Posted on 03/08/2021 1:36:36 PM PST by cotton1706
Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt's surprise retirement announcement Monday adds his name to a growing list of GOP establishment politicians who no longer recognize the party they represent and have decided to walk away rather than face the peril of losing their career at the hands of a Donald Trump-inspired base that views them a insufficiently loyal to the cause.
To date, five Republicans senators -- Blunt, Richard Shelby (Alabama), Richard Burr (North Carolina), Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania) and Rob Portman (Ohio) -- have all announced that they will not seek another term next November. It's not a coincidence that all five are considered remnants of the Republican Party of George W. Bush and have struggled to adjust to the new Trump-led GOP.
"The rash of GOP retirements, likely to avoid Trump madness in the primaries, shows you Trump still isn't done destroying the party," tweeted conservative commentator (and CNN contributor) Amanda Carpenter after Blunt's retirement announcement. "Onwards we go."
The trend is hard to dispute.
Blunt, prior to Monday morning, was not seen as someone even considering not running again. He had spent a lifetime in politics -- including a stint in House leadership -- and is a close ally of Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (Kentucky). And with the Republican trend in Missouri, Blunt's path in a general election in 2020 is probably clearer than in either of his past two Senate bids.
But Blunt isn't a Trumper. In the wake of the January 6 US Capitol riot, Blunt said that Trump had been "clearly reckless" although he insisted, wrongly in retrospect, that "the President touched the hot stove on Wednesday and is unlikely to touch it again."
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Good riddance to bad rubbish roy blunt.
Dont let the door hit you on the way out...
Can’t wait to get rid of Burr out of NC. He can’t leave fast enough. 10th degree RINO.
When is Senor’ Grassley removing himself from further actions? Doesn’t he want to spend more time with his family?
“...and is a close ally of Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell....”
Well...., there ya go.
Bye, Bye...
Ditch’s fault.
'Nough said right there...
Blunt gets smoked.
God willing.
Richard Burr announced last summer he wasn’t running. Hardly breathless news.
Good riddance. HOPEFULLY we will have a solid conservative like Mark Walker win the nomination. Doesn’t have to be him but it has to be someone with pretty broad appeal to draw the purples and indies so as to dilute the blue cities.
Alrighty then
Saw a billboard driving into Charlotte Saturday that read:
"Thank you Senator Burr for upholding the Constitution"
I figured The Lincoln Project must have wasted some dollars on that one...
Embrace the loss of squish.
What a typical snide writeup by Cilizza. He tries to make a good thing sound like a bad thing. He’d never do that on the Dem side — of course he never would have to since Dems are normally in it for life.
Took the words and sentiment right out of my mouth.
It should probably be a permanent Trumpian SuperMajority.
The only reason it is not, is enormous amounts of spending by out of state Progressives, the ownership of most media by Progressives, and the dominance of the Tech Oligarchs against Constitutional limits on government power.
Watch them all endorse Dems for President going forward. Vile.
“Blunt, prior to Monday morning, was not seen as someone even considering not running again.”
Terrible writing. Chris didn’t get to where he is on talent.
Here’s an excerpt from a story at The Daily Caller:
Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Thursday that the Republican Party leadership doesn’t “like their own voters.”
“This really is the main problem, on the right anyway. The people who run the Republican Party don’t really like their own voters,” Carlson said on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “And they especially don’t want the voters that Trump brought,” Carlson continued. “Trump brought the party’s ranks noticeably downscale, ‘from the country club to the trailer park,’ as they often sneer. And this horrifies them. Many Republicans in Washington now despise the people they’re supposed to represent and protect.”
Carlson claimed that “socially anxious white professionals” feel contempt for “working-class people who look like them.”
“So if you want to understand the hatred, the real hatred, not just disagreement but gut level loathing and fear of Trump — in say New York or Washington or L.A. — you’ve got to understand that first. It’s not really Trump; it’s his voters. The new money class despises them,” Carlson said.
Supporting the GOP after 40 years of betrayal is the height of insanity. The GOP party needs to die and a new party take its place.
The GOP leadership hates patriotic Americans and it is long past time to return the favor.
posted on 1/9/2021, 6:49:07 AM by wildcard_redneck
WE do NOT have the time to sort out the good from the bad. Let the current GOP that allowed itself to decay from within to just die on it’s own. We will be paddling sand against the tide.
posted on 1/9/2021, 8:25:47 AM by ridesthemiles
Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee re-elected Ronna Romney McDaniel, the niece of the head RINO himself, Mitt Romney, to be its leader for the coming four years:
surely, the gop-e isn’t that tone deaf or stupid.....but I guess they are.
posted on 1/9/2021, 8:28:45 AM by ealgeone
Trump will be very successful in starting a new party, IMO.
The current GOP has caused the voters to lose faith in them.
Oh I was a politician at The Siege Of The Capital!
They walked through the halls with their American flags
We knew they wanted to talk to us about fraud
So we bravely fled or hid behind a chair
We would have prayed if we believed in God!
“The siege at the Capitol!
In the front lines of this terrible battle.
Hiding in a closet
From the citizen rabble
posted on 1/9/2021, 10:49:27 AM by blueunicorn6
Rove hated real conservatives in the party, hated the TEA Party and Trump. He even called Phyllis Schlafly the b-word at top GOP meetings.
So, good on Trump for throwing Rove into the stinky mix.
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