"Oh, where have all the Republicans gone that used to help us out?? The ones that would provide convenient cover so that Democrats could pretend not to be Democrats?"
And we all know that when the Republican party nominated the most liberal Republican they could in 2008, John McCain - just the type of Republican the author and his ilk yearn for, they all voted for the Democrat.
Because they're all f'n phonies. They want Democrats in office, and Republicans who are really Democrats.
They don't want any REAL opposition to their preferred policies.
Well too bad! Evans and Specter and McCain are dead! And so are Howard Baker, Charles Percy, Arthur Vandenberg, Jacob Javits, Lamar Alexander, Margaret Chase Smith and John Chafee. John Danforth is still alive but will be dead soon. Only Democrats miss them.
Just as an aside, Howard Baker's wife, former RINO Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum (now 92) endorsed Harris just this week. What a shocker.
Dan Evan’s was milque toast.
“””Bob Kustra served as president of Boise State University from 2003 to 2018. He is host of Readers Corner on Boise State Public Radio and is a regular columnist for the Idaho Statesman. He served two terms as Illinois lieutenant governor and 10 years as a state legislator.””””
I find DJ Trump and JD Vance as better GOP role models.
Kustra has been hanging around leftist camps and it has messed up his head.
Interesting that we never hear these types of complaints from long-time Democrat leaders.
So one asks the simple question: Why not? Answer: Because Democrat Leaders today actually FOLLOW the will of their voters, which is to destroy the country as it now exists.
Old-Style Republican Leaders, on the other hand, agree with the Democrats on their top priority, but prefer to do it at a somewhat slower pace. But Republican voters DO NOT want the country destroyed, which is why someone like Trump, who agrees with the Republican voters, can be on top of the party. The solution for the Old-Style types is very simple, simply LISTEN TO YOUR VOTERS and join Trump.
If your “willingness to craft public policy in a spirit of bipartisanship” got us to where we are now then of what use was it?
Lament that the generation of RINOs who are perfectly content with second-tier power and the throw offs Democrat masters deign to give them.
The number of true Republican conservatives of that generation can be counted on the fingers of one hand. They are the ones who get demonized by MSM and Democrats on a daily basis. This ‘need’ for ‘across the aisle’ cooperation is complete bullsh!t.
Just another “Progressive” Republican speaking out.
BUMP
POLITICAL WEAKLINGS!
My mother was Holyscroller here on Freerepublic (d. 2020). She fought the good fight against the likes of Dan Evans his entire career. In the 60’s she even had a newspaper called the “Silent Majority V.O.I.C.E. (Voters Objective Information About Current Events) where she would take on the likes of Dan Evans and his croonies, not just in Washington State, but nationally. People like Phyllis Schlafly wrote for mom’s paper. Mom hated Dan Evans, Slade Gorton, and all the other RINOs in Washington State politics.
Lamar Alexander is alive.
84.
“The qualities of intellect, integrity and a willingness to craft public policy in a spirit of bipartisanship seem to have declined on the Republican side of the aisle.”
What BS
Remembering Fmr Gov. Dan Evans of Wash.: The Last Great Pragmatist
Gizzi, way back in the day, used to be an intelligent observer of politics, and I don't recall him being such a wimp. But it's clear (and not just from this one article) that like most "right wing" media commentators, he's got a wet noodle for a spine. Maybe he always was like that?
In any event, Dan Evans is hardly a role model for any truly conservative politician, and he never was. But Evans seems to be the perfect comp for current (down to 3 more months) House Speaker Mike "Ned Flanders" Johnson.
Well, the same can be said of DemocRats. They used to have role models like Mayor Richard Daley. Oh, wait, they still do. Sorry Mayor Adams, et al.
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Indeed. As if the Democrats aren’t grandstanding, plundering, self-interested sociopaths only interested in public service.
I saw RFKj speaking about how his father and uncles instilled in him at family dinners a sense of ‘virtue’, public and private conduct. I couldn’t help but shake my head and laugh. Womanizing, bootlegging, drinking and driving and even death - but they had good intentions!
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$.
The swamp was fetid already way back then. No wonder WFB used to rail on about the uselessness of "Eisenhower" republicans. Just not entirely sure Ike was the genuine problem. It's the good 'ol boyz and galz who were always just self-serving corruptocrats. The problem is that the number of people you buy off every year increases geometrically and the number of people who pay for the buying off decreases by the same amount until you are here where half your budget is paid for through seignorage on the US$.
Stupid. Vance, DeSantis, Roy.
I gotcha “role model” right here, Bob.