Posted on 09/13/2026 5:49:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema questioned whether there is still room for moderates in the Democratic Party, saying it was made "clear" they didn’t want her there before she abandoned her Democratic affiliation and became an independent.
"The reason I left was because the party had decided they wanted to pursue a track of short-term gain and really sacrificing kind of longer-term issues around democracy, like the filibuster," she said Saturday on "My View with Lara Trump." "And they very much made it clear that they didn't really want me there. And so I left, which made me happy, and I think made them happy."
"But I'm not sure that there's more room for others who are moderate or conservatives left there... That's unfortunate because the majority of Americans actually live in that moderate or fiscally conservative middle," she added.
Sinema, who was elected to both the House and Senate as a Democrat before becoming an independent, said she left the party after Democrats pursued what she characterized as immediate political gains at the expense of longer-term institutional concerns, specifically citing the filibuster.
She also contrasted the party she joined with the growing Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) movement, which she said is rooted in principles that do not reflect the "historic Democratic Party."
Sinema said that when she entered Congress in 2012, she was a "blue dog," a coalition she described as fiscally conservative and socially moderate. There were a lot more traditional liberal Democrats at that time, she said, stating that the DSA is something else entirely.
"It's really rooted in tenets of socialism, which is not reflective of the historic Democratic Party. So it's hard to tell whether it's a hijacking or whether it is actually the movement of the voters' opinions," she said.
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The way to look at it is the DSA is getting used by el sayed et al and they will get shoved aside like wimps on a playground for whom the bullies no longer have use. A New York second after the election
THE El Sayeds, et al. don’t have enough voter support without an incredible amount of vote fraud, which will not be allowed (by PDJT National Emergency order) even in this midterm election round.
The Islamists will before long be denaturalized out of eing able to vote in large numbers, due to their violating oaths of citizenship. Taqqiyah will not be their get-out-of-jail-free card.
Well…that’s the other scenario. But Synema is being naive in any case
Salvageable like Fetterman, but she has to break away entirely while acknowledging the Democrat Party is now an organized crime organization where voluntary membership at this point of history makes one a self-outed criminal.
Being “Independent” while voting with the Democrats doesn’t cut it. Just get out, do “Only Fans” while your looks last and wisely invest your earnings. Thank you for your service.
+4 in the Senate.
That ship sailed ages ago. The last “moderates” were the Blue Dogs of the 1990s.
That was too close for comfort and should make anyone with eyes to see the Democrats will remove the filibuster faster than the turtle will be officially declared dead.
Which brings up Thune. Why is he still leader when it only takes five Republicans with love for their country to start replacement? He’s such an obvious tool and traitor to our nation’s better interests that one doesn’t have to spend last night in a Holiday Inn Express to see it.
I’d rather fail trying than go out being the person who could have saved us but didn’t. History does not forgive.
Former....
If she was paying attention, this shouldn’t be a surprise.
The Senate is nothing but an expensive can kicking club.
Just start calling it the CPUSA....
I believe this is the first time I’m agreeing with her...
You mean help with her abnormalities of mental illness.
Their goal is communism. They may not fully grasp what it is, but all they support and push including the very fact of government regulation (hence, their tool is fascism) is communist.
Perhaps they’d lack regulation at first regarding immoral sex acts, which is what they do indeed embrace along with the hippie revolutions of the ‘60s, which also was a revolution for communism.
But basically yes, they are anti-American. That is the number 1 reason for being.
Hater Trators have never had a place in the USA. They hate it and their only “place” is to change it to their desire.
Not my baby!
BWAHAHahahaha.
As if BOTH parties hadn’t merely shifted further LEFT.
(D) to full on Communist, (R) to Socialist (’too big to fail’/NCLB/TSA => $5k ‘national dividend’/love of the police state, I mean Flock, $40T+ debt, etc.
Boy, that ‘lesser of 2 evils’ is REALLY working out well, ain’t it?! /s
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