It’s not that I’d vote for Carmona (were I an AZ resident), I just simply won’t vote for Flake. I ceased voting for our RINO wonders in TN (the Senators) after their first elections. As for the RINO Governor, I never voted for him either time.
In 2012, I voted for Corker’s Democrat opponent who was more Conservative than he (Mark Clayton). State Dems tried to strip Clayton of the nomination, stating their belief that he was a “far-right Conservative Republican” who used a low turnout primary (read: low-info voters) to bamboozle Democrats. I thought it was magnificent. They can f up our primaries by nominating left-leaning RINOs, but heaven forfend our side sneaks one through the Dems.
BTW, Clayton won the primary because his name was first alphabetically. The most famous person in the race was Park Overall from “Empty Nest.” A far-left nutter from the most ancestrally GOP area of the state. Clayton got 30%, she came in 3rd with 15%.
Corker was safe, so your protest vote for wacko conspiracy nut Mark Clayton (D and according to him he was really a Democrat and was considering voting for Obama for reelection, which makes him pathologically insane) did no harm.
“Our side” didn’t “sneak” Clayton in, no one was paying attention to the primary against a safe Republican Senator and no major rats were running, Clayton won with 30% primarily because he was listed first on the ballot, no one on planet Earth knew who he was until after he won the primary, he had no discernible primary campaign. No quasi-conservative will ever win a rat primary that’s not in a safe GOP race that no one is paying attention to.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2915586/posts#28
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2915586/posts#33
Flake was in a close race against a leftist turncoat (who would have become a rat “star” as a Hispanic former Bush official elected in a Republican state), any Republican in AZ that didn’t vote for him was a fool, who is exactly half as much a problem as anyone who voted for Carmona.
Yea, if it is a known fact, on Election day morn, who will win a particular election ... then the point of the ballot is mute. Then it is reasonable to vote for the candidate that I most support, going forward into the future.
Not true where the race is too close to call