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No. The goal is to get the Rockefeller "cocktail party" wing's hands off of the controls of the party. That means retiring their war horses (Mike Castle, Lisa Murkowski) and playing Whack-a-Mole with the next wave (Mark Kirk, Chris Simmons).

Mike Castle and Lisa Murkowski were knocked off in PRIMARIES. Do you understand the difference between a primary and a general election? There was primary in Illinois and nobody came close to beating Kirk. There was a conservative in the race (I no longer remember his name) and he even ran TV commercials but he was a doofus and he got about 3 votes.

The primary is over now. Now we are in the general. I would rather see a 60% conservative like Kirk get elected than a zero percent conservative like Giannoulias.

Giannoulias is a personal friend (butt boy) of Obama's. He is one of the few Democrats who actually wants Obama to campaign for him. How could you possibly want a guy like that to win?

Everything you said was a complete non sequitur.

One more time:

The goal is to get the Rockefeller "cocktail party" wing's hands off of the controls of the party. That means retiring their war horses (Mike Castle, Lisa Murkowski) and playing Whack-a-Mole with the next wave (Mark Kirk, Chris Simmons).

My statement stands whether it is a primary or a general election.

I helped William F. Buckley and Buck-PAC dispatch Lowell P. Weicker Jr. in a general election back in 1990. Weicker probably wasn't even opposed in the primary. Should WFB and I have supported Weicker against Lieberman?

The Specters, Castles, Murkowskis, Snowes, Collinses and Kirks of the world don't simply side with the Republican caucus with a few key dissenting votes. They undermine the integrity of the party.

I am a conservative before I am a Republican. We know that Illinois can give us a Fitzgerald... a corrupt Republican party chased him out. Delaware can have a Senator Roth, we don't need a liberal Senator stooge like Castle. Alaska is culturally conservative/libertarian and can do much, much better than Murkowskis and Stevenses.

A SENATOR IS MORE THAN THE SUM TOTAL OF HIS VOTES.

A guy like Kirk will work behind the scenes to bottle up key legislation. He will be the go-to guy when the media needs a Republican Senator of standing to show how bi-partisan and reasonable the liberal position is and how narrow the conservative position is. He is an enemy. And I prefer my enemies to wear the proper markings. He is no 60%er. because he is so rabidly pro-abort he is a ZERO-percenter. You may as well ask an 1858 Republican to support a slave-holder because he toes the party line on tariffs. NO SALE.