starting with bob bennet, senator from utah for 18 years, 93% conservative rating, wasn't pure enough to be re-nominated by the republican party in 2010. mike castle in delaware was defeated in a republican primary by a tea party candidate who had defend herself on television after being called a witch, and the same texture applies on the democratic side where a topnotch senator like joe lieberman couldn't win a democratic primary so what has evolved is a great worry on the part of members of congress that if one vote is passed which calls us a party to fight in a primary where there is a very low turn out, that's the end of the political career, and there's few prepared to put their political careers on the line for a vote nowithstanding what the public's interest is, and this book goes into great detail as to my approach to being in public service, and the votes that i cast and the one critical vote which was the end of the association between the republican party and me, and i think ronald reagan best put it when he said years ago when he was a democrat -- did you know that ronald