by Ana Marie Cox

The big debate within the Republican party today has less to do with how to vote than whether to vote at all. And as the interparty rhetoric has heated up in recent past, so has the intraparty rhetoric. From a an email to Kathryn Lopez posted today at The Corner:

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.