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RINOS Surround and Protect a Wounded Member of the Herd
A Who’s-Whom of Bush-Republicans is holding a fundraiser to help Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney fend off a primary challenge from a conservative challenger who will vote the same as Cheney but probably won’t sign onto one of Nancy Pelosi’s January 6th Show Trials. The fundraiser will be held in Cheney’s hometown of Jackson Hole, WY, McLean, VA, and will feature Utah Senator Pierre Delecto. The guest list is an epic networking opportunity of globalists, neoconservatives, and people who still think the War in Afghanistan was a good idea.
Expected to attend are former Oklahoma Sen. Don Nickles, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, former Dick Cheney aide Scooter Libby, former presidential candidate and ex-Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina, former Solicitor General Ted Olson, conservative lawyer Miguel Estrada and former Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, who served under Romney when he was governor of the Bay State.
The Bush Republicans despise Trump and a big part of their hatred is because “Trumpism” — the idea that Republicans once elected should try to advance the policies they campaigned on — is a threat to the control of the party the Bushes enjoyed from the end of the Reagan Administration. These are people who favor high levels of illegal immigration because it provides cheap labor, they favor outsourcing American industry to China because that helps Wall Street get wealthier, they favor foreign intervention and “nation-building” no matter how many times it fails, and they are comfortable letting Democrats control the domestic agenda.
They are the leaders of a movement hopelessly out of touch with ordinary Americans and Republican voters. While they are willing to tolerate working-class people voting Republican, they are appalled that the lower classes actually want the party’s policies to reflect their interests. (The very nerve!) They are puzzled that the working class seems unwilling to go to war to protect their financial interests. Even more than Trump, they despise us.
These are Liz Cheney’s people.
I would love to see Liz Cheney get kicked to the curb on August 16th, but we will see if her daddy’s wealthy friends can raise enough money to save her, and if money matters more than principles.
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@garyrobbins is the archetypal example of a good man with profound blind spots to the truth, created by his absolute certainties, his reliance on mainstream news (unaware how partial truths can be used to create outright lies), and his unwillingness to entertain the possibility that he is mistaken.
These kinds of errors are why I wrote the series of posts on how the mind works, the first being “Blind Spots and the Reticular Activating System.” Time for a review:
https://ricochet.com/924194/blind-sports-and-the-secret-of-the-reticular-activating-system/
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I am replying against my better judgement. To what end? Joe Biden has destroyed the American economy, been a nightmare on foreign policy, brazenly ignored Supreme Court decisions, and used the organs of the government against ordinary citizens. Clearly he has been a disaster. The only real possibility to turn this around is to make sure that Republicans not only win in November to stop these excesses, but are also willing to push back against the Democrats. Neither Romney or Cheney have shown such willingness. McMullin is a grifter of the first order, so absolutely useless. It seems like NT would burn the whole country down just to carry out a vendetta against one man.
My problem with Ms. Cheney is that she’s feeding the January 6th narrative, and the January 6th narrative is profoundly anti-American. She’s doing in the nation’s capital what Colin Kaepernick did on the playing field, what BLM did in hundreds of previously uncombusted urban areas, and what the left does every day: furthering a false narrative of America as a nation of unstable and hateful bigots and supremacists.
I think he just has delusions of relevance.
Fortunately I’m hearing some honest talk about the Buses for a change. They ended the Reagan reforms which needed the collapse of the Soviet Union to vigorously proceed. Which was quick but not as quick as self serving big government moved in to keep the pork flowing. Trump needed to role back Bush, Clinton, and Obama spending which was so extravagant and counter productive that we can’t know if the country has a future, and if we don’t the world doesn’t.
It is impossible to control spending after 2004. The only question is how socialist and woke everything is.
The Colin Kaepernick of the House; I like it.
They already have.
What the heck, it’s time for this again:
My goodness, it looks like I have stirred up a hornet’s nest about 60 hours ago. I did not seek this fight, the first blow was struck by the author who went on a rant about Liz Cheney, and all of the alleged “globalists” in the Republican Party. I simply responded to this post. I then drove 300 miles to visit my 91 year old mother’s home, and put Ricochet away as we have very, very poor reception here out on the prairie. I’ve now read all of your responses. I agree with one of them. I so wish that I and the other commenters could go to heaven and visit with Reagan. I think that he would agree with me; I am sure that you believe that he would agree with you.
I recently bought William Barr’s new book about his two terms as Attorney General for Gerald Ford and then Donald Trump. My plan had been to do a book review of it. I think that most of you would have loved his first 22 chapters, about the Russia hoax as he refers to it, and his many fights for Trump. Barr was hard-core MAGA. But the 23rd and final chapter likely would not have brought a smile to your faces. Barr recounts how the DOJ ran down all of the claims of election fraud and found them wanting, and concluded that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that election fraud had made a difference in the 5 states that Biden flipped. I had been asked by TPTB to create only one post a day, and I was getting ready to see my mother, and to wrap up my practice so I could be gone a week. So on last Friday and Saturday, I decided to instead write a post each day about Ukraine, and to leave Bill Barr for some other time. One post was elevated to the Main feed, and had over 1,000 views.
This has been a great trip. I have fixed Eggo’s, baked potatoes, done chores, and worried about Ukraine. Today I visited Tucson, saw lots of new buildings, lunched with a classmate from the Class of 1977, and visited with Ricochet’s Arizona Patriot, Jerry Giordano in his Tucson Office, becoming scared to death as we went over the daily war maps on his computer. (Damn, that guy is smart!)
Two days from now will be the two year anniversary of me driving to my mother’s home, and then staying for 40 days. When I went out to buy food, I wore latex gloves to protect from COVID-19, and left packages from UPS outside for 24 hours, before folks realized that COVID-19 was likely passed on by respiratory means. (After returning from shopping, I’d strip off my clothes, throw them in the washing machine and would take a shower to wash off all of the COVID-19 germs.)
Tomorrow my sister and I take my mother to a heated pool where she can walk in the water, and does not need to fear falling. We will likely get food from The Olive Garden. On Thursday I will take her to get her teeth cleaned. We will watch Jeopardy! and all will be well with the world.
Blessings.
What is your analysis?
It never occurs to me to ask what Reagan would think. His time was 30+ years ago. If he were alive today and in his prime, and informed about current events and cultural changes, his opinions would be of interest, but that is not the case.
The point is, it’s a way of expressing that Gary et. al. have a terrible analysis of the lay of the land. The starting point for public policy and how you get improved public policy over the line. He talks about anything but that. All of those guys do and then they go on and on with conservative boilerplate. Heath Mayo is as bad as he has ever been in this sense.
Ron DeSantis is the most skilled and knowledgeable person to get the right policy over the line. I hope he gets the nomination. I also hope that everybody in Gary’s camp can ***say something original*** about ***public policy*** at that point or at some point.
She will be featured as the antagonist to the heroic protagonist.
Et tu Miguel Estrada?
You’re reading way too much into Romney’s non endorsement. Lee is being challenged in the GOP primaries by 2 different candidates. My money is on him endorsing Becky Edwards. She wants politicians to play nice. Just like Mittens himself. How about a giant group hug y’all?
Classic troll behavior is bombing a thread with inflammatory statements like, “We Never-Trumps are going to ally with Democrats to defeat conservative Republicans” and then when called out, play victim. (“Why is everyone picking on me?”) Trolls have two objectives, to bring attention to themselves and to deflect or derail the main point of a conversation. They never address the main thesis. You will not get an argument against the thesis that the Bushies are fundamentally globalists because… well, the Bushies are globalists.
That was the sales pitch. How it actually worked out was mass unregulated immigration and the selling out of the American Heartland to China for the benefit of Wall Street Hedge Fund managers. And the guy who stood against it was torn down by members of his own party and the Deep State.
Also never addressed is the thesis that the Bush-Republican Party loathes the American working class. We recall the words of Marco Rubio’s aide that “American workers just can’t cut it.” Standing on a pile of rubble with a megaphone one time does not make up for policies that favor foreign workers and enterprises over Americans.
Peter Schweizer has documented how China got their hooks into the Bush family. I think Neil is the lead one.
Let them surround her. It is to our tactical advantage to have them all in close proximity to one another.
I believe the next national NT convention is in the Muncie, Indiana Hampton Inn breakfast lounge area featuring guest speaker Gary Robbins.
The guy back in my home state was more direct. When asked why he had hired so many foreign, i.e., Mexican workers instead of Americans, he said, “’cause I can’t find a black American who will work or a white American who can pass a drug test.”
When I was a teenager, that was absolutely NOT true. I have no knowledge of whether what he said is true today.
We aren’t set up right at all to let in a bunch of low skilled labor.
It will be published by a left-wing publishing house and thousands of copies will be purchased by activist groups and then pulped.
Working title: The Conscience of a Neo-con
How to Destroy a Political Career and Become a CNN Personality in Three Easy Steps
That is the main thing that is going on here. She and Adam Kinzinger are angling for the best post career set up they can get.
Local never Trump retweeted this. Principles First of course.
These people are out of their minds.
Talk about ideological delusion, just when you start to believe now we must have some level of consensus on an issue, yesterday I talked to a guy who insists Jesse Smollett was actually attacked and did not stage his own racial motivated assault, and therefore it was the correct decision for Smollett to be released from jail yesterday.
So ideology can actually make individuals “see things” that are clearly not there …. they see what they want to see in a given situation because it corresponds with their ideology, no matter how insanely and obviously wrong that may be.