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Pavlov’s RINO
Gerry Ford, George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, John McCain, Mitt Romney … Jeff Flake, John Kasich … Liz Cheney … the gOp has never lacked for someone willing to take the milquetoast, mushy middle lane that has too often led the party. A complete bunch of losers with ego and vanity that has no limit. Their desire to be well thought of, by all, ‘trumps’ every other emotion and purpose for them.
So Liz Cheney is merely the most recent of a long line of extremely vain losers. Get back in line girlfriend, you aren’t so special. And your memory is rotten. Do you not remember what your ‘good friends across the aisle’ did to your father?!
Republican, Inc. TM was infatuated with these lonesome losers for decades. Decorum, tut, tut and all. No matter that their opponents had dramatically shifted the battlefield over time. What once was “off-limits” in politics, now only applied to one party. A completely unfair fight, unless one determined to join the Fighter’s caucus. The first such fighter was President Ronald Wilson Reagan, the precursor to President Donald J. Trump.
President Reagan was the first interloper and brash upstart to the status quo on November 12, 1975, when he announced that he would challenge President Ford in the 1976 primary. It was not his turn, not his time yet. Hadn’t he and his supporters learned that back in 1968?! But something happened in the standard voting block of the gOp and in a significant part of the Democratic Party. These folks still believed in the goodness of America and not the lies and phony socialism of the Democrats and their dependent classes. President Reagan and this expanded voting block were fed up and tired of apologizing for the goodness of America. But Republican, Inc. TM was completely oblivious to this substantive change. President Reagan and his voting block were conservative fighters and more than willing to challenge the status quo of the establishment gOp that always promised things that they never delivered upon, because they always backed down to their stronger opponents, out of decorum or something.
Liz Cheney, give it up girlfriend. You are embarrassing yourself and your family’s political legacy. Here is what your Dad said about the first 1990’s brash upstart in the party in 2011 (but still failing to confront Romney’s weakness, due to decorum or something):
When Newt showed up he said, we can become the majority, we can take back the House of Representatives. We hadn’t had the House since the 1940s. And initially, none of us believed it. But he was persistent, he was tenacious. He kept it up, kept it up, and kept it up. Finally by ’94 he’s the newly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives with a Republican majority. So I wouldn’t underestimate him. link
It’s not Trumpism, per se, but in the 2020s, it is the Fighter’s Caucus, because of the democrat socialists, and whether it is a Reagan, Gingrich or Trump (fighters all, but with different styles), the gOp better get its head out of its arse and get on board to select a fighter to save the nation and its Constitution. Your voters, not Trump, are the ones who demand it.
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Extreme Principles First right here. Look at the volume of retweets.
I’ve heard some good explanations of why this is all wrong by conservative political science professors, but I don’t remember them.
He says the same thing about the big for controlling the public square. These people are a disaster if they get any power.
@garyrobbins do you have an opinion on this?
I would start by questioning when someone first became opposed to the filibuster. If someone has an objection to it in principle, that should have been evident for a long time. I’m willing to listen to arguments, but, if you oppose the filibuster just because the Dems control Congress, you’re not worth listening to.
I heard a political scientist explain this on Hugh Hewitt once and it was really good, but I don’t remember it. It really helps it function as intended.
That’s the guy that thinks there is no such thing as a George Soros prosecutor, for the record.
They all talk like eighth grade civics dweebs. No critical thought. Barely pay attention to the news.
Where was Patrick when Mitch was Majority Leader? Hiding. Coward.
Everybody in principles first loves this guy. Do you have an opinion on this?
Would he also argue that if someone goes to prison for theft or what-not, that’s also just “cancel culture?”
It seems to me that is a pretty radical organization and she was in it pretty recently. I don’t know.
My opinion is that he’s an evil grifter. Has no principles at all, but will adopt the views of whoever pays him enough money. The sooner Charlie Sykes disappears from the public eye, the better for America.
Nicole Wallace. Joe Scarborough.
I was more asking about the actual topic though. I would say being in a radical organization like that changes your job prospects for a few years.
I can’t answer the question of, “How is this different…?” because I don’t have enough information. For starters, the statement that “…conservatives rallied to get her fired…” can mean a lot of things. It’s not specific enough.
This is textbook principles first. Hate Radio is going crazy because Biden is obviously trying to make the military and the CIA be more “woke”. They have those silly commercials right now. So then a principals first guy will talk like this:
LOL
I’m sure my father being in the Air Force did the same for me. I haven’t decided yet if it was good or bad.
David French doesn’t have to explain anything until we lose, and then it’s too late.
Wow! This guy Mayo really is an idiot.
Yes, CRT has been “around for decades” — in university “grievance studies” departments, not high schools and elementary schools!
In retrospect, you might argue that Republicans should have excised the cancer before it metastasized.
Realistically, there was little they could have done: the Left would have hidden behind the same rights of academic freedom that it now denies to conservatives and traditional liberals.
I was thinking about it. There is obviously a spike in activity with this stuff. But what he saying is there isn’t, and hate radio is just making it up.
They always have these ostensibly sophisticated takes about conservatives overreacting on certain things. From what I can tell they all do it. They are always trying to sound extra thoughtful.
II have to admit that this makes sense. Also this guy is really smart.
Yes he is. Sure Republicans could have done more. Trump tried to affect what he could by himself. He issued an executive order banning its teaching in all executive agencies. I was happy getting the email at work that some training was being delayed because it had to be scrubbed to comply with the new executive order. Of course Biden overturned it immediately upon being installed in the White House.
Where are the attorneys ready to take up these hostile work cases?
You don’t understand. Objecting to CRT is what makes a workplace “hostile.”
So true. Time to retire from this foreign world. I don’t speak the new language, and frankly Scarlett, I don’t give damn!
Becoming a hermit has never looked better.