Posted on 08/02/2024 2:11:33 PM PDT by LibertyWoman
Conservative hardliner and powerful Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good shockingly lost his seat in Congress following a recount of his contentious primary against Trump-backed John McGuire.
The Virginia lawmaker's burn-it-all-down tactics in the House has made enemies out of colleagues including former President Donald Trump and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy - who he ousted last year.
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With 99 percent of votes tallied, McGuire took the win by just 393 votes and now the Freedom Caucus will be forced to elect a new chair.
In a concession message, Good boasted that he'd been the 'strongest and most consistent voice in the House for protection of life from contraception.'
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He earned the ire of Trump after endorsing Ron DeSantis in the contentious GOP presidential primary.
Trump never forgot that and worked to actively rally voters against Good calling him 'bad for Virginia and bad for the USA.'
'He turned his back on our incredible movement, and was constantly attacking and fighting me until recently, when he gave a warm and 'loving' Endorsement - But really, it was too late,' Trump wrote onTruth Social before election day.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Didn’t the Freedom Caucus tie up Trump’s early request to repeal Obamacare, or some such thing?
I don’t remember that
House Republican Bob Good officially OUSTED from Congress after extremely close recount by Kevin McCarthy-backed John McGuire
I would like to know more from someone in that district, but it does appear that the GOP Establishment won this round to our detriment.
Not aware. So who should we root for?
Whatever the case, Good is clearly on Trump’s sh*t list now.
Staunch conservative Bob Good (100% lifetime ACU rating through 2023) was narrowly defeated in the CD-5 GOP primary by state Sen. John McGuire, who also purports to be a conservative. Good was first elected in 2020 when he beat incumbent moderate Denver Riggleman — who later bolted from the GOP — at the party convention and then prevailed over black liberal Democrat Cameron Webb in the general. The national Democrat party saw to it that Webb had nearly $6 million to spend (vs. Good’s barely $1 million) and dumped even more into the pot via an additional $4.6 million in “independent” expenditures against the Republican. Good fit the district reasonably well and had no trouble being re-elected in 2022.
Good was a leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, and was supported in his contentious 2024 primary by all the right people, including Matt Gaetz, Steve Bannon and Byron Donalds. Good has never been popular with the liberal establishment wing of the GOP however, and they had the knives out for him in much the same way as they treated another 100% conservative in Virginia — Dave Brat — back in 2018.
Walking hand-in-hand with liberal GOPeers such as Kevin McCarthy this time around was a guy by the name of Donald Trump, who declared war on Bob Good because the 100% conservative congressman had violated Trump’s First Commandment: “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me”. Good, you see, endorsed Ron DeSantis for president over a year ago but then switched back to Trump and even went so far as to show up in person in New York City to support Trump during the former president’s political persecution trial in Juan Merchan’s Kangaroo courtroom.
Lord Trump was not forgiving, however, and He smote Good while waving off the Virginian’s support as coming “too late”.
For a bit of contrast, Hillary Rodham Clinton (among her numerous repulsive traits), is well-known to be petty, vengeful and unforgiving — or worse — to those who cross her; Vince Foster, Ron Brown and Jim McDougal are unavailable for comment on that subject.
Although the Clintons do possess an “enemies list”, Hillary never acted upon that list — at least not in any way which would deprive her congressional enemies of their jobs. She did not wreak vengeance on the ultra-liberal members of her party who endorsed Barack Hussein Obama over her in 2008, nor on those who endorsed Bernie Sanders against her in 2016. That’s not because Hillary has any kind of warm and forgiving side, it’s because only the Stupid Party is stupid enough to deliberately sabotage those who represent its ideological and electoral base. Democrats, like Communists, always put the Party first; RINOs would rather see aggressively conservative Republicans like Bob Good defeated whenever possible. The RINOs got their wish in Virginia last month.
While Trump had his own petty reason for attempting to terminate the career of this particular conservative, the rest of the GOPe had another reason. The squishes don’t find themselves allied with Donald Trump very often (but still more often than we would like), but because Good had voted to topple RINO McCarthy as Speaker last year — and because of Good’s resolutely conservative record — the GOPe were all-in against him alongside the former president.
If you’re a combat vet and you get an endorsement from Donald J. Trump, you’re almost assured of winning!
Bob Good, “royally” screwed-up when he endorsed Ron DeSantis over Trump and he paid the price!
It was just not a smart move!
Thank you for an extremely enlightening post
One of the persistent issues within the Republican Party is whether we are a conservative party or a populist party. I am squarely on the conservative side. I think that voting Good out of Congress was a mistake.
Donald Trump's mistake. His own ego got in the way of making a sound decision.
Good was back in the news because his futile attempt to stay in office via a recount (the margin was just too big) became reality yesterday or earlier today. I always hate to lose a good conservative from Congress, and it's not like we have any to spare.
McGuire, according to those who know him (and have posted on FR) is just a non-stop self-promoting campaigner who isn't likely to DO much that can be described as conservative. Assuming he even wins in November.
He should retire from politics just for being so retarded.
How long has he been in office?
Rank-and-file GOP voters are sick of the kind of game Good played here. That’s on Good, not Trump.
Good was first elected in 2020.
We all have choices to make and suffer the consequences. Good chose poorly.
‘Zactly.
John McStain torpedoed the repeal of Obamacare.
Take the knife away from the Republicans before they cut on their own party wrist even more! They are bleeding themselves and think it is cherry juice.
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