Of course she’s not Patton. What Boebert is is the rare GOP House member who fights.
Maybe if you weren’t busy dotting your i’s with little hearts in English class you’d have recognized an analogy.
The Church Lady Chorus is more interested in Boebert’s sex life than how she votes, which is par for the course. That’s what they’re spending their time focusing on.
Our political enemies will gladly accept the help of one more group of useful idiots, to borrow a phrase from von Mises. They understand power. They’ve elected an actual whore as VP and they never spend one minute worrying about it. What they do worry about is that she’s a complete idiot.
Understand. I am not calling out Boebert. I realize shes a braw & lord knows thats a welcome development. The only thing the Bushes ever fought for were illegL immigrants & wars we didnt need to be involved in. I am voicing my irritation that she doesn’t behave a little smarter & not be a dummy in public spaces. I’m not saying this to Democrats, I am voicing it to other right wingers.
Listen, if you want to hold together a coalition & hopefully add to it, you have to at least mouth the words ‘I understand’ about an issue that isn’t necessarily on your radar- but is on the mind of many other conservatives. I personally grew up in a prosperous family & haven’t had to do a whole lot of struggling, but it became really apparent to me 12 or 13 years ago, once I married, that not everybody came from a wealthy suburb. I came to find out that there were a whole lot of people, from the conservative side, who felt left out & forgotten & left behind. They weren’t benefitting from the economy the elites created. I was always a social conservative & economic conservative & governing philosophy conservative, But after working on campaigns & meeting others, I started meeting America First conservative. It wasn’t necessarily on my radar, but I understood people’s concerns & decided it was worthy of adopting & advocating for those issues.
Amongst Conservatives, if we just adopt a very specific brand of conservatism alone, and don’t show concern for other conservatives, that coalition that we need in order to win elections, isn’t going to show up to vote on election day & our side will lose. So okay, it’s not a particularly big deal to you & you like the fighter in her. Okay, but it is important to the other half of us because we want the people who represent us to behave decently in public. Those standards set a tone for others & kids learn from it. Democrats have lowered standards everywhere. We think standards are important.
The best answer for everyone in this kind of situation is for conservatives like me to remember that it’s a goog thing fo Lauren to be a fighter fighter & give voice to those who haven’t had much of a voice in government policy & to not completely concentrate on things like this when they happen; But also for conservatives like you to admit that standards matter, public decency should be a given & not to make excuses or defend dumb behavior. Neither America First n I r traditional conservatism can win on their own. Some kind of peace needs to be reached 😉