re: #184 piratedan

true that, I think she’s trying too hard to step into some non-existent niche of “progressive-libertarian” so she can maintain some kind of iconic “above it all mojo” which everyone supposedly applauds but has never listed as a reason to cast their votes.

She won in AZ because McSally was worse and she was transparently so in her hypocrisy. She may win again as an incumbent but that could be more due to the fact that the GOP bench has an extraordinary rich vein of whackadoodles to pick from and the state is trending, slowly but surely away from the GOP. All she has to do is support the winning team, by doing things like improving health-care, pimping solar and doing good stuff for the tribes. For some reason she is having issues being as pragmatic as we Lizards are, which raises questions regarding who the hell is she beholden to?

For what it’s worth, progressive-libertarian is probably a decent description of my political philosophy today. But I haven’t been paying too much attention to Sinema lately, so I’m not sure what she’s up to. There definitely seems to be a strain of contrarianism in her politics - which isn’t bad per se - but there doesn’t seem to be any sort of unifying theory underlying many of her actions.