Let's start with what it wouldn't be, and that is a useless, nearly guaranteed to fail, primary.
Here's your odds. Tell me where you'd begin.
Posted on 02/14/2021 2:52:00 AM PST by nikos1121
Dang, has Keystone XL controversy been going on this long?
“Keystone XL Pipeline
See also: United States Senate runoff in Louisiana, 2014/Keystone Pipeline
Long-time supporters of the Keystone XL Pipeline, Landrieu and Cassidy spear-headed the effort to approve the completion of the project. The House passed Cassidy’s bill, H.R.5682, by a vote of 252-161 on November 14, but the pipeline bill was defeated in the Senate 59-41 on November 18.[35] Landrieu and Cassidy were vocal in their support for the completion of the Keystone XL Pipeline because of the economic benefits to the citizens of Louisiana.”
Right. When all else has failed, will I vote for either of those guys over a Democrat. Yea. I don’t live under the illusion that handing control of government to my liberal enemies somehow makes me courageous- just because I got to kick the Republican establishments butt in the process. My plan is for us to focus all of our energies on the primaries- more than in any years past & actually go about changing this party to something more Trumpian/ populist conservative. If after the fiasco of the 2020 election- we would focus our attention on the midterm primaries & selecting non incumbent/ anti establishment candidates- we could wrest control of this party from the elites. Things could change if we were productive
But voting for a hundred different parties that can’t attract much support & hand elections over to people who would like to eliminate me & my country would not be a victory by any definition! Quit being a bomb thrower & work to change things. But that of course takes actual effort. Something tells me you aren’t up to the task! 😉🙄
Cassidy was just reelected.
And LA has a jungle primary, which will make beating him very hard as democrats would be free to support him in a runoff if he makes the top 2.
I'm not sure about that. McConnell, for example, voted against impeachment, but it certainly does not appear to have been out of loyalty to DJT. How many are like McConnell?
More nonsense.
My late (sainted) mother in her nineties was an active Tea Partier -- you remember them, don't you?
They were a big deal in 2010 and even 2016, where are they today?
In 2010 the Tea Party won about 1/3 of their races (40 of 130) and helped Republicans pick up 63 House seats, giving Republicans a 242 - 193 majority.
That was their high-water mark, iirc.
So now you want to do what -- replace the Tea Party with a MAGA Party?
Only the MAGA Party, instead of being conservative Republicans will be ANTI-Republicans?
And by splitting up the Republican votes, this will help restrain Democrats' insanity how, exactly?
🤣 Go Sasse🤣😂
Unlike some others, I don't think I know what "really happened" on November 3 and January 6.
I do think Democrats stole the November 3 election and don't think President Trump "incited" insurrection on January 6.
But what really happened, factually, I don't know for sure.
Apparently some people do "know" the election was stolen (or not) while others "know" Trump "incited" insurrection (or not).
How, exactly, they "know" these things is still, still a mystery to me.
But here's what we do know for sure: some of those Republicans who voted to impeach were the usual suspects, "moderate" Republicans: Murkowski, Collins & Burr.
Those we might say voted to please their Democrat constituents.
Romney voted to impeach, doubtless, out of personal animosity.
That leaves Toomey, Sass & Cassidy, whose votes I can't explain -- except Toomey I know has long been a great disappointment to the Pennsylvania conservatives who elected him and he will not be running for reelection.
I wouldn't count on Pennsylvanians to find a serious electable conservative to replace Toomey.
Both Kentucky senators' (McConnel & Paul) voting records fall between Burr and Toomey, though plenty of others in that range also voted to acquit.
So McConnel (like Thune in SD) may have hoped for some form of "compromise" to satisfy "both sides".
I'm guessing that, as with some others, McConnel's leadership may be nearing its end.
The issue then will be whether Republicans go for another "moderate" to lead them, or for someone seriously more conservative.
In short, will we stick with the old Bush family model -- kinder, gentler, more compassionate conservatives -- or will we flip to the more populist MAGA model, maybe with a Tea Party alliance?
Personally, I like Trump's MAGA model, it should have won in 2020, we'll see how this all plays out...
Your "plan" and who is "us", you maroon? Who would join you and your "plan" anywhere? You're a one person parade cheering on the same, stale political "plan" that has brought "us" endless war and economic dependency on communist China. Your heroes are traitors and degenerates who will be mocked daily by me and others who see through people like you. So get used to being laughed at Pubbie, or resume your life under a rock :)
Since you so convinced that your way is the right way, I see no point in trying to convince you of anything different.
Hope you are happy with Mitch McConnell picking all the candidates for the next 6 years and driving the GOPE further into oblivion.
I realize that some people are resistant to change and will fight until their last breath to keep the old ways of business going.
Good luck with that, you will need it.
The only explaination for a “conservative” that hates Republicans more than Democrats & advocates throwing an election to the least conservative option is that you aren’t a conservative in the first place. Its not beyond reason nowadays to assume we have an organized movement of leftists on conservative sites trying to get us to do things that only benefit them. Sadly there are some low intelligence types that could be convinced to head over a cliff- usually just enough to throw an election- as in the Georgia Senate races. So, in the unlikely event that you are a real conservative & not a Democrat troll- what would your specific step by step plan to win the next election be? Details not rhetoric! 🤔
Is that ok, Pubbie?
The crazy thing is that McConnell is normally a fairly slick type, and his argument that Trump deliberately incited an “insurrection” amongst “hundreds” of his (Trump’s) followers is absurd on it’s face. What on earth purpose could such “incitement” accomplish, even IF it had been 10x more effective in recruiting similar “insurrectionists”?
Further, even assuming that, once the false flag types and just plain insane are weeded out of the “hundreds”, you still have 400 left, and assuming only 40 million citizens are true blue, er, red, MAGA / Trump people, that’s 0.001% of Trump supporters who interpreted the President’s statements as meaning they should go stage a revolt, and an utterly hopeless revolt at that. Protesting Congress’ proceedings is not a revolt, or else all the Dems who have supported things like interruptions of Congressional hearings have engaged in inciting insurrection themselves. And DJT in no way encouraged physical interruption of the Congress on Jan. 6. President Trump has always been a law and order type — it is one of the reasons I support him. So, we have 0.001% of the MAGA types who took the President’s comments as reason to riot, and the other 99.999% did not. I’m going with the obvious conclusion that the 99.999% got the correct and intended message. The other .001% — good grief, give me access to 40 million people (and in fact more like 100 million plus) and if I say “Bee-dop-ee-dop-ee-doo—boop-boop-a-doo, meet me in DC and support the red, white and blue” you can probably find 400 idiots who show up to cause trouble.
Let's start with what it wouldn't be, and that is a useless, nearly guaranteed to fail, primary.
Here's your odds. Tell me where you'd begin.
“Cassidy, how you like Beijing sweetie? Thank you for vote”. -CCP Contact
No, I asked you specifically what your plan is (realizing, of course, that you aren’t likely to give a specific answer because you don’t know & are more likely to tell folks what you wouldn’t do ). So you don’t want establishment conservatism. Neither do I. We know this. So you don’t like most incumbents & feel they’ve been corrupted or just don’t stand for anything. So do I. We know this. I asked a question that you never answered. What WOULD you do? What WOULD be your plan other than not voting for establishment conservatives? What kind of steps would you suggest- not simply restating the things you wouldn’t do. If you gave conservatives a full plan- then maybe it would be a better alternative. But you have to voice a full plan of ideas 😉
You're right, I am 100% convinced that destroying the Republican party is no way to put restraints on Democrat insanities.
On the other hand, as I said, my late mother was an active Tea Partier and I see no problem with them, or with a MAGA caucus so long as their goals are not to destroy Republicans, but rather to help guide and enhance them.
Colo9250: "I realize that some people are resistant to change and will fight until their last breath to keep the old ways of business going."
All my life I've heard people say cr*p like that, almost always bogus, and when translated into normal English, it means something like this:
Your product ("let's destroy the Republicans") makes no sense on any level.
Give it up, FRiend.
I knew you couldn’t answer that simple question. Its simple: what is your specific plan? You don’t have an answer do you? 🤷🏼
My plan is to marginalize Republican Loyalist clowns 🤡 and then mock them as they pimp for Sasse and Cheney.
Excuse me 🤡 why did you post to yourself in #95 🤣😂😁
Do you have anything to add besides this trolling stuff? What is you plan to actually elect real conservatives? 3rd party? Which one? Will you be campaigning & donating? How do you plan to gather majority support? Who would be your standard bearer? 😑
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