Understood, of course, but with just one caveat. Whoever's President will need to be reined in by Congress. And this talk about leaving the GOP suggests that the party consists solely of the top. I want to see Pat Toomey re-elected, and I don't want conservatives to lose all influence by the GOP losing the Senate and even the House.
There's still a need to stay a Republican, to put the yard signs out and otherwise work affirmatively to limit the damage.
I've made my peace with it by adopting a small mental fiction. For some strange reason, the GOP didn't put up a candidate for President this year. There's a Dem candidate I don't like, and a "National Front" candidate I like even less. I'll vote my conscience, and thank the Trumpsters for demanding I don't.
Honestly, I don't give a hoot about Toomey either...I remember when he banged the drum against military "don't ask don't tell" and the "Defense of Marriage Act" before he was even sworn in, and then led McConnell and Reid's budget "super committee" that resulted in sequestration and chaos in military funding. Lately, he's become big buddies with Joe Manchin and has become a gun grabber of the worst sort. And his fundraising emails lately are becoming more desperate as he is finally realizing how much damage he has done to himself by cozing up to McConnell.
So screw Toomey!
I am not a fan of Toomey either.
Background checks on gun sales
On April 17, 2013, the U.S. Senate took a vote on and defeated a measure that would have expanded federal background checks for firearms purchases.[51] The vote was 54-46, with supporters falling six votes short of the required 60-vote threshold.[52] Toomey was one of the 4 Republican Senators who voted in favor of the measure.[53]
I can still vote and work for down ticket Republicans in the general if they are actually conservatives. But there is no indication that the GOP today will support actual conservatives running in primaries.
