Martha McSally was not a perfect Republican candidate for Senate, and her inability to win an election against an utterly revolting and gaffe-prone leftist such as Kyrsten Sinema in a place like Arizona (which, at least on paper, doesn't permit ballot harvesting) doesn't speak all that well for her.
But the choice of McSally to fill the unfinished Senate term of Sen. John McCain by Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey was sweet news indeed.
That's because the loud opposition to her from the McCain family was so very bad, and this appointment stands as a rebuke to them. Better still, now that McSally's got the job over their objections, she owes them nothing. Here was theWashington Examiner story four days ago:
Meghan McCain's husband said that Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., would be an "unwise choice" for Arizona senator. "McSally strikes me as an unwise choice for a number of reasons," Ben Domenech tweeted."She's like an NFL team that plays down to its opponents' level – and she'll be tasked with running for re-election immediately."He made a tweet, and his wife, McCain's daughter Meghan, retweeted it. Then McSally went to try to make nice with the dragon-lady matron of the bunch, Cindy McCain, but things didn't seem to get any better, though officially they say so, minus their endorsement, of course.
The whole thing was over something embarrassingly small and petty, too: McSally's "crime" in their eyes was that she didn't bring McCain's name up in a speech on some defense authorization bill.
Whoa! That was enough to turn this touchy bunch entirely against the woman, who had actually been a friend of McCain's, and then they got loud about it...
The McCains overreached. They overplayed their hand. They horned in where they had no business. And they got smacked down.................Read more
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