Posted on 09/26/2021 4:05:23 PM PDT by cotton1706
It doesn't get any better in the U.S. Senate race where former party state chair Jane Timken, perennial right-wing candidate Josh Mandel and author J.D. Vance are fighting over who is the most Trumpian.
Ohio State Sen. Matt Dolan jumped into the race, giving the anti-Trump forces an outside shot if the others split their vote. It'll be interesting to see if retiring Sen. Rob Portman — who didn't stand up to Trump for four years — will show political courage now that he’s not facing voters.
It’s not much better in neighboring Pennsylvania, where the leading Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Sean Parnell, a veteran and failed congressional candidate, is running as a total Trump man. This is no longer the Republican party of Governors Dick Thornburgh and Tom Ridge or Senators John Heinz and Arlen Specter.
Parnell is running for the seat of retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey; it’s one of the main Democratic targets next year, along with the seat of retiring North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr. For Burr’s seat, Trump has endorsed right-wing Congressman Ted Budd, whose chief primary opponent, former Gov. Pat McCrory, seems at times to be claiming he's actually more Trumpian than Trump’s endorsee.
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I prefer not to support those politicians that disenfranchise my family.
If everyone with an (R) after their name was a fighter like Trump, the Republican party would be unstoppable.
May those "undecideds" get everything they deserve, good and hard!
“I prefer not to support those politicians that disenfranchise my family.”
So you’re good with Andrew Gillum winning, as long as you only helped enable his victory, rather than supporting him directly.
If Liz Cheney manages to win her primary because of Democrat voters, then Republicans must sit out the general. It's only a House seat and will not matter. NO WAY does Lizard get rewarded for her treachery!
The [allegedly] pro-Trump competitors need to bid for a Trump endorsement. And once an endorsement is given, the others should drop out and give their support.
“Better he (Trump) does not run and stays in the background to fund and endorses GOP candidates that are for the issues Trump raised in 2016 & 2020.”
Do you REALLY think there’s another Republican capable of standing up to the Left the way Trump did, or turn out voters like Trump did? Romney buckled when he had Obama on the ropes, Bush Jr. had to be dragged by his people to close out the 2000 Campaign (he planned to take the last weekend off, even though polls showed him falling behind). Cruz would be type-casted in 5 minutes as a bible-toting extremist, and the rest (like Noem) are basically controlled by the Chamber of Commerce.
“If Liz Cheney manages to win her primary because of Democrat voters, then Republicans must sit out the general. It’s only a House seat and will not matter. NO WAY does Lizard get rewarded for her treachery!”
I actually agree with that, for the House. If the Senate, then the stakes are FAR, FAR, higher and giving the Dems an extra seat can mean the difference between surviving, or having Courts Packed and HB1 being law.
Exactly right.
You’re dealing in hypotheticals. Gillum might do this or that. I’m dealing in reality. Rubio disenfranchised us all. No thanks. I won’t be supporting that.
Cry me a river.
“You’re dealing in hypotheticals. Gillum might do this or that. I’m dealing in reality. Rubio disenfranchised us all. No thanks. I won’t be supporting that.”
If you think that the Democrats will run anyone other than Gillum or a clone of him, you’re living in another world.
...and I don’t think you are, so you seem fine with anyone but Rubio, even if that means the quick end of the country.
So be it. Not me.
“This is no longer the Republican party of Governors Dick Thornburgh and Tom Ridge or Senators John Heinz and Arlen Specter.”
Thank you, Lord.
Al “Mike” Hunt offers his useless advice.
He was a world-class retard when he was on “The Capital Gang” 30 years ago. How pathetic it was when they had to have 3 or 4 leftard loons to compete with the effortless wisdom of Robert Novak.
Hunt likes his Republicans like he likes his Demonrats: Derp Staters and hardcore Stalinazi.
“Better he does not run and stays in the background”
Fortunately, nobody agrees with you.
We knew he was a jerk and big mouth but wanted him in to better our country.
How soon we forget the House GOP was led by a child molester: Hastert.
Trump is a saint compared to the filth we’ve been electing and sending to the swmap. Any attacks on Trump’s character merely parrot Democrat talking points.
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