I’m sure we can get the Republican caucus in the Senate down to 40 if we try hard enough.
Then we can have socialized medicine, the homosexual agenda, open borders, multi-culturalism, a value added tax PLUS higher income taxes, the return of inflation, ...
oh, did I forget to mention gas rationing? Alternate driving days, a federally-imposed speed limit and a nationwide gun ban.
Let’s alienate all the voters and their representatives who might possibly align with us on the majority of issues, and then what? Purity?
Who says we don’t believe in suicide-bombers!
Let me do the math:
49 minus Hagel and Graham = 47
minus Coleman = 46
How about Gordon Smith, Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins?
The way I figure it, we’re down to 42, and only two votes shy of not being able to sustain a filibuster.
Any nominations?
I’m sure if we search real hard, we will find that last remaining Senator to kick out of the caucus, so that our country can go down the tubes, along with Venezuela, Zimbabwe, the country formerly known as Zaire.
USA 1776-2007 it was fun while it lasted!
I'm sorry, but that post was inchoate rambling.
Do not point that finger at voters who will not vote for anyone just because they have a R next to their respective names.
Rather point that finger squarely at the candidate who have alienated the real base that delivers real victory.
Without them, there is no base at all, just another rainbow coalition incrementally shuffling it's way to the same platform as the middle of the political road Democrat Senators.
In such a case then TS, and goodbye to the GOP.
Purity? - How about something more than high spending, pro immigration, Spanish pandering nitwits who do not understand that those other groups that you speak of - and that they believe are their future - to come to the fore?
I’m sure we can get the Republican caucus in the Senate down to 40 if we try hard enough.
It is not up to us to make such people electable. - It is up to them to rise to the challenge or pass into the footnotes of history.