Instead of just watching Grey's Anatomy like the rest of TV-watching America, I made the mistake of turning on the Montana Senate debate on C-SPAN ... just in time to catch Conrad Burns defending earmarks.

I resent the bad Republican candidates (Burns) for tainting the good ones (Santorum). If you're as bitter as I am, I recommend doing some door knocking for one of the good ones, or whatever your situation allows. Rally the troops for the leaders among them. Don't give into the stay-home/enough-with-the-GOP crowd.

And I know majority number counters will be mad at me for complaining about Burns. Majority is everything, they say. Well I'm not willing to throw all Republicans in together, because they're not all the same. They are not all cut from the same cloth. Sure, a Republican majority has its very obvious advantages. But a minority with Rick Santorum sure beats a majority without him.