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Let me put this another way. I don't know what is so dramatic about calling the senate "pathetic." Few would argue this, and the RINOs are just as bad as the dems. The problem is Allen is a sitting senator of this same pathetic body, even though he is an exception to the rule of idiots there. I've never even remotely implied that he isn't a good guy, but he's still a senator, and by that association he's unelectable in my view. That is not a fact, just an opinion. That's all, it's not complicated.

Even McPain gets it, and I'm suggesting that this has a whole lot less to do with Allen and more to do with stink attached to him by virtue of being a senator. If he doesn't take off in the first couple of primaries, he is toast. Enter McCain, Clinton, Biden, Gore, Edwards, Kerry, Lieberman, - and that's just a recent short list and you've got a recipe for failure in flyover counties. This country, IMO, will not elect a senator, any senator. It would be a terrible precedent to set at least for the coming generation if the past generation is any indication.

It is too bad that you have a dem governor, else he could resign from the senate, take a high profile WH position in the meantime and shed that senate baggage to be considered a serious candidate.

From yesterday:

McCain's warning

Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, yesterday reached out to conservatives and warned that the midterm elections will be difficult for the Republican Party.
"We Republicans are going to have a tough race in 2006 because the country is not happy with us," Mr. McCain said yesterday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "We have a 25 percent approval rating in Congress."