“but dodges the specific point in our exchange and is nonresponsive.”
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I don’t see how voting for an ostensible Republican who misleads voters, appeases Democrats, and dodges accountability can be perceived as a “gain”. And is it really ‘R v D’ when the R is a RINO? What’s the point of voting for anyone who doesn’t intend to fight?
Voting for (and effectively rewarding) backstabbers increases the number of your so-called “wayward R’s”, and there are already way too many of them in the GOP. I think you would even agree with that. And logic dictates that the more of them there are the harder they are to effectively manage.
You are dodging that issue my friend.
The point is that it is better than the alternative.
It takes commitment and a certain amount of courage, however.
At the far end of the extreme, think of it as calling in an airstrike on your own position when the issue is seriously in doubt, or in no doubt at all with a foe that takes no prisoners.
Now you get the alst word.