(But you are much more optimistic than cynical-me that the GOPe stripes will get rearranged even if Thad Cochran loses. I don’t think so. We need to get our act together and win the darn primaries. We can’t eliminate the GOPe but can, over time, make them the minority within the Republican Party.)
The GOP-E are a bunch of self-interested bastards. You don’t think they will change their tactics if those tactics end up making them lose power? I respectfully disagree.
And I am not advocating the elimination of the GOPe. In fact, I’m even willing to work with them to win within a “big tent”. What I am no longer willing to do is to support them while they stab conservative primary winners in the back.
I don’t think either faction can win on its own. But if we continue to be taken for granted, the GOP-e will continue to pocket our vote and keep drifting left trolling for some more votes. We must force them to stay at least in the general vicinity of the right if they want us to help them, and absolutely destroy them if they don’t. I have no problem with supporting their candidates as long as it’s a choice I can live with. At the same time, I will work to vote more and more conservatives to office and hold their feet to the fire once they are in office.
We are not far apart. I just think we fight it out between elections and in the primaries. Withholding votes in the general is a loser. I’ll take Majority Leader Cruz lording it over a bunch of GOPe types over Harry Reid any day.