C. K. Macleod: DeVore should take one for the team

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C. K. Macleod, from Hot Air's Green Room:

Chuck DeVore is a solid conservative, very well-qualified to be senator or to hold other important offices or positions, but he doesn’t seem to have a prayer of both overtaking Carly Fiorina and defeating Tom Campbell in the June 8 Republican senate primary. He should drop out and, following Sarah Palin’s lead, endorse Fiorina for the good of the conservative movement, the state, and the nation.

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California conservatives, who, to say the least, used to be a major positive factor in state and national politics, have a reputation gained since after Ronald Reagan’s time, and especially since the ’90s, of preferring ideological purity and self-defeating gestures over success and influence. Chuck DeVore has a chance to show that they’re now capable of mature calculation and team play.

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Currently, Campbell appears to have a solid but not insurmountable plurality lead over Fiorina, with DeVore’s third-place vote more than making up the potential difference.

Macleod says DeVore and his supporters need to put up or shut up. Show us the money and the polling numbers that show he can win the primary and give Boxer a run for her own considerable money in the general. Otherwise, it's to hang 'em up, endorse Fiorina, and stop the liberal Campbell now.

- JP