I think both sides needs to take a deep breath. I’m sick of tea partiers being trashed by the establishment, but I also don’t agree that good conservatives like Allen West are suddenly RINOs we need to primary.
West is no RINO, and is a stand up guy, but I am disappointed in his vote.
West needs to suck it up and stop trying to appease. He is on the wrong side of an increasing list of conservative issues.
It's isn't hard to see why people who attacked the conservatives might face a conservative in their next primary.
In any journey through Washington D.C., the path of the good conservative intersects the path of the RINO at every turn.
To step onto that second path feels strangely comfortable for the good conservative, and it comes with lots of goodies. The aura of Washington makes it easy for the newly born RINO to convince himself he’s doing the right thing.
For any individual politician, the shift can happen in less than a moment’s time.