With all due respect to your service and long time on Free Republic, you need to get with the program. Your way has failed time and time again. This isn’t my opinion. It’s proven fact. We are where we are because we elected people like Specter and Jeffords because the so called wise heads told us that was the only way to hold a majority.
Even recent history proves you wrong. We had enough senators to filibuster Kagan. If our 41 were faithful conservatives, they could have held the line. Instead, we got Kagan.
Again, we’ve tried it Krauthammer’s way for decades (geesh, Castle was in political office for over FOUR decades). That way leads to failure. I suppose you could argue that it might work this time, but history shows you’re wrong.
And, even if you’re right, I hope you understand that means we’re lost, that there’s no restoring America. If the only way we can get a Republican majority is to elect a bunch of Mike Castles, we are truly screwed as a nation.
On balance people like Spector did more good then harm because a Liberal Republican is any day better then a Liberal Democrat.
Would Clarence Thomas be on the Supreme Court today if not for Spector's defense and support?