Their policies are not republican, but they affect elections such as this one by helping republican candidates. Tea party candidates never ran separate from republicans, because they knew and republicans knew how it would help democrats. If greens want to be taken seriously, they should keep from blocking liberal candidates.
Seriously - Sinema was not liberal enough, so the republican was a better alternative?
I bet anyone going back and looking at all the liberal tickets they have split in the last 3 decades that they would find greens on non primary ballots have put more conservatives in office than liberals.
I am not for blocking anyone's freedom to run, etc., except that our system allows conservatives to benefit from voting splits so that when the conservatives get into office they can put into place policies with minority popularity.
As far as I am concerned, greens belong on democratic primary ballots - that's what changes party platforms - the tea party ran in primaries, and moved the republicans further right. The greens don't do that - in effect, they help get republicans elected. The system allows for it, but it also allows for the primary process to prevent this effect.
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