[rollo tomasi]

She wasn't a limited government type.

Married allegedly due to advancing her career (Were each other's beards with that Lt. Col).

Fair or unfair, the lady never remarried which brings speculation that she "plays for the same team" exclusively. I guess the Arizona blue hairs in the gossip community prefer an upfront bi-sexual instead of "allegedly" a closeted lesbian.

Again her centrists voting record, people excused McCain because he was a relic and an "institution".

Flake is an opportunists but votes accordingly in high-profile legislation (Democrat in subtle ways the blue hairs don't pick up).

Speaking of blue hairs, they love to play contrarian to their husbands, ex-husbands, and their dead husbands.

In short, McSally was a weak candidate who got dominated by "that shiny new thing" which attracts pre and post menopausal females who vote.

[cynwoody]

Married allegedly due to advancing her career.

A somewhat incongruous quote from the Wikipedia concerning McSally:

Personal life

McSally was married to Air Force officer Donald Frederick Henry from 1997 to 1999, before the marriage was annulled.^[135][136] She is a triathlete.^[4]

In April 2018, a Tucson man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for threatening to assault and kill McSally.^[137]

(Were each other's beards with that Lt. Col)

The job of an Arizona voter is to ignore such as that and vote Republican anyway, the primary having been the primary. Arizonans failed.