[Norman Conquest]

Ummm... so I guess you repudiate nall those Georgia D-to-R turncoats?

The R problem is we tolerate and encourage these vipers in our midst in the first place. When we have the guts to cut loose the Specters, Snowes and McCains and take our chances with REAL Republicans, we'll be able to sleep at night.

[weegee]

If the purpose of someone's change of party affiliation is purely to change the balance of power in the Senate then it is unconscionable.

In the Senate we need the numbers and I can accept but not admire RINOs. I see no reason to rally around ex-Dems like the NYC mayor who isn't much of a better alternative to having a mayor with a D next to his name.

Here in Houston, the mayor's office is a "non-partisan" office. The races are never partisan when the candidates are all D or I. Get one Republican in the race and suddenly it is "partisan". The Republicans who run for mayor down here are conservatives. Even then I am voting for the candidate's politics and not the letter (there is no "gain" for the democrats in saying that they have x number of mayors in major cities in this country; they have no power outside of their cities).

Some Democrats walked away from their party when Clinton embarassed them, but it did not shift the balance of power.