It isn’t sore loser. May was to run in a primary, apparently. The “party” decided not to have a primary but to choose the nominee at a get-together. May said he would have won a vote by voters but not by party insiders.
So, he decided to go for a vote by voters as an independent. It’s a complicated mess. It does appear that he is a conservative businessman/engineer employing hundreds and having a couple dozen serious patents to his name.
As I read some of the background, it sounds like the gop-e might have undercut a conservative. I’m not certain about that yet.
“It isn’t sore loser. May was to run in a primary, apparently. The “party” decided not to have a primary but to choose the nominee at a get-together. May said he would have won a vote by voters but not by party insiders.”
The Virginia gop changed the rules to get away from primaries and weak candidates. The caucus system can and usually is dominated by conservatives in the VA gop, not the “party insiders,” although the sore losers (i.e. the gop-e who got kicked to the curb) will claim otherwise.
Getting away from primaries was one of the few things conservatives trying to work within the gop have won in VA in recent years. Otherwise it’s been pretty much a disaster.
The gop-e in VA is a microcosm of the gop faction of the uniparty for the country: they would far rather lose a general election than see any conservative elected.