Well they would have been just as happy with Alexi!, who nearly beat Kirk.
Rather they fixed it to be a win/win for them.
I voted for the pro-life Libertarian candidate (for Comptroller too against RINO Topinka, I will never vote for her again after he crap 2006 campaign against Blago), can’t say I’m regretting it. Those were my first third party votes.
Seriously, we need to introduce party discipline like they have in parliamentary systems, make important votes a “three line whip”, if you vote the wrong way, you are kicked out of the party.
The downside to that enforcement of party voting is that it could bite small government Conservatives on the butt. I don’t want a rep that votes party line, I want a rep that votes the IDEOLOGICAL line.
The criticism of Congressman DesJarlais here in TN is that he wasn’t voting with leadership (partly why the RINO establishment wanted him out, and still do), but voting on ideology. One of his declared opponents for next year, State Sen. Jim Tracy, is more of a leadership guy and would like to move up that ladder. Even damaged, DesJarlais is probably the best voting member of the TN delegation.