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NeverTrump Helping Democrats in Missouri Senate Race
Former U.S. Attorney John Wood stepped down as lead investigator for the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 this summer to launch an independent Senate bid in Missouri. Wood is a close friend of the Cheney family and formerly worked in the second Bush administration with stints at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Wood’s Senate campaign is now being financed by another alumnus of the Bush administration, former Missouri Sen. John Danforth, who was President Bush’s ambassador to the United Nations between 2004 and 2005. In July, Danforth’s super PAC launched a $750,000 dollar ad blitz and announced plans to raise anywhere from $20 to $40 million for the fall campaign.
So, a former Republican senator and Bush administration official is going to try and raise $40 million. He will not use this money to help flip blue seats in Georgia and Arizona. He will not use this money to protect vulnerable Republican seats in North Carolina or Pennsylvania. Instead, he will force the Republican Party to expend resources defending what should be a safe Republican senate seat in Missouri.
The pattern of Never-Trumpers openly supporting Democrats demonstrates that they are not principled conservatives. They are a Democrat fifth column embedded in Republican ranks, who will undermine the party’s chances at every opportunity.
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A solid 5%. Whew, she is going to be an unstoppable force! (Gary, do you realize what a joke a Liz Cheney presidential candidacy would be? C’mon, it would be embarrassing. I think Evan McMullin will get more support than her.)
Why is the New Hampshire Primary even a concern for you? It seems weird to dwell on something so trivial that hasn’t even happened yet.
Blaming Trump himself for the cult of personality rather than the actual people who treat him like a hero is really a big stretch. You are scraping the bottom of the barrel on that one. You happen to idolize Ronald Reagan in the same way that others idolize Trump, and I don’t blame Reagan for fostering a “cult of personality” because of your worship.
Why is negotiating with Democrats such a good policy? The Democrats almost don’t have a thing in common with Republicans of late.
I’m surprised that you consider this worse than Biden’s betrayal of the Afghan people and American citizens left behind to fend for themselves. Not to mention, Biden’s initial refusal to help Ukraine until the Democrats in Congress threatened to override his veto of military and monetary assistance.
The Kurd thing was complicated including the fact that a lot of those guys were communist. There are like four different groups.
Well put. This is the Neil Sedaka of politics. Muskrat Love on our necks playing forever. And kicking the jukebox doesn’t help.
NTers are a kind of cult.
Oh, yeah? Well, do they have a golden haired High Priestess who will lead them or something?
Oh, wait.
Focus on public policy and the breakdown of institutions we depend on.
When you go beyond that, it gets vague really fast.
I hear what you are saying. I am in a distinct minority in the Republican Party and at Ricochet.
However, I am part of the majority of American Voters, and a majority of Independent Voters.
I respectfully suggest that you ignore the majority of American Voters at your peril.
5% gets her on the debate stage. And if she camps out in New Hampshire, she will take Trump down, leading the way for another candidate to win the New Hampshire Primary and then take the Republican Nomination and the Presidency.
Liz Cheney will be not unlike a Hockey Player who is an enforcer.
Biden’s abandonment of Afghanistan was far, far worse, and is the worst thing Biden did. But the question was for me to list things that I disapproved of about Trump.
No, he’s saying that you can’t have a violent overthrow without guns. And nobody brought guns. No swords. No poleaxes. No torches and pitchforks. There was not even any attempt at a violent overthrow. Who are you listening to that you are so hypnotized?
This is really something else to read it in print.
Gary, you are watching a Soap Opera, where the actors are ugly politicians who think they are Hollywood stars. Stop allowing yourself to be punked. Oh, unless you like that.
Simply “being in the majority” on anything is not a proof that Donald Trump tried to violently overthrow our government or that aliens have landed on earth. You should know better than that. By your reasoning, we must be right and you wrong because the majority on Ricochet think that idea of Trump overthrowing the gubmint is preposterous.
I thought the whole point of this discussion was to determine who is the better choice, Biden or Trump.
You are entitled to your opinion but I think you give her way too much credit. She lost a primary race as an incumbent by a two to one margin in probably the most conservative State in the Union.
Welcome to Gary’s world …
You unlock this door with the key of imagination.
Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind.
You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas.
You’ve just crossed over into
The Twilight Zone
Well, I intended to reply in detail, but it looks like that’s pretty much done.
I’ll add this re: the incidents on January 6. Check your bookshelf:
“Insurrection. A violent revolt against an oppressive authority, usu. a government. [“Insurrection is distinguished from rout, riot, and offense connected with mob violence by the fact that in insurrection there is an organized and armed uprising against authority or operations of government, while crimes growing out of mob violence, however serious they may be and however numerous the participants, are simply unlawful acts in disturbance of the peace which do not threaten the stability of the government or the existence of political society.” 77 C.J.S. Riot; Insurrection Section 29, at 579 (1984). – Black’s Law Dictionary, Eighth Edition. © 1999]”
But wait – there’s more. And as time passes, there’s more and more – of the FBI / DOJ’s involvement that day, plus the bizarre nature of the . . . “investigation” of those events. There is something terribly, terribly wrong, and it isn’t on Trump’s side.
And this: If you aren’t aware of the increasing evidence of voter fraud, emerging in the face of massive Democrat resistance, then you are willfully, even intentionally, ignorant. Then there’s the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop, not to mention Hunter’s widespread illegal activities and “the big guy’s” involvement, and the inexplicable (in rational and legal terms) raid on Mar-a-Lago, and on and on and on . . .
Yes, @stevenseward, many of us have been there, done that ….
And the pipe bomb analysis from Revolver News. I mean that looks really bad. Everybody should give that guy a donation. You don’t have to subscribe, you can give one time.
Biden has lead in 250,000 unaccompanied minors. HHS loses track of 40% of them.
I think it was originally about some guy named John Wood that was running a spoiler campaign. But that guy just dropped out.
A sufficient amount of time has passed and I haven’t heard a response to my specific question. Is that because you have not found, or cannot think of, a single person who thinks he is better off under Biden? I’ll chalk that up as a yes.
Gary, are you aware that Joe Biden, as a candidate, kept completely silent about the thousands of riots across the United States in the Summer of 2020, an election year no less. He had some three months to “speak to the crowds” that were burning down, looting, and killing people, and yet he conspicuously kept quiet because they were rioting for Democrat causes. IN fact not a single major Democrat politician condemned the riots, not even Nany Pelosi or Kamalla Harris who promoted the riots, and both of them are in line for the Presidency. Does that not contradict your assertion that “any President would have done that” (speak to the rioters). And yet you voted for and continue to defend Biden as being better than Trump.
A much better case can be made that Biden “didn’t warn Americans”, nor provide them with an escape route from Afghanistan. That got at least 13 American soldiers killed and nearly two hundred Afghans, not to mention a U.S. military bombing of an innocent Afghan family who were American allies. Now isn’t that far more a dereliction of duty than Trump dithering for a couple hours which led to nobody getting killed?
Gary, like all democrats, have the beliefs that 1) they never have to say that they are sorry and 2) could not care less that their behavior screams hypocrisy. Washes right over them like water off a duck’s back.
It is truly mind-boggling.