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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Get ready to be pilloried.
You are correct, regardless. And the guy isn’t all wrong.
A challenger who articulates small government, State’s rights, concern about debt/deficit, Constitutional policies would be generate a good discussion for the Republican Party to have. Otherwise, those views will be gone forever and the Romney/McCain/Ryan (etc ad nauseum) element of crazed elitist globalists will take it back.
Yes, lets have a primary for the “Corporate Lobbyist Party”. Meanwhile Trump can stay president.
“Get ready to be pilloried.
You are correct, regardless. And the guy isn’t all wrong.”
I am expecting it, it’s how it goes. Principles are principles, however, and I stand by them. Representation of the voters is the reason why we’re still a Democratic Republic and not a third world s**thole.
I just got a text the other day from the President's campaign offering a chance to win dinner with the President in LA. I gave $25. When I'm having dinner with the President I'll be wearing my "Veterans For Trump" t-shirt which I bought last year at Trump Tower on 5th Avenue.
I guess I have a feeling that closing down the primaries is somewhat overkill but here is the problem.
The primaries have become the home of ding bats like this guy. Continuing an open conversation, I agree, is healthy, but the conversation is with stalking horses and ding bats not with those who might have to stick their neck out like Romney, Lee, or the Postman.
Sooo how’s your love life going Mark ya stoopid.
„Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meine Browning.‟From Schlageter, a play by Nazi writer Hanns Johst. Character’s name is Friedrich “Fritz” Thiemann.
“When I hear ‘culture’ … I release the safety on my Browning.”
Exactly.
Many Freepers pound themselves on the back to enhance personal self esteem by dissing Republicans when the only way for conservatism to thrive is from within a viable Republican party.
By sanctinonous puritanism, conservatives lose rather than gain strength.
Intolerance should be left to the leftist that plague America
No, the GOP has moved in a direction that is lost on Sanford.
Mark Sanford, go AWAAAAAAAAAY!
“claiming the party “has lost our way.”
This from the guy who couldn’t tell the Appalachian Trail from South America.
L
Wandering Mark. Hiking Mark. Offtrail Mark.
Four states right now (SC is one of them). It wouldn’t surprise me if you see over thirty states shut down the primary business for 2020’s Republican presidential business.
Every candidate used to run on protecting the border but now that someone actually wants to do something about it “republicans have lost their way”. If both parties are Globalist...what’s the point in voting?
“Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.”When a RINO wants to discuss the “direction” of the GOP, it invariably means to turn it further leftward. And RINOs have always mixed truth with lies.
— Communist goal #15, from “The Naked Communist” (1958)
The GOP has lost its way, I agree, but it’s not Trump’s fault. They lost their GOP compass in the bushes.
Who?
Mark Sanford?
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-sanfords-fiancee-caught-off-guard-by-engagement-ending/
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