Bull. They might have replaced him a rat when the rats took the State House, I don't how it worked if the 2 Houses were divided.
You people need to get it though your heads that state legislators are POLITICIANS who are no more likely to be conservative nor to oppose the federal government having a lot of power than members of Congress (many of whom used to be state legislators!). This idiotic scheme would give you the exact opposite of what you want, and that's so breathtakingly obvious that I really have trouble seeing how any intelligent person could not realize that. Put down Mark Levin's book and take a glance at the real world.
Also known as The RINO Protection Plan. Good luck trying to get your heroic state legislative leaders to nominate ANY Republican who isn't an establishment butt kisser committed to the status quo.
I find it ironic that the Tea Party and 3rd party groups like the Constitutition Party are gung-ho on passing legislation that would prevent Tea Party candidates and 3rd party groups from ever winning a U.S. Senate seat again.
As Impy notes, some RAT state legislators have their own "Let's shoot ourselves in the foot so we can make a statement" legislation. It's the ones that are pushing for safe RAT states to cast their electoral votes for the national popular vote winner. Unfortunately for our side, they're not stupid enough to put it into effect unless a majority of states do it. Otherwise we could have "won" all the electoral votes in places in New York, Maryland, and California in 2004, simply because Bush beat Kerry nationally. It would have been hilarious to watch the RAT states that passed that bill forced to send all Bush electors to Washington.