Young Jeffords is an awfully promising ingenue. Also a shy and quirky workhorse
"I FEEL pretty, oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and gay. And I pity any girl who isn't me today. Gosh, it's a wonderful time to be a brave, bold, independent-thinking, straight-talking, let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may, profile-in-courage, Mr.-Last-Honest-Man-Goes-to-Washington, presidential-timber, maverick United States senator."
—New York Post. Michael Kelly claims Senator Jim Jeffords' defection is remaking him in the mold of Senator John McCain, the former lone maverick in the 100-person house.'