Here we go. It's the conservative trump card. Once a politician runs afoul of conservatives orthodoxy (in any of its forms), or he's deemed to be "insufficiently conservative, he's labeled a liberal as if the label is all that's necessary to discredit or negate everything he's ever said or done in his life.
That's what's happened to George W. Bush. His father experienced some of that. McCain has gotten similar treatment. Ford, naturally. The late Arlen Specter got it. I could come up with more names without too much trouble.
It all reminds me of The Charlie Daniels' band song Uneasy Rider.
So what ?
Are you saying that conservatives can't go after someone who has drifted off the plantation ? That it is somehow wrong to expect a politician to behave as he claims ?
Cochran looks to the dems to help him out. The proof is in the pudding.
Pat Roberts, a once very good senator, has been drifting there himself. He's still good...but not that good. And it seems he's gotten pretty used to being something besides what he claims to be.
He changes....so does his support.
Same with Cochran.
These are men who did what they thought was necessary to stay on the ballot to hopefully be re-elected. That makes them shameless political opportunists who were willing to exploit both a weakness in the process and the fears of certain people. That doesn't necessarily make them liberal by any stretch of the imagination.
Arlen Specter switched party affiliation to try to win re-election.
Former Connecticut Democrat Senator Lieberman ran as an Independent against the Democrat nominee in order to get re-elected.
Alaskan Republican Senator Murkowski ran as a write-in candidate against the Republican nominee in order to get re-elected.
These people want to hold on to their jobs and their power. It doesn't mean they've changed their stripes.
She's a winner, not a quitter!
