As usual the right irrelevant.
I have worked on many campaigns over the years and the volunteers who come in and work their rear ends off are almost always RINOs. The vast majority of volunteers are RINOS.
And the strange as it sounds, RINOs never desert conservative candidates. If the candidate in the general election has a R besides his name the RINOS bust their rump to get him elected. If the REpublican candidate is a right winger, the RINOS are just as for him as if he were the biggest RINO in the country.
Then if the coservative does get elected, the RINOS come visit to ask for his support on some RINO issue. The conservative office holder now knows he owes his office to the RINOS that busted their butts to elect him. So he, just this once, votes for the RINO position. He figures he owes them.
Then the right wing Office holder hears from the conservativs. They trash him from morning to night. They call him a dirty rotten turn coat ... and scream and knash their teeth.
Meanwhile the RINOS are supportive and do all they can to reelect the less conservative office holder again.
In an election cycle or two the former Conservative becomes a full blown RINO and the conservative voter is saying.. I'm gonna vote 3rd party.
Conservatives are never there for any R, RINO or Conservative. What they do best is whine, eat worms, and vote for third parties.
Your contempt for principled conservatives is amazing, and a reminded for me to gather up votes to oppose the RINO in the general election.
Fortuntely, I live in New Mexico where votes turn on the slimest of margins, and I can probably swing 500 votes.
New Mexico is small, but it’s three electoral votes the RINO won’t get.