Sorry, this is going to backfire. Don’t implement Democrat policies. Are you seriously going to tell me there isn’t one conservative in the entire state of Montana who can beat Tester on the up and up?
I don’t think you are thinking about this correctly. This also makes it harder for the GOPe to foist their preferred candidate on us. Having two Republicans run against each other in the general is a real possibility, which will pull the campaigns to the right, rather than the squishy center they usually get pulled too in a Dem/Repbulican general.
And yes, we should emulate a lot of the tactics the Democrats use. They are winning all the time, while the Right is losing. I am tired of it. Time to actually get in this fight.
I’d rather not have a Libertarian siphon off 5% that might be needed. Dems don’t have that problem; they just ban opponents in primaries.
“Sorry, this is going to backfire.....Are you seriously going to tell me there isn’t one conservative in the entire state of Montana who can beat Tester on the up and up?”
Well there better be, or no amount of tinkering with the election mechanism is going to help. To repeat, the ONLY thing the jungle primary is going to accomplish here is to make this a two-man race in November instead of having three or more candidates on the ballot.
Those two candidates will be Tester and some Republican.
Having 1 Democrat and 1 Republican on a November election ballot isn’t exactly unprecedented in the history of U.S. elections.
This isn’t some complex liberal concoction like Rigged Choice Voting (see Alaska), it’s much ado about nothing. But if Democrats are squealing because they won’t be able to use one of their typical underhanded tricks in what will surely be a close election, then let them howl. They can redirect the money they would have spent on a Libertarian to generating more vote fraud in Missoula.