[Hatteras]

"...Someone ever taking positions such as these should never call herself a Republican and sure as hell doesn't deserve to sit in Jesse Helms' seat!"

If giving Jesse Helm's seat to a Democrat (and Clinton crony no less) is your answer than you are obviously not acting in the interest of North Carolina conservatives (Decorum and Jim Robinson wil not allow what I would really want to tell you...)

[AntiGuv]

North Carolina conservatives can do just fine waiting two years to send John Edwards packing and then get rid of Bowles in 2008. If you want me to get blunt, I think Bowles is less liberal than Liz Dole not more so. If I thought control of the Senate depended on this seat - and I don't - then I might reconsider, because the only thing Liz Dole might be good for is casting a vote for Trent Lott. At least Erskine Bowles & Lindsey Graham can work together and with the Democratic Senate to finally get the tobacco buyout program through. So far as I can tell, Liz Dole will be nothing but a figurehead Senator and the last thing my stomach needs is to see her in some nauseating bipartisan gun licensing deal or whatever. Nanny Dole's probably gonna win easy enough anyhow (perhaps by as much as 6%) but I don't have to be happy about it...