I can go with that.
OK. I never would agree with some others on this board who have a mutual suicide pact with RINOs... vote Republican or else ! If the Republican candidates are horrible, we have a duty as Conservatives to oppose them and stop them. It was bad enough in 2008 with McCain (whom we soon learned was a ringer for Zero - he had no intention of winning), but 2012 was the final straw.
I’ve not voted “Republican” for President since 2008, and that only as a positive affirmation of the VP nominee hoping McCain would drop dead. I voted for Conservative VA ex-Congressman Virgil Goode for President in 2012.
For Senator, I’ve not voted Republican since 2006, but neither one of my RINO Senators are worthy of support. Lamar!, who failed to get a majority of the vote in an open primary (this summer) riddled with Democrat chicanery, now ranks as the 4th most liberal RINO (while TN ranks as one of the most Conservative states) and expects Conservatives to back him. He can pound sand. He also lied about running for this 3rd term (his own book said, “Two terms and OUT !”).
The Governor is another liberal Republican weasel (who set off my weasel-detector back in 2010). He’s spent money behind the scenes trying to unseat Conservatives in the legislature and has been very uncomfortable with the GOP supermajority (conversely, he’s quite comfortable with leftist Democrats, he helped anoint a moonbat as his successor as Mayor of Knoxville and put a Zerobot in charge of education in this state, who is predictably incompetent). As with Senator, I haven’t voted GOP for Governor since 2006 and will support an Independent ex-Democrat who wants to return our state to pro-Constitutional moorings (John Jay Hooker). I voted for Hooker when he was the Democrat nominee for Governor in 1998 against our sleazy RINO incumbent (the Democrats hated Hooker and easily got in bed with the RINO).
The only office I do routinely vote GOP for is opponents of our liberal spendthrift Democrat Congressman Jim Cooper, if only because no Republican has won this seat since President Grant got his second term in 1872. That is largely a protest vote, since any Republican is lucky to get to 40% in this district.
So much has got to be changed and cleaned up from top to bottom in every imaginable way.