Posted on 02/15/2021 2:17:57 AM PST by knighthawk
And that path always leads to the feeding trough.
No kidding.
Flawed, financially weak candidates are put forth who speak to the voters.. get elected and do the parties work when in DC, forgetting the voters.. follow the money
The system for putting forth candidates to the US Senate that was removed by the 17th Amendment truly took away the check and balance on the Senate and created the system we have now which puts forth people like Kelly ayotte Judd Gregg Jeanne Shaheen Jeff Flake, McCain and a whole host of other flawed controlled Senators who financially benefit in the end and screw the voters back home while advancing the uniparty agenda.
Flake, an accurate name.
We broke from Jeff Flake. That was a helluva positive step.
Why should the GOP be the majority party if it rejects America First policies?
That’s like saying to find a husband, you must be willing to marry a man who refuses to be faithful.
They all like to say they’re “voting their consciences” whatever that means.
These idiots don’t get that they are not there to “vote their conscience”; they are there to reflect the will of the people of their state.
We already broke from the GOP. We the people are with Trump despite their despicable hit job.
This from a guy who cannot get elected dog catcher in Arizona in his home town
Idiot. We want FEWER people like Flake. They seem to be clueless.
That is correct, which is why we need a new party which will appeal to white Democrats in the rust belt.
2016 was a miracle. The voters who gave Trump the win in the Midwest will never join the GOP.
“GOP Will Be in ‘Permanent Minority’ if Party Doesn’t Break From Trump”
Correction:
GOP Will Be in ‘Permanent Minority’ if Party Breaks From Trump
I think the Republican Party should forget Senate and House majorities for a while and just focus on finding MAGA candidates and purging the RINOs.
Focusing on majorities is what gets the GOP into trouble.
The GOP needs to reject the argument that voters should hold their noses and vote for any R who can win - just so that they can gain or hold onto a majority.
Having a majority has its advantages in committee chairmanships, etc., but as we’ve seen, RINOs will vote with the Democrats when push comes to shove. Then scorned GOP constituencies boycott the party and they lose the majority anyway.
If the Republican Party forgets majorities, and focuses on true conservatism or MAGA patriotism, they may not have the majorities at first, but that will come later, as MAGA voters begin to trust the party again.
I am convinced the majority of Americans are MAGA patriots at heart - even the blacks and legal Hispanic voters are trending in our direction.
And regarding stolen elections, the Democrats couldn’t have gotten away with it without the RINOs.
Purging the RINOs has to be job one - even if it means no Senate or House majority for a while.
And ironically, I think the Republicans will actually win majorities on day one - just by not focusing on majorities.
To prove my point - just look at the two Senate run off races in GA. If they had focused on MAGA (fought for Trump) they would have won. Instead, they acted like RINOs and lost.
All the RINOs went down there and told voters to forget MAGA, forget Trump, forget Nov 3 - vote for the RINO to keep RINO McConnell as majority leader.
That reasoning doesn’t work.
Coming from a man who left with a 11 pct approval hmmm
This is the way that losers like Nelson Rockefeller, Gerald Ford and John B. Anderson spoke.
Getting a party majority is about building majority coalitions. Those types of Republicans cannot cobble together a working one, and at best their version only lets the base in along for the ride without much say is anything.
It is appropriate that Mr. flake comes from a town called Snowflake.
Yeh break from 80 million voters. That’s a winning strategy. 😆
Some of these RINOs add nothing to the discussion and are just rabble-rousers.
What if we just cancelled them like the left is cancelling conservatives?
Ban their names from FR, and everywhere else we go for news.
It is a start.
“Racial minorities overwhelmingly vote Democrat.”
Despite being labeled a bigot and racist daily for four years by the press and Democrats, Trump received a higher percentage of the black and hispanic vote than any recent GOP presidential candidate. He reached out to blacks and Hispanics.
What is Flake’s answer to demographics?
He’s a McCain butt buddy is what he turned out to be. Him and Linda Graham fighting for the title of whose the best Little Me-Me.
If the GOP doesn’t ditch the globalist agenda and adopt America first Corn Flakes is right they are in for permanent minority status.
If the GOPE is hell bent on going back to Bush globalism then there will have to be a chasm and an attempt at a replacement opposition party. I have heard there can be only two parties in our system I don’t agree but if it is to be then the GOP must die as the second party for a new real opposition party to rise, the GOP must be destroyed because it has shown it will absolutely not opposed the progressive/marxist agenda and in many cases supports it!
The GOP dies and a new party rises in its place. I know it will take 2-3 election cycles to destroy the GOPE and yes GOPE Kool-aid drinkers I know the democrats will flourish. But if you simple stop resisting the transition could be quicker to a real political party that fights.
The GOPE Kool-Aid drinkers think about what you are defending, a party that is perfectly at ease with: globalism, crony capitalism, BLM, the politically correct culture, the Bill of Rights being usurped, being compromised by the Chicoms, graft on a staggering scale, the cancel culture, a dual track justice system, a deep state that is unelected and unaccountable to anyone, anything the Democrats want as long as they do it slowly and cheaply and don’t take too much of the GOPE’s country clubber elites money. This is the GOP right now and what the sunshine pumpers are defending and demanding we support, please clap! I want no part of this corrupt and dying party.
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