I don’t think we should hope for McCain cratering as that could adversely affect down ticket races, including some very conservative candidates who won house races such as Jesse Kelly in Arizona 8. I don’t like McCain as I don’t trust him given his past (although if he maintains his grudge against Obama, he might not be too bad), but I don’t dislike him enough to hope he loses and drags people down like Jesse Kelly.
I’m not hoping he loses so much as acknowledging the reality that there are enough Tea Partiers in AZ ready to leave the ballot blank on the question of senator to possibly throw the seat to the Democrat.
The best scenario is a viable Tea Party candidate who could win running against the RINO and the Demo in November.
That would give AZ voters an alternative to 2 liberals.
Well said, and we need to keep our RINOs on a close tether til we can defeat them. Bringing a true Conservative renaissance will require that we govern well (as indeed, and amazingly, it looks like we may have a chance to do in 2012.)