Will it be “spiteful retaliation” if conservatives run another candidates against Thad Cochran (he’ll retire but pretend he doesn’t) in 2020?
It’s a dumb way of putting it. It’s people from one faction of the party exercising their perfect right to oppose someone from another faction in the primary just as conservatives exercised their right to oppose Cantor in the primary last time.
If you see them trying to help the rat beat Brat in November THAT would be “spiteful retaliation”.
I live in the district and support Brat. I agree with your point but you need to understand the conservatives in the 7th District have had enough of the GOPe and that includes lackeys like Sheriff Wade.
Cantor was an arrogant ass who detested his own constituents. We were a mere formality - to be tolerated every few years for a few months around election time.
Brat is the polar opposite - he’s a real conservative who ran on a radical platform otherwise known as the Virginia Republican Creed! While giving lip service to the creed Cantor never walked the talk.
I need to say that the liberal Republicans in the 7th hate conservatives. They have even tried to label themselves as being conservative which is highly amusing to those of us in the know.
Thankfully, Sheriff Wade should prove to be a deeply flawed candidate who would be a fool to debate the good Congressman. But watch out he clearly will have the votes of all of the restaurant owners in the district as you can tell from the photo (sorry I couldn’t help it).