[Phsstpok]

Chafee represents the core mistake of the Republican party approach to these election. They should have supported Lafee instead, along with all of the other similar conservatives versus entrenched RINOs. Hell, two years ago they should have supported the conservative challenger to Snarlin' Arlen and at least Santorum would still be in the Senate come January.

RINOs are not worth it.

That does not change the fix that Bush is in now. He still has to try to govern for the next two years and he has to work with who he has to work with. It's real easy to be wise in retrospect. I think they made the best decisions at the time based on the conventional wisdom of the "wise men" of the party. They were wrong, but they did the best they could based on the information they had.

Our task is to identify the "wise men" (and women) who have better ideas and make their wisdom the conventional wisdom.

[MikeA]

They should have supported Lafee instead

He'd have not had a chance either. No, R.I. should have been a total write off as a hopelessly blue state and any money put into this race should have been spent to save Santorum, Allen, Talent or even Dewine.