If you’re an independently-minded individual, you’re not lashed to anyone. Like I’m not lashed to holding my nose and voting for a Rino for Vice President. If you vote for Rinos just to keep the seat Republican, you’re part of the problem. All you do is perpetuate the Rino problem. Check your own IQ, especially since you seem to be of the mind that voting for a POS just because they have an R behind their name makes good sense.
Honey the reality for any philosophical group (let’s say conservatives, for instance, since that’s what we are. A conservative voter seeks to have a conservative government elected to institute conservative policies. In a conservative district with staunchly conservative voters, you nominate the most staunchly conservative candidate that is electable- which in this case would be a right wing conservative; in a moderate district with staunchly moderate voters you nominate as conservative a candidate as is electable- which in that case would be a general conservative; & in a liberal district full of staunchly liberal voters, you nominate the most conservative candidate as is electable there- which in that case would be a moderate conservative.
In a country that is designed to really only offer two parties of voter coalitions, you get a conservative-right-center party or a liberal-left-center party. It’s nor a parliament where you are sent up with a choice of 10 different doctrine ire parties. That’s a reality of our form of government & it’s something that is baked in. When you are dealing with that reality,..