Is it an endorsement of a RINO over a Democrat? or an endorsement of a RINO over a conservative candidate? Big difference.
True.
If they vote the same way anyhow, the turncoat damages the your party orders of magnitude more lastingly.
The turncoat will lower the moral of your base and cripple your party’s ability to draw like minded members. All whilst climbing into a leadership position.
You have to be pretty stupid not to understand this. The founders wrote about it a lot, so you have to be historically illiterate as well.
It’s against an ACLU liberal democrat. She has no primary opponent. She’s going to win by 40% here in the fall.