Hank, all that goes out the window with someone who is brash, confrontational, and has said maybe 3 things that are HOT buttons for the Right. They see this guy as a 'Big Boy' unafraid to take on the same folks they wish they could. To them, almost everyone is a RINO, honestly. I read daily (where NTB used to be....ha) and those are true Right Wing guys, let me tell you. And for every candidate, they'll say something like "I like XYZ, but man, he's too soft on ABC, so I'm off him".

No one satisfies them. There isn't a 'Savior' for them like Obama was for the Left.

So they get behind the guy unafraid to put a Confederate Flag on the back of his Pickup and drive around the Square.