"The Big Guy"?
Posted on 07/21/2022 3:15:13 AM PDT by cotton1706
The primary is in two weeks, and the most nervous political demographic is the traditional, conservative Republicans with experience.
It's hard to believe. Ronald Reagan-loving, John Engler-revered Republicans — the people who ran Michigan government for the better part of 25 years — have a pit in their stomach over Aug. 2.
They're like the guilty boy who isn't sure if he's getting anything under the Christmas tree. They honestly don't know what they're getting.
Let's start at the top with Tudor Dixon. She was a guest commentator on the fringe right radio network America's Voice with Steve Gruber before she ran for governor. She made a living out of giving news a hard conservative spin.
Now, only because she accepted the endorsement of the business community and the DeVos family — which other candidates sought, by the way — she's being called a Republican In Name Only. A RINO. Establishment. A Never Trumper. Even though she's a sandwich away from getting the Big Guy's endorsement.
That's not the only issue.
Unlike 2000 and 2010, Republicans didn't draw the legislative and congressional maps so they didn't get a chance to protect their incumbents as they did before.
This cycle, it might not have mattered as far as House Republicans go. Grassroots activists are pissed neither the Republican-led Senate nor House thought enough of Trump's widespread election fraud claims to order up a "forensic audit" of the 2020 presidential election results.
(Excerpt) Read more at lansingcitypulse.com ...
They don't seem to like the results of all the chum they've been throwing in the waters over the past decade.
Great final line:
"I've never seen Republican incumbents working harder to keep what they got. And, for many of them, it still won't be enough."
They need to learn the first rule of elections in the modern era: “There is no such thing as a safe seat - for anyone.”
Good. The dirty secret being exposed is that some people want the job of “politician” the way you want to be a doctor, or work on jet airplanes. If you want the job of politician and you live in a regular normal part of America, you run as a Republican to get hired. (Elected)
The Republican Party is filled with power seeking liars who are fully democrats at heart, so they become false flag republicans.
Root the bastards out.
Keep what they got is precisely why they need to go.
If this guy is trying to be ironic, this the ultimate in irony...”All of this is being wrapped into an “America First” platform that’s protectionist at its core — tariffs, strong immigration policies, no outside wars. It speaks to an insular attitude that is griping and motivating the rank-and-file GOP voter.”
Imagine being “America First” and against “outside wars”? Stop griping about that!
Who is Kyle Melinn and what is LansingCityPulse? Sound like another Journalist trying to tell us who to vote for.
Good. They all need to be sent packing.
That’s why we need term limits top to bottom.
“traditional Republican” and “conservative” in the same sentence has become a case study in cognitive dissonance.
RINO scum and leftists journalists like to invoke Reagan while they work like demons to tear down everything he ever believed in. They can FOAD.
Now this waste of news, the Lansing City Pulse, is bemoaning the threat to GOPe centrists WHOM they probably never supported in any General Election! Gee, what a shock!
I thought that term was reserved for Slo Joe.
"The Big Guy"?
LSP is Michigan’s capital city’s weekly free paper and deeply soaked in the most wokeoid ideology since the 90s, and Kyle is its cheerleader and editor.
I maintain the bigger issue at the Federal level especially is term limits in the permanent bureaucracy.
Off-topic - “A pit in their stomach”? Pet peeve, it’s a bad feeling in the pit of one’s stomach.
Those traditional “conservative” Republicans are not conservatives, they are mostly Assistant Democrats, despite what they call themselves.
How could things be any worse than the last few years?
Vote for the best guys and let the final loss happen if it does. The parties will see who the voters want and hopefully candidates will step into that slot next time.
I now oppose all term limits because all they do is remove (term-limit) individual politicians and transfer the long-term policy-making power to the bureaucracies and bureaucrats. With term limits, bureaucracies/bureaucrats can simply wait for individual politicians whose positions they oppose to be forced out of office - and then implement what they wanted done all along.
Ironically, during the Missouri debate, I didn't believe the Democrats when they warned of that consequence. They were correct.
Instead of forcing all legislators (that includes the GOOD ones we like!) out after a prescribed period of time, we should work hard and end their careers through primary and general elections of people whose policies, personalities, and positions we support. Then those people could be re-elected "forever" - as long as they don't "change their stripes" once in office. (If that happens, give them the boot at the earliest opportunity.)
NO to term limits!
Slaughter the RINOs.
Open season and no bag limit on “RINOS” :)
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