Posted on 01/03/2025 12:03:04 PM PST by RandFan
“I have a team of 90 political operatives i’m ready to put to work to take out Ralph Norman and I know every inch of the district like the back of my hand. He doesn’t support MAGA and he’s an embarrassment to South Carolina,” wrote Wesley Donehue, a veteran South Carolina GOP strategist, in an X post.
That prompted Mick Mulvaney, a former chief of staff to President-elect Donald Trump who represented the district before Norman, to reply: “I might know a little about SC5. How can I help?”
Norman, along with GOP Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Keith Self (Texas), initially banded together to seemingly deny Johnson the speakership on the first ballot. But after a long break, Norman and Self flipped their votes to back Johnson, handing him the speaker's gavel.
Norman has held office since succeeding Mulvaney in 2017.
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Mullaney was one of the first to turn his back on Trump after the 2020 election. Total opportunist.
Norman, Timmons, and Duncan answer only to the multinational corporations doing business in South Carolina. With open primaries in the Palmetto State, it would be hard to primary these jerks out.
Some of these people do this to make a name for themselves. This name is now “known” and people will know how to vote next time.
Guys like Donahue need to be vetted first, all to often we get snookered by nice talk and no action or someone who reverts to RINO-ism (Eyepatch I’m lookin at you).
But if he’s the real deal, then he needs the support from Elon Musk who can support him as an X influencer, and from people like Charlie Kirk who can teach him how to put the ground game together.
In short we need to start become the Strategic Party rather than the Stupid Party.
I learned from here to not just trust someone saying the right things in politics.
Too many sound so conservative.
And then they are not.
I look for past articles about them and past votes if they are in congress.
They’re tricky buggers :)
IMO. Massie stayed true to his constituency He did what he said he would.
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