Nowadays a person campaigning to be elected to the U.S. Senate as a conservative is like someone applying for a position in a whorehouse and promising to remain a virgin.
No one is questioning the person’s integrity going in. It’s just that after getting the position, how do they propose to demonstrate they’re doing a good job?
Good point. We have to watch them all after they are in office & primary them/vote them out as soon as possible if they don’t do what they promised &/or someone even more conservative decides to try to unseat them. That way they don’t get so entrenched they are next to impossible to unseat.
I was represented in Austin by Jim Murphy, then when 0bama was elected he lost to a Democrat, then he won his seat back in 2010, & now he’s running for re-election. Shortly after he took office I emailed him to ask why he supported Strauss as Speaker & I didn’t care much for his excuses, so this time around I’m voting for Ann Witt instead. I’ll give her the same chance if she wins - do what you promised or my vote will be up for grabs in 2 years.
Houston radio guy Joe Paggs was railing the day after Lugar won that we shouldn’t oppose any incumbant GOPers until we get rid of all the incumbant Dems. That may sound like a logical strategy, but does not take into account we are supposed to be the pro-freedom party, so if someone thinks they can do a good job they should be free to run, even if (especially if!) the incumbant has been there for decades. What are the good potential candidates supposed to do, wait another 30 years until the incumbant drops dead on the House floor? Move to another district & be subject to accusations of carpet-bagging? I think not.
(I voted for Cruz yesterday.)
lol, “promising to remain a virgin”.
And that is the sad fact of life. They might start out with great intentions but become infected with “Foggy Bottom Fever”.