And Chip Roy was one of the loudest voices in the impeachment attempt on Texas AG Ken Paxson.
You see? This is the same crap. Understand what conservatism is.
It is Drain the Swamp
It is Build the Wall
It is American First In All Things
IN THAT ORDER. These faux conservatives never embrace item 1, which would require opposition to all things RNC and the donor class.
Populism is ascendant. It is the purest form of Conservatism. A guy who opposes taxes is not a litmus test. The number one litmus test is eradication of the political class, and it’s hard for one to pass that test if they have had a political career.
“And Chip Roy was one of the loudest voices in the impeachment attempt on Texas AG Ken Paxton”
Louis Gohmert gop Texan, favorite ran against Paxton for AG.
People know Trump better than they know anyone in politics.
For either years
They don’t know squat about this wacky unpredictable Texan they jump to his defense
It is so stupid it’s not even funny
In case it’s a let’s per
Pretend everyone from Texas is conservative thing-I won’t mention the border
Tge cities in Texas- 3 major cities and a couple of minor are redder than Long Island NY
and.......the people behind getting Paxton were the Bush clan and Karl Rove.
So Roy is one of them.
For or against?
And Chip Roy was one of the loudest voices in the impeachment attempt on Texas AG Ken Paxson.
Well, he was certainly one of the most outspoken Federal elected officials to publicly take up against his old boss, and to support the weasley liar David Maxwell. And he's long been aligned with the Cruz folks, even down to doing most of his fundraising in River Oaks, and not out in Kerrville or Fredricksburg, ie, in his district. So, yeah, a good conservative voting record, but definitely not part of the populist MAGA movement.
Which is kind of the story of this campaign. Many smart people with at least a few years of on-the-ground political experience saw Ron DeSantis as the "electable" candidate, and a way to get conservative policies implemented, ie, acting as if this election, and by implication, 2020 are just "politics as usual". The Republican primary voters don't think this is "business as usual", with an obvious weaponization of the courts and legal system to cover for a transparently stolen election in 2020 (and 2022 to a somewhat lesser extent).
Trump's going to be the nominee. The rest of the party needs to come to grips with that, and start working to figure out how to get him elected, or just get out of the way. Chip is firmly in that category.
And Trump's not wrong about his district. Deb Heine calls him an "Austin" representative, which isn't accurate. His district runs to the west of Austin, and picks up a northern San Antonio suburb, and then covers the solidly red Kendall, Kerr, Bandera, Blanco, and Hays counties. Which were formerly considered conservative, but post Trump, also lean populist. Chip is no populist, which is the reason he's so popular with the good people at the River Oaks Country Club, but he might want to consider driving out to Fredburg and chatting with the people at Bill's Bar-B-Que every now and then as well. He'll probably discover that Trump's got at better sense of the mood in his district that Chip does.