[goldstategop]

Mike Simpson would be a good choice for the seat. He's a solid conservative.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Just mythoughts]

Looks like somebody at the ultra liberal NYTimes has a hand in seeking to influence the possible next Senator.

[balch3]

how about Bill Sali? He would be the most conservative man in the Senate by far.

[southernnorthcarolina]

And the 2007 winner of the National Mixed Metaphor Contest is...

“He’s not a fair-weather friend,” Jon Hanian, a spokesman for the governor, said of Mr. Otter. “This whole kind of cowboy ethos is what he’s about. He believes that when the chips are down and the going gets hard, you don’t throw somebody to the wolves.”

[Bonaparte]

"... when it comes to the private behavior of public officials."

Private? What has Mr. Yardley been smoking? This was solicitation for sex in a public restroom in a busy airport. Nothing "private" about it.

[MassachusettsGOP]

If Risch and Otter have frosty relations, wouldn’t Otter want to get rid of him by putting him in the US Senate and getting him out of Boise?

[MSF BU]

No reason not to find a Reagan Republican who is a combat veteran. There are plenty of young ones who’ve retired into the area.