How naive are some of you. Collins was just reelected for a six-year term. Snowe is going to get reelected if she runs because it is Maine. There is no way you are going to find a Republican conservative to run against Snowe that could win in the general in Maine.
Specter is different story maybe but even then PA is not a conservative state or Toomey would have beat Specter, Swann would have won, and four conservative candidates for House would have beat the liberal Dems.
You work to take out Dems who are vulnerable. Don’t give the two, Snowe and Specter, any money but other then that there is not much you can do in solid blue states to get conservatives to win. If you want to be in a permanent minority then run someone that is far right and see what happens in blue states — it doesn’t even work in OK in statewide races.
We lost this battle, but now is time to win the WAR in 2010 and quit worrying about seats we don’t have a chance to win. Get busy and let’s go after seats we can win. I am not willing to cede States to the Dems in order to make sure that a ‘purist’ is elected. I want fiscal conservatives who put that first and foremost. I would like conservative on social issues but I would rather have a candidate that is going to save my tax dollars then worry if they are a social conservative then have a liberal Democrat that I know cares about nothing conservative.
Consider me a Republican Conservative with Common Sense on what it takes to win because to me losing is not an option. What got us thrown out of power was the growth of Government and the deficit along with a President that didn’t bother to sell his agenda very well. If you don’t win, you don’t control the agenda and you end up hoping three liberal Republicans will vote with your side. I don’t like living that way.
Totally disagree with your defeatist attitude, and it is the reason we have no leadership. I call major BS.
I don’t believe a call to remove 3 liberal RINO’s in the Senate is naive. It might not be practical and as you mentioned with Collins being just reelected, it might take a while, but I stand by my suggestion that they need to go. There is nothing in this bill that is worth support and Senators who caucus with Republicans should not continue to do so. They have sold their souls to the devil and for what? A couple days of publicity and decades of deficits.
I agree with the WAR for 2010. We need to win like it was 1994.