OK, I'll take that job. No way. Placating moderates is what got the Republicans removed from power because we own the consequences of liberal policy.
That's fine, we'll just let the liberal Democrat win the seat instead. Brilliant strategy which I'm sure is going to carry us far.
BTW, nobody said anything about "placating moderates". I'm all for cutting the RINOs out of power at the national level completely. No RINO should occupy any position of authority in the RNC - not in the Chairmanship, not in anything else all the way down to Second Vice-Assistant to the Floor Mopper in the NRSC. Nevertheless, I also fail to see what is noble about handing a Senate seat over to a liberal Democrat scot-free, instead of trying to get the seat into the hands of an at least moderate Republican.