We can agree to disagree, but I am now and have always been of the opinion that if a politician is going to do something to embarrass his/her party/state/consituency, it is "better" that politician be a Republican.

I guarantee you that Begich would be a disappointment.  Instead of gaining a seat with another "Senator-for-Life" type of person that most states have (what, after all, is the failure rate of an incumbent senator?), we would end up with this seat safely back in Republican hands in six years and it would stay that way for a long, long time.

Tell me that would be "better."