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The GOP can’t be saved. Center-right voters need to become Biden Republicans.
The Washington Post ^ | April 7, 2021 | Max Boot

Posted on 04/08/2021 10:07:17 AM PDT by Trump20162020

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), one of only 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump this year, recently told the Atlantic why he remains committed to the party: “I’m a Republican because I’ve been a Republican far longer than Donald Trump has. He’s a Republican usurper.… I’m not going to let him take the party. So I will fight. I will fight like hell.”

It is a decision I have not for a moment regretted, because the GOP has become even more of a horror show than I anticipated. As former House speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) notes in a new memoir, the “crazies” have taken over. There are vanishingly few John McCain-style Republicans left; Kinzinger (a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard) is one of the few. The party’s center of gravity has shifted to kooks such as Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (who blamed Jewish space lasers for wildfires) and low-rent hucksters such as Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (who reportedly shared nude photos of his sexual conquests with his colleagues and is under investigation for possible sex trafficking).

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To: Trump20162020

“In an opinion piece for Foreign Policy in September 2017, Max Boot outlines his political views as follows: “I am socially liberal: I am pro-LGBTQ rights, pro-abortion rights, pro-immigration. I am pro-environment: I think that climate change is a major threat that we need to address.”

You already were a democrat.


101 posted on 04/08/2021 1:21:31 PM PDT by Impy ("Burn them all!!" - King Aerys II Targaryen, I share the sentiment )
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To: Trump20162020

Max Boot is really a punk-ass bitch!


102 posted on 04/08/2021 1:24:39 PM PDT by castowell (War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will - Von Clausewitz)
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To: Trump20162020

This guy, Boot, is a hoot!


103 posted on 04/08/2021 2:28:20 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: Trump20162020

Never go full retard


104 posted on 04/08/2021 2:42:07 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Trump20162020

Biden needs to resign. Save us all the trouble of impeaching and removing him from office. Will it happen? Well, it looks like it could happen, as it happens. We will see.


105 posted on 04/08/2021 2:53:53 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (President Asterisk is an ass to risk the economy and rights of all Americans.)
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To: Olog-hai

Everyone here except ZC and you knows the difference between being Jewish and practicing Judaism

But you guys always do this

Just like Boot did about Green

Anyone who recognizes leftist Jews are indeed...leftist is not by default a Nazi

Folks have to be blind or stupid not to notice what they observe constantly

It’s an inconvenient fact I suppose


106 posted on 04/08/2021 2:55:31 PM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG lz’’z:s)
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To: Olog-hai

Levin thinks southerners are Potential nazis and big dummies

Virtue signaling and victim hood claiming is a strong lure

Few can resist


107 posted on 04/08/2021 2:56:52 PM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG lz’’z:s)
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To: Trump20162020

“Max Boot”


108 posted on 04/08/2021 3:08:16 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: wardaddy

You have a quote from Levin on that matter?


109 posted on 04/08/2021 3:11:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Trump20162020

What in the world is wrong with Ms. Kinzinger?


110 posted on 04/08/2021 3:12:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: Trump20162020

What Jack Wagon came up with this BS?

Biden Republicans are democrat- commies. Nothing more.


111 posted on 04/08/2021 3:18:25 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Olog-hai; Pelham

I used to listen to him before he became a nevertrumper

He’s a neoYankee and GOPe rah rah

He yells too much

When he go into his neoconfederate rants I’d turn down volume

He’s like most talk radio

GOPe good

Dixiecrats and CSA evil and equivalent of Nazis

He supported Trump when his audience revolted


112 posted on 04/08/2021 5:07:05 PM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG lz’’z:s)
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To: Olog-hai

On the subject

One of many reasons i like this guy


113 posted on 04/08/2021 5:09:27 PM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG lz’’z:s)
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To: Trump20162020

Bush League Republicans want their party back to keep making America into North Mexico.


114 posted on 04/08/2021 5:22:36 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Rummyfan

There are vanishingly few John McCain-style Republicans left
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Bush League Republicans, also known as Assistant Democrats.


115 posted on 04/08/2021 5:29:38 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: OpusatFR

No GOP is going to vote for that.
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I’d be willing to bet the entire Bush family did.


116 posted on 04/08/2021 5:32:04 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: wardaddy

International communists


117 posted on 04/08/2021 5:33:54 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: wardaddy

He’s not a never-Trumper; he was one of the first to support his candidacy. He did make several mistakes in 2016 believing polls, though (particularly so-called “negatives”), as well as misinterpreting things Trump said as being in support of big government spending.

His current big minus is that he still won’t acknowledge that the entire GOP has been taken over by the left, including lost “hopes” like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.

I’ve heard him use the word “neoconfederates” all right, but not as a blanket reference to all in the South.


118 posted on 04/08/2021 5:36:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: chajin

only when we have a unified MAGA GOP take on the Marxists as a unit
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As we found out, the enemy within is far more dangerous.

We can’t win by re-electing Assistant Democrats.


119 posted on 04/08/2021 5:45:03 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Olog-hai; wardaddy; Ohioan

“He’s not a never-Trumper; he was one of the first to support his candidacy.”

Your memory is a bit rusty. Levin was really nasty towards Trump until Cruz dropped out. This was probably due to the fact that the son of Levin’s then-fiancé was big deal in the Cruz campaign, something that Levin never disclosed. At least he didn’t disclose it until it became common knowledge on the internet, at which point it didn’t matter if he informed people or not.

“I’ve heard him use the word “neoconfederates” all right, but not as a blanket reference to all in the South.”

That’s the new, acceptable N-word for conservative virtue signalers. When then moderate Eisenhower was President he had portraits of Lee and Jackson in the White House; I guess we can look forward to the new woke conservatism removing Ike’s portrait as they absorb more and more of the Left’s critique of American culture and history.

Nikki Haley will prove to have been the cutting edge of eradicating horrible old America and replacing it with virtuous new imports.


120 posted on 04/08/2021 6:16:32 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate the Democrats from their Communist occupation)
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