Posted on 07/02/2021 10:45:08 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Leading a state that went heavily for Donald Trump in the 2020 election and that has enacted some of the most aggressive laws on social issues, Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson in Arkansas has been in the national spotlight this year.
But not for embracing the state’s Trumpian turn. It’s for distancing himself from it.
At a time when red state governors like Ron DeSantis in Florida and Kristi Noem of South Dakota are carrying forward Trump’s rhetoric and policies, Hutchinson is doing the opposite. He’s taking a contrarian position that’s making him an outsider in the state party he helped build and that now could test whether there’s a path forward for ambitious Republicans in the reddest parts of the country that doesn’t rely on the former president. […]
Midway through his second term, Hutchinson, 70, would seem poised for a big move. He is to take over next week as chairman of the National Governors Association, a position that predecessors Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee used to launch their own White House bids. He’s started a political action committee that he said will help Republican candidates in next year’s midterm election.
He’s also become a fixture on cable television, defending his veto of legislation targeting transgender youths in the state and warning fellow Republicans about tying their fortunes too closely to Trump. …
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What does he have against prioritizing America’s interests over those of other nations?
How much of his $$$ is invested in China?
He’s been this way for some time. Something about Walton money and what to do when his term limits are up next year I’m sure have nothing to do with it. We’re tired of him and he knows it.
>> He is to take over next week as chairman of the National Governors Association, a position that predecessors Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee used to launch their own White House bids.
Not going to be president so this means nothing
The Walmart/Tyson state.
He’s term limited good riddance go Sarah.
Hutchinson, like those who think like him, want the GOP to go back to the old days when they told the voters one thing and once elected did the opposite. They are the GOPe and are the reason the GOP has lost so much over the last decades. They are not conservative and are truly Republicans in name only. If the party (and the country) is to survive, we must get rid of Hutchinson and those like him (Romney, Cheney, Sasse, McConnell, McCarthy etc)
So much promise in his early years too.. what a shame. He joins a long list of underperformers.
I hope he had the Gub’s office fumigated before he moved in to get all the Clinton cooties out of there.
“If Trump is the issue in 2022, we lose,”
It’s usually democrats that make those kind of statements. Costs them nothing when it’s wrong. Nothing specific as to the races we lose. Have him pick one and the bet his own money on his ‘wisdom’. That’ll shut them up.
Eh he may not be choosing...He may be being forced to make bad choices...Could Bribe? Blackmail? be involved???
Forced? I doubt it.
The RINO contingent has been around for decades, remember.
>>He’s started a political action committee that he said will help Republican candidates in next year’s midterm election.
Started a PAC?
Why not just put his muscle behind an existing PAC?
And which “Republican candidates”? Uniparty candidates in the primary vs “TEA Party” or Constitutionalists?
What’s hard to believe is just how many Republican leaders FREAK OUT when they are held to their promises and forced to actually represent the people who voted for them and how they feel they have to make a spectacle of themselves in letting everyone know.
Even Manchin, who obviously DESPISES the Democrat agenda as much as any Trump voter (otherwise, he’d be on board to end the filibuster) still keeps his hatred of the White House to himself.
Asa has always been a mega-weenie. Trump was the best President in my lifetime for regular folks like me. And Asa is governor of a state crammed full of regular folks. I guess he he wants to hold on to his “elite” status. He always has been a smug SOB. . . throw him out!!!!
True, but the old timers have had lots of time to take bribes or be blackmailed...Could be carrot or stick...
Years ago, I considered him to wear a fairly White Hat— a fairly dependable conservative...
I never would have thot that as governor, he would veto a bill regarding transgender “care” for minors...Even a RINO would not necessarily do that.
IMHO a very large percentage of Washington has been corrupted either with carrot or stick. Nothing surprises me in 2021 :(
The New Deal, Dean Acheson wrote approvingly in a book called A Democrat Looks At His Party, “conceived of the federal government as the whole people organized to do what had to be done.” A year later, Mr. (Arthur) Larson wrote A Republican Looks At His Party, and made much the same claim in his book for modern Republicans. The “underlying philosophy” of the New Republicanism, said Mr. Larson, is that “if a job has to be done to meet the needs of the people, and no one else can do it, then it is the proper function of the federal government.”Like I said before, this has been going on for decades. The RINOs fake things to get votes, keep some promises and break most.
Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by either of them to the Constitution, or any attempt to define the legitimate functions of government. The government can do whatever needs to be done; note, too, the implicit but necessary assumption that it is the government itself that determines what needs to be done. We must not, I think, underrate the importance of these statements. They reflect the view of a majority of the leaders of one of our parties, and of a strong minority among the leaders of the other, and they propound the first principle of totalitarianism: that the State is competent to do all things and is limited in what it actually does only by the will of those who control the State. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), Chapter 2, page 15
Asa was on Tucker a while back. Let’s say that his intellect is akin to the 7 watt bulbs that coal miners used to use.
So you believe that they are honest, they just don’t share same political view?
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