We nailed 2.5 of them in the Senate this year (looks like we won’t end up taking the trash all the way out in Alaska – but, we still put the fear of TEA in to the Ruling Class) – and Politico notes that other RINOs are feeling the heat:
Another bloody Republican Senate primary election season is taking shape for 2012, with potentially serious intra-party challenges percolating in close to a half-dozen states.
Polls indicate that at least two veteran GOP senators are highly vulnerable to challenges on their right flank — Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch and Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe – and there are rumblings about potential GOP bids against Nevada Sen. John Ensign, Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar as well…
It is still to be hoped that Ensign, out here in Nevada, will grab a clue and not seek re-election, but that prospect does seem to be fading away. Now that Ensign’s good buddy Harry Reid has been safely re-elected (and we do note that Ensign wasn’t exactly active in campaigning against him), Ensign might figure if we’ll re-elect that creep, one more will slide down quite easily. Mark it here and now – if no one else takes Ensign on, I will. I don’t care how quixotic the effort might be, Ensign will not be un-challenged in the 2012 GOP primary.
Democrats – and especially Harry Reid – are hoping that a bloody GOP primary season in 2012 might allow them to cling to their majority for one more cycle. And, so it might – and, big deal. Some people are still carping that the O’Donnell nomination cost us a Senate seat, and may have set the stage for the Democrats to hold the Senate. As I said when O’Donnell won the primary – I’d rather lose with her than win with a RINO. RINOs do us no good – they do the Ruling Class well, but they always, always cut the people off at the knees when the chips are down. I’d rather lose to a solid, Democrat Senate majority than lose because some people on my own side knifed me in the back.
In the end, this is how we hold their feet to the fire. We let them know that we will challenge them in the primary – and 2010 showed that complete unknowns can still raise the enthusiasm and the money to knock off incumbents. It is what we must do – because if we let up on the pressure for a moment, we’ll have our RINOs “reaching across the aisle” to sell us out to Obama’s liberalism in a heartbeat.
Keep fighting. Never, never, never give in!
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