Posted on 09/08/2019 7:57:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford announced Sunday that he is running for president as a Republican, becoming the latest to challenge President Trump in the GOP primaries.
Sanford said the Republican Party is facing an identity crisis, and he wants the GOP to take a look at itself and do some soul searching.
“I think we have to have a conversation about what it means to be a Republican,” Sanford told “Fox News Sunday,” claiming the party “has lost our way.”
Sanford specifically made reference to the debt, deficit and government spending. Other conservatives expressed concern about these issues when Trump helped Congress pass a spending bill that increases spending caps and suspends the debt ceiling, allowing for more government borrowing until July 31, 2021. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., blasted his colleagues at the time, saying it “marks the death of the Tea Party movement in America.”
Sanford also challenged Trump’s tactics when it comes to trade, saying that engaging the world when it comes to trade is “one of the hallmarks of the Republican Party.”
He also brought up political culture, which he said has been “damaged” by Trump. “We need to have a conversation about humility,” Sanford said, blasting Trump’s social media habits by claiming that a tweet “is not leadership.” …
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You're the one who lost his way when you took up with your Argentinian mistress in 2009 and ruined your marriage and political career.
You're not someone who is stable enough to be president.
We had lyin’ Ted. Now we’ve got wanderin’ Mark.
Was it then a democracy the framers created? Hardly. The system of restraints, on the face of it, was directed not only against individual tyrants, but also against a tyranny of the masses. The framers were well aware of the danger posed by self-seeking demagogues—that they might persuade a majority of the people to confer on government vast powers in return for deceptive promises of economic gain. And so they forbade such a transfer of power—first by declaring, in effect, that certain activities are outside the natural and legitimate scope of the public authority, and secondly by dispersing public authority among several levels and branches of government in the hope that each seat of authority, jealous of its own prerogatives, would have a natural incentive to resist aggression by the others.It is extremely dangerous to forget our own history, and the character our government is supposed to have.
But the framers were not visionaries. They knew that rules of government, however brilliantly calculated to cope with the imperfect nature of man, however carefully designed to avoid the pitfalls of power, would be no match for men who were determined to disregard them. In the last analysis, their system of government would prosper only if the governed were sufficiently determined that it should. “What have you given us?” a woman asked Ben Franklin toward the close of the Constitutional Convention. “A Republic,” he said, “if you can keep it!” We have not kept it. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative, chapter 2
(I)t is quite clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost—if not quite—one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. …
— Woodrow Wilson, “Socialism and Democracy”
How’s that Brazilian babe working out for him, and does she really have a ‘Brazilian’. OUCH!
This guy should run for a House or Senate seat if he wants to promote his agenda in Washington. President Trump is not the problem here. The feckless, phony GOP @ssholes in Congress who never stood firm to advance even a semblance of fiscal responsibility are.
The Onion, Faux News . . . hard to tell these days.
Does he hold the same view of Israel as the “Palestinian” you mentioned? I didn’t look that up.
That locks up the Argentina vote.
“No, we are not a democracy and are not supposed to be. We are supposed to be a republic.”
We are a representational democracy, as well as a constitutional democracy as well as a democratic republic. What we are not is a “direct democracy”, which is what your text alluded to.
I think Justin Amash is a Trump hater, period. He used those reasons as a convenient cover for his hate.
Many Freepers pound themselves on the back to enhance personal self esteem by dissing Republicans when the only way for conservatism to thrive is from within a viable Republican party.
By sanctinonous puritanism, conservatives lose rather than gain strength.
Intolerance should be left to the leftist that plague America
If anything the Age of Trrump has taught us is that the GOP has exactly zero interest in representing conservatives or defending our Constitutional rights.
So now it’s “puritan” to expect those Republicans I vote for to defend our borders and not support police state tactics? Amazing how far the GOP has fallen if that is the case.
You are totally delusional. Progressive Democrats and their corportist allies running the GOP thank you for your support
Agreed. Both parties are jokes and both do not respect or represent the People of the USA. There should be no worshipping of candidates nor parties.
Sanford
Weld
Walsh
This is great, all D-listers a(at most) watering down the 5% anti-Trump vote.
Shutting down the primaries makes little sense. Another talking point for the left- “See! They want a dictatorship!”
D as in de-facto Democrats.
You mean they lost their way on The Appalachian Trail?
I don't disagree that Amash has detested Trump all along, and I can't begin to guess what his entire motivation is. But Amash was also a fierce opponent of deficits and government spending. And in that he has always been at odds with just about the entire Republican party in Washington. For Sanford to claim the GOP was the party opposed to "debt, deficit and government spending" ignores their history. Sanford's hatred of Trump is also personal and has nothing to do with fiscal positions.
The funniest thing of all is once he resigned, his Argentinian “soulmate” was no longer interested in him.
Go take a hike, Sanford.
Methinks the GOP and minions like Sanford should revisit what it means to be an American.
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