Like I said, there's a huge double standard here. RINOs should be supported but real conservatives get thrown under the bus.
Maybe not to you. But as I've pointed out before, you don't live in the real world. You live in the world that you want it to be. I live in the world as it really exists.
It's relevant in the real world, just not in your dream world.
We're supposed to crawl through broken glass and vote Republican, remember?
I never said that, ever, but the answer is yes, when they actually have a chance at winning.
When they don't, what difference does it make? I don't really care if conservatives vote for the R candidate who's running against The Swimmer, because unfortunately, Teddy Kennedy is going to win nomatter what. I can't imagine why you wouldn't vote for him, but I don't really care if you do, because he has no chance of winning.
And even I'm not 100%. I wouldn't attack someone who refuses to vote for Chafee. I'd probably vote for him. Probably. But I might regret it later.
Like I said, there's a huge double standard here. RINOs should be supported but real conservatives get thrown under the bus.
There is no double standard. The standard is 'reality', something you have a problem with.
And even if you were right, which you aren't, it certainly doesn't apply to me. I encouraged moderate R's to vote for Tom Coburn in spite of some positions they might not agree with, (I supported Coburn since before his primary. Although I later thought some of his rhetoric was extreme and unnecessary, I still like and admire him for the most part.) and I've done the same for hard R's on people like DeWine.
Again, it's about reality. About the world as it is, not as we'd like it to be.