If more people vote for the more liberal candidate, you believe the GOP will take that as a voter preference for more conservative candidates?
The time to make that push is in the primary. I can understand withholding the vote in the general election, but voting for the most liberal is not making your point, in my opinion.
If conservatives farther down the ticket in smaller local elections get more votes than the RINO's near the top, it may help to convey the "No RINO" point.
Politics is local. McConnel needs to be removed, one way or the other.
I think they will take it as "Don't deliberately piss on them or they will bite you."
Yes, it's important to gain seats in the Senate, but it is *MORE* important not to let people attack us in such a way that we will LOSE seats.
McConnell just took a sure thing Mississippi Senate seat, and may have very well flipped it to the Democrat. If we lose that seat it will be because McConnell would rather have a Democrat sitting in it than a Tea Party Reform candidate.
If McConnell is willing to let the seat go Democrat instead of letting one of us win it, why shouldn't we give him a taste of his own medicine?
Beyond that, his tactic of accusing the Tea Party of racism will very likely be used again in the elections two years from now, if he is not seen as having paid a price for stooping so low.
The Tea Party's future is in jeopardy if McConnell gets away with that tactic.