GregsOpinion.com

Joe runs his 4th race in 5 years ....

For the fourth time in five years, Sen. Joe Lieberman is launching a bid for office, and a recent poll shows Connecticut Republicans may have a tough time fielding a challenger.

The popular three-term Democrat has begun hiring campaign staff to raise money for his re-election race in 2006, and he will attend one of his first fund-raisers Thursday night in Washington.

And while he has spent a significant chunk of the last five years running for the White House, Connecticut residents ? by an enormous margin ? approve of the job he is doing.

In a Quinnipiac University poll released earlier this month, 73 percent of the registered Connecticut Republicans surveyed gave him a thumbs up ? a percentage point higher than the approval rating he got from Democrats, but within the margin of sampling error.

Of all registered voters surveyed, just 15 percent said they disapproved of his work, and 12 percent didn't know or didn't answer.

Bring on Ralph Nader!!!!

Seriously, though ... would Blumenthal (CT's Attorney General) even think about running against those odds? I mean, consider the fate of the last challenger to MoJoe:

In 2000 ? when Lieberman was on the ballot in Connecticut for both vice president and a third Senate term ? he collected 63 percent of the vote to beat former Waterbury Mayor Philip Giordano. Giordano is now serving 37 years in prison for molesting two girls.

I know, I know ... cheap shot.