It's weird the lengths that big name republicans are going to discredit conservative candidates and trying to make Rockefeller republican candidates look inevitable.
And the thing is, they just don't get it. Even if they get their way all they are doing is insuring an Democrat victory because conservatives WILL sit home rather than vote for a liberal just because he has an R in front of his name.
This strategy worked out really well last fall, didn't it?
"...insuring an Democrat victory because conservatives WILL
sit home rather than vote for a liberal just because he has an R in front of his name."
Your definition of liberal may not agree with most of the voters in the country.
National elections are balancing act. Reagan won because he pulled votes from Democrats. You win presidential elections in the center, not from the base.
Though a stupid base can certainly lose an election, and elect someone in 2008 who will not defend the country.