Posted on 02/27/2023 6:19:55 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
I think that red state Republicans have it easy and can afford to be soft. Or at least they think they can. And so they often are. I think that in the blue states, we Republicans have to fight. I can literally go days not talking to anyone who thinks like us who is not a super-hot Cuban woman.
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Could someone explain the 'hot Cuban women quote'? Are they ours?
Sensitivity training overkill.
Because they team up with the Democrats and rule the conservative-leaning state, together, against the minority of truer conservatives.
It’s party time!
Even when he is standing on tippy-toes?
Most elected republicans are afraid of some talking head on tv saying something mean about them.
Many of them have been in office and “professional politics” too long. They’ve been captured by the Beltway & “special interests” often they don’t know it or have rationalized their way around it. Best example of the top of my head - Lindsay Graham.
Big government FREEBIES FOR ALL. Most people want social safety nets and have given up on personal responsibility.
Voters want pork. Lots and lots of it.
An old example:
https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2023/feb/26/legislators-and-racicot-reflect-his-exit-montana-r/
Payback for 6 year senators needs to be in the cards. 2026-Cassidy, Linda, Tillis need to go. Who will step up and will PRIMARY voters remember? They didn’t with McSally.
Primary voters couldn’t save Gardner, Perdue, Loeffler. Lamar Alaxendar and Sasse saw fit to get out. We need to take a bigger dump.
My theory is simpler: they have had safe seats for so long they are corrupt, being wholly bought by the corporate donor class who have always been -at best- RINOs. They don't care about culture and having been educated at many of the same colleges and universities as the Left, share much of the same culture. As long as the donor class get their tax breaks, cheap illegal labor, and outsourcing they're happy.
Best example of the top of my head - Lindsay Graham.
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Prime example of talk a lot do little. Mr I’m gonna do ……….
Republican politicians do not work for voters. They work for the wealthy donor class, which benefits from imposing government regulations on any aspiring competitors.
Nowadays, being a hard Republican is not for cowards.
You got that right. All the so-called Republicans running for office a just “DemocRATS Lite”.
So true. Most politicians who come to DC quickly contract an incurable case of Potomac Fever. They become representatives of DC, not the states they come from.
Becoming a player in the Swamp is an intoxicating environment for politicians regardless of political orientation. Once there they never want to leave.
Schlichter argues it’s because many conservative leaning state Republicans don’t have to fight.
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Republicans in general don’t fight because they have no core beliefs or convictions. Like the old saying goes “If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for everything.”
They are like flotsam, just drifting along with the current.
The GOP = The Little Engine That Can’t, And Doesn’t Want To.
I live in Oklahoma. These Red State Republicans folded and did mask mandates lock down and recommend vaccinations and boosters. If they didn’t go along they were outspent in their primary with big Healthcare lobby money.
Sounds like Kurt Schlichter is in Camp DeSantis.
Can't blame him.
I have known some very principled Congressmen over the years—who served exactly one term.
The special interests in their district either crushed them in a primary or a general election, depending on the district.
Their colleagues got the message—obey or get your bags packed.
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