Posted on 12/22/2015 3:09:26 PM PST by cotton1706
Butler County Auditor Roger Reynolds' abrupt withdrawal last week from the 16-way contest to fill the vacancy created by Speaker John A. Boehner's retirement is another sign of how little conservatives think of the former speaker.
Reynolds was seen as a favorite among the 14 Republicans in the race and was believed to have Boehner's backing. But that didn’t work in Reynolds' favor among some conservatives.
"It is pretty clear that Boehner is behind Roger Reynolds," Lori Viars, a board member of the Conservative Republican Leadership Committee, told Cincinnati.com in October. And that, she hinted, might not be such a good thing.
"While Boehner is a big fish in Butler County, a lot of conservatives who vote in primaries have not been happy with him," she warned.
Conservatives, who had fought with Boehner for most of his four years as speaker, cheered Boehner's exit, then thwarted his would-be successor, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
(Excerpt) Read more at atr.rollcall.com ...
Kevin McCarthy......no different than Paul Ryan
First thing I ask about a candidate: “is he boner-backed?”
Boner was in the position to do America a great deal of good
but instead he chose (sold out?) to enable the Calif-in-Chief
in undermining USA
a great opportunity ... squandered
This Orange Lush couldn’t keep his daughter from marrying a Rastafarian Cat-In-The-Hat drug dealer, so how could we expect him to stop Zero ?
I had forgotten about the OH open seat: might as well forget about it considering the lack of integrity and knowledge of the voters there.
Oh my. I didn’t know that about Boner. How sad for him. I’m sure glad he’s out of office ( though his replacement seems to be doing a whole lot of damage/ selling us out, too....?) our representative system of government has lost most of its representativeness.
"Do not look upon him. He is a traitor to the nation. Let the name of Boehner be stricken from every book and tablet... stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of the United States. Let the name of... Boehner be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men... for all time."
Boner’s preferred candidate had to drop out. Did you read this part?:
” ‘It is pretty clear that Boehner is behind Roger Reynolds,’ Lori Viars, a board member of the Conservative Republican Leadership Committee, told Cincinnati.com in October. And that, she hinted, might not be such a good thing.
“ ‘While Boehner is a big fish in Butler County, a lot of conservatives who vote in primaries have not been happy with him,’ she warned.”
If you need to engage in ad hominem attacks and cannot even be bothered with reading maybe Daily Kos is the place for you.
You know someone is spiting daddy.
No wonder Boner’s said to be a booze hound. Looks sad
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This is about Boner’s House seat, not the concluded Speaker’s race that no one is writing articles about anymore.
Even with Boehner’s preferred candidate out, I have no faith in those voters.
Nikita S. Khrushchev tried that on Stalin, but there are so many Stalinists in the USA that the move by Khrushchev largely failed.
Love it. Rino’s hated everywhere.
Dude looks older than John. Yikes. The daughter isn’t half bad either. I bet Laz would hit it.
I was baffled about the red carpet photo. It doesn’t even look like the same girl (she unquestionably looks “hot” in it), and Rasta dude looks like he won the White Amazon lottery and couldn’t blast the smile off his face with a thermonuclear missile. He’s in his 40s (43?).
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