In a fair primary, when the establishment candidate beats the conservative, we should rally around the winner for the fall campaign.
This is true but it applies IF and ONLY IF the establishment in turn rallies around the winning conservative candidates for the fall.
And there’s the rub. Anybody on FR can cite multiple examples of the establishment selling out conservatives for the general (the VA Gov. Race as a latest example).
When the establishment loses primaries, they take their marbles and go home. Conservatives however, are supposed to rally round the flag, and we are supposedly the sore losers if we don’t.
I’m tired of hypocrites calling me out for the problems within the party. And. I won’t play by those rules any longer. (Not that this party can survive comprehensive immigration reform in any case; it can’t.)
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