Then I suppose simple logic falls into that same category according to your standards. How dare you to slander the voters, especially the conservative ones, with your 20/20 hindsight analysis.
We had a simple choice, either the GOPe, NRSC chosen idol of Charlie Crist, or a newcomer with state legislative leadership experience espousing a message that was right on target for conservatives and Tea Partiers alike. He kept that message all through his tough uphill fight against the GOPe and right up to his interview with Rush Limbaugh before his last one which was a total debacle.
Do you honestly think (key word here) there are not thousands of Floridians who were pissed when he flipped? We are and the results are showing and I have serious doubts he will win the next primary when looking at the loses he is attaining with voters here. He has even lost 5% of the Hispanics and that was from last month!
So, are you a Floridian?.
We had a similar problem around here with Tom Davis in the House. The Republican legislature finally caved and tossed in enough Democrats that it wouldn't be worth him running again, and now we have a Democrat district ~ a PERMANENT ONE! Used to be competitive but that's all gone.
As long as Davis' "friends on the other side" had Tom to vote for they'd vote the rest of the ballot Republican as well. So, he was a RINO ~ nothing new about those guys, but if you don't have replacement voters, getting rid of a RINO can destroy a vote to organize the House, or the Senate, or the state legislature, or the county council, or the city council, or....... the soil and water conservation board.