Posted on 03/03/2024 10:13:51 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)’s successor needed to be independent from former President Donald Trump.
Partial transcript as follows:
JON KARL: By the way, I should point out that the former president’s had some choice words for you as – as you no doubt know. I think he called you – or questioned whether or not you were crazy or just stupid, a jerk, a RINO, a weak – anyway, we could go on. But – but how important is it for whoever the Senate leader is to have some degree of independence from – from Donald Trump? I mean I understand you say everybody needs to be on board in the general election, but how important is it to do what McConnell did, which is be willing to stand up to Trump?
ROUNDS: Well, that’s what I’m looking for in a leader. I want someone who will work with a president, but who also will stand his own ground. That’s one of the reasons why I very publicly and openly supported John Thune and I supported Mitch McConnell. I think John Thune will bring some – you know, a fresh breath. That always happens when you have a change in leadership.
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He wants an establishment corrupt POS to oppose Trump.
Stand for what? Which policy? I’m sick of the personality crap. It should not be about Trump the man it needs to be about the policies. This “stop Trump all the time at any cost” mentality is a not just a sickness. It seems there is a lot more to it - money, systems, power, influence etc.
And what were stuffing HIS shorts?
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mike-rounds/summary?cid=N00035187&cycle=2022
Yeah because Trump’s not popular at all...
Good question. I suppose there are a lot of "sensible" and "nice" people there. That mean ol' President Trump is
just a "meany". He's not "nice' like "the folks" and the pastorix down at the Rainbow United Methodist Chruch.
What about standing the ground of the people?
Mike Rounds (R-SD). One of the worst RINOs in the senate.
https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/mike-rounds
You just gave a good argument as to why the 17th Amendment should be repealed.
Repeal the 17th Amendment
State legislatures can’t do worse!
How do these RINO aholes like Thune and Rounds get elected in a deep red state like South Dakota?
Because GooberCons are endlessly fooled by pretend “conservative” speeches from these fakes.
Voters never seem to consider what the background of these candidates are, who their donors are, and what these politicians will be doing for money once they leave office.
What’s frustrating is that the same con works over and over again. The GooberCons never seem to learn. And always have some new conservative “hero” based on a speech they saw on TV.
The US Senate is a cesspool and if I elect Dave McCormick here in Pennsylvania this year the Never Trump Nikki Haley style nonsense continues.
The State of Rinoho.
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.The above was written back in 1958, and entered into the Congressional record in 1963. How deeply entrenched is the Uniparty now, over six decades later? Even those who were once thought of as reliably conservative voted to certify the pseudo-results of 2020.
— Goal #15 of the 45 communist goals for the USA
Zero!
Thune is the designated successor. Everything else is just kabuki, meant to distract us.
Yup. Most of these assholes live in a bubble. They have no clue what is going on in the real world. They collect $200 k a year and do nothing but pontificate meaningless BS.
“They collect $200 k a year and do nothing but pontificate meaningless BS.”
Then a heaping lifetime retirement. They’d put ten limits on the president and not themselves. They perpetuate the notion that we work for them instead of the fact that they work for us
It’s the last scream of a dying regime.
Then why should Mitch step down?
He had that down from day one of Trump’s term in office.
Yeah, the guy who is saving the Party.
I couldn’t bring myself to vote against the @$$hole.
I couldn’t bring myself to vote for him either
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