Know what you mean, but at the same time a risk-averse guy like Bob is gonna want assurances he will get top-shelf support from the national effort. Trouble is, they cannot do that right now, not with Reid, Dodd, and possibility of a Terminator-Boxer cage match all looking to suck up tons of cash in what could be close races.

Then the next priority is picking up open seats (maybe) in Ohio and Kentucky — maybe even Arizona. Burr is just far enough down the list of vulnerables that someone is going to have to want to run against the guy rather than be talked into it.