Martha McSally Faces an Electoral Beatdown In 2020
Posted at 10:30 pm on July 3, 2019 by streiff 
During a hearing by the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel about prevention and response to sexual assault in the military, Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., recounts her own experience while serving as a colonel in the Air Force, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. McSally, the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat, says she was raped in the Air Force by a superior officer. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)One thing that both political parties have in common is that they default to nominating dull proven losers because those losers are popular with the party’s establishment and are very unlikely to cause much trouble or upset too many any apple carts. This is the case of Martha McSally.
McSally is a prime example of a resume masquerading as a candidate. Her qualifications are that she was the first American woman to fly a fighter aircraft (A-10) in a combat zone and she was the first American woman to command a fighter squadron. We don’t know how well she did any of that but she was first and for the Arizona GOP that was enough. In 2012, she ran in the GOP primary for the special election to replace Gabby Giffords (AZ-8) and lost. She turned around, won the GOP nomination in AZ-5 and lost to the Democrat incumbent. Losing two congressional contests in one election cycle is damned impressive, but not so impressive as to keep the AZ GOP from boosting her.
In 2014, a wave year for the GOP, she ran for the House, this time in AZ-2 — if you’re keeping track, this is the third district she’s carpetbagged her way into — and won by 167 votes. She did manage to hold her seat in 2016.
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https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2019/07/03/martha-mcsally-faces-electoral-beatdown-2020/
