Posted on 09/20/2022 5:37:10 AM PDT by cotton1706
If you walk past the Wyoming Republican Party’s tent these days, beware. You may have to dodge members being thrown out of the three-ring circus.
On Saturday, the party’s overachieving central committee censured Sen. Cale Case of Lander, denied support to Republicans running as independents in November and condemned the actions of a legislative committee and 10 GOP lawmakers.
The state party told Case, a Republican lawmaker for the past 30 years, to join a different party or run as an independent. Karl Allred of Uinta County bluntly delivered a similar message to Republicans who plan to challenge GOP primary winners as independents: “Get the hell out of the party.”
Case’s punishment, which is merely symbolic, was meted out for his failed effort to find someone to run against Rep. Chuck Gray (R-Casper), the party’s secretary of state nominee, in the November general election. No stranger to bucking the party’s extreme-right, Case was joined in his efforts by other “mainstream” Republicans and a few Democrats.
The party’s establishment is justifiably horrified that without a challenger, Gray — an election denier who has claimed without evidence that there are “tremendous problems” with the security of Wyoming’s elections — is virtually guaranteed to win the job supervising Wyoming’s elections.
Gray defeated Sen. Tara Nethercott (R-Cheyene) by about 13,000 votes. That’s a pretty decisive victory, but he captured only 49.5% of the total. Ironically, if the Legislature had bowed to the state party’s demand for a run-off system that requires winners to get more than 50%, the pair would have faced off again in the general election.
Instead, Case went searching for a conservative to oppose Gray. He set his sights on former Republican legislator Nathan Winters, head of the “pro-life” Family Policy Alliance of Wyoming. Winters declined and endorsed Gray.
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“without evidence”
In short, Dems are unhappy MAGA is consolidating power in the GOP and removing RINOs. Tough nuggies.
Imagine, a United States with a real choice between two parties, not a United States in which a the Media rules by deciding what candidates of the nominal parties are acceptable.
“an election denier who has claimed without evidence”
Claims the writer, without evidence.
Still winning! I love it.
He became something of a folk hero for not being allowed to speak at the convention. His useless son, however, followed the party line and has been allowed to warm a U.S. Senate seat since 2007.
The party’s over, lol. The problem with parties is that people don’t know when to leave, having too much fun at the expense of the host.
Drain the swamp!
The way the American system works is there are usually two parties. That’s because our government was set up that way. All that matters is the one percent above fifty, or whatever it takes to get one more vote than the opposition. This means each party has to cast as wide a net as possible. About forty percent of the population will vote for their party exclusively. The fight is for the required voters who are undecided. These are not politically active folks. The Republicans try to win them over on policy. The Democrats try to win them over by fear.
If you’ll notice, it’s impossible to pin a Democrat down on any policy. They’ve held all three branches at one time or another, but they never really tried to ban guns, legalize abortions or any other Democratic talking point. Why? Their goal is only to stay in office and only incrementally change things when they think it is possible to do so without any political blowback.
Republicans usually run on policies. They often tweak things when they’re in power, but they never really try to make huge changes like an amendment banning abortion for example. A few may try but they can’t get enough votes from their fellow Republicans for the same reason Democrats can’t pass any of their full agenda; that pesky 20 percent of the population who vote based on the last commercial they saw or because of the standard “October Surprise.”
This was all by design to prevent any huge, sudden changes in the nation. It is frustrating as all Hell, but it has worked for over 200 years.
WeRe JuSt IntOlErAnT oF hAte
Sounds like Wyoming needs to pass a Sour Grapes law.
PA has them, as do other states, they basically state, if you run in a party primary and lose you may not be on the general election ballot.
Quite so. See Tagline.
On Saturday, the party’s overachieving central committee...denied support to Republicans running as independents in November...Why should the Republican party support someone running against their Republican candidate?
That’s because our government was set up that way.
No, it wasn't, but that is how human nature brought it to be in our system.
The fight is for the required voters who are undecided. These are not politically active folks. The Republicans try to win them over on policy. The Democrats try to win them over by fear.
That is the theory pushed by the Media. Thus, it never allows much deviation from the course toward more and more government.
They’ve held all three branches at one time or another, but they never really tried to ban guns, legalize abortions or any other Democratic talking point.
Abortions were legalized by a Progressive Supreme Court 50 years ago. The Second Amendment and 100 million gun owners are difficult obstacles to overcome, but the Democrats have been trying. When they had all three branches, they passed significant, incremental legislation toward that goal. But their margins of control were very small, and some of that was reversed. (94 Assault weapon ban).
This was all by design to prevent any huge, sudden changes in the nation.
It is by design, but not because of a two party system. It is because of the checks and balances of the Constitution, which Progressives of both parties, and particularly in the Media, have been whittling away at for 90 years.
Now that the Media no longer has control over the information flow, a real choice in parties is emerging.
Yep. To control a people, you don’t need to be able to choose the winner of an election. You just need to choose who goes on the ballet. You know, like the Democrats did regarding Bernie Sanders and, IMO, the republican’s pushing Jeb Bush.
And then there is McCain and Dole.
This all speaks to why I left the R party about 15 years ago.
ballet = ballot
Sorry...
“There is no point in electing Republicans who pursue the same goals as Democrats.”
Yes, many in the country suggest that we need a third party. However I suggest that we get a two-party system first, the uniparty isn’t cutting it as the death of our republic is only a few years away.
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