The most important vote Spector casts is for Bill Frist. Would you rather that the Penn. Senator vote for Tom Daschle?
I'm in Maine, and we're stuck with 2 RINOs. But you know what? I'm voting for Snowe and Collins when they're up again. Their vote for the Senate President outweighs smaller side issues.
The best way to combat RINOs is not to defeat them in liberal States, but to elect more conservatives in open seats. If we held a 58-42 majority in the Senate, then it won't matter what the Coalition of the Rinos want.
As long as it's 51-49 or 52-48, then they matter. At 58-42, they don't.
I've started by donating to Thune (to dump Daschle.) You should too.
Otherwise, there will be no win for Specter, because there will be no salvation for him (nor for his "legacy") in the Republican ranks.
"What's the big deal?" ... is going to crash down upon the margin of Republicans who should have voted for Toomey, who are not going to get much peace.
To wit: "Winning" a room full of R.I.N.O.'s is not a gain for any principle for which Republicans and democratic-republicanism stand.
People who struggle to maintain liberty, will not fight for scraps of "We'll take anything that we can label a 'win.'"
So-called Bush-bot "pragmatists" like to imagine, and they spin mightily, "political victories," that are not actually gains, but again, "wins" on their toke board(s), while they, who claim that it's not nice to bash fellow Republicans, do just that, bash fellow Republicans.
Ronald Reagan may have advised that we not speak too much in the open about our disagreements with fellow Republicans, yet I will point out that he was talking about fellow Republicans, not R.I.N.O.'s.
You are not a Republican because you wear the name. You are a Republican because of where you stand, and that, very much, for liberty, justice, and the truth.
Those qualities, by, with, and upon which we raise our children to such high standards, are too often betrayed by our suddenly dumping upon our kids, what equivocating temerities of the day, we then thrust our kids into, with which, they are supposed to "deal."
When their principles are challenged, we are, according to the "political realists," to suddenly not stand up for our principles, and thus abandon our teachings and expect our kids to abandon much of what we have taught them, because, as we are instructed by the R.I.N.O. Party, we are too "uncompromising."
That would be the nature of R.I.N.O.'s, to miscast, to misrepresent, to mislead the public into thinking that such R.I.N.O.'s are certainly not ... uncompromising and especially conservative Republicans.
Well, there is the R.I.N.O. Party, and then there is the Republican Party. The R.I.N.O. Party platform is for winning. The Repubicans stand for liberty, justice, and the truth.
Some ever-changing number of conservatives have flowed, and will continue to flow, between these parties.
We stopped giving to the R.I.N.O. Party right at the moment when George W. Bush's "people" made the deals with Trent Lott and Arlen Specter, to keep "President" Clinton in Office. I'll probably never forget it.
Not only what happened between Bush in Texas and Lott-Specter in the U.S. Senate Clubhouse, but what happened over the telephone.
The R.I.N.O. Party called repeatedly, thereafter, asking for money. We said, "No."
To the R.I.N.O. Party, we had to then make clear that "No." means No --- there was no wiggle room wherein we would compromise on the meaning of No.
Where the R.I.N.O. Party is going, scrambling after the scraps left by the left, is not where we are going, even when R.I.N.O.'s speak ill of us as "sore losers."
Shot and shelled, we will still stand for liberty, where, when the left and all who compromise with it are desparate for salvation, will try to find home.
So, I am not going to abandon where we stand for liberty, because it is home, our homes, our country under God.
God Bless.