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I’m from PA so I understand the Specter dilemma. But you were wrong not to support him. For this reason. The Senate is very closely divided. Much as he might have annoyed us, he gave us the edge in that chamber. By not voting for him, you undermine the Party—and give the power to the enemy. As it was, it was thanks to Specter we got Roberts and Alito past the Judiciary Committee. They wouldn’t have been given the time of day by Leahy. So you may think your purity of motive is principled—but in a democracy the perfect is often the enemy of the good. Sometimes we have to compromise—in order to win the greater victory in the end. We now have Roberts and Alito on the Supreme Ct. Where would they have been if all conservatives thought as you do, refused to vote for Specter, and ended up with a Democrat in charge of the Judiciary Committee? A similar situation faces us right now with Rudy. We need to accept the imperfect in order to achieve the good.

First, Giuliani is even more liberal than Specter. Secondly, The United States as a whole is far more conservative than Pennslyvania and we don't have to settle for nor need a RINO for a Republican to win a Presidential election.

If you're from PA too, then you know that Giuliani will never carry the state in the general election.

I stopped voting for ALL Democrats on the national level so long ago I can't remember when. Sometime after Specter's election against that woman (Lynn Somebody) from Philly, it occurred to me that voting for a liberal Republican is counter-productive to the conservative cause and I have not voted for him in the last election or the one before.

I'm don't care if I "undermine the Party." The "Party" is not interested in supporting conservative causes. All the $ they collect from conservatives goes to support idiots like Chaffee and assorted fools who then work against conservatives. If the Republican party is not a vehicle to accomplish things that promote conservative causes, I owe no more allegiance to it than I do the Democrat party.

Where would they have been if all conservatives thought as you do, refused to vote for Specter, and ended up with a Democrat in charge of the Judiciary Committee? A similar situation faces us right now with Rudy. We need to accept the imperfect in order to achieve the good.

You’re too logical for some of these “my way or no way” folk. They rather have Hillary-Marxism than vote for Rudy. Then we’ll hear they bitch for 8 long years. We’ll be so far left as a country that there will be no way to recover. We’ll be just like Europe.