The Backstab Party
Posted on 12/15/2022 9:22:02 AM PST by SoConPubbie
It needs to be a rule for the Larry Hogan wing of the Republican Party that anytime they drone about it being time to “move on,” they’re required to say out loud exactly what it means to move on.
Because when the Wall Street Journal or Mitt Romney repeats that condescending line with absolute disdain, they’re not just talking about zeroing out the political viability of a single man who offends their delicate sensibilities. They’re talking about a complete memory-holing of the GOP’s shift from country club to Costco and the abandonment of all the issues that brought hundreds of thousands of new voters into the fold.
To this day, the Journal’s editorial board champions the influx of destitute migrants for the sake of “the U.S. labor shortage” (which has nothing to do with a lack of workers), even as millions of Republican voters say time and time again that they’re not interested.
This crowd, the Adam Kinzingers, the Liz Cheneys, and various other backbenchers of the party, aren’t really insisting that we “move on.” They’re demanding that we go back. Back to when the ruling Republican agenda was corporate tax cuts, a devotion to Israel, and everything else a very, very distant third.
Those Republicans are perfectly satisfied giving Democrats everything they want — welfare, both social and corporate — so long as they get to look strong by sending more money to military contractors in their districts (its own form of welfare).
Tired of the permanent bureaucracy’s hostility toward middle-income suburbanites? That’s just the way it is. Mad that Big Tech is abusing its communication monopolies to cancel out the voices of millions of people? Take it up with Twitter — if you can figure out how to contact someone.
And don’t even get started on the messy “culture wars” that are so beneath them.
What it means to “move on” is to drop all efforts to control the southern border, revert to when the U.S. wrote blank checks to NATO while asking for nothing in return (already there!), and resume the GOP’s favorite pastime of developing more ways to hack at government assistance for the elderly.
Refusing to accept that as a path forward has nothing to do with being hung up on any one person. But each and every time one of those Republicans says we need to “move on,” the people they need to do anything dig in their heels even harder over one person. The voters are not going to move on because they won’t go back.
The war-mongering, Chamber of Commerce Republicans who have sold out the citizens of this nation cannot be mocked too harshly. At least the Democrats are not so low as to demand conservative votes. These Country Club Republicans feel like they are entitled to it.
We need a new party to replace the GOP
I moved on from the Republican party years ago.
We are moving on. It is away from the establishment GOP.
I “moved on” years ago, re-registering myself as an Independent. And named one of my garbage cans Larry Hogan.
We need to CONTINUE to purge RINOs from the GOP and replace them with MAGA. It's being done in the state legislatures, where it matters. Yes, the Turtle sabotaged MAGA Senate candidates, but did you expect the Swamp to just sit back and take it?
Every 2 years we have an opportunity to rid the GOP of the RINO infection. We got a good start in 2022. We must carry on with this strategy.
That's MILLIONS who voted for President Trump who never would have voted for RINO dive-takers Yeb Bush or Chris Christie.
Time to move on to a fresh bold vision.
Ya know, the same fresh bold vision that features never ending war, globalism, “compassionate conservatism, lots of policy peers and no action, and cronyism, tons and tons of it.
Then again, no thanks. I will let the Bush wing of the party pound away at extinction as they run their “quality” candidates who can’t apologize enough and can’t surrender fast enough. So long as they lose honorably, it doesn’t count as a loss.
“the GOP’s shift from country club to Costco”
Absolutely love that line-
It’s MAGA now Baby.
Great point
It IS time to move on....on to criminally charging, violently arresting and prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law every single leftist radical involved in stealing 2020 and 2022. We ALL know who most of them are but who knew how much control these dirtbags had over the judiciary and law enforcement. Why even bother to have laws when they’re only enforced by political decree.
But you don't have to be a RINO to get elected as a Republican in most other states, nor do you have to be a RINO to get elected President. And a Republican isn't going to win Maryland anyway, so why pander to an electorate that doesn't matter in an election?
Most of the time I've heard "move on" with respect to Trump, it's been in reference to his continued rhetoric about reversing the 2020 election. Lots of folks were sick of hearing about that, and the reality is that it wasn't going to happen. Talking about preventing fraud in future elections is a different story, and should have gotten all the emphasis rather than being drowned out by "I was robbed".
This author should let us know when he comes up with a way to avoid moving on while still actually winning an election to national office. Yes, winning, so that your chosen candidate actually winds up in office wielding power. A candidate who leaves us with the opportunity to say our guy won, and was robbed, so he’s not there, doesn’t count — because then our guy is not in office. De Santis is in office. JD Vance is in office. Brian Kemp is in office. That’s all that matters. Nothing else matters.
The resident FR GOPE drones have been noticeable absence since their beloved McRomney flat out said he would vote against Trump. “why he’s a principled conservative” they wail and his betrayal is not even a note of concern.
But let a conservative say they are not voting for one of these country club effete snobs and watch them come out of the wood work on FR: you’re a purist, you support the democrats, you are a communist. At this point they can kiss my furry butt!
I am not voting for any more of their trash with money kind of scumbags. The GOPE gang remind me of the Kennedys, a bunch of immoral liars with more money than sense—trash with money. They refuse to change and the country goes further into the abyss. At this point they are just as responsible and damaging to the country as their good friends across the aisle and their snotty cocktail circuit marxist.
LOL.
[Hogan is a dope, and a RINO. And in fairness, maybe you have to be a RINO to get elected as Governor in Maryland.
But you don’t have to be a RINO to get elected as a Republican in most other states, nor do you have to be a RINO to get elected President. And a Republican isn’t going to win Maryland anyway, so why pander to an electorate that doesn’t matter in an election?]
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