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Yea I agree that TARP vote is understandable because they were being told that the banking system would collapse otherwise. Maybe it would have or maybe not - we'll never know.

He did vote against reigning in Fannie and Freddie so thus is on the Barney Frank/Chris Dodd/ACORN side of the collapse. Add in a bridge to nowhere vote, subsidies for the steel industry and the pattern became obvious.

The other candidates aren't slouches either. I think some of this was to inject new blood in Washington. Go along to just get along is not working.

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I think some of this was to inject new blood in Washington. Go along to just get along is not working.

Don't we all agree that term limits are a good idea?

If so then refusing to renominate a 3-term senatorto represent a solidly conservative state is a no-brainer if he has shown any significant RINO tendencies.

A no-brainer for conservatives - and a cross shown to a vampire for a "liberal" like E.J. Dionne.