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I have often said that I fully embody Winston Churchill's adage that any twenty-year-old who is not a liberal has no heart, while any forty-year-old who is not a conservative has no brain. Having come to my senses long before I turned forty (and having passed that milestone some time ago), it has been a long time since I voted for a Democrat - for anything. That said, if I lived in the state of Connecticut, I would vote to return Joe Lieberman to the United States Senate.

Of course, Lieberman can no longer be called a Democrat. After carrying the water for the liberal cause in the Connecticut State Legislature, eighteen years in the U.S. Senate and as the party's 2000 vice presidential nominee, Lieberman has been rejected by a slim majority of the Democrat voters in his home state. Consequently, he will be running for his senate seat as an independent.

Of course, had the primary been held two days after rather than two days before the foiling of the plot to blow up ten American airliners over the Atlantic, there might have been a very different result. Lieberman's position on the war must look much more reasonable in the light of that chilling scheme, even to liberals.

There are a lot of issues on which I disagree with Joe Lieberman. Most of them, actually. In fact, ordinarily, I would never even give a second thought to voting for a liberal who takes the positions that have characterized Lieberman's voting record.

So what would possess me to vote for this man? Why would I not vote for the Republican in this race? By all accounts, the Republican nominee, Alan Schlesinger, is a weak candidate, which means that this race will come down to Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont, the liberal one-issue candidate who eked out a victory in the Democratic Primary.

If I lived in Connecticut, I would vote for Joe Lieberman on the strength of one issue and one issue only: the survival of the United States of America. Because he is a patriot who loves his country and who recognizes that we are in the midst of global war against Islamic Fascism, and because he is Jew who knows that the enemy we face wants the United States and Israel obliterated, Joe Lieberman has earned the enmity of the George Soros-Michael Moore appeasement wing of his party. That alone is enough reason to support his campaign. These people want to bury this good and decent man, and they are now in control of the Democratic Party.

But there is another reason I would vote for Lieberman. I have seen political candidates switch parties before, and a curious phenomenon occurs. Ideas that formerly were foreign to the candidate suddenly are considered. This is particularly true when the switch is away from the Democratic Party. One gubernatorial candidate I recall made the switch from Democrat to Republican. This man had been a liberal all his life. He took the liberal position on most issues simply because that's what Democrats did. After making the switch to the Republican Party, a whole new world opened up to him. Pro-life groups, for example, which had little or no access to him before the switch, suddenly found him approachable. This, in turn, gave him new positions to consider, which he did, and he found a home in the Republican Party.

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