then you don’t continue to support those that don’t support you.

I don’t have enough soldiers in my Army.
- McConnell

Then you recruit, support and defend those that will do the same for you.

Senator McConnell’s comments that Arlen Specter would be a good boy is insulting to any realistic person. This is the same Arlen Specter, who was supported by the establishment in the last election, who promised he would act more like a republican. What did we get for this support. NOTHING.

It is time to remove these old dinasours from the Senate. If the Republican party supports the re-election primary for Specter. I will never support the party again. Enough is Enough!

I think a petition should be started to draft someone like Pat Toomey or Lynn Swann for a primary.

and it’s back to business as usual…

As for it being too much to ask for a leader to hold his own conference together when a president is at 60% approval……funny thing that…since Reid did it with Bush…it’s only Republican leaders that can’t hold their caucuses together because they won’t make their mavericks pay for leaving the reservation!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

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The Democrats only need 50 votes on budget matters. The bigger issue will whether some of the proposed changes fall properly within budget legislation. All of Bush’s tax cuts came through budget legislation I think. He nver had anywhere near 60 votes.

Mr. McConnell, we gave you an army, and you wouldn’t even let us borrow it for a while. You and the army we gave you were too busy being nice to the people who are rolling you now.

Without a change in leadership, why should we send you more people to throw under the bus?

This just goes to show the total dearth of leadership in the GOP Senate. McConnell is nothing more than a wet noodle who has lasted long enough to have “earned” his position. A true conservative LEADER would use all the tools at his disposal, including those mentioned by the commenters above, to advance the agenda and persuade/coerce his caucus to support it.

To the extent that you don’t succeed in this regard, you take RJD’s advice (above) and work on recruiting and supporting folks who will support the cause.

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As to why the Republicans are going to get beat like a drum in 2010 . . .

You ever watch anything to do with the phrase “good soldier?” Let me tell you what it doesn’t include: A) soldiers who have ever, ever, ever betrayed their cause even once, even a little bit and B) soldiers who have even the slightest chance of betraying their cause even once, even a little bit.

Let me make it a little clearer: How many “good soldiers” in the mafia stay alive if they openly help the feds?

Yes, I am saying Arlen has betrayed the cause . . . .

From my perspective, Mitch McConnell is only marginally better than Spector.

He voted for TARP. He voted for at least one of the last two Senate Shamnesty Bills.

There are only a handfull of conservative Republicans in the Senate and Mitch McConnell is not one of them.

…he just forgets whose uniform he’s wearing.

Didn’t he also promise to mend his errant ways back when Toomey was beating him in the PA primary?

Sorry, but I have been sold that rug before.

Arlen Spector is 79 years old. He has serious health problems. Why in the name of common sense should Republicans provide life support for a person who could die in office, leaving a democrat governor to fill the senate seat? Actually, if Arlen Spector cared about the preservation of this Republic,he would have taken himself out of the senate race a long time ago. Republicans need new, younger, congress persons with new ideas, and new attitudes, and no debts owed to democrats. Arlen has treated this senate position as his own fiefdom, doing as he pleased and then counting on the Republican club senators to make the argument that he is better than a democrat. He is not. BTW, I am not a spring chicken but I am very opposed to these elected persons who seem to think they have some divine right to hang on to an officet that is obviously run by subordinates more than themselves. I have been disgusted with such as Srom Thurmond and Robert Byrd and Ted Kennedy and all of the other aging politicals who should retire with some grace. This is a perfect time to clean house of the deadwood.

In Arizona, that’s still a lot of money.

I admit I’m not an expert on inside DC politics. BUT, from everything I read in the days leading up to the passage of Porkulus:

1) The bill was bad. Very bad.
2) It BARELY passed cloture.

Let’s be clear, here: Specter, Snowe and Collins rescued Porkulus.

Yes, I agree that a stimulus bill of hundreds of billions of dollars would eventually pass. BUT, this bill had so many problems, it should have been stopped.

Specter, Collins and Snowe could have stopped it. They could have pressed Reid to get a rewrite that would have saved many billions of dollars.

Seeing as that’s my son’s generation’s money, I think it was worth it.

Porkulus, in its twisted form, was floundering. By voting for cloture, these three GOP Senators rescued it.

There are some things you don’t overlook. If we are to regain our image as a party of fiscal discipline, I do not see how we can do it with these three in the party.

There is no way that these three can be viewed as fiscal conservatives. No fiscal conservative worth their salt would have rescued that bill.

They could have forced repairs to the bill. Instead, they rescued it. They know it. We know it. They are the de facto Father and Mothers of Porkulus.

If we mean to be a party of fiscal discipline, that means we must act to rid ourselves of spendthrifts. Especially people who are cavalier with our children’s money and future.

If I find out that the chief of police in my town is on the take from organized crime, I’d want to see him gone, even IF he had kept my town safe and secure for years on end.

There are some things you simply don’t forgive. For me, putting my son’s future in jeopardy is one of those things.

If either of these three win their GOP primaries, then I’ll vote for them over a typical Dem. But they must be primaried. By a fiscal conservative candidate.

If, in the end, PA and Maine Republicans decide that they want to be represented by Senators who spend like liberals, then OK I guess. But, we need to hold Dad and both Moms feet to the fire, in the primaries.