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GOP senator warns his party must decide between 'conservatism and madness'
The HIll ^ | 02/04/21 08:36 PM EST | BY ALEXANDER BOLTON

Posted on 02/05/2021 10:16:12 AM PST by RandFan

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), who's said he may vote this month to convict former President Trump on an article of impeachment, is pushing back against possible retaliation from the Nebraska Republican State Central Committee by warning that his party must choose between “conservatism and madness.”

Sasse on Thursday released a five-minute video responding to Republican officials back home who want to censure him at a Republican State Central Committee meeting on Feb. 13 because of his criticism of Trump.

He warned that purging Trump skeptics from the GOP is “not only civic cancer for the nation [but] just terrible for our party.”

Sasse, who didn’t support Trump’s candidacy in 2016 or 2020, dismissed his critics in the state party as “angry about life” and out of step with regular Nebraskans.

“I listen to Nebraskans every day and very few of them are as angry about life as some of the people on this committee. Not all of you, but a lot," Sasse said in the video. "Political addicts don’t represent most Nebraska conservatives."

Sasse is one of several Republican officeholders under attack for criticizing Trump.

Sasse called the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol “ugly," and said the “shameful mob violence to disrupt a constitutionally mandated meeting of the Congress to affirm … peaceful transfer of power” was a result of Trump spreading lies about the results of the 2020 election.

“It happened because the president lied to you. He lied about the election results for 60 days, despite losing 60 straight court challenges, many of them handed down by wonderful Trump-appointed judges,” Sasse said.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Nebraska
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sASSe again...

I cut most of the quotes out from his video if you want to read it then click excerpt link.

1 posted on 02/05/2021 10:16:12 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Sit down ben you POS.


2 posted on 02/05/2021 10:17:26 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: rktman

Sasse seems to be an expert on madness.


3 posted on 02/05/2021 10:20:28 AM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: RandFan

P***y!


4 posted on 02/05/2021 10:21:01 AM PST by hattend
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To: RandFan

When the Repubs are left wondering in 2022 why they got their asses handed to them yet again, they can harken back to comments by Sasse’s.


5 posted on 02/05/2021 10:21:15 AM PST by ScottinVA (Enough. Divide the country.. now. )
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To: RandFan

I take it Sasse is admitting that he represents the “Madness” wing of the party?


6 posted on 02/05/2021 10:21:26 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them wthaith a pitchfork!)
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To: RandFan

The country has chosen to accept madness by letting Biden sit in the White House.


7 posted on 02/05/2021 10:21:49 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: RandFan

He’s right, but 180 degrees out of phase.

Embracing madness is the globalism he backs, conservatism is conserving the Constitution and traditional America.


8 posted on 02/05/2021 10:22:13 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: RandFan

Then I choose madness! Groyp groyp groyp!


9 posted on 02/05/2021 10:22:39 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

I’m guessing Sasse is on the side of madness? He’s definitely no conservative.


10 posted on 02/05/2021 10:22:49 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Keep the Faith. Everything happens for a reason.)
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To: RandFan

Since Sasse wouldn’t know conservatism if it slapped him in the face, I assume that he is supporting the madness.


11 posted on 02/05/2021 10:23:48 AM PST by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: RandFan

Ben Sade, a general leading an Army of None.


12 posted on 02/05/2021 10:23:53 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: RandFan

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), who’s said he may vote this month to convict former President Trump on an article of impeachment, is pushing back against possible retaliation from the Nebraska Republican State Central Committee by warning that his party must choose between “conservatism and madness.


Obviously Sasse chooses madness


13 posted on 02/05/2021 10:23:55 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: RandFan

They are Ben, that is why they are pushing to censure you! We don’t need traitors like you in the party sir! Just wish there was a way to excommunicate people who betray the public like you have fro the party


14 posted on 02/05/2021 10:24:15 AM PST by Bob434
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To: RandFan

The former GOP of the Uniparty are using the tactics of the RATs and Marxists. Double talk to mess with our minds is an art form, and they’re learning quickly.


15 posted on 02/05/2021 10:24:21 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (They HAD to kill somebody for their plan to work. RIP Ashli.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

If party members can’t even elect a conservative Senator in Nebraska, those who claim that the GOP can be taken over by conservatives are deluding themselves. You can rage against the machine but you cannot defeat it from within. You need to take it head on from the outside. Patriot Party 2022.


16 posted on 02/05/2021 10:25:02 AM PST by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: RandFan

True. And the Dems have the same choice.


17 posted on 02/05/2021 10:25:02 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: RandFan
Hey Ben!

WE are Conservatives!

YOU are mad!

18 posted on 02/05/2021 10:25:48 AM PST by G Larry (Authority is vested in those to whom it applies.)
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To: RandFan

Sissy is insane, so I think I’ll choose conservatism.


19 posted on 02/05/2021 10:26:21 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: littleharbour

+1000


20 posted on 02/05/2021 10:26:30 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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