Posted on 02/10/2021 7:06:48 PM PST by RandFan
(Reuters) - Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party, four people involved in the discussions told Reuters.
The early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump, ex-Republican ambassadors and Republican strategists, the people involved say.
More than 120 of them held a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the breakaway group, which would run on a platform of “principled conservatism,” including adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law - ideas those involved say have been trashed by Trump.
The plan would be to run candidates in some races but also to endorse center-right candidates in others, be they Republicans, independents or Democrats, the people say.
Evan McMullin, who was chief policy director for the House Republican Conference and ran as an independent in the 2016 presidential election, told Reuters that he co-hosted the Zoom call with former officials concerned about Trump’s grip on Republicans and the nativist turn the party has taken.
Three other people confirmed to Reuters the call and the discussions for a potential splinter party, but asked not to be identified.
Among the call participants were John Mitnick, general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security under Trump; former Republican congressman Charlie Dent; Elizabeth Neumann, deputy chief of staff in the Homeland Security Department under Trump; and Miles Taylor, another former Trump homeland security official.
Asked about the discussions for a third party, Jason Miller, a Trump spokesman, said: “These losers left the Republican Party when they voted for Joe Biden.”
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“Principled” ?????????/
I will laugh a long time over that adjective.....
They also have NO IDEA about the current CONSERVATIVE American voter & what we seek in LEADERS.
NOT one of those named so far appeal to me in ANY way , shape or form.
Pontificating Platitudes from on high & spending every penny we get taxed, plus more, and leaving us with phony results has been exposed...BY TRUMP.
I am over 81. I NEVER have seen support at rallies by ANY candidate other than Trump. Never will from anyone else, I suspect.
Trump knows what it is to sign the FRONT of a paycheck...
A life long politicians only knows how to open up another hidden bank account to collect more graft.
WE are not going back.
We will GO GALT first.
We keep the party infrastructure.... they start from scratch
And may the door hit them as they bail.
Yeh that’ll work. 🙄
Go for it, can’t wait to see how that works out.
The Bull Moose Party? Sure worked for TR. Or how about the Country Club Christmas Party. They stand for whites only country clubs, nail-your-secretary-and-get-a-drink-free Christmas parties at said clubs, and only associating with their sort of people. But the title’s too long. How about...uh...um...the Whine and Dine Party?
We take away blue collar working class people, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Jews, and women. Whatever’s left, the other two parties can fight over and welcome to it.
This is just tooooo gooood!
You know, I read a number of articles recently and so many are pure propaganda. Either that or it is just my brain that has left the reservation....Never Trumpers were the ones standing for conservatism and the Constitution? I would love for these *sshats to show me when Boehner, Ryan, Romney, Mccain did EITHER of these two things. They were in high positions and could have seized on the exact same voters that now love Trump and they CHOSE to ignore us.
We’re all cultists, worshiping Trump. Oh, nose!/s
Working on it!! :)
What is ‘infrastructure’ in this context?
PAC money?
Mailing lists?
Internet marketing?
Shills in the Swamp?
That all can be wiped out in a flash by grassroots Americans who have come into awareness.
Example: Shelby Busch and Steve Robinson of We the People Arizona Alliance started recently out of their homes with a simple website and WITHIN 48 hours held a rally of several thousands of impassioned grassroots who went on to quickly form an army of a thousand volunteers who hit the streets setting up booths, traveling the roads, each signing hundreds more. Now they are ready to throw out by recalling the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and seize power from the AZ GOP establishment.
Is that not ‘infrastructure’ because if it’s not, then why is it scaring the bejeezus out the GOP oligarchs?
To these GOP establishment fakers, such grassroots defiance is viewed as an insurrection, sound familiar?
And it’s not just these two, it’s sprouting up around the country.
Sending you freepmail.
Another “Green” party? Will they even get on the ballot with less that 1% support. Maybe they can run Jeb or kasich or Mitt.
I nearly choked on the irony.
:D
Forgive me if my laughter sounds cracked
Forgive me if I smile badly
It’s only that I’ve run off the track
Derailed by the irony
The Horsemen Arrive /Blue Oyster Cult
That’s what I thought, too. But now the RINOs are heading for the exit, and Trump will remain with his 80 million and counting.
Col. Lloyd Garrison believed that because the Constitution tolerated slavery, it was a pact with the Devil, and that it was therefore the duty of the Christian states, if they were sincerely opposed to slavery, to secede from the Union. Boy was he wrong.
Same thing’s happening again. The party swamp is draining itself, sort of like a toilet, and it’s possible to look forward to a new, brighter toilet bowl, with that blue stuff sanitizing everything, until the next bunch of turds come along and stink the place up again. Until that day, the Republican Party with all its institutions, IS the Patriot Party. It won’t last, but the foundation is what’s needed.
The toilet bowl is the drain-able part of it, and the Trumpists are the revolution for this 20 year period. The turds are gone, but at most for 20 years. They’ll be back. They’d eventually take over the Patriot Party. It would take longer, but it will take longer to set up a Patriot’s Party, too.
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