Apparently they are more "fed up and burned out" with their own fellow Republicans who aren't conservative enough for them, than they are about ceding power to the liberal democRATS by making it easier for their own radical Left candidates to win. All because those same "conservatives refused" to vote for someone in their own party who didn't pass the conservative purity smell test.
That same approach in the 2016, would have gotten Hillary Clinton elected and not Donald Trump. It also just got Kyrsten Sinema elected to the senate instead of McSally.
Political purity in a candidate is hard to find. And if you do find one perfect candidate every once in a while, then they are unelectable. Political purity denotes extreme positions for both parties. And those extreme Left and Right candidates never win.
Cutting off our only nose to spite our collective faces while we await the perfect conservative candidate to wander in from the wilderness. That's not a strategy. It's a death knell.
Meanwhile, the democRATS are throwing everybody up against the wall to see who sticks and runs with those that do. Some of them win, some of them don't and those that don't, they cheat to get them over the finish line as the winners.
Conservatives, in the meantime, sit on the sidelines waiting for that pure-as-driven-snow white knight to show up and let the democRATS have the run of the playground.
This is how they get power. They are relentless, corrupt, lying, cheating SOBs but they don't care. Liberals just want the power. Conservatives want the purity.
The “purity” issue is used as an epithet against the “deplorables.” It was used over and over against people who refuse to vote for Republicans who do nothing but serve the Derp State and grow an ever-expanding government. It rings utterly hollow.
We’re not asking for purity, we’re asking for honesty and integrity. We’re sick of being lied to year after year by the same group of phonies and being used and abused by them while they do nothing for us. Why would any sane person keep voting for a Republican who serves the Democrat agenda ?
McQueeg himself did incalculable damage to this country, yet you still have idiots running around saying we gotta support him because the Democrat would be worse ! Wrong. HE was worse. He not only lied from the moment he began running for office about his true intentions, he absolutely served the leftist agenda, he did everything he could in his power to sabotage the Conservative agenda. He would’ve done so had he been the nominee for President in 2000 and let Gore win the election. Even in 2004, he was going to make it official and become a Democrat and run with Kerry as his VP (only that the Dems told him he couldn’t be sold to them despite his being a non-Conservative). In 2008, he was going to deliberately go down in flames with Joe Lieberman as his running mate (only for the establishment GOP to tell him they couldn’t sell Lieberman to us dumb schmucks). Still, he allowed himself to be the ringer to Zero, acting as his de facto campaign manager instead of, y’know, running against the most egregious radical ever nominated for the Presidency.
No, sir, it’s integrity, credibility and ideology. We’ve been used and abused for decades. Not since Reagan in 1980 until Trump in 2016 did we finally get another candidate who meant what he said. I for one will no longer defend a candidate who is a Derp (sic) Stater, one who serves the beast destroying this country, one who can barely hold their contempt for mainstream Americans, and one whose record is obviously not with us. I’m just sick and fed up with liars. Fail to run someone with that aforementioned integrity and don’t act shocked when too many “deplorables” decide they’ve had quite enough. It’s no wonder between the Flakes, the McQueegs, the Marfas, the Duceys, et al, why the AZ GOP is sinking. And, unfortunately, not just there — look at California that jettisoned its integrity people for RINO Marxists. The party is now nearly dead. But that’s what happens when you can’t tell your opponents apart from the jokes that claim to be on your team (and really aren’t).
Exactly!