Why would you be so sure that Repubs would lose? They did elect LePage.
LePage won by 7,000 votes in a five way race. I voted for him, but there is NO way that a conservative can win here in a two way race. You would get Sen. Pingree and that would be worse, far worse than what we have now.
Re #26:
Hey I would love to be wrong. But those who support Tea Party efforts to replace liberal Repubicans with conservative ones must know there are inherent risk. The end result could well be that you have a state like Delaware that simply refuses to send a conservative to the senate. In the case of Maine if the hypothetical conservative lost the new senator seated would be to the left of Snowe. That’s a risk I for one am willing to take and I believe is good for conservatism in the long run. But Tea Party folks must know, damn well better know, that from time to time their efforts won’t produce the results they want.