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End of the Cheney-Rove Grip on GOP
townhall.com ^ | 5/12/21 | John and Andy Schlafly

Posted on 05/12/2021 3:55:52 AM PDT by cotton1706

For more than two decades the Cheney and Bush families and Karl Rove have run the Republican Party by controlling fundraising. In 2016, Jeb Bush raised and spent more than $130 million from this powerful network of donors, at a cost of $46 million per delegate whom he won.

At the same time, Karl Rove was predicting that if Donald Trump became the Republican nominee then Democrats would win the White House and the Senate. The opposite happened as Trump became president and his coattails lifted to victory many Republican senatorial candidates, such as Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania.

Yet the Bush-Cheney-Rove triumvirate has never accepted their defeat, and never acknowledged what Trump has achieved. The point person in Congress for the never-Trumpers became Liz Cheney, who won the congressional seat in Wyoming despite not living there, based on her famous father’s name.

For several years Liz Cheney has worked hard at trying to purge conservatives from influence, and even seeking to defeat them in their own primaries. She backed a primary opponent to conservative Rep. Tom Massie (R-KY), whom Massie then defeated by 81-19%.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bushadmin; bushcheneycrew; closetdemocrats; cluelesselite; dickcheney; elections; gettrump; karlrove; lizcheney

1 posted on 05/12/2021 3:55:52 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

GLORIOUS news..

We should celebrate this..

In fact. I will celebrate by donating to the site again.

Freepers have played their part


2 posted on 05/12/2021 3:57:37 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

The old order, now much older, passes from the scene, replaced with persons of firmer convictions and more focused objectives.

I do not see a downside.


3 posted on 05/12/2021 4:02:58 AM PDT by alloysteel ( Cows don't give milk. You have to work for it.)
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To: cotton1706

WONDERFULL!!!


4 posted on 05/12/2021 4:04:51 AM PDT by boycott
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To: cotton1706

What does it sound like when out-of-touch elites slowly lose their suffocating control over a major political party?

It sounds like Liz Cheney wailing

(good riddance)


5 posted on 05/12/2021 4:18:44 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative; All

Trump deservers a lot of credit.

The Bush’s and Cheney’s have met their match in President Trump.

He doesn’t always get it right but he has done conservatives a great service in flushing out these RINOs.


6 posted on 05/12/2021 4:23:19 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan
Freepers would do well to have a firm understanding of what’s going on here.

The Bush-Cheney-Rove cabal aren’t RINOs at all. They’re Republicans.

It’s TRUMP and his supporters who are RINOs ... and I’m perfectly fine to count myself among them. I’m a conservative and a nationalist, not a Republican.

7 posted on 05/12/2021 4:28:33 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: cotton1706

The Cheney, Bush, Rove cabal has put the will of the voters behind their lust for power and money for decades. Kill it, smash it and never, ever allow it to pretend to represent US again.


8 posted on 05/12/2021 4:32:09 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: cotton1706

The Cheney’s never knew a war they didn’t like.


9 posted on 05/12/2021 4:51:49 AM PDT by RobertoinAL
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To: cotton1706

Bush, Cheney, rove are members of the Uniparty. Two parties with the same goals just varying degrees and methods of achievement.
Their Command and Control has gone too far.


10 posted on 05/12/2021 5:02:31 AM PDT by griswold3 (NBA/ Plumlee Ball. = poor entertainment value while insulting the audience gets you broke )
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To: RandFan
He doesn’t always get it right but he has done conservatives a great service in flushing out these RINOs.

And it is now up to WE THE PEOPLE to vote out every RINO who must face a primary in 2022 and replace them with MAGA conservatives, especially at the state level. Rinse and repeat every 2 years until we are free of the RINO plague.

11 posted on 05/12/2021 5:04:55 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: cotton1706

I see this piece was written by the sons of Phyllis Schlafly — very fitting.

The ousting of L. Cheney really does feel like a major corner being turned. It feels pivotal and it feels *good*.


12 posted on 05/12/2021 5:11:21 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: boycott

I’m thinking she wants to lose!
An OJ endorsement? HOw stupid.
Does she plan on being part of the new RINO Party?


13 posted on 05/12/2021 5:33:13 AM PDT by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives )
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To: cotton1706

Cheney/Bush/Rove hate Trump and us Deplorables as much as the ‘rats do. Good riddance to these career poseurs.


14 posted on 05/12/2021 5:36:20 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: cotton1706
She backed a primary opponent to conservative Rep. Tom Massie (R-KY), whom Massie then defeated by 81-19%.

Did not know that but it was a waste of time and money. Massie is very well known and respected in his rural community.

15 posted on 05/12/2021 6:06:11 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: aumrl

Let her leave. She won’t win in Wyoming anymore.


16 posted on 05/12/2021 6:41:18 AM PDT by boycott
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To: RandFan

Yes he does!! He flushed them out of the blinds.


17 posted on 05/12/2021 7:07:28 AM PDT by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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