I have to agree with you. If my preferred candidate is defeated in a primary, I will usually just shrug my shoulders and support the winner of the primary in the general. But this year, with McConnell and others spending millions of dollars to specifically and openly target conservative candidates across the country, even going so far as to directly ask Dems to intervene in a GOP primary to defeat another GOP candidate, I feel no loyalty to the party. They obviously feel no loyalty to anything other than preserving their own position and privilege.
Even now, before the election even occurs, you have people like Boehner talking about passing amnesty in the lame duck. If they are openly talking about that now, before the vote, what makes anyone think they will be MORE conservative once they don’t have to face the voters for another 2 years?
“Even now, before the election even occurs, you have people like Boehner talking about passing amnesty in the lame duck. If they are openly talking about that now, before the vote, what makes anyone think they will be MORE conservative once they don’t have to face the voters for another 2 years.”
Because they would have the senate to cover for them. They could go hardcore either way and know without 67 votes the bill goes nowhere.
It’s all theatre. My concern is committee assignments in the senate and the inability to replace Ginsburg with someone to Chomsky’s left.