Since the goal of the committees is control of legislative chambers, they tend to use a criterion of winability, rather than ideological purity, in determining which candidates will receive significant levels of assistance.

And the strong shall be as towe, and the maker of it as a sparke, and they shall both burne together, and none shall quench them.

You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled; [so] you become murderers. [To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.] You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek], so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask.

We left quietly so as not to disturb the widow's pensiveness.