Posted on 05/09/2023 3:48:12 AM PDT by cotton1706
A far-right faction that has gained clout in the Georgia GOP wants to give the state party new powers to block candidates from qualifying to run as Republicans if they’re deemed to be insufficiently conservative or a “traitor” to the party.
The rule change is being championed by leaders of the Georgia Republican Assembly, a conservative faction that has vilified Gov. Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other Republicans who rejected Donald Trump’s demands to overturn his election defeat.
Under the proposed rule change, the Georgia GOP convention could vote to prevent a political candidate from qualifying to run as a Republican in the next election, giving the state party’s 1,500 or so delegates authority to pick favorites in top races.
“If the candidate has shown himself to be a traitor to the principles of the party, then the party can vote to exclude him from qualifying at the next election,” Nathaniel Darnell, a GRA leader, said during a recent address to the state Constitution Party.
The activist group has made clear that Kemp, Raffensperger and other Republican officials are a target of their anger. GRA officials frequently blast GOP leaders in speeches and newsletters, and Darnell said the governor and his allies have shown “disdain” to the grassroots.
“The primary for both parties has been corrupted by big money interests, which has harmed the Republican brand,” said GRA president Alex Johnson, who contended the overhaul gives “voters an unmediated way to hold their elected officials accountable.”
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And Urinal and Constipation, your point here is.....?
They screen candidates forideological purity as well.
Hard pass on that one
“Doesn’t the GOP establishment consider Trump a danger (traitor) to the party?”
Probably, but that’s a Federal office, not state.
So, they would have purged four candidates who not only won their primaries but won the general election as well. Sounds like a great idea.
You’re an idiot.
Good for them.
Yes, it is a great idea. Those Four candidates talked like republicans thru the primaries and the general election then went on to be play nice with the democrats once in office, sort of like Bush & Romney. We are at war with the Democrats, we need warriors not diplomats.
Like the left doesn’t do that itself?
Hypocrites.
May God grant that they succeed.
Excellent. At a grass roots level, MAGA patriots are steadily taking over the party. RINOs like Kemp and Ratburger need to be purged.
If the Urinal-Constipation is upset about it, you know its a good thing.
Yes. Agreed it does sound like a good thing.
A RINO winning is pointless. It might as well be a Democrat. They’re all part of the same Uniparty. We need to get rid of all the RINOs.
They should put in a candidate that wanted to keep Georgia locked down like Trump wanted Kemp to do. No thanks. Thankfully Kemp went against Trump and opened Georgia up. The first major state to do so. What’s that again about Kemp governing like a Democrat?
What is a far right faction? Patriotic Americans?
Bluestein is a doctrinaire Leftist who would have no issues with “Republicans” who are actually assistant Democrats being elected, if an actual Democrat couldn’t get elected.
Correct. America First Republicans.
Strange isn’t that your boy Kemp went against the gods of science, Georgia’s own CDC? And nobody fluttered an eyelash.. even the gods of science were not in house following their own protocols…. Your boy Kemp plays down and dirty along with the rest of GA state politicians.. consent decrees and all..
I’m glad. Let them join the Demoncats where they belong.
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