You do it because it's right, and because not taking it turns you into something you don't want to be. If all you care about is raw power, you're Susan Collins or Mitch McConnell.
Thank God he didn't say any other controversial stuff
It will affect all of us, no matter what happens now
What does “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” written to prepare the Union and its soldiers for the terrible fight ahead, say about America itself? @JeffreyGoldberg on @TheAtlantic’s greatest poem and the 250th anniversary of the republic:
That's just stupid projection, and I am telling you this as a former Republican who used to laugh at how often Democrats defected from their own candidates
Look, if Platner wins in November - and I doubt he will - you'll get one more vote against Trump in the Senate, and that's good. But it will come at a price.
The worst of all worlds? You all mortgage the high ground, and then he loses anyway - which I think is the most likely outcome.
It would to me, and you can be damn sure I'd check it out before I let some Croatian tat guy stick it on my chest for the rest of my life