Posted on 11/29/2019 6:40:29 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp will likely tap business executive Kelly Loeffler to the U.S. Senate despite strong criticism from his conservative base over Loffler’s affiliation with Planned Parenthood, Stacey Abrams, and establishment Republicans, according to a report released Friday.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Friday that Kemp plans to tap business executive Loeffler next week as he will attempt to appeal to Georgia suburban women despite the conservative opposition to Loeffler.
Kemp’s potential nomination of Loeffler will defy President Donald Trump, prominent conservative organizations, and Georgia’s conservative base that helped Kemp get elected to the governor’s office.
Breitbart News has reported how Loeffler has concerning ties to Democrat icon Stacey Abrams, and also that Loeffler’s basketball team, the Atlanta Dream, has promoted the abortion provider Planned Parenthood. Loeffler has also donated $750,000 to Mitt Romney’s failed 2012 presidential campaign as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars to former Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) campaigns and PACs.
The Georgia governor’s nomination of Loeffler could also spark a contentious primary fight, as House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), Trump’s favorite for the seat, told the Journal-Constitution that he is “strongly” considering a run for the Senate seat if he is not picked.
Trump has reportedly lobbied Kemp to tap Collins three times in recent weeks. Trump expressed doubt over Loeffler, who remains politically untested.
Reports that Kemp will nominate Loeffler to the U.S. Senate has engendered outcry from conservatives in the House as well as across Georgia’s Republican base.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a strong ally of Trump and supporter of his America First policies, said that Kemp is “hurting President Trump” by nominating a business executive who donated “$700k plus to Mitt Romney and nothing to Trump until she wanted in the Senate?”
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A little too convenient that Bevin and Rispone lose in the same fashion.
You are so right. All of this early voting, stretching on for days and days, plus staggered reporting from various precincts just enables ballot manipulation. Following the results from Kentucky and Louisiana, it was eerie how large numbers of votes were dumped strategically at a opportune time, once essentially all of the votes from Republican counties/parishes were up to 100%. It just seems that the RATS know how to play this game for keeps and the GOP is too honest and naive for our/its own good.
Moreover, in this high tech age, it should not take hours to count votes. They ought to be tallied within no more than two hours tops.
Thanks for your response to my post and for sharing with me the case in point you observed from your experience in Virginia.
It’s a shame what has happened to the once-great Old Dominion.
Living in Maryland, I just hope that Pennsylvania comes through again next November, along with West Virginia and North Carolina (the only states near me that are left to save our Republic).
dear Jon... from our front page... ...independent, grass-roots conservatism... ...and to champion causes which further conservatism in America...
we appreciate your support for the Great DJT but, FR is a bad place to shun conservatism.
in what weird perverse world do those two things have anything to do with trashing conservativism on FR ?
Same here with Pat Toomey in Pennsy.
Just look at Louisiana....
7 out of 8 people that represent Louisiana in DC, are Republican’s.
60% of the state Legislature are Republican’s
Yet.......somehow a Democrat can barely squeak out a win.....not buying it.
Stacey Abrams hasn’t even conceded that he’s the governor. Anyone connected to her should be shut out of the halls of power. What a moron.
It’s not the political climate of Georgia, which remains bright red, as far as I know.
The estblishment exists still in Georgia. Its on life support but the remaining losers are still there trying so hard.
More than anything, the GOP needs to keep the establishment out of the Senate.
Huge mistake if Kemp makes that appointment of Loeffler.
Not the right time for such RINO-perigrination.
Something occurred to me when I got a look at the female.
Let’s suppose something happened between her and a certain governor, and a “suggestion” was made that there would be an expose.
Looking at her and her resume, there is no other reason for the governor’s stubbornness.
Deep State shenanigans is my guess.
It isn't about me shunning conservatives, it's more that I can't take the label seriously given every Republican presidential candidate from #41 on has claimed to be one. The guiding light of William F Buckley is long gone, replaced by Richard Lowry and his band of neocons. So no, I'm not a conservative, not because the philosophy is unappealing, but rather most of the practitioners use the label simply to get votes. I'm quite happy being a Trump voting, American populist who opposes endless war and foreign intervention in general. Ironically, I volunteered to make phone calls for the GOP this past election cycle. Not an easy thing for me, a former R who is now an independent. If it helps DJT, I'll do it gladly again, even as distasteful as I find helping hack politicians get reelected.
I haven't shunned conservatism, I simply recognize the degree to which the message has become diluted.
Everybody from Chicago and NYC is moving to Atlanta. Its a sad fact. They are now here voting to turn GA into the same chithole they left behind. i can understand Kemps strategerie as Rush would say but Loeffler has no name recognition. I guess he figures after two years of filli g Isaksons seat she will be well known enough to win another six years.
I was counting on Collins getting that offer... he has been really strong for Trump in all this 3 years mess from the dems. Kemp is looking like the establishment.. you’d think he would be in Trump’s corner and give him the man, Collins, who has fought for him...
Disappointed to say the least... he could have been a Trump carrier and did the right thing... but no, he had to go do something else.. it’s easy to do the right thing when the President is on your side in doing so... it stinks when they go off and forget this is a war..
Thanks for your knowledgeable and sensible post about Kelly Loeffler.
Great post. You covered everything except the fact that Loeffler has also donated to President Trump.
As for those other donations she made...all I can say is that Trump was a Hillary donor and it hasn’t stopped him from being a good President.
We can dislike the influence of money in politics all we want but that doesn’t change the fact that we need someone who can raise more money than the dems will spend to take this seat.
I, too, feel that I know the Governor well enough to give him the benefit of the doubt whether or not I favor his pick.
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