The Republicans Are Eating Their Young

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   GA Andersonposted 14 months ago

   Lara Trump declines to say if RNC will support Larry Hogan after trial comments
   
   Former Maryland Hogan was very popular and helped make Maryland less blue. He has strong Conservative principles (previously acknowledged by the party) and is the best chance to flip a Senate seat blue.
   
   Now, Trump's RNC says (yeah, she said it when she didn't deny it) he's not their kind of Republican and won't support him.
   
   The Republican party has earned its coming future. This 'Hogan' move is dumb.
   
   GA

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      tsmogposted 14 months agoin reply to this

      I don't know why, but when I click on the link it goes to a blank page. It may be on my end. Does it work for you?

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         GA Andersonposted 14 months agoin reply to this

         oops. My bad. I fixed it.
         
         Lara Trump declines to say if RNC will support Larry Hogan after trial comments
         
         GA

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      tsmogposted 14 months agoin reply to this

      I hunted the Politico article down. Short, sweet, and right to the point.
      
      I like Hogan from the interviews I saw of him on the Sunday political shows; e.g. Face the Nation, etc. I always thought he spoke plain and simple in the sense the he didn't back track when questioned standing his ground in a polite manner. I appreciated his principled responses. That is about all I know of him.
      
      Let me first preface, I have not decided on if I will vote for Biden. It looks like once again I am voting for Teddy Roosevelt at this time.
      
      As to what the RNC initiated that contributes to what I am unhappy with. The Republican party seems, to me, to be fractured today. I stated in another forum I won't be voting for Trump. I decided to not go the party line, though I lean conservative, because of my perspective of that fracturing of  the party. In other words, for me, they are kind of out there now. Maybe I got that wrong . . .

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         GA Andersonposted 14 months agoin reply to this

         Nope, you got it right. The Republican party mechanisms have become Trump's mechanisms. He is not just the leader of the party, he has become the party. I don't see that as a good thing.
         
         GA

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            Ken Burgessposted 14 months agoin reply to this

            Republican party is not really a Party... is it?
            
            Trump is more an anti-establishment candidate than a Republican.
            
            Trump is more of a working class representative than a rich man representative... the opposite of what Republicans were all about not so long ago.
            
            When the Democrats stopped being the 'workers of America' Party and became a 'workers of the world' Party... well normal hard-working American citizens had no real representation anymore.
            
            Biden admin offers ‘mass amnesty’ to migrants as it quietly terminates 350,000 asylum cases.
            https://nypost.com/2024/06/02/us-news/b … s-sources/
            
            That is not really American Worker friendly news right there.  Millions of people that not only compete for jobs, but bring crime wave theft to the cities.  Stores are shutting down throughout Sanctuary Cities like San Fran and NY because shoplifting/robbing has become a billion dollar business that those cities refuse to prosecute.

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            Credence2posted 14 months agoin reply to this

            Well GA it’s not like I haven’t told you that all along

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               Ken Burgessposted 14 months agoin reply to this

               And the alternative has turned out to be even worse than I imagined...
               
               I remember here in these forums, I warned you... back when I was pushing for Tulsi and you wanted Lizabeth... Biden getting the nod would be the worst of all options, it just meant the worst of the worst elements in DC were re-asserting control.
               
               And here we are... War or potential war everywhere...
               
               An out of control foreigner free for all... they can't count how many millions they have allowed in, the government's official count on the very low end.
               
               And of course a moderate amount of inflation, increased taxation, and higher interest rates... and all around economic windfall.
               
               But hey... if you can ignore all that, its easy to ignore all the crazy new restrictions on speech, on farming, on property ownership occurring in the Western world from Canada to Belgum.  And the crazy focus on Trans rights to Equity going on here.

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                  Credence2posted 14 months agoin reply to this

                  That's righ, I wanted Warren and I did not get her. Tulsi is a Republican and not a Democrat by my standard. If I actually got what I wanted things may have improved even more. In the age of Trump, conservatives, Republicans, Rightwingers are never going to be accomodated by yours truly.

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      Valeantposted 14 months agoin reply to this

      If you don't parrot the cult leader's lies, no matter how pathetic and untrue, you get kicked out of the cult.  Didn't you learn this lesson with Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger?  Or Brian Kemp?  Or Mitt Romney?  Or any of the reps who voted for Trump's second impeachment?

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   Ken Burgessposted 14 months ago

   On an aside and completely unrelated... we may be days away from an escalation into war with Russia.
   
   Its at that 'more likely than not' stage with increasing probability every moment.

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      Valeantposted 14 months agoin reply to this

      If you had Ken's daily fearmongering post coming in before 2pm, congrats you win today's prize.  Friendly reminder that the economy was supposed to crash about two and half years ago, according to the warnings that when Democrats took over, it was going to be the next depression.

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   Valeantposted 14 months ago

   And the transphobic post of the day took until 9:30pm.  Those with late evening on their bingo card, congrats.

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