[GAB-1955]

You know, I don't care about the American Conservative Union; what I care about is leveraging what I can from a position of vulnerability. We don't know how Shuler will vote; he hasn't been in Congress before. I am more concerned with personal values than party affiliation at this stage.

Remember that all American political parties are really coalitions of smaller parties. Despising moderates got us into this mess. Let's not repeat the same mistake.

[pawdoggie]

I am more concerned with personal values than party affiliation at this stage.

By all means, let the GOP try to make "common cause" with the Democrat CINOs and MINOs, but don't hold your breath expecting positive results. YOU may not care about party affiliation, but the Democrats do! There's a major difference between the moderates in the electorate (who should not, as you say, be taken for granted), and the Democrat "moderates", but we'll see.

[George W. Bush]

You know, I don't care about the American Conservative Union;

ACU is a good pointer on Congress. But their choice of issues often seems to skew so that certain ACU favorites will always have the best scores and so that certain Dims will always be at 0%.

I think they may use Excel to lay out all the votes on all the bills and search out a combination of bills that commends their GOP favorites and demonizes the Dims.