“We hurt ourselves by demanding purity... our enemies show our candidate’s impurities and we bail. Like it or not, we’re going to elect a fallible human. Accept that and support him (or her). “
We’ve had some good guys way down on the ticket, but they never get much support. It would be good if they agreed among themselves that the lowest polling candidates would resign early if they don’t get at least 30%. That would leave us with a RINO and a conservative. But, it takes a huge ego to run and somebody polling 9% will run, essentially taking that 9% away from somebody who was conservative but could make it against the inevitable RINO if he had that 9%.
Sometimes the best thing a candidate does is resign early. Sometimes the best thing a long serving politician does is drop dead.
We're dealing with this in NC in this go around. Tom Tillis is the GOPe candidate for Kay Hagan's senate seat. There is a strong conservative candidate in Greg Brannon who has good endorsements and polls well going into this primary. Then there are other more opportunistic conservatives who think he isn't good enough who are announcing runs as well. All that does it take support away from our top guy. God help us.