Posted on 07/05/2020 9:35:10 AM PDT by ransomnote
A loose association of current and former Republicans working to sink President Donald Trump’s re-election now see another political feat that’s necessary for them to have a shot at reclaiming their party: flipping the U.S. Senate to the Democrats.
The emerging belief, based on more than a dozen interviews, is that defeating Trump alone is insufficient to spur the reckoning required to salvage a party that will almost undoubtedly confront a crossroads if the president loses to Joe Biden this fall. Many argue that GOP senators must pay a steep price for their unabating fealty to Trump, even if it hands Democrats complete control of the federal government.
“The analogy would be in the same way that fire purifies the forest, it needs to be burned to the ground and fundamentally repudiated,” said Steve Schmidt, a Republican-turned-independent political strategist who now works for The Lincoln Project, one of the most pugnacious of the anti-Trump GOP groups. “Every one of them should be voted out of office, with the exception of Mitt Romney.”
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But the Lincoln Project has nonetheless placed six-figure ad buys against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, as well as Sens. Joni Ernst in Iowa, Thom Tillis in North Carolina and Martha McSally in Arizona, as Republicans try to hold onto their narrow three-seat majority.
“They are the only ... human beings who had the authority and the ability to keep this president in check constitutionally and politically, and every one of them made a conscious decision to not do so,” said Jennifer Horn, a former New Hampshire GOP chairwoman who now advises the Lincoln Project.
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Traitors all.
Who are these turncoats? What do they have to gain by Trump losing? I know money is behind all this. What are their financial interests?
If they succeed they are welcome to the dead shell of what will be left of the GOP.
[Traitors all.]
What’s the difference?
They would prefer the malleable spineless get along go along mopes like Romney Murkowski Burr and former senators Flake, Olympia Snowe, Dick Lugar and of course the late John McCain.
Any insight on this group?
They’re a bunch of losers; some from the disaster known as the McCain campaign, some from the failed Romney campaign, some from the successful campaign for the dimwit warmonger, GW Bush. We don’t need them or want them; the Dems do but only for the election. After that they are finished wherever they go and I hope they stay there!
Bush League Republicans are dropping any pretense that they are anything other than Democrats in R jerseys.
Grahamnesty has been working since 2005 to give the Democrats a permanent majority with amnesty for illegal aliens, he’s voted for it THREE times.
Liberalism is a mental disorder whether their a Democrat or a Republican.
Bill Kristol RUINED Dan Quayle, a good man.
Where ANY of these LOSERS EVER Republican?
Pretty much proves our conclusions about the RNC elite that continually F’d us from 2005 to present day. They took our money and but had no intention of advancing any part of a conservative agenda.
Other than a few brief head nods they were always on the other team.
“Many argue that GOP senators must pay a steep price for their unabating fealty to Trump,....”
Kinda like you traitors for your unabated fealty to “Old Scratch”.
Your time is a coming.
Which makes them EVIL and VILE!!
They get to continue the 30 year old Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA). Fundamental transformation has been a bipartisan project.
They already have us 30 million people down that road.
The Bush League Never-Trumpers want to destroy the party that Patriotic Republican Nationalists have replaced them with and get back what they lost in 2016.
They are willing to destroy the Republican Party and turn the entire gov’t over to the Marxist Dems in their attempt to do get their power and positions back.
President Trump has made them totally irrelevant. And, they hate him and we who voted for him with a blinding hatred for their loss of power and position within the party.
All of those people share the goal of flooding the country with foreigners in order to wrest our country from US.
It’s really not GOP vs DNC. It’s us against DC. Many on both sides have sold the country down the road for their own benefit. They are either protecting their own interest, future cash flow or repayment of debt. I bet the debt collector in DC is very busy now days.
It’s not liberalism, it’s globalism.
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