With due respect Jane.
Why hasn’t a conservative stepped up to run.
Conservatives moan and grown about Bonehead, but when the time
comes for one to step up, no one is willing to step up.
Webster and/or Chaffetz are not the worst we could do....especially Webster.
Yes, in a perfect world I’d prefer Goehmert, but he won’t run. Why? I have no idea.
If I were Webster, Chaffetz or Jordan, I’d be having my legal and media teams pouring over what Bonehead is trying to do.
A true conservative can not get to 218. That is the main reason. The conservatives are simply asking for a leader who will give them a seat at the table that respects their numbers AND the fact that it was conservatives who put these Republicans in leadership by virtue of their conservative victories.
However, their victories did not put enough conservatives in the majority to ever hope to elect a conservative as Speaker.
They are looking at others, like Jim Jordan or this Daniel Webster guy, but whomever it is must compromise with conservatives enough to allow them a seat at the table.
Right now the Boehner types are doing everything in a smokey backroom. THAT is what conservatives in the House intend to stop. They want a Speaker willing to hear them and give them a vote on the agenda going forward.