This is exactly what I've said in the past. You can excuse Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe. They have to vote like RINOs on most issues, or they could never get re-elected in a state like Maine.
The deal with RINOs is that the Republican leadership lets them vote against their party whenever they don't need their votes. But if they really need their votes, then they call in the chips and expect to get them. Collins and Snowe understand how to play that game. Chafee does not. He cannot be counted on in the clinch. He must go. Better a Democrat than a proven Republican traitor.
Just wondering - have conservatives ever run for Senate in Maine? I know it's the convential wisdom that they cannot win, but have Maine voters ever been exposed to a good converative candidate with good conversative views?
I ask this, because I think sometimes we sell ourselves short. Folks in Maine may really benefit from being educated by a good local candidate, as opposed to the bilge printed in I'm sure the local liberal rags.
Really, well these RINOs didn't vote with the conservatives when they supported that stupid filibuster deal. How do you explain that?