Posted on 04/01/2022 3:48:14 PM PDT by RandFan
Among Washington elites, Thomas Massie is a gadfly whose strict adherence to libertarian ideology places him on a lonesome edge even within the Republican Party.
To his primary challenger in Kentucky, he’s not conservative enough.
“On Twitter I think that he has this persona that he’s very, very conservative and a lot of people believe it,” said Claire Wirth, the 33-year-old Prospect real estate agent running to oust Massie in May’s 4th Congressional District GOP primary. “But when it comes down to his voting record, he votes with AOC and Ilhan Omar more than any other Republican member of Congress.”
It’s a flashy charge that aims to portray the five-term incumbent as out of sync with his party and more interested in proving a point than solving problems. But Massie, who skewered his 2020 primary challenger by 62 points, thinks Wirth has already missed her moment.
“There’s no room really to the right of me,” he said in a recent interview. “Claire is campaigning in an alternative reality when she says I don’t vote conservatively. I just don’t think she has a lane. When Trump was president, running to the Trump of me sort of made sense. She’s still in this alternate universe where he’s still president.”
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Massie’s campaign commissioned a poll in February that showed him with a 68-point lead over Wirth, and with another candidate named George Washington actually in second place.
And he boasts the support of other national conservative agitators like Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.
It may explain why Trump is staying out of it.
Even when the frustrated former president denounced Massie in 2020, he never mobilized behind a primary opponent against him. And Massie didn’t flinch.
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I didn’t like when Massie was going after Trump, but he’s shown that he’s fighting the Establishment more than most in the GOP these days.
Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie says ‘Trump is at fault’ for deadly riot at Capitol
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky criticized President Donald Trump and blamed him for inciting the riot Wednesday that led to the seize of the Capitol building.
“I think Trump is at fault here,” Massie told The Dispatch. “I watched almost all of his speech.
“Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie says ‘Trump is at fault’ for deadly riot at Capitol”
Game over, as far as I’m concerned.
Massie is a true outsider he votes against RINO leadership and its big spending, big government agenda.
I support Trump but I also support Massie.
Until we get rid of the 98 percent of the GOP RINOs out there and keep Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz in along with Massie this country is going down the tubes.
Yup, end of discussion for me as well.
He got elected with Trump, he can do it again.
Whoops. Meant to type
He got elected without Trump, he can do it again.
Trump was gunning for him over the coronavirus bill he delayed.
It was a big moment and could have gone either way for Massie.
Luckily he is popular back home and should be fine.
A fortunate state to have both him and Rand.
Clowns and jokers are not the right metric on this one.
“Until we get rid of the 98 percent of the GOP RINOs out there and keep Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz in along with Massie this country is going down the tubes”.
In a nutshell...
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