He feels it will be just for a while, and when its election time, he can go "home" and tell everyone how he fought the big, bad democrats. He'll just have to re-cast himself as a conservative and all will be well, everything forgotten. A few good speeches, and he'll be smelling like roses again!
I'm inceasingly convinced that spiritual warfare prayers are the only hope we have about anything.
I'm increasingly inclined to pray that God speeds up their reaping what they have sown . . . whether as a lesson to others or to give them some slight chance to be spared the fires of hell that they seem so eagerly supportive of.