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GOP RINOs Are Getting Primary Challengers and the Media Seems Upset
Teapartyorg.ning.com ^ | 7/21/21

Posted on 07/21/2021 6:30:11 PM PDT by cotton1706

Republican U.S. Sen. James Lankford would seem to have all the conservative credentials he'd need to coast to re-election in deep-red Oklahoma.

A devout Baptist, Lankford was the director of the nation’s largest Christian youth camp for more than a decade. He speaks out regularly against abortion and what he describes as excessive government spending. And his voting record in the Senate aligned with former President Donald Trump’s position nearly 90% of the time.

But like several other seemingly safe GOP incumbents, Lankford, who didn't even draw a primary opponent in 2016, finds himself under fierce attack by a challenger in his own party. The antagonist is a 29-year-old evangelical minister and political newcomer who managed to draw more than 2,000 people to a “Freedom Rally" headlined by Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, at which Lankford was accused of being not conservative enough.

“When James (Lankford) certified the big lie, he joined the big lie," Jackson Lahmeyer told the raucous crowd in Norman, citing Lankford's failure to endorse Trump's false claims about the election outcome. “The 2020 presidential election — that was a stolen election and we will never, ever allow it to happen again.” The state's GOP chairman, John Bennett, has already endorsed Lahmeyer in the race.

(Excerpt) Read more at teapartyorg.ning.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections

1 posted on 07/21/2021 6:30:11 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Lankford is certainly no Rand Paul and Definitely NOT a major factor in preserving Personal Liberty nor in promoting financial propriety of gov’t.

Not a keeper.


2 posted on 07/21/2021 6:33:06 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: cotton1706
Trump's false claims

Did the tea party really write this crap?

3 posted on 07/21/2021 6:34:40 PM PDT by rhinohunter
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To: cotton1706

If this country is going to be saved it will need people with backbones. Might as well get rid of the weak ones now.


4 posted on 07/21/2021 6:37:41 PM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: cotton1706

If somehow a bush league chamber of commerce worshipping republiCAN’T manages to survive a primary, then they must be defeated in the general election.

It’s up to us to change the direction of the party. The only way to do this is to get rid of those that have betrayed us.
ALL of them.

But, by no means does that mean you should stay home. There are down party candidates that need our support.
Elected judges need to be replaced.
School boards need to be replaced.
Hell, even the dog catcher needs replacing.
We know how democommies think and act.
We can’t predict how a traitor will act.

Primary every bush league chamber of commerce worshipping republiCAN’T...
Defeat them in the general election if need be.
But they have to go....


5 posted on 07/21/2021 6:39:19 PM PDT by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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To: joe fonebone

In a state like Oklahoma, Langford should get a primary challenge from the right. It will at least force him to take more conservative positions even if he ultimately wins.


6 posted on 07/21/2021 6:44:28 PM PDT by teevolt
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To: rhinohunter
"Did the tea party really write this crap?"

They appear to be associated with teaparty.org.

7 posted on 07/21/2021 6:54:49 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: teevolt

*In a state like Oklahoma, Langford should get a primary challenge from the right. It will at least force him to take more conservative positions even if he ultimately wins.*

Doesn’t work like that. Once back in they have 6 more years to play their game. Term limits won’t happen. Do it where you can. Places like Alaska, SD and let’s not forget OKLAHOMA!


8 posted on 07/21/2021 7:04:26 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: rhinohunter

No they didn’t write the article.


9 posted on 07/21/2021 7:04:33 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

https://www.ning.com/


10 posted on 07/21/2021 7:18:19 PM PDT by steve8714 (Evidently the Oxford comma is racist, sexist, or homophobic. You decide which.)
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To: cotton1706

Lankford is a Cheap Labor Express stooge.

We have enough of those.


11 posted on 07/21/2021 7:45:16 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: joe fonebone

There may be third-party candidates. If the RINOs lose by a margin less than the third-party vote total and the down-ballot candidates win, even these morons should be able to figure out what that means.

On the other hand, Republicans have a virtually infinite ability to learn the wrong lesson from any situation.


12 posted on 07/21/2021 8:04:50 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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To: cotton1706
The ONLY way to take back the country is to purge the RINOs in the 2022 primaries, ESPECIALLY in the state legislatures who gave the 2020 Steal to Dementia Joe on a platter.

Don't blame Democrats.

RINOs are the reason for the woke clown world we now live in.

If the 2020 Steal is not enough to vote out the RINO-traitors, then we are truly doomed.

13 posted on 07/21/2021 8:18:21 PM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: TBP

And for that reason alone, my FRiend, is why they must be defeated at all costs...2022 needs to be a wholesale political slaughter of republiCANT’S...


14 posted on 07/21/2021 8:18:40 PM PDT by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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To: rhinohunter

Makes you kinda wonder doesn’t it. Is this a remnant or the real Tea Party of a Leftist org saying they are Tea Party.


15 posted on 07/21/2021 8:33:49 PM PDT by falcon99 (qu)
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To: HandBasketHell

RINOs are the reason for the woke clown world we now live in.

.... And just so yall know. In Pennsylvania the Republicans voted for act 77 which created the mail in vote fiasco, which by the way, no excuse mail in balloting cannot be changed except by a constitutional amendment..


16 posted on 07/21/2021 8:36:20 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: cotton1706
Quite seriously, there are two, maybe three, Republican Senators worth keeping around. Those other RINOs can burn in hell for all I care. Lankford is one of them.

Wouldn't be nice to have Republican Senators and House members trying out do each other in cutting spending and wholesale shuttering of federal agencies? I don't think there is one senator that even talks about cutting anything.

17 posted on 07/21/2021 10:01:01 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: rhinohunter
Did the tea party really write this crap?

It is quoting verbatim a regular newspaper article in southern Georgia.
18 posted on 07/21/2021 10:03:40 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (“At first you go bankrupt slowly, then all at once.” -- Hemingway)
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