This is a great story. This is the way it should be. If you go against your party, you are challenged in the primary.The split on immigration within the Republican Party should be given a chance to be voted on in the primary. But what makes both parties so corrupt is that incumbency has almost eliminated what could be healthy primary challenges. Incumbents accumulate money which serves two purposes, it scares away primary challenges and it is used to usually outspend the general election opponent. It usually works. If the Republicans go down in November, a lot has to do that the party faithful are not given opportunities to make a meaningful choices in the primary. Most of the big boy Democrats that went down in 94 had not had to work for votes in a meaningful primary for decades. It is like these corrupt incumbents bought a franchise to operate politically irregardless of the wishes of those in the party. When they fail miserably they fall back on the franchise. What the subtext is that you need to vote for me even if we have disagreements and I am a failure. You are a Republican and I have bought the Republican franchise and you cannot vote for a Democrat.
If there were a healthy two party system, which had more open and meaningful primaries, then those of in the base would not feel so betrayed when our President goes around making nice to Teddy Kennedy, Little Dickie Durbin, Insane McCain, and el Presidente Fox and by doing so picking a fight with a majority of elected Republicans in both houses.
Money can't buy elections; we forfeit them. We need to volunteer and beat the streets, post the signs, call in the chits, make the calls, collect the funds, talk it up, Giv'em Hell!! If this travesty of justice does not result in massive changes in the primary, we should check between our legs to see if anything is still there (no offense to the ladies).