Reply #70: Just what Rove would recommend. Think EXACTLY like us or face [View All]

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banishment.

Should Joe win in Nov, a very real possibility, will you still advocate pushing him to the republicans if his one seat decides Senate control? You can't have it both ways and be anything other than what Rove already insists - that the extreme left is planning a McGovern style voctory in two months.

There are plenty of Dems who ran on other tickets - Mario Cumo running against Ed Koch for example - was it on the NY Liberal party ticket while Koch had the Dem nomination. Let's tar & feather Mario!!

Support Lamont to your heart's content - but it's stupid to burn bridges you may need in your retreat to get control of the Senate.

I'll go one step further and stir the pot to start the weekend off right: If Joe wins and Senate control hangs on his one vote, Harry Reid, John Kerry, Evan Bayh, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy will be standing in line to kiss his ass trying to be majority leader and committee chairmen rather than minority leader and ranking members. Intuition tells me that Russ Feingold, however, will skip that line because his principals are more important to him than running a committee. People who put their personal principal ahead of party are rare, especially in the Senate. The only two that I think would hold to their positions, even of the payoff for flipping is very great, are Feingold and Liebermann. Regardless of whether I agree or disagree on an issus by issue basis, I respect the conviction they both demonstrate. Although they have very different views on what is best for the country vis a vis GWOT, particularly the Iraq theater, neither would put party ahead of country.