The Republican Self-Destructive Impulse

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If Blankenship is the nominee, Joe Manchin has an easy chance at re-election.
By Erick Erickson
https://www.themaven.net/theresurgent/erick-erickson/the-republican-self-destructive-impulse-Vk-7_wC3dkW0xwtVc3K-rQ/?full=1

Most conservatives in and around the Trump White House and conservatives within the greater conservative movement have come out in support of Patrick Morrisey in the West Virginia Senate race. The incumbent West Virginia Attorney General, Morrisey has united both the pro-Trump and Trump skeptical wings of the GOP and polling shows he is tied or within a point of Don Blankenship.

Blankenship is the nutty guy running the "cocaine Mitch" ads. While I love a candidate willing to pick fights with McConnell, Blankenship has too much baggage to beat Joe Manchin. We actually have a real shot at beating Manchin and Blankenship is out arguing that Manchin isn't all that bad, he just wants the job.

Republicans are in real danger of losing the Supreme Court because they are nominating Senate candidates who scratch various itches within the party, but who turn off all the other voters they need to win the general election. If we lose the Senate we are going to lose the Supreme Court. That was the argument Trump made and there is still validity to that argument. But nominating bat crap crazy candidates is not going to be a winning strategy . . .