Posted on 06/20/2018 4:52:35 AM PDT by cotton1706
Kelli Ward was 43 years old and pro-abortion when she was elected to the state senate from a safe Republican district in 2012, and she became anti-abortion at the age of 45, just when she was thinking of challenging John McCain in the 2016 U.S. Senate primary. I do not doubt that Ward’s voting record in her two years and eleven months in the AZ legislature (she quit in late 2015 in order to file for the U.S. Senate, as is required under AZ law) was conservative, but I do question whether her votes were principled or part of a strategy for her run against McCain. I don’t know many medical doctors (or osrheopathic doctors,” fir tgat matter) that suddenly duscover at the age of 45 that a child in the womb is a human being deserving of protection; if she were an accountant ir a historian or something non-medical I guess that she could claim ignorance, but an ostheopathic doctor should have known better.
And I don’t consider Ward’s 40% showing against McCain in the primary to be evidence of strength in a general election, any more than Christime O’Donbell’s higher vote percentage when running against a liberal-to-moderate Republican in DE was a sign of GE strength. A homeless man with a stutter would have approached 40% had he run to McCain’s right in the 2016 GOP Senate primary, so I wouldn’t attribute Ward’s decent showing to her campaign skills.
The 2018 Senate election in AZ is for a six-year term. I don’t want a Leftist lesbian like Sinema to be in the Sebate for 6 years, voting diwn President Trump’s nominees for the rest of his oresidency (including his entire second term) because we nominated an unpolished, inexperuenced campaigner who only has faced very cobservative electorates (in her state senate district and in the 2016 GOP primary. I’m certainly willing to give Ward a go in a GOP House district, where the odds of her losing would be tiny (and even if she somehow lost, the Democrat would be one of 435 and could get voted out in only two years), but a 6-year U.S. Sebate seat is too valuable a commodity on which to take a gamble.
We’re not going to agree here. The record is what matters, not campaign rhetoric and how you think someone will magically turn Conservative after they win office when they never were beforehand. How often does that happen ? It doesn’t. I see a bunch of RINOs falling all over themselves to claim how “Conservative” they are in countless ads, as if that’s their first name. That bull$hit needs to be called out, and that includes Miss Marfa.
Ask the folks in AZ who know Dr. Ward, she’s the real deal. I would truly resent having people from out-of-state telling me to support a RINO, especially when she’s to the left overall of the horrid two Senators presently in office. It’s not only counterintuitive and counterproductive, it’s absolutely insane. None of us here want the execrable Communist Sinema as Senator. But we keep lowering the bar for acceptability on our side, and that’s how we end up with the McQueegs and the Willards and the like, and wonder why the “official opposition” and our own “Republicans” work hand in hand to stop the Conservative agenda.
yea but keeping those McSilly undocumented dems in republican jerseys is just as important
Without the majority Merrick Garland is on the Supreme Court now. Every Republican voted to nuke the filibuster to confirm Gorsuch, all of them.
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