[HamiltonJay]

If you care about advancing the conservative agenda, then you can't say "kick out the ones who aren't conservative enough for me".. because ones that are the kinds of conservatives you want won't win enough elections to ever have power.

If you want to advance the agenda, you have to have control, and 25-35 senators will NEVER give you an opportunity to advance anything conservative.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Neither will constantly giving a Senate seat to a person who barely has a conservative bone in his body.

If you look into my posting history, I was pretty ticked off with Kay Bailey Hutchison the other day. I even said I would not vote for her because of her pandering, but I realized that the Democrat and even the Libertarian were far worse, and I ended up voting for KBH a couple of days ago. The same cannot be said of Lincoln Chaffee. He is no better than Sheldon Whitehouse. He will not allow the conservative agenda to advance, but if you want to rely on a liberal northeastern senator as the 50th seat, go ahead. The rest of us traveled this same path 5 years ago.