The company you keep...

...defines you:

All the major national Republican groups are withholding their fund-raising and organizational support for Mr. Schlesinger, creating a vacuum for Mr. Lieberman, as the centrist in the race, to fill.

“The right thing for people who believe the world is deeply dangerous is to re-elect Lieberman,” [Newt] Gingrich said. That is especially true, he said, because “the Republican Party’s own candidate does not have any possibility of winning.”

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Senator Norm Coleman, Republican of Minnesota, said that from a political perspective, having Mr. Lamont triumph in Connecticut would be “good for Republicans because that’s not mainstream America.”

“So from that perspective, a Lamont victory shows the extreme nature of the Democratic Party,” said Mr. Coleman, who is not making a formal endorsement in the race. “On the other hand, Joe Lieberman is a good senator. And from America’s perspective, it would be a good thing for Joe Lieberman to be back in the Senate.”

Others cited Mr. Lieberman’s support of Mr. Bush’s foreign policy.

“For me, it’s an uncomplicated decision,” said William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard and a neoconservative who is helping Mr. Lieberman through an independent group called Vets for Freedom, which is helping to raise funds and providing strategic advice for the senator.

“Partisan Republicans may be ambivalent; they see a partisan advantage to Lamont,” he said. But, he said, “Foreign policy hawks and Bush doctrine believers and prowar types, we want Lieberman to win.”

The Lieberman campaign has largely downplayed the Republican support, aware that the Lamont campaign will try to use it to alienate Democrats and independents.

"Prowar types." Nice friends ya got there, Joe.