This is the game that has been played for years by the Republican Establishment: “all we have to do is prevent a conservative from getting the nomination (for whatever office) and the conservatives will vote for the republican every time, because in their view, the democrat winning would be worse.”
While at the same time, if a conservative successfully gets nominated, they don’t fund that person, undermine them or openly support the democrat. Witness Lisa Murkowski in 2010, Dede Scozzafava openly endorsing the democrat when it became clear that she wouldn’t win and the conservative would. Both John Warner and Richard Lugar have endorsed the DEMOCRAT nominees for senate in their states THIS YEAR.
I’ve been watching these machinations for years, where the moderate/liberal republican says “vote for me because you know the democrat is worse” then betrays once they’re safely renominated or reelected. We’ve seen this with Jim Jeffords, Arlen Specter, Lincoln Chafee, Orrin Hatch, and most recently with Lamar Alexander who once he was safely through the primary, he went back to supporting Amnesty, because he knew the conservatives would behave like sheep and vote him back into power.
I for one am not playing along anymore, and a number of others have seen this insidious game and are not playing along either.
We can win the senate even with the losses of McConnell and Graham (and even Cochran). WV, AK, AR, LA, MI, IA, NC, MT, NH, SD with possibilities in MN, WA and VA.
Our choices in life are not always perfect. For me in CA it has meant voting for people like Arnold and Pete Wilson over the likes of Gray Davis, Phil Angelides, Dianne Feinstein, and Kathleen Brown. And yes, I would do it all over again without hesitation.
It makes so sense whatsoever throwing away safe GOP Senate seats. Mitch McConnell, Thad Cochran, Lindsey Graham, and Pat Roberts, while not perfect, are VASTLY superior to their Dem opponents.
Can anyone kindly identify one single Democrat running for a major office who is superior to his GOP opponent?
Can anyone kindly identify one single Democrat running for major office who is not effectively a proxy for BHO?
Say whatever you like about Cochran, Graham, Roberts, and McConnell, but all:
1) Voted against Obamacare
2) Voted against the Porkulus
3) Voted against Cap and Trade
4) Voted against Dodd-Frank
5) Voted against Harry Reid for Majority Leader
These facts alone are enough are sufficient reason to vote for all of them. Voting Dem is nothing short of insanity.
If you are looking for perfection or utopia, you will never find it in politics. I think it was RR who once said politics is the world’s second oldest profession.