"That said, I also welcomed the exit of Allen and Santorum...."
Now THAT is a troll comment.
That's nice. I hope you're enjoying your democrat majority. And Casey is pro-life, that was one of the big reasons why he won. He took Santorum's influence among blue-collar suburban votes, who are mostly pro-life despite what you may want to believe.
The republicans can't win without the votes of social conservatives. Anyone denying that is a liar.
Allen was a terrible leader of the Virginia GOP, under whose leadership it lost 2 Gubernatorial elections. And as for your argument that Casey won because he is pro-life, that is nonsense.
Ridge and Specter won as pro-choice candidates. Fisher and Santorum ran as overtly pro-life candidates and lost.
They believe they're going to pick up crossover Democrats to make up the difference.
Stop laughing at me, I'm serious.