That is why the Republican party will never be purged of the Old Guard Elites.
Even if they die or retire, they are replaced by new Old Guard Elites who learned to toe the line early on.
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Sadly, conservatives keep voting for the same and expecting a different result.
In Arizona they have open primary voting.
So you not only have to deal with idiot Republicans who can’t tell the difference between McCain and a better guy, but you have the Democrats voting against the good guy too.
This is where the GOPe leadership outs itself. It has no problem with this at all. It doesn’t lift one finger in any state where this takes place, to stop it. It suits their purposes.
J. D. Hayworth was 90% better than John McCain. He might have voted against us every once in a blue moon, but the guy got it. Yes he made some mistakes, but to think of him as inferior to John McCain. I’m not even convinced Ted Kennedy was worse then John McCain.
McCain is a dirty back-stabbing turn-coat that has voted on almost every side of every issue.
It’s a tough sell to blame Conservatives in part for what this demon is, or that he has been returned to office.
Tea Party members and Conservatives see this pig for exactly what he is IMO.
Sadly they can’t buck the RINO establishment, in-state RINOs, and the Democrats.