I had a discussion at another site with someone who was appalled that Dems were doing this, deliberately propping up the crazies bc the calculation was they would be easier to defeat.

My estimation? Anything that might work was worth a try.

The particular candidate in question was John Gibbs from Michigan, a total RW loon, who was in fact defeated in Michigan but went so far as questioning women's suffrage (an earlier Coulter claim). The argument was the risk involved supporting/propping up these truly crazy candidates in a primary set against the fact that they could actually be elected over more 'moderate' (whatever that animal is) GOP candidates.

My argument then was that when you're in an existential battle for the very soul and continuation of the country, you need to take risks, put it all on the table, go for broke.

It will be interesting when the dust settles and final counts are in to see how many of the propped up primary crazies were defeated.

In desperate times, sometimes desperate measures are required. For better or worse, I still stand by that.