Here's hoping that Laffey is just as successful as Toomey was.
If he doesn't win but pulls a Toomey (scaring the incumbent almost to death) than I see this as a victory.
Each to their own, I guess, but what does that really achieve? Chafee is not likely to change his political outlook as a result of a damaging primary challenge. It didn't really affect Specter in the end, unless you meant that it quite literally scared him almost to death. But that wouldn't be fair.
It seems more like you just want them 'punished' for not toeing the party line.
I don't want someone who will just blindly vote the party line because I would never do that and it's obviously not the right thing to do. I want people that use my party to be punished. I want people who expect to be kissed up to for votes to be punished. Someone being a thorn in his side for a campaign is the least we can have if he's going to be a thorn in our's for six more years.
You keep telling me to do it with Bob Casey. I've been saying I want Joe Hoeffel and you call me delusional yet you actually thought Pat Toomey had a good chance at winning the Senate seat. I just thought of something- we realy do mirror each other when it comes to politics. You're growling at the Republican party for supporting Specter in 2004 and I'm growling over the Democratic support for Bob Casey in 2006. You know if Toomey were to have won in 2004, the race leaned Hoeffel. In that case, why were you so eager to support Toomey? You also know with Bob Casey I'm selling a lot, if not all my social views for someone who agrees with me more economically than Santorum. Now I know how you felt in 2004!
