No, you've misunderstood. Follow me here: If you want a left-wing, big government Senate for perpetuity with a large chunk of states NEVER electing a Republican again or anytime soon (those being CA,CO,CT,DE,HI,IL,ME,MD,MA,MN,NV,NH,NJ,NM,NY,OR,RI,VT,WA,WV) and the rest electing nothing but big-government liberal RINO types (think McCain, Chafee, Snowe, Collins, Kirk, et al), you will be absolutely in favor of repealing the 17th. The best chance to get a BETTER Senate is to come up with a method to implement on a state-by-state basis something similar to Utah that weeds out the fakes through a pre-primary process, instituting runoffs (no liberals winning primaries through a split vote where they get a plurality)and CLOSING primary elections to halt Democrat chicanery.