HALLELUJAH!

My birthday was yesterday, but that’s fine I’ll take a belated gift any day. I never thought that I would say “thank you” to Thom Tillis (RINO-NC) But today he gave me and the rest of the NC Republicans a gift.

HE’S QUITING!

Rather than split the party by running again, getting primaried and possibly (probably) losing either in the primary or to Roy Cooper in the general, he’s not going to run.

Regardless how despicable a candidate is, before the primary the NC GOP cannot endorse a candidate until they win the primary election. There is a lot of tradition and loyalty in the GOP. When at the NC GOP State convention two years ago, a proposal to censure Tillis was brought from the floor. The major debate was not that he deserved the censure, but that it would show disloyalty to the party. Thom was our senator, like him or not, and to censure him, regardless of whether he deserved it or not, was to disrespect and be unsupportive to our state senator. It was a close vote. I stood with the majority. After all, if you allow bad behavior to continue and flourish then you will continue to get more bad behavior.

I noticed a bit of a more conciliatory attitude from our senator for a while. At least in his e-mails. But he still continued to act like a RINO. Which is to say, like a demonrat. He is very supportive of “bipartisanship.” Unfortunately, his idea of “bipartisanship” is exactly like the Marxist’s version – give them what they want and shut up. Even Jeff Flake, the demonrat stooge, exalted Thom for standing on his “principles.” Not that Flake has any nor can even define the term, but he is at least supportive of Tillis. Which shows you how badly the Marxists will miss Tillis.

(While writing this I received a text urging me to contact Thom and encourage him to change his vote. Give me a break!)

When I first read about this my first reaction was “what’s the catch?” Is he going to not run at all? Or perhaps not run as a republican but instead challenge Cooper for the demonrat ticket?

But it certainly saves us a lot of headaches. There will be no angst over whether to support Thom at the expense of losing the general to Cooper, nor who to support in the plethora of candidates eager to primary him. It would resemble the primary in NYC. And we saw how well that worked out.

The second question is how much damage can he do before next year? He has nothing to lose to go full dummycrat. He doesn’t have to change parties. He just has to remain the same, with no incentive to actually act like a conservative.

Because that’s all he can do, is act.

And he’s a bad actor.

Bubbles Up!

The Snark