Posted on 07/07/2019 9:28:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI), who left the Republican Party earlier this week, would not rule out a run for president.
Partial transcript as follows:
TAPPER: What about the possibility of your running for president as a libertarian or some other ticket. I asked you about that four or five months ago and you didn’t rule it out. Is it possible you would run for president?
AMASH: I still wouldn’t rule anything like that out. I believe that I have to use my skills, my public influence where it serves the country best and I believe I have to defend the Constitution in whichever way works best and if that means doing something else, then I do that. But I feel confident about running in my district, I feel a close tie to my community, I feel — I care a lot about my community and I want to represent them in Congress.
TAPPER: When do you think you’ll make a decision about a possible presidential run?
AMASH: It is something people talk about all of the time. It is not something that is right on my radar right now. So I couldn’t tell you.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
More like “I” as in idiot
“Amash Won’t Rule Out a Run For President”
I haven’t ruled out a run for President either ... someone please alert the news media ... if necessary, I suppose I could trash Trump too, which might make them interested in me ... maybe I could even be an “expert” on Trump on CNN or MSNBC ...
He’s not running for President, he’s fund raising. He’ll maybe take in a few bucks from hopeless Never-Trumpers... maybe.
I would love to have him run so he could find out what the country feels about him.
Good. Run. Keep clogging up the other side so they don’t know who to get behind.
I already ruled it out for him...
Never Trumpers in the GOP establishment use the affectation of ideological purity as a cover for their real agenda. They might attack Trump for his lack of "conservative" purity on trade (even though tariffs vs. free trade is not a left/right issue), foreign policy (see above), and a balanced budget. Their opposition to Trump on any or all of the above are a sham, because these same people never attacked either Bush, McCain, Romney, etc for their lack of ideological purity on any issue.
Only Trump seems to be subject to this impossibly high ideological standard from the talking head peanut gallery. The real reason for their opposition to Trump has nothing to do with ideological purity and everything to do with a. Trump's persona, which they find offensive and b. the fact that he came out of the blue rather being vetted by the GOP establishment and the RNC, and c. he offends certain factions of the GOP that are as much in favor of open borders as any Democrat, albeit for economic rather than social reasons. In other words, they still resent Trump because he doesn't fit the Bush mold of what a Republican candiatate "ought" to be.
Hopefully, if anyone does pretend to run the the (alleged) right of Trump, voters will be able to see through the charade. Amash will doubly fail because the GOP establishment won't be able to stomach his libertarian foreign policy. What they were really hoping for was for another member of the Bush family or a political thereof to challenge him.
He and the GOPE he was a part of refused to budget in a fiscally-responsible way.
The budget is on the Congress. Amash won’t be able to run from his high spending ways under Ryan and before.
One thing I know for sure -I stand a better chance of being elected president than my idiot soon-to-be former representative does. Voted for him once, but he hasn’t earned my vote since.
Run ...hole run (read without the ellipses).
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