Did you like McSally? She was a moderate and she ran over and over and lost. Lake ran once and got hosed and you complain. Who do you want in that senate race? Eli Crane is too new.
Andy Biggs would be great, but he understandably doesn't want to give up his House seat with the state GOP unlikely to back him strongly enough.
I love Eli Crane. He’s my congressman and his office was very responsive and helpful when I called them about an issue I was having.
Nope. McSally tucked. It comes down to picking a solid candidate. They have to have some sort of experience that voters think qualifies their candidacy. They have to be skilled with the media & have a talent at interacting, selling their message & winning people over. Probably one of the biggest things is they can’t be too overly identified with any faction of the conservative movement: they have to remain general enough to be acceptable to most conservatives of all varieties.
I think where they might be going wrong is that they come out & identify as a MAGA candidate (or a free-marketeer, or a libertarian, or a social conservative). That isn’t to say that any of our branches necessarily oppose each other, just that the entire crowd has to be worked & paid attention to in order to have broad based support & people who show up to vote.
We always have to remember the broadcast base of the GOP & the conservative movement (including MAGA) is asmaller government, traditional values, Constitional liberty perspective. They have made up 3/4 of the movement for as long as I can remember. As MAGA came on the scene, it came in triumphant, but not always aware thar it had to play with the other kids in the conservative sandbox. Because of that, those people- even though they agree overwhelmingly with MAGA- find it & it’s candidates bristly.
The same was often true of Christian conservatives or devout libertarians. In order to be successful they can’t become overly identified with a faction. Once that happens you limit your base because they think that’s all you care about. Just my 2 cents 😉