Posted on 01/31/2021 2:02:39 PM PST by Hojczyk
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), one of the ten Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump, is launching a political action committee (PAC) to challenge leadership in the GOP still aligned with the former president.
Kinzinger, who was once part of the 2010 class of Tea Party Republicans, said the Capitol Hill riots on January 6 was the straw that broke the camel’s back for the direction of the Republican Party, dividing those who wanted to move towards autocracy and those who wanted to return to a path of traditional conservatism, the Washington Post reported.
Kinzinger formally introduced his Country 1st PAC in a Sunday Meet the Press interview, followed by a six-minute campaign-style video launching what he hopes will transform the party from its current state.
“The reality is this: This is a time to choose … And my goal in launching Country1st.com is just to say, look, let’s take a look at the last four years, how far we have come in a bad way, how backward-looking we are, how much we peddle darkness and division,” Kinzinger said on the program.
“And that’s not the party I ever signed up for. And I think most Republicans didn’t sign up for that,” he added.
“Republicans must say enough is enough. It’s time to unplug the outrage machine, reject the politics of personality, and cast aside the conspiracy theories and the rage,” Kinzinger says in the launch video.
He also called politicians such as Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) “political terrorists.”
Kinzinger says he is not vying for leadership in the GOP or some form of higher office. His goal is just to drive the conspiracy theorists and racists out of the Republican Party.
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How much does it cost the PAC to process a credit card transaction. I would like to donate a $10.00, in 1cent transactions.
I understand. But whose going to run in the primary? Everyone in the district has watched him for 10 years. It’s not today he’s started this crap. And yet NOBODY has challenged him. Who will now?
Very outer edge of Chicagoland in an arc from Wisc to Indiana.
Not sure about the composition.
What % did Trump win this guy’s district by?
How was this guy part of the TEA PARTY?!?!
How many more folks pretended to be what they weren’t to get elected back then?
A new Donkey Otay, Man of La Manchin, dreamin the impossible dream.
Trump 56/40
Would be helpful if we heard from a freeper in his district to know what his chances are.
“The reality is this: This is a time to choose … And my goal in launching Country1st.com is just to say, look, let’s take a look at the last four years, how far we have come in a bad way, how backward-looking we are, how much we peddle darkness and division,” Kinzinger said on the program.
He also called politicians such as Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) “political terrorists.”
Kinzinger says he is not vying for leadership in the GOP or some form of higher office. His goal is just to drive the conspiracy theorists and racists out of the Republican Party.
What "darkness and division" specifically is he talking about? Alleging election fraud? What specifically did Jordan say or do that he objects to? Is he calling Jordan a racist? Or he is just throwing out random sentences that are designed to get attention?
Calling people racists without solid grounds for doing so is peddling "darkness and division". It is what's tearing the country apart - not Trump or his supporters, but irresponsible cretins like Kinzinger who run around calling everyone racist at the drop of a hat. People who throw the "racist" label around that way don't belong in the Republican party. Or if they do belong, then I don't belong.
That MI Congressman who was thinking about running against Trump was Tea Party supposedly.
Yep, no personality attacks, rage, division there. /S
It’s cute how he thinks people will vote for him...
Dude’s got Jeff Flake Syndrome, Stage 4.
Exactly. The dude is a big time chump.
I’m not really a traditional conservative I hate my job being outsourced by Bain capital and fighting wars we are getting stuck in with no end in sight for 20 years
Illannoy.
I wonder when and where this starfish went wrong. Maybe he and Romney got to knobbing each other and fell in love?
Good luck with that.
Or he could throw in with the Lincoln Project
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