Posted on 09/08/2019 7:57:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford announced Sunday that he is running for president as a Republican, becoming the latest to challenge President Trump in the GOP primaries.
Sanford said the Republican Party is facing an identity crisis, and he wants the GOP to take a look at itself and do some soul searching.
“I think we have to have a conversation about what it means to be a Republican,” Sanford told “Fox News Sunday,” claiming the party “has lost our way.”
Sanford specifically made reference to the debt, deficit and government spending. Other conservatives expressed concern about these issues when Trump helped Congress pass a spending bill that increases spending caps and suspends the debt ceiling, allowing for more government borrowing until July 31, 2021. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., blasted his colleagues at the time, saying it “marks the death of the Tea Party movement in America.”
Sanford also challenged Trump’s tactics when it comes to trade, saying that engaging the world when it comes to trade is “one of the hallmarks of the Republican Party.”
He also brought up political culture, which he said has been “damaged” by Trump. “We need to have a conversation about humility,” Sanford said, blasting Trump’s social media habits by claiming that a tweet “is not leadership.” …
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“With all due respect, proof by repeated assertion is a logical fallacy.”
With all due respect, proof by repeated truth is factual.
Thanks for the welcome.
“So we’re the USSR if Mark Sanford can’t get on a ballot. Ok.”
You are correct, that is what I wrote.
Truth requires proof, and you provide none. Hence what you state is an assertion.
I hope your stay on FR is longer than I suspect it’s going to be.
“I agree. Someone in an earlier comment said that outside of Trump there is no GOP. I hope that is not true. Because that is not how you describe a political party. It’s would be more of a cult. And that’s not something I have any interest in being part of. Sometimes I think I’m the last FReeper who is willing to be critical of Trump.”
StoneWall Brigade was zotted a few days ago for being critical for the president. That’s how it works I believe.
In terms of the GOP, without formal party structure, you’re absolutely right, there no GOP. We’d turn into a cult otherwise. It does explain why the RNC does not want primaries for 2020 - they’re afraid of the same thing. This way they are keeping both sides happy.
He should take a hike...
Thank you for your concern. There is no reason to be zotted if what I am saying is factual.
I don't play word games noob. Constitutional Republic. If you could buy a clue you would run from the word democracy like your a$$ was on fire.
He sure knows humility.. after walking off for another gal down south.
His voters may be forgiving , but..
He sure knows humility.. after walking off for another gal down south.
His voters may be forgiving , but..
“If you could buy a clue you would run from the word democracy like your a$$ was on fire.”
I’m not afraid of words, like you seem to be. Words have meaning and democracy/democratic has nothing to do with the leftist PoS’s that claim it.
Yeah what we need now is another kiss a## do nothing, go along to get along, douche that will give the rats everything they ask for
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
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The citizens had NO representation before the hostile takeover of the GOP by President Trump.
Both parties were fully committed to making the USA into North Mexico.
The elimination of our sovereignty in order to subsume the USA to the UN has been the end goal of both parties since they were both captured.
Blooming Idiot (R)
You have no capacity to learn. You will be stardust soon enough. You can have the last word, so double down.
Did he toss his hat in the ring after Trump sent $$$$ down to SC for hurricane damage?
Exactly! Does he think the voters have forgotten his dereliction of duty when he was Governor? Send this nut over to the Democrats. He embraces their values.
I’ll say this about McCain - he was consistent. He didn’t agree with executive orders on principle and he stood by his word.
I think he was full of crap. If he didn't agree with executive orders on principle, he should have been 100% on board with President Trump when he issued executive orders that were explicitly intended to overturn previous (illegal) executive orders.
I'll say it again: McCain was full of sh!t. He claimed he was opposed to Obama's executive orders, but he was perfectly happy to let them stand as the law of the land without anything more than political grandstanding in opposition to them.
That's why McCain will be remembered as nothing more than a corrupt U.S. Senator and a failed presidential candidate.
I suspect your suspicion is correct.
If only that were true. The very word indicates a constitution that has no permanence and can be altered at will by a fickle populace—just as the Democratic Party openly calls for, and the GOP establishment implies by euphemism. Some words are indeed to be feared.
We are in a Presidential campaign season. Beware of infiltrators.
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