By the GOPe and the Democrats, you most certainly have to be.
If being nice is a priority, then politics is not where you want to be because you are going to get stomped and deservingly so.
whoosh!
I don’t give a rip about being “nice” with the Rats or GOPe...
I agree with you that politics is bloodsport and playing hardball wins elections.
Thats why I’d vote for McConnell in KY. He and Bevins had a standup fight. Bevins was a poor candidate. He lost. Time for Conservaties there to hold their noses and pull the Red lever, even if McConnell is an a$$hole for making that “crush the Tea Party” comment and raised money for Cochrane. We can only afford to throw one incumbent seat. McConnell’s isn’t it.
Cochrane’ tho IS that seat. He went well beyond the boundaries of typical campaign ruthlessness in advancing viscious damaging messages that reinforced the worst possible stereotypes relating to race and racism.
And he did that against Conservatives. McConnell taunted the Tea Party and Conservatives. Cochrane did tangible, significant damage to the Conservative Movement by portraying it as racist. Effectively confirming, as a Republican, that the decades long charges made by the Liberals, and denied by Conservatives, are correct.
That is simply unforgivable. Even before getting to the vote fraud stuff with Dem primary voters casting in the GOP runoff. If you disagree, you really need to sit back and ponder the long term, national, consequences of a senior sitting Southern Republican Senator saying that Conservatives are racist and disenfranchise Blacks.