Now that is a political analysis of a vote that I have come to respect here on FR. Critical thinking is a rare thing and i couldn’t agree more. We need more of this kind of analysis.
Thanks. I know people get frustrated when some in our party go against us, but all we need to do is outvote them...rather than remove and try to purify. Don’t forget, we had a pure-as-wind-driven-snow conservative all set to fill an open Alabama Senate seat (Roy Moore) - and we couldn’t even hold that seat, IN ALABAMA. Lose Collins in Maine and it will be a generation before we get another Republican Senate seat in New England.
And one other thing to note: If we had only ONE other RINO in the US Senate in 2010 (in place of a Democrat), there would be NO OBAMACARE today. The Dems had the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster, and they needed EVERY one of those 60 votes, and not a single Republican voted with the Dems for Obamacare, including RINOs (and that was true in the House too).