GOP moderates

The goal of picking up nine additional Senate seats on Nov. 4 was a rallying cry for Democratic supporters eager to end what they saw as two years of GOP obstructionism. Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ reelection means that won’t happen. But Democrats shouldn’t despair because there are enough persuadable GOP moderates to muzzle a filibuster.

While younger Republicans are hard at work trying to figure out how to make their party viable in a post-Bush political landscape, some older members of the conservative establishment prefer the introspective equivalent of placing their hands over their ears and yelling, “LA LA LA LA LA LA…”
From CNN:

While the GOP’s conservative base may be clamoring for more of Sen. John McCain’s red-meat attacks on Sen. Barack Obama — particularly on Obama’s connection to former Weatherman William Ayers — McCain may be driving away moderates and independents in doing so.
William Milliken, a former Republican governor of Michigan, seemed to walk back his previous [...]