R(D)inos

I've got good news and bad news for Republicans. The good news is that the popular (still, despite the recession) Republican governor of Connecticut, Jody Rell, is eyeing a run at Joe Liebermann's Senate seat in 2012 - a race that she probably has at least a 50-50 chance of winning. The bad news is that if in fact she does win, she'll probably end up voting NOT like Senator McConnell but more like Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, and previous northeast Republicans, Lincoln Chaffee, Jim Jeffords, Lowell Weicker, Ed Brooke, Bill Cohen, etc.. She'll basically be like Liebermann, in other words (granted, not the worst scenario in the world for Republicans but, no, not a major-league coups, either).................................................................................................P.S. This particular scenario reminds me of an old Mark Russell joke (which I actually heard him perform live). "It's so great to be back in the great state of Connecticut, a place where Democrats are old style Democrats........and so are the Republicans."