I think what a lot of freepers here are lamenting is not the loss of Massie persay, but the destruction of the establishment GOP.
For so many narcissistic politicians like Massie, it was easy to be an establishment Rino and spout high minded ideals throwing occasional bones to the base. Then came Trump, the non politician who destroyed their comfortable establishment club.
This primary season has been a glorious sight to behold. I don’t believe MAGA is going away anytime soon. Its gaining momentum. Case in point: Ken Paxton despite his flaws, embodies MAGA and with the Presidents endorsement just shot up 22 points overnight.
You know how hard this has hit is the fact that Cornyn’s buddy, Thune, another endangered Rino, has just closed the Senate down while valuable legislation sits idle. The equivalent of grabbing ones toys and running home to mommie.
MAGA has power. Sharp and decisive like a volcano. Thune would be well advised to take note. But like Massie, he is a narcissistic political animal. I doubt he will heed the warning of this Vesuvius beginning its eruption.
Last night when I saw the 22-point upward soar for Paxton I was ... YIPPEE!
Sadly, Thune isn’t up for re-election until 2028.
but the destruction of the establishment GOP.
Oh how I pray this be true!
But I fear that not the case.
Whether you call it the establishment GOP, the party elite, RINOs, the Republican wing of the uniparty or my new term TRUE BLUE Republicans, we are talking about the same folk.
GOPe is not being destroyed.
Trump is whacking the deadest wood off the tree of tyranny.
The old guard is fighting so hard because they know once whacked there will be no political future.
Lezzie Cheney, Kinzinger, Cassidy et al have no political future.
Their new found friends in the Marxist wing of the uniparty will give them a few good words and hardy handshake and send them packing.
Fetterman might have an opportunity to go from Democrat to Republican but that opportunity doesn't exist for the dead wood chopped away by Trump.
Trump won because he didn't need the GOPe to execute a hostile takeover of the Republican national ballot slot for POTUS.
He didn't need the GOPe endorsements nor did he need their stinkin' donor base.
The establishment GOP will likely rise again come 2028 because they have a donor base with infinite amounts of cash to burn.
They burned 100 million on Jeb 1.0 and burned more than that on Jeb 2.0 and got virtually nothing in the way of delegates.
Whether it is Rubio, the guy with General Zod beard or Jeb 2.0 that gets the big bucks this time around remains to be seen.
It is likely they will spread some seed money around to hedge their bets until they figure out which one has the most traction.
MAGA may have the power to beat their "chosen" one if a candidate can harness the MAGA enthusiasm.
Much of the credit for Trump's three victories came by way of the amount of MAGA enthusiasm he was able to harness from being ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT.
I will never forget Rush Limbaugh's reaction in the early days of Trump.
Rush was incredulous that Trump was on national TV trashing the yard gnome Karl Rove.
I don't see much if any MAGA DNA in any of the three candidates so oft mentioned on this forum and in Elite Stream Media.
At this point I am putting my hopes on Tulsi Gabbard to step up and harness that anti-establishment enthusiasm.
I know this, she will get a ton of hate not only on this forum but from GOP establishment making the same claims they made about Trump that she's not "conservative" and she's a former Democrat.
I'm fine with that.
The votes that I'm most proud of are the votes for former Democrats named Reagan and Trump.
And the votes for which I take no pride were for life long Republicans and self-proclaimed "conservatives" who committed the ultimate act of betrayal for either voting for Hillary Clinton or not voting or writing in a name but there is no record of Bushes named George claiming to have voted for Trump.