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We found all too clearly in NC with Tillis that what you say does NOT work. Your statement is often cited here on FR in response to the sentiments and actions of the neverRinos, but it is a naïve oversimplification and a mollification or a distraction from considering any other effective strategy.

As it turned out, here in NC Tillis pivoted and at least for a while ran as a strong Trump supporter and was narrowly reelected with Trump’s help.

What happened in NC? In other states and here with Tillis in 2014, the “primaried” feelings were so strong that a dozen true conservatives competed with each other and diluted each other allowing the squishy to take the plurality and get the nomination. But this year here in NC there was one strong challenger, Garland Tucker, a good campaigner and well funded who looked like he could actually win in November, but then...
it came out that formerly he had been a strong neverTrumper! So we had a choice between Tillis, the Vice Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, who flip-flopped on border issues, and opposed Trump on foreign aid, and Tucker who said, ““Trump is a twice-divorced, self-acknowledged adulterer who has, in the course of this campaign, uttered some of the most unkind, disgusting comments ever made by any American politician, (snip)...Sadly, Clinton offers no personal moral superiority.”

Being challenged by a neverTrump in the primary helped cast Tillis as a good guy, or at least not so bad. Then Tillis played a recording of Trump endorsing him, every day on Rush and Hannity. Tillis was clever about this and got the nomination, but there was a problem, he could not win in November as usual by pivoting left to campaign for the general election.

Going into the general, the Democrat, Cal Cunningham, was the slickest candidate you ever saw. Smooth, good-looking, wows the ladies, running ads which attacked GOP on health care pre-existing conditions, ads which supported the troops with his military background, he was cruising ...until it came out that he was having affairs with two different women, one a military wife and his wife did not know about either mistress and the two mistresses did not know about each other! He had to suspend his campaign in the weeks right before so he could manage these women. As it was he was able to get a lot of the same fraud votes that Biden got but not enough.

The neverRinos are still extremely strong here, and only voted for Tillis because of Trump. With anyone else on the ticket, they will not support any of your “lesser of two evils” candidates. With the evident cheating and election fraud which we now know has been going on for a long time and no strategy to counter it, perhaps we will now abandon your idea about voting and get down to business.

With all my respects to you dfwgator as I know you are a patriot, this “punish” word you’re using about this issue is an error. How can you convince us while you do not understand and mislabel our motives?