If the GOP lays down for it, then they demonstrate their essential worthlessness. So it may as well be Sinema, as some Repub who is afraid of his, or her, own shadow.
If McSally won’t fight, then we just dodged a bullet with her. Thank heaven she didn’t win. Better a DNC you can fight than a DNC in your own camp, like McCain, Flake, and evidently McSally.
Yes, I’m highly annoyed.
The problem with McSally is she’s just a Good Girl.
No real fight in her. She does what she’s told, and gets biscuits for doing tricks: like getting to drive around the Hog with the TF-34’s.
Occasionally she uses Wimmen’s Lib themes to get stuff like the gig she did in Saudi Arabia, but those are Establishment Approved non-conformances.
She ain’t a snotty devious little street fighter like Sinema (she’s sooooo Sin-ful, it’s even in her name...).
So when the Pima county fake American Recorder got a bag of provo ballots from her hijas in Baja Tucson (um, south of 29th st), Sally from the Foothills didn’t know what to do - she just politely curtsied and said “I surrender”.
Nothin’ in the book about how to fight that. Send in DIS? USAF JAG? The Keystone Kops? She wouldn’t know. It’s completely outside her experience.
So exit stage left while the gang bangers run circles around her.
And Sinema spending twice what she had didn’t help (now I’m being charitable).
But how does Ducey win by his margin and she loses?
By being a Good Girl, an Obedient Girl, a Good Officer, just goin’ by The Rules.
The other side doesn’t even have a copy of The Rules.