"Frankly, I don't understand it. Mike is a solid and non-inflammatory guy. He's conservative; but SD22 is conservative (it includes a lot of Tom Tancredo's congressional district). Mike's only "sin" is that he's an evangelical Christian. The moderates want to purge the party of evangelicals and this appears to be part of their effort. They would rather lose this senate seat to a radical liberal than see an evangelical elected."
Egads ... the conservative crackup. This is what they (eg Kolbe) are doing to AZ-08 (Graf) as well. :-(
We must all hang together, or we will hang separately.
Well, it's not a "conservative" crackup. The folks trying to drive the Christian Conservatives out of the party are, for the most part, democrats with an R next to their name.
It's, if anything, a "Republican" crackup.