Well, there is a silver lining to this. Even if the 'Rat should win this special election, he'll be up for re-election next year in what will likely be a very difficult environment for them. In that event, the GOP couldn't nominate a "moderate" again without that nominee getting challenged by a conservative in a GOP primary. Thus the GOP nominee NEXT YEAR would be a conservative, and the seat would almost surely go to a conservative Republican in the 2010 general election. So, under that scenario, we might be a year late, but we would get the seat finally.
And, BTW, the seat is open now simply because the Republican incumbent decided to join the Obama Administration. Any Republican who would do that is selling out his party and the conservative movement. So replacing him with a 'Rat for a year wouldn't be the greatest tragedy in the world - unless ...
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10/23/2009 5:25:19 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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