My heart belongs to Grover Norquist

Pennsylvania's Pat Toomey, still bitter over his primary loss to Arlen Specter, explains why it is necessary to track down liberal Republicans, kill them and eat their livers (which is what we used to do in the old days before this newfangled "drink your milkshake" stuff took hold):

Now comes Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole, the man charged with rebuilding the GOP majority in the House. In a New York Times Magazine article, he denounced the Club for Growth's involvement in a special election in Ohio's fifth congressional district.

"The problem I have with the Club is I think they're stupid," Mr. Cole said. "They spend more money beating Republicans than Democrats."

Republicans would be better off, the argument goes, if the Club PAC spent its money targeting Democrats instead of liberal Republicans. This is the argument of politicians who care more about maintaining power than using that power to implement conservative policies.

Thus comes the demand for an uncompromising obeisance to the bottom line: Elect as many Republicans as possible, regardless of how they will vote once in office.

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Winning for the sake of winning is an excellent short-term tactic, but a lousy long-term strategy. Just look at the consequences of the 2006 congressional elections, when the GOP lost control of both houses of Congress.

I thought that was all about the corruption and the sex . In fact, one of the true believers who lost his seat was Lil Ricky Santorum who is about as wingnutty as it comes.

So how'd that work out for conservatives?

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Not so good.

(The gold standard for Purity Balls can be found here)