[EveningStar]

I tell this now and then:

Back in 1968 in California, we had a "RINO" senator named Tom Kuchel (pronounced KEE-kl). He was appointed to replace Nixon when Nixon became VP, and then got re-elected twice on his own. We decided he had to go. So we ran the more conservative Max Rafferty, the controversial State Superintendent of Public Instruction, against him in the primary. Max won the primary. However, he lost to the Democratic State Controller Alan Cranston in the general election. Cranston severed 4 terms before retiring because of ill health and age.

We cut off our noses to spite our faces, but boy were we ever principled.

[carton253]

You make a good point... but if we want things to change (and they need to change) then we have to do more than re-elect the same stale candidates to office.

So, we can be afraid of electing a Dem in November, or we can vote and get a real conservative in office.

It's risky... but as Stonewall Jackson said, "Never take counsel of your fears."

[Badray]

So have you given up your principles altogether because of that incident or are you still fighting to advance them?

I agree with BayNative re: Specter.

[Nuc1]

While that one didn't work out it doesn't mean it'll never work out. He made his bed let him lie in it.

[You Dirty Rats]

But you have to admit that after Cranston California ended up with two reliable Conservatives, Box-O-Rox and DiFi.

OK, they're far-Left libs, but at least they aren't RINOS!!