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As Mass. GOP moves right, Anthony Amore runs a lonely race as a moderate
wbur.org ^ | 10/3/22 | Anthony Brooks

Posted on 10/03/2022 9:27:28 AM PDT by cotton1706

Amore might be the loneliest Republican in Massachusetts. He's a moderate running in a party dominated by pro-Trump conservatives. And he's the only statewide Republican candidate who called for Trump's impeachment after the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Most of the Republicans running for statewide office in Massachusetts embrace Trump and his conservative positions. So do many Republican voters, who reject the moderate Republicanism of Gov. Charlie Baker and derisively call him and Amore RINOs, or Republicans In Name Only.

"I got a hate-mail yesterday about how I’m 'Rino-scum' because Charlie Baker made me his only endorsement," Amore said, while campaigning on a recent weekend at the Johnny Appleseed Arts and Cultural Festival in Central Massachusetts.

In the race for auditor, Amore is pushing against his party's swing to the right, even if it costs him the support of pro-Trump Republicans voters. "Many people who describe themselves as Trump supporters would rather blank the ballot and have a Democrat," Amore said.

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To: Ge0ffrey
Yes, there are moderate Democrats in MA. They tend to live out in the Worchester Hills and northwest of Boston up closer to the NH border.

They were the people that voted for Scott Brown over Pocahontas. They tend to be more Libertarian than Conservative.

21 posted on 10/03/2022 10:32:48 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: falcon99
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

— Communist goal #15
It isn’t “giving in”, as if RINOs were at any time conservative. It’s lying to their voters and orchestrating their true agenda once in power.
22 posted on 10/03/2022 10:51:01 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Ge0ffrey

Blue dogs no longer exist. I sometimes wonder if they really did, since they also pandered to Americans and then essentially stood by while their openly left-wing counterparts instituted their attacks on the Constitution and society.


23 posted on 10/03/2022 10:52:17 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: cotton1706
In the race for auditor, Amore is pushing against his party's swing to the right, even if it costs him the support of pro-Trump Republicans voters. "Many people who describe themselves as Trump supporters would rather blank the ballot and have a Democrat," Amore said.

Amore running as a Trump hater apparently would rather have a Democrat win as he will have 0 chance.

24 posted on 10/03/2022 10:54:40 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: rktman

“WTAF happened to the birthplace of America?”

One could say our Boston-based founding father were former liberals. Benjamin Franklin ONLY got his head straight when he was humiliated by the Brits in Parliament, alone, taking insults every second, before he escaped for America the same night as supposedly, there was an arrest out for him.


25 posted on 10/03/2022 11:03:39 AM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: cotton1706

Amore? Isn’t there a song about him?


26 posted on 10/03/2022 11:21:40 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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