I humbly suggest that status quo career politicians and consultants who don’t know conservatism from a hole in the ground, having foisting candidates such as Richard Burr or Liddy Dole upon us in the past, are not to be trusted. They’ll vote just like Kay Hagen given half the chance and political cover.
Well, Thom Tillis first ran for office in 2006, after a long career in business, so he’s hardly a career politician. And with the conservative revolution he’s helped lead in NC since 2011, he’s no status quo guy.
And at least we know what Thom Tillis stands for. What do we know about Brannon, other than he’s a Ron Paul acolyte who talks conservative (although apparently a good part of his campaign was lifted outright from Rand Paul’s)?
And I would posit that one of the reasons why Liddy Dole was able to fool NC Republicans (including even Jesse Helms) into thinking she was one of them was that she had no real record at which one could look to prove or disprove her conservative bona fides. Tillis has cast hundreds of public votes during the past 7 years in the state house, so he can’t claim to be something that he’s not. Brannon is the cypher here, and we only have his word for what he claims.