"...a willingness to craft public policy in a spirit of bipartisanship..."
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Posted on 09/29/2024 6:24:25 AM PDT by cotton1706
The swamp was fetid already way back then. No wonder WFB used to rail on about the uselessness of "Eisenhower" republicans. Just not entirely sure Ike was the genuine problem. It's the good 'ol boyz and galz who were always just self-serving corruptocrats. The problem is that the number of people you buy off every year increases geometrically and the number of people who pay for the buying off decreases by the same amount until you are here where half your budget is paid for through seignorage on the US$.
Stupid. Vance, DeSantis, Roy.
I gotcha “role model” right here, Bob.
Dan Evan was a piece of work - certainly no conservative, anti-commercial fisherman, anti-logger, anti-miner, anti-private property rights, etc.
"...a willingness to craft public policy in a spirit of bipartisanship..."
So he’s an Illinois Repuke in the spirit of Bob Michel and Everett Dirksen. He can’t roll over fast enough for the Democrats in the spirit of bipartisanship.
These milquetoast Repukes really do deserve the tag of being called “assistant Democrats”.
On the day of the convention speeches though, Alexander was stricken with laryngitis and could not speak so he had an aide read his speech to the convention. Afterwards, Alexander and the aid went to the state GOP Chairman, Tom Slade, and asked for a partial refund of the sponsorship fee -- because after all, Alexander had been unable to speak.
Slade -- a Trump-like figure in many ways and a tremendously effective state GOP chairman -- did not hesitate a moment but replied: "HELL NO!" Alexander and his aide slinked off, dejected.
Now its leaders are men who support abortion. That truly disgusts me. Women know why you support this.
You forgot to include Sen. Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.)
They’re all the old reach-across Republicans who prospered when Democrats were in power and courted them to support bipartisan deals.
Every one of them was a back-stabbing RINO who took the most reflexively leftist position on almost every issue. People like Hatfield and Chafee opposed Reagan on many of his policies. Bob Packwood was another RINO.
How many other Republicans have taken a bullet and kept going?
Oh. I was thinking of Richard Lugar.
Government isn’t supposed to provide ‘role models’.
Wasn’t Dan Evans the guy that greased Ted Bundy into GOP politics in Washington state?
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