It's hard enough to hold together a 55-member caucus, but keeping all of ours and trying to get 5 of theirs is a substantially tall order, especially in an election year. Frist, my Senator, did well as long as he was a backbencher, but was the worst GOP leader in the past half-century. I'm grateful he is sparing us the spectacle of running for President after his mediocre leadership.
As for some of your other debatable points, I'm not sure many should be rehashed here (Schiavo). At least their hearts were in the right place on the issue. After all, the Conservative stance on marital rights doesn't extend to murdering your spouse so you can marry your whore, even if the spouse is a vegetable.
"...I'm not sure many should be rehashed here (Schiavo)..."
The purpose of this piece was to pin failure in the last election on Senators and Congressmen the ACU finds objectionable or questionable (probably because they've never been photographed leaving a church, or firebombing an abortion clinic, but that's another discussion), or as some here put it, the RINOS.
It is my position that conservatives are just as worthy of blame as republicans (there is a difference, you know), and in some cases, have eben more spectacular failures to their (dis-)credit. If we're going to have an intelligent debate then truthfulness and intellectual honesty have to be applied to both sides of the argument, no?
Therefore, anything is fair game when it took place within the entirety of the last six years.