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Republican Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw takes aim at his own party’s “woke right” for stoking division (Eyepatch McCain)
Texastribune.org ^ | 9/23/22 | STEPHEN NEUKAM

Posted on 09/24/2022 3:59:15 AM PDT by cotton1706

Offering a scorching rebuke of what he called the “woke right,” U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, continued to distance himself from some firebrand conservatives, accusing them of helping to sow manufactured division in the party.

In an interview with The New York Times’ Jonathan Martin for The Texas Tribune Festival, the two-term congressman admonished “alt-right” politicians and their supporters for wanting “to wear a jersey and just scream at the other side.”

“They remind me of the far left more than anything,” Crenshaw said. “If the first words out of their mouths are ‘RINO’ and ‘establishment’ and ‘globalist,’ rest assured they are not very thoughtful and they are probably about to lie to you. I’m just sick of it.”

Despite what he said were inauthentic divisions in the party, Crenshaw said conservatives “have never been more aligned ideologically.”

While Crenshaw stopped short of pointing fingers at specific members of his party, Martin suggested provocative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, whom Crenshaw has feuded with in the past, as an example of the reactionary Republicans the congressman was dinging in the interview.

While lawmakers like Greene continue to be “contrarian,” Crenshaw said, House leadership has fewer and fewer ways to contain them. Instead, he said, the illusion of a controlling GOP apparatus is exaggerated.

“They don’t have many tools, there is no establishment,” Crenshaw said. “It is a myth perpetuated by people like her.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: crenshaw; elections; rino
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1 posted on 09/24/2022 3:59:15 AM PDT by cotton1706
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He’s exactly the kind of Establishment RINO we need to purge from the party.


2 posted on 09/24/2022 4:01:16 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: cotton1706

Globalist RINO that Klaus Schwab has a vested interest in....


3 posted on 09/24/2022 4:02:53 AM PDT by cranked
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To: cotton1706

He’s a dips**t


4 posted on 09/24/2022 4:05:15 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: cotton1706

The pirate jokes just want to hit the page. But I will refrain.


5 posted on 09/24/2022 4:06:26 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: cotton1706

World Economic Forum stooge Patches McCain says there is no establishment folks.


6 posted on 09/24/2022 4:10:27 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: cotton1706

F this turd. Eye or no eye? He seems like a classic RINO TURD!!!!


7 posted on 09/24/2022 4:12:52 AM PDT by bantam
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To: cotton1706

We got rid of 8 quislings but there is still more work to do.


8 posted on 09/24/2022 4:16:14 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: FLT-bird
He’s exactly the kind of Establishment RINO we need to purge from the party.

Bingo! He doesn't see himself that way though. His lack of self-awareness is part of the problem. He doesn't see how he and his RINO brethren are hanging good Americans out to dry. They are not fighting back against the extreme overreach of the New Nazi Democrat Party. That makes him no better than them; maybe worse.

9 posted on 09/24/2022 4:16:59 AM PDT by Boomer ( What's the difference between Nazi Germany in 1932 and the USA in 2022? 5k miles and 90 years.)
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To: cotton1706

Crenshaw is a creepy Deep State spook and I’d like to see him knocked off by a good candidate in a primary.

But I think “Eyepatch McCain” is needless and unwarranted (even if Tucker started it). If any man (or woman) has a disability, including of course from serving in the military, adding a direct reference to that in a derogatory nickname, especially, is IMO poor form.

From a political perspective, it is also probably counterproductive.


10 posted on 09/24/2022 4:25:20 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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“But I think “Eyepatch McCain” is needless and unwarranted (even if Tucker started it). If any man (or woman) has a disability, including of course from serving in the military, adding a direct reference to that in a derogatory nickname, especially, is IMO poor form.

From a political perspective, it is also probably counterproductive.”

I disagree. It’s a name that perfectly describes him. He’s a scheister. And like McCain, he has and will use his service as a shroud to protect himself. Whenever we questioned McCain’s VOTES IN CONGRESS, we were immediately inundated with McCain’s capture by the North Vietnamese.

And it was the same with Max Cleland, etc.

I don’t care about the shrouds politicians like to use. I pay attention to words and actions.


11 posted on 09/24/2022 4:37:08 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: Altura Ct.
He’s a dips**t

He sure is.

12 posted on 09/24/2022 4:38:17 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: cotton1706
Crenshaw isn't going to be R-Houston after November.

The new TX-2 has been moved north to beyond the Houston city border.

-PJ

13 posted on 09/24/2022 4:40:34 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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Note... He has adopted the liberal tactic of proposing the exact polar opposite of the truth and reality though labelling. Because of the new stigma related to the label woke, the antiwoke are now being labelled and redefined as the new woke. The 180 spin from the truth.


14 posted on 09/24/2022 4:44:48 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: cotton1706
Stop posting the Soros Owned Front group TX Tribune .

This Soros Propaganda Site was Created to make TX Blue .

Its a Soros Blog set as a non for profit to dodge Taxes and Regulations .
Its not news .

Stop peddling Soros Non for profit Lies Here .

15 posted on 09/24/2022 4:45:27 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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16 posted on 09/24/2022 4:51:15 AM PDT by Bratch
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Crenshaw said. “If the first words out of their mouths are ‘RINO’ and ‘establishment’ and ‘globalist,’ rest assured they are not very thoughtful and they are probably about to lie to you. I’m just sick of it.”

If being called 'RINO', 'establishment' and 'globalist' bothers you, then rest assured it's because the shoe fits.

Texas, please fire eyepatch McCain.

17 posted on 09/24/2022 4:56:31 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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> there is no establishment

When you see his face alongside other WEF ‘young leaders’ that’s a myth.

Noticing that in unison they undertake and sponsor the same efforts espoused by the WEF is just loopy.

Becoming aware that these actions do nothing good for America (or for the other countries these WEF people live in) and each drive towards those countries’ dissolution and towards the creation of a global, unelected authority is completely nuts. After all, he has a “-R” after his name and can pronounce the word ‘conservative,’ right?


18 posted on 09/24/2022 4:56:49 AM PDT by No.6
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To: cotton1706

Why the hell is Crenshaw even talking with the toupée wearing, Marxist twink Jonathan Martin? It says everything about that fake phony “conservative” Crenshaw.


19 posted on 09/24/2022 4:58:32 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci: You had one job and you failed!)
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To: cotton1706

He just named himself in that description, didn’t he? RINO? Yep! Globalist? Yep! As bad as the far left? Yep!


20 posted on 09/24/2022 5:09:27 AM PDT by JoJo354 (I am in mourning for the United States of America.)
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