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Given the field in 2012 (or 2008, for that matter), I wouldn’t hold that against him. Willfully endorsing scum like Willard, however... That soured me on ex-Sen. DeMint and his bizarre fetish for trying to cozy up to him, and extraordinarily huge blind spot and lack of good judgment.

Of course, Ravenel didn’t even make it to the primary contest in 2008, and voters should’ve had the sense to toss Linda in favor of Buddy Witherspoon, who had no baggage. When he failed to place, I unapologetically endorsed Bob Conley, the DINO. Same with 2014, I would’ve endorsed anyone else that would’ve gotten Linda into the runoff. When he was nominated again, I endorsed Ravenel as an Independent.

Sometimes, some people are so odious and destructive as sitting members that they just have to be taken out by any means. If it means voting for the Democrat or endorsing 3rd party, so be it. People like Graham, Murkowski, McQueeg & the Flake, Kirk, McConnell, Collins, Cockroach, Sassy, Portman, Lamar!, Corker, just for starters, all have no business being in the Senate. Either they’ve stayed too long or are of more help to and are a part of the leftist anti-America swamp dwellers.

Sadly, we’ve seen some other SC pols go native or just plain strange. Mark Sanford, whom I thought was of Presidential timber, got ate up by termites. Bob Inglis, once well-regarded and who almost took Fritz Hollings out 6 years earlier, lost his mind and was thankfully dispatched by primary voters when he returned to the House. Linda should’ve been just as swiftly shown the door, and long ago. I’m not holding out for a perfect opponent, just someone that will remove him from power. How much better would we have been off, for example, if McQueeg had lost reelection in 1992 ? 6 years of his moronic uber-feminist opponent Clare “Tits, Not Boobs” Sargent, would’ve been better for AZ and replaced with an actual Conservative in 1998 than 25+ years more of Zero’s ringer.

Conversely I was not fazed at all over DeMint (or anyone) endorsing Romney. Hell in 2008 I went with Romney over Duckapee and McCain. And given the same 3 choices I would again. Barf.

As you know I differ heavily with you on that “better they lose” stuff, subtract all the Republicans you named and Shoemer is pushing 60 seats, Gorsuch is not on the court, the Cabinet is half empty.

For me the threshold to back an “I” is high, for example I endorsed Joe Miller (running as the Libertarian) against Murkowski last year specifically because the rat was so weak that Miller was polling in 2nd place. And he did place 2nd, the rat 4th behind an Independent, Miller did better than their combined vote. 44-29, might have been able to win that with more effort.

My threshold to support a rat is rat/rat runoff or rat/worse runoff like Gavin Newsom for Mayor of SF against a Green who’s platform was “let’s let homeless people keep crapping the streets”. I would never at this point support any rat over any Republican. Conley creeped me out, Buchanaite/Paulbot who joined the democrats over Iraq? Pass. I’d sooner worship Satan than give a democrat a single seat for any amount of time.

An aside since I mentioned him, Newsom’s ex-wife Kimberly Guilfoyle, now on Fox and ostensibly no longer on the dark side, I was surprised to read she was a Young Republican in college, I wonder why she married that twerp.