Actually Democrats are just starting to act like Republicans. What part of "GET RID OF EVERY DAMN
R(D)INO!!" does this Democratic strategy resemble most?
I voted against a RINO and got a conservative republican in Tim Walberg.
And the sooner we get rid of moderate Democrats like Lieberman and leftist Republicans like Snowe/Chaffee et al the better off the country will be. Then the choices will be clear.
Actually, there's a very big difference. The Republicans try to replace RINOs by beating them in elections. The Dems try to get rid of those they don't like by cheating.
To forestall any stupid comments, so far Lieberman has lost a PRIMARY, not an ELECTION.
Personally, I don't care what happens here. I see Democrats eating their own. It's sweeeeet.
Yeah, we should just support the RINO throughout the race.
No, conservative activists are out to purge the party of RINOs who regularly vote with the Democrats (see Specter, Chaffee, etc.). Liberal activists are out to purge the party of fellow liberals who do their bidding 90% of the time. If the DUmmies were acting like the GOP, they'd be perfectly content with LIEberman's record (you don't see the GOP argue that Dan Quayle and Jack Kemp are "not real Republicans" because they voted the wrong way on ONE issue, do you?), and instead the DUmmies would be going after guys like Ben Nelson.
Occassionaly there are some nutcase "conservatives" who depise someone who does their bidding 90% of the time but voted the wrong way on one issue, but they are an extremely small fringe within the conservative movement and get crushed in their bids to "purge" good conservatives in the primary (For example, Ray "confederate flag hertiage" McBerry recently ran a single-issue primary campaign against solidly conservative Governor Sonny Perdue and Republicans voted for Perdue 90%-10% in the primary)
If this were the RAT party, Perdue would have been run out of town on a rail for not adherring to the "activists" on every single issue.