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My Republican Party
This is my Republican Party. Trump and Nixon are missing. Is that Coolidge between Lincoln and TR?
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I want to do the same to you and your friends at the Bulwank and the Displatch. So at least we can agree on tactics if not direction.
McCain returned to the Senate while he was being treated. He gave the critical “vote to proceed” that was required, but then he stated that regular order needed to be observed.
We had many chances to stop Trump, but the Republican members of congress and RNC are gutless wonders. I would vote for any of the 16 other candidates from 2016 over Biden, but Republicans allowed themselves to be rolled by Trump. We must hammer a wooden stake through Trumpism.
By voting for the most progressive platform any political party has put out since 1972? At the very least, don’t vote for either of them and just start marking your ballot on the line for U.S. Senate, or you’re going to end up having to own everything the Democrats do from now through 1/20/25 if Biden wins the election.
You refuse to address MWM’s point: that McCain campaigned on repeal of the ACA, but when it came time to deliver he voted to keep the ACA. I think we’re entitled to conclude that he would have voted to keep the ACA even if “regular order” were observed, simply to give Trump (as well as his constituents) the finger.
I think this prediction is borne out by the fact that rather than immediately casting his ‘principled’ vote, he waited to be the very last to vote, so that he could cast the deciding vote against Trump. No reason to wait if it’s about principle.
This is why I went from being unenthusiastic about McCain to essentially despising his actions. All I worry about with Trump is what he says.
Pretttttty sure no one can force you to vote in America.
I think they hate him because they need someone to blame Viet Nam on. Also he ran against Kennedy who was so very good and stuff.
I was there. Trump beat them all despite my vote. He didn’t roll them, he didn’t cheat, and ‘chances to stop Trump’ sounds like you wanted to meddle in a free election.
No one here thought Trump would be the R candidate. When he was we rightly rallied around him, not because he was so great, but because he wasn’t the D candidate who was…well, scum. And presumptuous scum at that.
Nothing has changed except the gender of the D scum and the variety of presumption.
And now we come to this wooden-stake-through-Trumpism.
There is no ‘Trumpism’. There is only Trump. He’ll have four – maybe twelve – years more as President and then we get someone new; preferably someone conservative but more to your liking.
And the wooden stake imagery – I am normally not one to get all sniffy at violent metaphors – betrays a morbid obsession with Trump. A hatred.
Wanting to erase someone from history is hateful. You might want to get a handle on that because your hatred will have absolutely no effect on its target; it will affect you and yours.
That is a really good rebuke, thanks.
The prospect of a not-easy-to-erase-from-history Trump Court defining the next generation or two has these progressives of both the overt and covert variety seeing red. Thus the aggressive, violent rhetoric..and behavior.
I said binary “result” for a reason. You can make any pointless vote you like for any McGuffin, Johnson or French you would like, but the result will still be the Dem or the GOP candidate. Every vote not given to the GOP candidate helps to elect the democrat. Ergo, you are comfortable with ushering in socialism to the United States because of a mindless OMBism.
Sad.
Your man Romney is marching with the Democrats and black supremacists in the BLM rally right now.
Quibbling
Are you kidding? They haven’t gotten over Alger Hiss.
Putz thinks this photo op will make dems like him.
I did not comment on the recent “Trump must be removed” post touting George Will’s column though I felt it to be in error from opening premise. As facts emerged — which Will and his fellow media should have ascertained before publishing — turns out George Will et al were wrong.
There are things I want to say about this post:
@rodin recently posted “Lord save us from dishonorable honorable men. I am coming to prefer honorable dishonorable men instead.”
From an article referenced in above comment #78:
The issue is not whether you or I prefer Donald Trump. Look around…do you see anyone standing against the very real tyranny facing America right now besides Donald Trump and those politicians/individuals who to some degree support him and/or his core policies? Once the shaming, doxing, cancelling, etc. kick in everyone else goes quiet.
To my comments about Black Lives Matter (BLM) in #79 above, I add this observation from a former US attorney of 20+ years. Can substitute BLM for Antifa; their aims are interchangeable in this case.
THIS IS NOT MLK MARCHING IN SELMA as Mitt Romney apparently would have us believe:
John Daniel Davidson’s article describes things I believe a genuine conservative Republican would pursue instead of the virtue signalling Mitt Romney is doing. These things take hard work behind the scenes, not so much claps, but are what’s required of statesmen/women to keep a Republic like ours free:
In 2020 business owners will be forced to adopt the same protective coloration as Vaclav Havel’s “good greengrocer”. Posting party slogans in the shop windows next to the peas and onions.
They can’t make you care, but they can damn sure make you wear the Mao suit.
Some of the biggest lies are the ones that come cloaked as angels of light.
I don’t think so. McCain was the Chair of the Armed Services Committee and he believed strongly in the system and regular order which Harry Reid broke and Mitch McConnell didn’t fix. This is an unprovable situation.
I voted third party three times.
We’re already seeing that with every corporation intoning “Black Lives Matter!” over and over in the hopes that they’ll be spared from destruction by the mob.
“I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient.”
Um, the 22nd Amendment would limit Trump to two terms. I strongly doubt that there could be a 2/3 vote in both the House and Senate and ratification in 3/4 of the states to amend the 22nd Amendment. At the rate we are going, Trump will render the Republican brand so toxic that we will be many, many years in the wilderness.
The way to kill a vampire is a wooden stake to the heart.
I just want Trump and Trumpism to be discredited and for the Republican Party to never go down that populist road ever again.
I am greatly saddened at the prospect of voting in a Democrat. But I strongly believe that Trumpism must be excised from the body politic.
And good for him. Actually, if you had done a bit of research, you would find that this march was not sponsored by Black Lives Matter. As CNN writes,
“Joining the evangelical group was ‘spontaneous,’ the aide said, adding that Romney was in DC and intended to march Sunday. He came across a group of 1,000 to 1,500 evangelicals from the DC area near the Capitol and joined their march for an hour and a half, the aide added.” https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/politics/mitt-romney-black-lives-matter-protest/index.html
I hope that it is acceptable to you for Mitt to join with evangelicals.
I have been too busy to point in the marches in Flagstaff and I am concerned about my age of 67 and COVID-19. However, I have honked on my horn in support when I have driven by them on the City Hall lawn, where I would demonstrate with the Tea Party in years past.
Let’s make this point perfectly clear, there was no justification for a police officer to put his knee on George Floyd’s neck for over 8 minutes. I would hope that we would have common ground on that issue.
McCain was a traditionalist who believed in the committee process and regular order. McConnell thought that McCain could be rolled and pressured. He couldn’t be.
Thank you for the picture of George Romney marching in Selma. When the 1965 Selma March was re-created 50 years later, George W. Bush was there marching. Good for them. It was the Republican Party that broke the Southern filibuster over the 1964 Civil Rights Act, by voting for it in a greater percentage than the Democratic Party.