Quit giving the Irish a bad name IMO. I'm supporting Kopp over Beauprez but not because of guilt=by-association. Do you have any direct evidence that Beauprez supports or supported Romney's Romneycare or gun control measures? Bear in mind Romney ran them as stuff that the idiots in Taxachussetts wanted from their state government, not as federal measures. Here's a clue: any non-Democrat getting elected to public office in Taxachussetts is not going to sound like Kemp or either of the Pauls or Palin. There aren't enough of us to win by ourselves -- especially if we're going to tear each other apart -- so we need a ticket to strip away as much of the middle (and preferably some of the remaining few Democrats who aren't complete Marxist morons) as we can get. I just prefer the relatively liberal person on the ticket be #2 rather than #1 (ala Reagan-Bush rather than McCain-Palin).