In all likelihood Arlen will get the SJC chair. He will do way more damage to the conservative cause there than Awful will do as a jr senator from PA.
AS I mentioned he's already vowed to fight W on any conservative point.
For moderate pubbies, lefty pubbies and all ratz...Arlen is the man. For any pubbie with any amount of conservative in their blood, Arlen has been and will continue to be a disaster.
PA has become a battleground. Ironically the cradle of American socialism - we're a commenwealth after all - as well as unionism, may become an important stage for the conservative movement. Espeically so as we work to purge the pubbie party of RINO's.
Let's look at one more thing. You might say at least Arlen will go along with W some of the time but Joe will never vote for a W initiative. Some truth to that, however Arlen will only vote with the pubbies when it suits him. On important, conservative issues he will vote no, and may be able to influence other pubbies to vote with him.
In the end Joe does less damage and we have 6 years to work to field a conservative to replace him.
I don't vote pubbie just cuz someone has an R after their name.
prisoner6
I agree with you. on top of voting with the Dems more often than the Republicans, he will also have his face time. He will use it to go "bipartisan". He will give Collins, Snowe, McCain and other left leaning Republicans cover to vote against the president's nominees and proprosals. He has got to go.