IFF index offers bogus standard

In the Idaho State Journal, columnist Richard Larsen of Pocatello, president of the brokerage firm, Larsen Financial, writes:

The Idaho Freedom Foundation (IFF) would have us believe that their “Freedom Index” is the benchmark by which conservative legislators should be judged. In reality, it is of marginal use in identifying fealty to conservative values, and is being used as a bully tactic against select legislators whom the Foundation has targeted as dispensable.

And:

As much as the IFF would like to tout their Index as the standard by which conservative orthodoxy is legislatively defined, it simply is not. Government growth is only one component, and only one aspect of governance. To place it in a position of preeminence over all other core values only diminishes what it means to be a conservative, based on our classical-liberal founding principles. More here .

Question: Will the Idaho Freedom Foundation come away from the Idaho GOPrimary season stronger or weaker for its actions to unseat some key Idaho legislators, including state Sen. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint, and state Rep. Luke Malek, R-Coeur d’Alene?