An e-mail:
Subject: Burns
You wrote: “I don’t deny abandoning [Burns’ candidacy]…my list of candidates whose losses I’d cry over does not include him.”
If a Burns loss leaves the Senate 51-49 Democratic, and Reid as Majority Leader, would you really feel this way? You would really not shed a tear if losing Montana meant Democrats were put into a position to thwart what needs to be done in the war on terror?
Lots of people might someday die because in 2006 conservatives insisted on ideological purity.