"Here are the troops you want to take into battle:
Lincoln Chaffee
Arlen Specter"
There's no room to bitch about these people when it is the president who is supporting them. He supported Toomey over Specter out of "tradition". Sorry-this is about pushign a conservative agenda, and specter is only a thorn in our side and has proven it time and time again.
additionally-bush is supporting chaffee over a more conservative challenger in RI for 2006.
its obvious that these are the troops THEY want
Afraid so.
That's why we're currently discussing the merits of installing Aunt Harriet onto the Court, instead of the eminently qualified Judge Edith Jones.
*sigh of resignation*
here's the strange jumbled logic, if you can call it that:
1. You must be loyal to president bush and the party.
2. We can't nominate a proven originalist because of rinos like specter and chaffee, who are not loyal to the party.
3. Bush supports specter and chaffee because he needs them to support his judges and because you need to be loyal to your party (even though they aren't loyal and their support for judges can't be trusted)
4. If you complain about the support for specter or toomey or the miers pick, you are not loyal to the president or the party.
5. The president and the party owes no loyalty to the conservative base that was promised strict constructionists when they were volunteering and donating money to the president and the party.
What a mess of contradictions. If you drink the koolaid, do they all go away?
>>>He supported Toomey over Specter out of "tradition". <<<
So did the so-called conservative, Rick Santorum, who is royally getting his butt kicked in the latest PA senatorial polls.