Another favorite way to diffuse backlash is to trot out a popular insurgency darling, who happens to be on someone's client list, every time things start to get a bit dicey for an establishment candidate or incumbent on the same client list.  (Which is why, because Rand Paul is on Strategic National's client list, expect him to make short-notice, high-profile appearances in Michigan whenever the Snyder-Calley campaign starts foundering.)

. . . and apparently that'll also apply when the Nerd King needs to get some traction, for a very bad idea, in the face of a very ticked-off and engaged constitutionalist insurgency.