Posted on 09/18/2021 4:28:29 AM PDT by cotton1706
Few presidents have taken more public pleasure in seeing one of their party’s own leave office than Donald Trump in his reaction to Rep. Anthony Gonzalez’s announcement that he would not seek reelection.
“1 down, 9 to go!” the former president gloated, in the second of two statements he released Friday celebrating Gonzalez’s exit.
The Ohio Republican’s departure was, of course, a victory for Trump — the first victim in his post-election crusade against the 10 Republican House members who voted to impeach him.
Shannon Burns, the president of Ohio’s Strongsville GOP, said Gonzalez “was an up-and-coming star, who made, I think, a terrible political calculation, and paid a price for it.” In a district where Trump beat Joe Biden by more than 14 percentage points, Darrell Scott, an Ohio pastor and Trump adviser, said Gonzalez “got out to avoid an embarrassing or humiliating defeat.”
And on Capitol Hill, even Trump’s critics could see that Gonzalez’s departure was a sign of Trump’s enduring grip on the party. “Anthony Gonzalez is one of … the most honorable public servants that I've ever known. And the idea that the Republican Party is going to drive people like him out tells you that the party is at a moment that is very perilous for us,” Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in an interview, adding “that's not a party that can lead into the future.”
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Gonzalez was a former athlete/OSU football star. This should serve as a reminder that candidates still need to be thoroughly scrutinized/vetted in spite of a flashy resume.
If you’re only excited when Dems win, I want you to be demoralized.
He maintained that he could have won - ha ha ha ha Go away ash hole loser. We have a country to free and you and Liz are quislings we need to squeeze out like boils on our butt.
Playing the worlds smallest violin comes to mind.
Wealthy family and Cuban-American, too. Guy had it all for a political career and now it’s gone. The real idiot here is whoever the beltway consultant is that advised him to stick his neck out and support the Democrat hoax.
Good-bye to the assistant socialist democrats.....
oops, I mean the socialist democrats useful idiots........
oops, I mean the progressive Republicans......
oops, I’m sorry, I mean the moderate Republicans.
Sorry finally got it right.
Well, bye! Take Lizard Cheney with you.
Dream on
That fantasy will never come to be.
America was
Who gives a blank what Liz Cheney thinks about anything?
That’s the fly in the ointment, and until that is corrected, all the rest of these purported fixes are just pizzin’ in the wind.
I come from a very, very long line of people made of sterner stuff. :-)
Just as Benedict Arnold stabbed George Washington in the back, Liz Cheney stabs Trump and HER Republican Party in the back. The sheer DUMBNESS of Liz’s daily, caustic and incessant criticism’s of her own party AMAZE !!! What does she hope to gain? How about a little respect for her Dad, a half century Republican!!!!
Somebody, somewhere has promised her some BIG MONEY!
Gutless piece of chit! Rather fight the party then fight the evil Democrats typical establishment GOP ass! Good riddance!!
“None of them are serious minded about preserving the republic. What vile, ignorant cowards they are.”
You could not possibly be more right.
TRANSLATION:
“(LIKE ME) Anthony Gonzalez is one of … the most honorable public servants that I've ever known. And the idea that the Republican Party is going to drive people like him (AND ME) out tells you that the party is at a moment that is very perilous for us (FOR ME),”
Liz sees the handwriting on the wall. If she runs in 2022, she's toast unless she steals the election(s).
Yes he is! Gonzalez is a poster-boy coward like the GOPe—the gutless politician who snatches defeat from the jaws of victory! Take gutless Portman with ya! Damn them to hell!
Bingo!
“You’re either loyal to our former republic or to Deep State.”
Amen.
Ha ha ha Liz Cheney quote. Priceless.
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