Posted on 10/12/2021 3:58:23 AM PDT by cotton1706
Two GOP officials urged voters to make sure "rational Republicans" don't lose the "GOP civil war."
The op-ed was written by Miles Taylor, a Trump-era Department of Homeland Security chief of staff, and Christine Todd Whitman, a former Republican Gov. of New Jersey.
They highlighted the need to elect a "strong contingent of moderate Democrats" in 2022.
Two GOP officials have urged Republican voters to vote Democrat in the 2022 midterm elections, suggesting that this might be a way for the GOP to "battle pro-Trump extremists."
Miles Taylor, a Trump-era Department of Homeland Security chief of staff, and Christine Todd Whitman, a former Republican Gov. of New Jersey, penned an op-ed in The New York Times on Monday. Taylor was the Trump administration official who, under the pen name "Anonymous", wrote a 2018 op-ed in The Times describing a "resistance" of Trump administration officials working to tamper the former president's "worst inclinations."
Together, Taylor and Whitman asked that the GOP's base consider supporting Democrats so that "conservative pragmatists" could retake control of the party.
"Rational Republicans are losing the party civil war. And the only near-term way to battle pro-Trump extremists is for all of us to team up on key races and overarching political goals with our longtime political opponents: the Democrats," Taylor and Whitman wrote.
"It's a strategy that has worked," they wrote. "Mr. Trump lost re-election in large part because Republicans nationwide defected, with seven percent who voted for him in 2016 flipping to support Joe Biden, a margin big enough to have made some difference in key swing states."
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If a conservative ever again wins the presidency, the absolute FIRST order of business must be to summarily fire anyone and everyone in a political appointee position from the previous regime. F**k “continuity.” Trump failed in doing that, and those swampdwellers shivved him at every opportunity.
Yes. Also consider that there are several FReepers that promote voting for Dems if a RINO is on the ticket. Never understood that.
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There are NO moderate dimocrats. Period.
By the way, Christie Todd Whitman LOVES abortion.
She is really crazy.
The Democrats will destroy themselves or be destroyed by the people once they have to stand naked without the GOP pretense of "responsible" opposition.
See my tagline.
The letter after the name means jack anymore.
The only reason political parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.
A pol is either loyal to our former republic or to Deep State.
The pols mentioned in the above article are Deep State.
Listen to George Carlin on that subject. He nailed it years ago. We have corrupt twisted spineless politicians because they accurately reflect the qualities most prevalent in the people who voted for them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07w9K2XR3f0
They have to destroy the village to save it.
WE are the extreme??? socialists and commies in congress and we are the extremists??
climate nuts and globalists nuts... and we are the extremists??
getting 13 servicemen.women killed and we are the extremists??
leaving thousands behind enemy lines and we are the extremists??
spending trillions beyond what can be paid, and we are the extremists??
putting a senile old man in as president because they don’t want the man in there who can fix things....
and we are the extremists??
Whitman, a “Progressive” infiltrated the Real Republican Party. Prolly considers herself a member of the “expert class” with David Brooks -types.
According to the title she’s a “GOP official”...
If she was a democRAT and bad mouthed the Clintons the way she has DJT, she'd be Epsteined or working as fertilzer in the Meadowlands.
The Republican party,a long time ago, had been hijacked and infiltrated by democrats. the plan is to have a one party system.
A counter-intuitive death wish. Why vote for Democrat-lite when the REAL Democrats are at hand?
There is a reason the Whig party disappeared sometime around the Civil War as a national party. And not just because the new Republican party was all that aggressive. The Whigs had self-selected themselves to not join the new Republicans.
I am waiting for Texas Senator John “Wayne” Cornyn to climb aboard that bandwagon. He will fit right in with those two pudknockers.
Christine Todd Whitman is a Democrat. The Republicans continue to disgrace themselves by not throwing her out of the Republican Party.
“Christine Todd Whitman, a former Republican Gov. of New Jersey”
Ah, yes, from back in the days when the GOP was going to “own the libs” by electing her President. The Democrats are the real patriarchy!
The GOP is a lot like the United Methodist Church. The leadership and the people in the pews are not aligned. Schism is happening before our very eyes.
The GOP can serve as a way forward, but there is going to need to be some harsh house cleaning. New leadership will be required, and those leaders are going to have to be mean to people like Christine Todd Whitman and Liz Cheney; they are going to have to not care if CNN calls them a mean name.
i love it when traitors show their true colors
Here’s an idea for Whitman. She should get together with Chris Christie and form the NJ Presidential Ticket. They can run together in the GOP primaries and watch both their asses get trounced.
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