People We Need to Primary, Yesterday

Because primaries are about picking the person who best represents us, not the Beltway elites.

by Rod D. Martin
February 13, 2021

A few of the people we need to primary, asap:

Liz Cheney is not safe, though Rudy Cajka makes an excellent case for why she's safer than she might be (short answer: Wyoming has an open primary, an abomination which allows members of the other party to vote on our nominee).

Murkowski and Collins are safe, and they know it. With one possible caveat: if Sarah Palin goes back to Alaska to challenge Murkowski, she could bring enough out-of-state fundraising firepower, plus enough longstanding in-state support, to meaningfully put the RINO Murkowski at risk. Palin has her own baggage, but it would be a heck of a race.

Burr and Toomey are retiring, so their votes were free throws too. But on that note, let's talk about Richard Burr. Burr is the odious inside trader who had to give up his committee chairmanship last year -- he actually ought to be in prison -- who got off in part because he's a NeverTrumper who wrote an Intelligence Committee report pretending th…