I just don't get it.
Does he think there's some sort of incipient backlash brewing back home?
That if he's forthright about his opinion-as Rush Limbaugh suggested-and goes out and declares that he refuses to vote for anyone but an avowed socialist, that it'll redound to his detriment?
That the GOP will nominate a sacrificial lamb that might get 20% of the vote next time, instead of merely 18%?
Is there some sort of arrangement with C-SPAN whereby he receives more air-time if he invents a posture of fairness, rather than being up front, and displaying the raging partisan lunatic that almost all of us know him to be?
Or is lying just such a compulsion for him that he can't avoid doing it, even when it's completely unnecessary?
I didn't notice the pretense ;-)