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I'm not disagreeing with what you're saying, Norm, but unfortunately it's all water under the dam now. Voters in Kentucky had a golden opportunity to make a huge statement and oust McConnell in the primary. They could've and should've elected Matt Bevin as the conservative alternative. Instead, they chose to re-nominate McConnell in a landslide. It sucks royally but ultimately he's the one Kentucky Republicans have chosen to represent them. So now with McConnell and Grimes running neck-and-neck in the polls, a conservative third party challenger can only succeed in siphoning votes away from McConnell and handing the race to Grimes.
I mean, if you can think of a better option where a bonafide conservative can realistically defeat both McConnell and Grimes at this point and win the Kentucky Senate seat this November, believe me I'd love to hear it. But I just don't see any feasible way a write-in candidate is going to magically swoop in and defeat the highest-ranking GOP Senator and his massive war chest. That needed to happen in the primary race.
Incidentally, Murkowski won her write-in (a VERY rare feat, by the way) as a well-funded, establishment-backed incumbent by defeating a lesser-known, much lesser-funded challenger in Joe Miller (who I'm hoping can still be the 2014 nominee for the Alaska Senate seat held by Mark Begich).
Movements must have a beginning. Every election the excuse is ‘next time’.
Win or lose, TODAY is the day to stand behind a conservative. The primary is over. Stand behind the conservative, whoever it may be. Do not help the GOP screw us. If we lose this time, the conservative we back will be better prepared next time. And people will already be in the mindset to back that person.
We WILL lose some. Accept that we cannot, like Democrats, have all things given to mus. Good things take work. You will lose. I will lose. Then we win.
The mindset of ‘win support the Rino’ had doomed us for decades. Break that destructive pattern.
Tell me with a straight face the founders would have accepted brit loyalists in their govt. There is your guide.
Very well said, I concur FWIW.
Reinforcements are on the way, THAT is the beginning we sought.