Posted on 02/14/2024 8:58:03 AM PST by TBP
The Republican Party no longer exists to win elections.
It exists to grift suckers out of as much cash as possible.
Democrats focus on winning and moving their agenda.
Republicans focus on grifting & telling our people why we need to compromise, cave & sellout to our enemies.
Their only princuple is to have no principles. Their only strategy is preemptive surrender. Their only plan for victory is to alienate their base as muh as possible. They did such a good job of replacing the Whigs that they have become the Whigs.
When the Democrats are in charge, it's as if you're in a car going off a cliff at 100 MPH. At least the Republicans drive the speed limit, but you're still going off the c liff. We nee to turn the car around.
But the GOP isn't intereste in that, just in keeping their sinecures an making money.
Nearest I can tell, it’s the repub’s job to run interference for the dems.
Sort of a ‘good cop, bad cop’ routine played on the entire nation.
Dems are the mafia, pubbies are the cops that get paid to look the other way....
So, what’s the answer? Stop voting with our ballot and our checkbooks?
Get the he-l out ronna romney!
He’s right. The New York GOP put up a black registered Democrat female as a sacrificial lamb to replace the Santos seat. It went about as well as you would think.
Unfortunately.
R party is a useless joke of self-enrichment just like the Dems. We are ruled by Dempublicans and Republicrats.
Hahaha...
The GOP and Dems exist to do their owners bidding, period.
The people who think there is a dimes bit of difference between the establishment political class because of the letter beside their name are SUCKERS.
The uniparty/establishment/globalists own and control the game. You are irrelevant from their perspective... pandered to at election time for a vote, and the back to doing their masters bidding.
Don’t try to tell me the party that puts up Nicki Haley as a presidential contender is vastly different than the party that puts up Obama or Joe Biden.
Pretending their rhetoric and policies are vastly different is laughable.
Neither is the base - for when so-called “MAGA candidates” - including Trump himself - win their primaries, they keep their wallets closed and sit on their behinds. Look at the fundraising numbers. The Dem base works their tails off and forks over the cash, leaving our own candidates twisting in the wind, at the complete mercy of establishment PACs and orgs that should only be supplemental support and should not be what is depended on to win. The candidates have to be able to stand on their own two feet as well. And so, the beat goes on. Our base has been disengaged since 2018...the disintegrating RNC since Preibus left after 2016 is part of it, but it isn’t all. The talk radio circuit is far less engaged in the basics - they would talk about miniscule races that were special elections and get national attention to them and get the base out to vote and support the candidate - weeks and even months ahead of time. Now they hardly mention it even the day of, let alone being all hands on deck for weeks or months beforehand. But the Left and all of its organizations were full steam ahead. They outraise and outwork us at every turn...and that cannot be blamed entirely on the establishment as the nonestablishment candidates have the exact same issue.
Don’t know how we turn this around...but we are in serious trouble, once again, for November 2024 if this pattern of the last several years continues.
“So, what’s the answer?”
My answer is to work around whatever they do, “they” meaning both parties. I expect nothing from them except things to work around. So far, so good. They can’t help but open windows when they close doors, fortunately.
The letter after the name means jack anymore.
The ONLY reason political parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of.
A pol is either loyal to our former republic or to Deep State.
Congress is Deep State’s.
The only argument is whether the split is 52/48 or 48/52 and when one of the wrestlers starts taking it to seriously and hits for real. They all have to join together if some crazy orange UFC fighter breaks in and starts attacking everyone and throws some of the ticket money back to the crowd.
Democrats all want things from the government, so they are united and motivated to win.
Republicans aren’t usually angling to get programs and projects from the government, so they are less united and less motivated.
When Republican politicians are motivated, it may be because there’s something they want from the government.
Much of the time, though, they are content to be ineffectual placeholders.
A little more slowly than the Dems, perhaps, but still the same basic agenda.
In 2022, Santos won the primary and then won by 8 points the general election as a proud MAGA candidate.
Mazi was picked without a primary by the GOP establishment and then she lost by 8 points in the 2024 general election.
From NY CD3 all the way up to the RNC Chair, the RINO's in the Republican party need to go.
Whatley and Lara can't start soon enough.
“Dems are the mafia, pubbies are the cops that get paid to look the other way....”
But the mafia has killed off all the street level earners and the only ones left are the ones at the top of pyraimid taking the vig on goverment contract book.
85% of the cops are unaware of the Mafia, just do what they do every day in the state houses. Your state party should be putting up better canidates and moving out the old guard.
We are nearly 16 years post Tea Party, why do we Gen Xers have to show everyone the way. Repeat the Rand Paul model 30+ time in the senate, and elect the people who everyone in the media hates in the house and DC will change.
You have a problem with the DC GOP....
Trump endorsed Ronna and whipped votes for her, and Whatley’s no better.
Give to candidates and PACs who share our principles. Give NOTHING to the party or any of its committees.
If they come up with good candidates, vote for them and work for them. When they don’t, what do we gain by putting in Democrats Lite?
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