"You don't want to vote for a "RINO", but you vote for a leftist Dem instead?"
That is nowhere near what he wrote and you know it. He doesn't want to vote for a RINO. Big deal. Despite what you may want to believe, voting libertarian or constitution is not tantamount to voting for a democrat. Would you vote for Zell Miller or Lincoln Chafee for senate if they ran against each other in your state?
PS: I like my republican representative, and will vote for him in November.
That depends. In a 51-49 Senate, if Miller promised to vote for the GOP nominee for Majority Leader, I'd vote for him.
If he stuck to voting for the Democrat, no thanks. What good does Miller do in a minority position?
Very much a false choice.
Conservative Democrats have been basically hunted to the verge of extinction, and they're not coming back any time soon.