Martha McSally is Worse Than Jeff Flake

Rachel Alexander Posted: Feb 05, 2018

 Arizona’s Republican U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake has announced he’s not running for reelection, so several candidates have jumped into the open race to replace him. There are currently three frontrunners. GOP Rep. Martha McSally, a combat pilot who served in the U.S. Air Force, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and former Arizona State Senator Kelli Ward. Ward made a name for herself launching an unsuccessful conservative challenge to Sen. John McCain in 2016.

McSally is the darling of the GOP establishment. She was elected to Congress in 2014, representing a swing district seat formerly held by Gabrielle Giffords. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recruited McSally last year as one of several moderates to run for the Senate. “We are going to be supporting people who can actually win,” he said in his year-end news conference critical of conservative candidates. “But we have got some great candidates out there and you're familiar with them, Martha McSally …” His Senate Leadership Fund super PAC intends to spend considerable money supporting her run.

 

McSally is a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership, a group of moderate Republicans in Congress. McCain is also a member. Her voting record is less conservative than both Flake and McCain.........To Read More.....

 

My Take - If there ever was an event that more clearly discribes what's wrong with the Republican Party I don't know what does.  Flake isn't running because as he says: "I could not win in a Republican primary".  Now Arizona finally has a chance to dump two of the worst RINO's in the Senate and what does the Republican leadership do - they try to replace them with someone as bad if not worse.  Why then would he think someone with a worse record than Flake can win the Republican primary if the sitting Senator can't? 

 

McConnell's current term ends in 2020 as a Senator from Kentucky, and it seems to me from people I've talked to in Kentucky - it isn't gong to be up to him whether or not he runs again.  Those who've given thousands to McConnell will never give him another dime and only think the worse of him for his opposition to President Trump.  And that's the key - Trump haters have exposed themselves for who and what they really are, and conservatives now have a clear picture of why nothing gets fixed in Washington.  And it appears at this point - McConnell may be seated until 2020, it isn't all that clear he'll be the leader of the Republicans in the Senate after 2018.