Boy....the grassroots really knows how to pick ‘em! (Sarc)
“Boy....the grassroots really knows how to pick ‘em! (Sarc)”
It’s not really that, it’s that the GOPe is so powerful that the only outsiders to run are freaks. No one really cares about them until they threaten ‘the order of things’ and then they’re screened.
We may not care about stuff like this*, but there is a HUGE segment of Republican voters who, unfortunately, do - they’re idiots, but we need their votes to win, as Roy Moore found out.
*and I certainly don’t care, since that part of him will NEVER affect my family...but a Democrat winning, or Cheney staying in power, sure as hell does affect my family. It’s a weakness in our communication that there are STILL PEOPLE on our side (even here, probably) who prefer a Democrat with good character (obviously, based on what they know about the guy), over a conservative with bad character, or something bad in their past, as it indicates they are CLUELESS regarding what the Democrats have in store for them, should they get the power they crave (starting with full-scale gun confiscation, including those lost in ‘boating accidents’, by the way).