieberman does not get a free pass."

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.

I remember Lowell Weicker as a moderate Republican -- a more progressive version of Olympia Snow. If he really runs outside the 2-party system, I am all in with my support. But the big picture here is wresting control from the Republicans, and if he runs as a Republican again, I would, horror of horrors, prefer to see Joementum win. As vile as Lieberman is, his nominal affiliation still counts for us when it comes to who controls the Senate.