So Ann Kirkpatrick, who foolishly gave up her seat to challenge McCain and got thomped by 13 points, (with a massive 5.5% going to the Green for some reason) can’t win her old House seat back for a third time cause the rats held it (even though 6% voted Green in that race!), cause the GOP nominated a homo Sheriff with ethical problems who only got 43% of the vote. I hope that bald SOB gets HIV.
So anyway the witch is thinking of carpetbagging into district 2 and running against McSally.
Now I already hear Steve and maybe DJ saying “***k that RINO McSally” but GD it, no, no Ann Kirkpatrick, you can’t have that district, you disgusting ****ing slime.
I saw that. Although Kirkpatrick represented the adjacent district, she lives 250 miles away from the heart of the SE corner-to-Tucson-centered district of McSally’s. If I were a Dem in that district, I wouldn’t be very happy about that sort of carpetbagging less than 2 years after she was a long standing resident of the Flagstaff area, especially when the Butcheress narrowly carried it (although Trump probably would carry it now), which should give an opportunity for a local Dem.
Of course, she could follow Ossoff’s playbook and remain a resident of Flagstaff while running for the seat...
BTW, that wasn’t foolish of her at all to run against a weak and unpopular incumbent in McQueeg. That did take courage to do (in fact, I’d say she probably got the votes of a lot of disgruntled Conservatives looking to dump his ass, much like those who voted against Goldwater in 1980). I might’ve voted for her just to rid the Senate of that malignant cancer.
I don’t think Kirkpatrick actually counted on McCain being the nominee. At the time, McCain was being challenged in the primary by Kelli Ward. Kirkpatrick likely gambled that she could be the next Joe Donnelly: run in the hopes that an incumbent GOP senator gets bumped off by a tea party insurgent and then run a competitive race against said insurgent. Of course, her hopes were flushed down the toilet when McCain got the nod, and she was pretty much screwed with a general election she couldn’t win.