Posted on 01/20/2024 6:58:52 AM PST by Golden Eagle
Former President Donald Trump‘s penchant for punishing GOP detractors is trickling down to Congress as some of his most ardent supporters are using loyalty to the former president as a litmus test for the Republican Party.
Since launching his bid for the 2024 presidential election, Trump has kept a continuous calculation of those who have thrown their support behind him and, more importantly, those who have not. For those who have considered other candidates, the former president has been quick to decry their disloyalty and even vow to make them suffer politically.
“Bob Good won’t be electable when we get done with him,” Chris LaCivita, a senior adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign, told the Cardinal News.
That threat is in reference to Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good (R-VA), who threw his support behind Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) last year. The endorsement has angered Trump and his allies, with several falling in line behind the president to target the Virginia Republican.
“Here we have Bob Good, who has doubled down on his endorsement for DeSantis and his clear disdain and hate for President Trump,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a staunch supporter of Trump, told the Washington Examiner. “He doesn’t think President Trump is electable. Bob Good is disloyal, which means you can’t trust him. People need to know this.”
Good brushed off Greene’s comments, arguing that he would rather focus on government spending and securing the border rather than internal disputes.
“I don’t have time to waste commenting on every silly comment made in a House Conference meeting or on Twitter/X,” Good told the Washington Examiner in a statement. “But if members are looking to punish conservatives for trying to keep our promises, good luck keeping a majority.”
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WIKI
Throughout the winter, spring, and summer of 1940, there was much speculation as to whether Roosevelt would break with longstanding tradition and run for an unprecedented third term. The two-term tradition, although not yet enshrined in the Constitution, had been established by George Washington when he refused to run for a third term in 1796; other former presidents, such as Ulysses S. Grant in 1880 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 had made serious attempts to run for a third term, but the former failed to be nominated, while the latter, forced to run on a third-party ticket, lost to Woodrow Wilson due to the split in the Republican vote. President Roosevelt refused to give a definitive statement as to his willingness to be a candidate again, and he even indicated to some ambitious Democrats, such as James Farley, that he would not run for a third term and that they could seek the Democratic nomination. However, as Nazi Germany swept through Western Europe and menaced the United Kingdom in the summer of 1940, Roosevelt decided that only he had the necessary experience and skills to see the nation safely through the Nazi threat. He was aided by the party’s political bosses, who feared that no Democrat except Roosevelt could defeat the popular Willkie.
At the July 1940 Democratic Convention in Chicago, Roosevelt easily swept aside challenges from Farley and John Nance Garner, his vice-president. Garner was a Texas conservative who had turned against Roosevelt in his second term because of his liberal economic and social policies. As a result, Roosevelt decided to pick a new running mate, Henry A. Wallace from Iowa, his Secretary of Agriculture and an outspoken liberal. That choice was strenuously opposed by many of the party’s conservatives, who felt Wallace was too radical and “eccentric” in his private life to be an effective running mate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_United_States_presidential_election
Exactly my thinking. DeSantis is the SOLE presidential candidate out there fighting against the homo indoctrination in our schools, against gain of function research, and for a balanced federal budget. And on things like the border, which is supposedly Trump's main issue, DeSantis has not only said he WILL make Mexico pay for it, he'll arm the border with the National Guard and shoot on sight. He's far to the right of Trump, which is why some people don't like him, they simply can't stomach it.
DeSantis is like an understudy at the Metropolitan Opera.
His only chance is if the star is stricken.
Jack Smith is trying to take Trump out of contention and deprive tens of millions of Americans of their effective right to vote.
Jack Smith thinks he has a chance of doing that, and so do Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley.
A 100% conservative rating doesn’t mean much lately.
If you support the left’s political persecution of Trump, then you aren’t a conservative.
If as a representative you support the left’s open border by not actively voting against policies encouraging more to travel here then you aren’t a conservative. If you vote for a bill that gives amnesty to any group here illegally then you are not a conservative.
If you vote for more spending and no budget cuts, then you aren’t a conservative.
If you aren’t loudly objecting to the continued imprisonment of the Jan 6th defendants, then you are not a conservative.
If you aren’t supporting legislation for more secure elections (voter ID) then you aren’t a conservative.
Therefore, if someone screams that a representative has a 100% conservative rating, I’ll have to research more deeply into their past voting record before just taking them at their word.
They all demonstrate such ‘conservative’ principals….
So loyality to Hillary, Biden, ANTIFA, BLM, HAMAS are okay?
Loyality to the DNC? Check
Obama, check
Biden, check
ANFITA, BLM, HAMAS, check
Loyality to the RNC, Trump - jail time.
The maggots are coming out of the woodwork. Phony conservativs being exposred daily.
That is what it is all about.
In the primary stage, support for other candidates other than the leader is fine as long as it is positive and strengthens the Republican team.
If Bob Good is a 100% conservative he wouldn’t be backing the want to be insider Ron DeSantis the lobbyists dream come true.
He’s just another one in it for the money train ride.
he is clueless how to do anything in the private sector withou a legion of advisors.
You meant "principles", right? Sorry, couldn't resist.
Yeah. This is not a division of the Republican party at all.
It is drawing a lone between conservatives (the heart and soul of the GOP — don’t forget, they were formed to fight slavery) and RINO’s. The latter need to be cut out and thrown to the side — let the hyenas of the DNC slaughter them.
I said in my post I don’t fully trust any politicians. And DeSantis is hardly the one with an “idol worship” issue...
You really ought to spend all this time itching all thing President Trump and find out what Christ said would need be!
Your savior Ron Duh-Saintis, on his mission to serve Jesus, is a Roman Catholic…. I have yet to hear him rebuke pappy Francis for including homosexuality as catholic doctrine. Oh and that doctrine of controlling climate change.. talke about demonic hubris. Wake up and get away from the spit and whittle joints.
Congressmen and Senators must be loyal to the Constitution and their constituents. Loyalty tests to a leader sound a little creepy to be honest. Everyone just needs to do their job.
That’s how you end up with a corrupted brain dead idiot for president.
By the time those folks figure that out, their wallets will be shut off for speaking out against the Feds. LOL
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