“Pennsylvania already had a Pat Toomey in the Senate, in case you’d forgotten. His name was Rick Santorum. Remind us again: where is he today?”
Wow! A two-term senator lost an election to the politically-moderate (i.e., nominally pro-life) son of a popular former governor in an overwhelmingly Democratic year! I guess that means that no conservative Republican can ever be elected in Pennsylvania again.
In places such as Maine, California, and Minnesota, for instance, it makes sense to support “big-tent” Republicans in the Senate, because it’s extremely unlikely that such states will elect a conservative. However, we know that Pennsylvania and Ohio have recently elected conservatives and can again in the future.
Also, Peter King has made his intentions to run for the Senate in NY clear for a few months now. Unless those plans change, he won’t have to worry about being gerrymandered out in the 2010 election, unless NY wants to give Long Island to New Jersey.
