RINOs like him will be the CAUSE of the ultimate rise of a 3rd party.
For your opinion about the Tea Party, Senator - screw you very much.
Politics in America is like the foreign policy of Great Britain for centuries - based on a balance of power in which no power is allowed to be too much stronger than the other powers.
In the case of our politics, the people who are in charge of society make certain that the parties have relative parity over time so that we all feel as though our votes matter.
Since the left is not working too well lately, the Conservatives stand to gain, possibly too much, so the middle-of-the-roaders need to bring the conservative down a peg or two.
The inside the beltway Rockefeller Republicans are the ones who are trying to dilute conservative principles, because they cannot have a landslide. Carl Rove, Perry, and Romney, along with Juan McCain, are some of the balance of power elite that will never permit a clear verdict by the people.
They will maintain the conflict, and the charade that we all matter in an election.
We need to repeal the 17th Amendment.