Because the majority of these redder than red states that have a Republican governor and legislature are controlled by RINOs.
If we could vote out every RINO who must face a primary in 2022 and replace them with fearless patriots, it wouldn't matter what the Dems did and the Republican party would be unstoppable. It's up to us in 2022.
I just read a Town Hall report about Lt Col Scheller that pretty much threw that in our faces.
... and he's correct !
Lobbying money from Pfizer, end of story. Red states aren’t immune from greedy lawmakers who don’t mind having the palms crossed with silver in return for being silent....
Remember how, when the Republicans you voted for were campaigning and they all said they “WOULD FIGHT FOR YOU” and then you voted for them and they got the job and had a chance to actually FIGHT FOR YOU, but then they didn’t??
Yeah,that was cool.
The Republican wing of the Uniparty is expanding into the state houses. 95% of DC republicans are scurrilous, backstabbing hustlers playing us and the swamp to the fullest to cash in on the greatest amount of money and power. I’m in Kentucky and Frankfort republicans are becoming more like DC swampers all the time. The state Republican Party extends its power down to county level to ensure real conservatism doesn’t infect the state power structure. Our last chance went out the window when Trump traded in MAGA for go along, get along, get rich swamp republican subalterns. The joke’s on Trump as the swampers get richer and richer while Trump loses billions. When MAGA died real conservatives were left in a lurch. The Tea Party type organizations pretty much folded when Trump came along. Now the entire movement is lost and suppressed.
Might have something to do with Trump being pro-vax.
So, why aren’t Republican leaders, even local ones, raising this as an option?
Because Red states are Red states because they are generally populated by adults who can assess the facts, make their own decisions and explain them coherently without going barmy over leftist enemy agent conspiracy theories?
Mandates = death.
Check their portfolios to see how heavily invested they are in pharmaceuticals.
Everything the GOP does is for show. They live for the soundbites. Ultimately nothing ever comes of it.
The big carrot and stick the FEDGOV has is that general money. So a company with over 100 people can tell them to piss off, fine. But companies (including mine) that have federal dollars in the $250k range will lose the federal money or comply.
No, they fear the spigot of Federal cash will be cut off.
FTA: why aren’t Republican leaders, even local ones, raising this as an option?
They are wussies who are taking in millions in bribe money from the pharma companies.