He also has a nearly non-existent Republican Party organization that has allowed him to get as far as he has because it doesn't and won't take him on, just as Karl Lenin gets a free ride election after election. Stupak has gotten his name "up in lights" through out this whole fiasco on all the big media, and WTCM local hosts give him a free pass everytime they get him on the air. Even if it turns out that Pelosi hasn't flipped him and his band of merry men, he is still a bad penny. And, he can stick his thumb in our eyes as long as he likes while insulting us with his condescending views on what's best for us in the process.