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Where Is the Outrage from the Right?
Over at Powerline, David and Daniel Greenfield have an article: Where is the Outrage?
It opens strong:
Only one man lost his job over Afghanistan. Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller challenged Biden’s incompetent and spineless Joint Chiefs of Staff to take responsibility for their dereliction of duty that led directly to the catastrophe in Afghanistan. Taking responsibility meant resigning. Biden’s military men immediately smeared him as mentally ill and forced him out of the Marines.
For four years, conservatives of a certain stripe cheered and encouraged the military to attack Trump. They considered it part of the normal constitutional order. Now, when a solider dares to criticize Biden for…
Biden is directly responsible for the worst, most humiliating, most dangerous – yet completely avoidable – defeat in the history of American warfare.
…those same conservatives have nothing to say about this man being fired, or, worse, they cheer it on, as the rules get applied to him, while they cheered on others not having the rules apply to them.
The article goes on to attack GOP leadership for their spinelessness. They sure don’t fight for anything of value. I understand why: They never meant it. They are in it for the perks and don’t care about anything as long as they get their goodies.
What I cannot understand, are rank and file Republicans who buy into this nonsense. They can claim to be for America, but it is crap. Any conservative who voted for Biden, who frankly, could not be doing more damage to America than if he were an agent for Xi, can only win back trust if he or she is willing to get outraged at Biden as they were at Trump and his mean tweets.
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Because that might push out a “better” Libertarian Party nominee? Otherwise I don’t see how it matter, since he’s not going to win.
Is it possible to tell? The ones with clothes on seem no saner than the freaks without.
I can’t believe I have to explain this.
You don’t actually have to explain this.
You think he’ll pull away more Republican votes than Democrat? With voting for impeachment etc, that doesn’t seem likely. If it happens it will probably only affect the NTs anyway, and they’ve already betrayed everything they supposedly stood for. The only Republican candidate who might bring them back would be someone like a Romney. Anyone else will be too “Trumpy” for them.
I will ceed that there is some truth to this.
The problem I see is those Principles First types are so idealistic and so ignorant of how many institutions are dysfunctional now, and what the actual structure of the economy is. Boiler plate libertarians like Amash are going to suck a lot of those guys in.
Yes. So no actual Republicans voted for it. Amash belongs to the “Attention Whore” party.
Maybe Amash would suck in a lot of Democrats too, like the ones who wanted Bernie. But really, if you’re going to rely on those people to elect a Republican, it won’t happen unless the nominee is someone like a Romney who wouldn’t really be a Republican in many ways that matter. Anyone else they would turn up their nose for “Trumpiness.”
I don’t like him. I do not see how he moves the ball forward. He’s just a cookbook libertarian. Rep. Thomas Massie is 10 times better.
This is so funny. I didn’t realize it either. Thank you, Drew. :-)
This is all just accidental, incidental, and does not detract from the exemplary implementation of contingency plans designed to be used in the unlikely chance that the army leaves before its US citizens.
Also, we need to talk about climate change and guns and racism.
Joseph Biden: “Yes, I don’t mean to blow my own horn, you know, but it does distract from important issues, like soldiers, like all men, like everyone of you out there dressing like women.”