Yeah, and if we all start blackmailing our own, before we even know it, the Democrats are back in power.
And the current situation, with spies in the caucus and a turncoat as chairman of a supposedly Republican-run comittee is better than a Democrat in that seat... how? It can't get any worse.
We HAD the opportunity to put up a worthy candidate, took the easy way out, and are paying for it now.
Or, look at it this way: don't keep making the same bad decision over and over just because you have a sunk cost in previous bad decisions.
I would rather have a Democrat than Arlen Specter.
The party should have thought about this too. That's what they did to US!