Lincoln D. Chafee of Rhode Island
John W. Warner of Virginia
Susan M. Collins and Olympia J. Snowe of Maine
John McCain of Arizona
Lindsey O. Graham of South Carolina
this is the hit list
"this is the hit list"
ehhh. Let's use the term "political hit list". Your line is over the top, even for me tonight.
There were seven scumbags in that cabal. They all need to be bounced on their asses when they come up for re-election.
The two brainless whores from Maine really turn my stomach. They never miss a chance to sabotage our efforts.
John Warner is probably not running again.
The RNC will not let you get McCain, he bought his next election with his almost faultless support of the President in the last election, against his "best friend" John Kerry.
Graham is in trouble, and has been for a while it seems. I think he's a good target since it is unlikely a democrat is going to challenge for that seat.
The other three are essentially gifts to the republican party. They could all jump to the democrat side and probably get elected. We may not like it, but just like Jeffords, there aren't enough conservatives in those states to put the candidates we like in the senate. At least these moderates USUALLY vote with us.
We needed to take out the red-state democrats, or convince them to support us over their own party. The agreement signed today does that in a small way, but we needed to do it in a big way. It doesn't help that we keep targetting the ones that vote WITH us.
If you wanted to make a point, (all of you) would target Graham, and make "an example" of him for the rest of them.