By that logic the only answer is that the Republicans should have lost in PA. If winning meant we had to put in a man who would vote for this evil monstrosity of a bill... we should have run the conservative and lost. You lead by showing your character. Spectre has none and only does our party damage when he is used as an example of a Republican. It’s that simple. This is out there in the black and white, right and wrong zone without much grey.
If more of these “moderates” as you call them will not vote for a real Republican, then they aren’t “moderates”. They are simply disinfranchised Democrats and havn’t been badly mugged enough by socialism to know better.
The time for fence straddling is ending. The fence is breaking under the weight of these “moderates”. Sides must be taken.
Better the enemy you know than the enemy you don’t know. If we can’t predict how Spectre will vote, or trust him to do the right thing when it is lit with a neon sign right in front of him then run him out of the party. His current actions make him incompatible with Republicanism. Better he be out of it and switch sides than give the enemy the ammo of being able to call everything they do “bipartisan” whenever Spectre votes with the Dems.
Say whatever you want about reality, this bill goes way beyond politics and right down to core beliefs. If he will vote for a freedom ending multi-trillion dollar power grab then it doesn’t matter one bit what party he calls himself. He’s a lib Democrat who happens to have an “R” after his name. He might as well get official and call himself one to make scorekeeping easier.
“An enemy stabs you in the back, a friend stabs you in the front.” - Which have these three Republican senators done? They have stabbed our party in the back in the most dire hour of need in a generation. They alone have the power to stall this pork bill up until it dies. They won’t do it. They are no friends of our party, or our country. Their mettle has been tested and they won’t stand up for us when times get tough.
Recall them now. Throw them out. Even if it means a Dem gets the seats. How can anyone respect our party or take our beliefs seriously if we allow this kind of garbage to infect the image we project to the entire country? The image we project to the very people we want on our side? The house we keep must be cleaner than it is now before we will begin to win over more voters.
Excellent post.