[NobleFree]

a way of putting terrible unelectable candidates on the ballot

There have been some genuinely terrible candidates (e.g., Todd 'Magic Uterus' Akin) but generally "unelectable" is RINO-speak for "conservative."

[nickcarraway]

That’s a myth. He was not the conservative candidate.

[RitaOK]

How true! The RINO code for defining the “unelectable” has long been broken, since Dole, I’d say.