Posted on 07/07/2022 4:41:02 AM PDT by cotton1706
A 2024 ticket of former Vice President Mike Pence and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney might just be the thing that saves the Republican Party and our republic. Since Donald Trump's descent on the golden escalator in 2015, there have been far too many missed offramps for Republican officials who did not want Trump to be the GOP presidential candidate in 2016. Next year might just be the last one of those offramps. A Pence-Cheney ticket would restore trust in America's democratic institutions and begin the strengthening of the political party structure within the GOP.
Debating whether Trump's popularity is waning within the party's voter base is futile. Trump's approval is not decreasing in any meaningful way and, for the purposes of this argument, it doesn't really matter. This is about party elites finally taking back control of their party from their radical constituents. Will they do it? Probably not because they're too afraid, but here's an assertion for how and why they should.
The Republican Party elites and party bosses missed their window to take Trump out in 2016. It's not that they didn't know what would happen. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina tweeted on May 3, 2016: "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed … and we will deserve it." Graham had the foresight to know what would happen if the Republican base voter took control of the party.
Republicans deserve to be taught a lesson and be punished electorally for putting party over country, but that doesn't seem likely. Many key statewide elections will undoubtedly go the GOP's way in key gubernatorial and secretary of state races. And many of those Republican winners may be untrustworthy with the keys to our democracy.
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We need a new set of GOP Elites..........................
I( don’t know how Pence’s numbers are running, but Cheney is 30 points down to her primary opponent. That makes this another liberal wet dream.
In some ways, I feel sorry for Pence. Trump did put him in an impossible situation. Even so, I would not vote for him for POTUS because I am not convinced he is a fighter. However, Cheney can go rot — she dug her own grave on her Daddy’s orders.
Vice President Mike Pence and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney
That’s actually a zero sum ticket. 0% + 0%= 0% of Conservative voters.
“Graham had the foresight to know what would happen if the Republican base voter took control of the party.”
OK, please tell me that this sentence is a put-on.
NeoCons (Trotskyites) had a few decades in control of the GOP. It turned into a disaster and no one likes any of their plans. Let’s see how it goes with populists in control for a few years at least.
Literally from neocon central.
This article is written by a child who should leave politics to the grown ups. It is dripping with naivete and woke utopian reasoning.
Trump and his supporters are actually trying to save the Republic from the Marxist who wish to turn the USA into Venezuela. It may already be too late.
But one thing is certain for the Republican Party, there is no going back to the George Bush/Mitt Romney/John McCain’s of the world. The RINO elites are finished!
Who the hell is Lynn Schmidt and why should anyone give a damn?
Just…
Wow…
Nothing demonstrates the isolated, insular, echo-chamber world of DC more than anyone thinking Mike Pence or Liz Cheney has a chance in hell of winning the presidency, or even the Republican nomination…
> Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina tweeted on May 3, 2016: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed … and we will deserve it.”
You, especially you, deserve it regardless, Linda.
I’d stick a cork in it, if I was you.
Best way to totally destroy the Republic.
OMG a Pence/ Cheney ticket, the two MOST HATED people by the Republican base these people really have lost touch with reality WE ARE NOT going back WE HAVE voted holding our noses for the VERY LAST TIME!! Do these IDIOTS honestly believe that we will go back and just let them inflict the NWO on us REALLY?? Maybe the thought process is that if they hoist the 2 most hated republicans upon us we will stay home and their new grand lans for the world can go forward with Dems at the helm!!
I'm not a "Trumper". I voted for him in 2016 only because of the Supreme Court. I voted for him in 2020 more enthusiastically because of his policies, though his Trumpisms were wearing me down. Now, I'd rather have someone else like DeSantis because I'm really tired of the Trumpisms, although I'd still vote for him as the nominee.
But when I read stuff like this:
Graham had the foresight to know what would happen if the Republican base voter took control of the party...
...it just pisses me off. I become more supportive of Trump simply to teach those self-anointed "elites" that they are supposed to represent us, not rule us. The sheer arrogance of thinking that ordinary voters should not be determining the direction of the country is offensive, and absolutely convinces me that those "elites" still don't get it.
I could do without all of Trump's stupid statements and self-inflicted wounds, but I absolutely do not want a rerun of party leadership that believes civility and stability are so important that we shouldn't do anything to be too "divisive". And we all know that means -- not confronting directly the left on all the things they're doing to this country. Give them enough of their way so that we keep things "civil".
Screw that. I'd rather have a bomb-thrower than a Quisling.
Pence’s Job that he failed to do was: He was to lobby the the corrupt PA, GA, and AZ legislatures to submit their own set of electors due to the corrupt collusion of Dept State and Judges in those states to rig the election. Failure of the legislatures to send alternative slates of electors on Jan 6 gave Pence nothing to do. The fault entirely lies with the legislatures of each state to conduct the elections lawfully.
Graham had the foresight to know what would happen if the Republican base voter took control of the party.
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How dare the actual voters control the party!
We do not have a Democracy, we have a Representative Republic. Trump & the base are not the problem, you moderates are the problem. Time to get rid of all the moderates, not to save democracy, but to save the Republic, and freedom.
A not-so-secret society...but definitely Members Only.
Any attempts to wake up the sheeple(Trump/Brexit/etc.)must/will be neutralized.
They're but a few, but they control all...
...because they are too smart and powerful sheeple let them.
Another Assistant Democrat heard from.
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