The author makes a valid point here, but I will never criticize a principled conservative who refuses to cast a vote for some inside-the-Beltway @sshole who can't be an effective voice for conservative principles because he is part of the problem and has placed his political career over whatever principles he may have had.
I agree with the astute point that Steve Forbes made during a radio interview last weekend:
The issue isn't whether or not the Republican Party will win control of the Senate ... it's whether or not they'd use their majority to govern effectively at all.
…I will never criticize a principled conservative who refuses to cast a vote for some inside-the-Beltway @sshole who can't be an effective voice for conservative principles because he is part of the problem and has placed his political career over whatever principles he may have had. The way I look at it is it's not a matter of putting the GOPe in power; it's a matter of taking the tool of the Senate away from THE WON.
I shudder when I think of his last two years with control of either house of Congress.
I'm sorry that people don't see that.