Posted on 07/31/2023 7:48:41 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
There’s a great inside baseball discussion linked and embedded down below talking about Georgia Republican Politics. However, before getting to that video some background context is needed.
There are states where the professional [GOPe] republican grip is tight, and there are states where the MAGA insurgency has gained strength loosening that corporate club grip. Georgia is a state where the party apparatus is gripping the reins tight and not willing to let the populist movement impede their professional political stranglehold.
Governor Brian Kemp is to Georgia in 2024 as Govenor Haley Barbour was to Mississippi previously. Kemp controls the party machinery and Kemp has always despised the popular support for Donald Trump, an unacceptable republican in the eyes of the party apparatus. It is not coincidental that Sea Island Georgia is the epicenter of the Wall Street assembly against the populist insurgency. Georgia is a battleground state for Republican power and control.
Before going further, watch this 20 second clip of MeAgain Kelly interviewing Ron DeSantis recently. Notice the mindset, the point of reference for DeSantis, when Kelly pokes him about his distant polling to President Trump. Notice the state he references {Direct Rumble Link} WATCH:
I’m not going to repeat the examples of the Sea Island reference points, the Mike Pence rally to support Kemp, George W Bush rallying support for Kemp, the intentional non requests for Trump ’22 campaigning, True the Vote’s Catherine Englebrecht documenting the systemic vote system corruption by Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp and his entire administration, or the MSM push to use Kemp as an example of a Trump slayer.
Additionally, you guys already know the background of Georgia grassroots activists booing Kemp at the state convention, and the recent issue of Brian Kemp adviser Cody Hall joining team DeSantis while remaining a Kemp advisor.
Instead, this recent discussion which outlined details of “Closed-door Meetings Held Between DeSantis, Georgia Leadership and Kemp Immediately Following Legislative Session” warrants some attention.
[Via Georgia Record] – […] Brian K. Pritchard disclosed the meetings during his comments on The Georgia 2024 Show today. Mr. Pritchard explained that the day after the Georgia legislative session ended Gov. Ron DeSantis showed up in The Georgia Capitol building and was ushered into a series of closed-door meetings. These included a session with Republican Senators, a meeting with a group of Georgia House Members and House Leader Jon Burns, and a private lunch with Gov. Brian Kemp.
The subject of each of these discussions has been kept private, but clearly there was a reason and agenda for DeSantis to visit the Georgia Capitol.
Watch the video beginning at 29:00 {Direct Rumble Link}.
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Essentially what Brian K Pritchard outlines is some of the more recent boots on the ground data evidence that reconciles why Ron DeSantis and the Never Back Down PAC are so focused on Georgia in their talking points.
The Sea Island group of billionaires, influence agents, GOPe politicians, multinationals, Wall Street hedge funds and corporate republicans are manipulating the events in Georgia to support the roadmap that contains their nominee, Ron DeSantis.
Again, for reference, this is not a short-term issue. This is a long-term construct on behalf of the right-wing of the UniParty and the Bush clan apparatus to remove the threat of MAGA politics from their controlled party.
DeSantis is a tool, a vessel for these interests. The absentee Florida governor is not their candidate per se’, because the benefit DeSantis provides is not contained in his winning the 2024 primary, but rather in stopping Donald Trump from winning it.
In 2010 the Tea Party caught the corporate Republican party off guard, they reassembled their machinery and then attacked and removed the Tea Party influence in 2012. In 2016 the counterinsurgent Tea Party base found a way to fight back with Donald Trump; we reassembled and added more support from the middle and working class around the America First agenda and defeated Wall Street republicans again. However, every moment thereafter has been this battle between the party control operatives and the MAGA insurgents.
That battle has continued, and Georgia is the latest visible evidence of the war raging in the background.
We told you this was going to be very ugly, and it is unfolding exactly as we would expect.
It will get worse, much worse.
The key to defeating these Machiavellian constructs is to pour sunlight upon them.
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The look of bitter hatred when the loyalty issue is raised!
UniParty Kemp is doing a bang-up job in giving Georgia to Far Left Democrats. Can’t have that ugly populism interrupting the grift, and DeSantis seemingly supports the fall of the Peach state.
Every state political office is controlled by Republicans in Georgia, the State House and Senate are controlled by Republicans, the voters in Georgia reelected Kemp by a wide margin, he defeated Stacy Abrams for a 2nd time.
The only except to total Republican control of Georgia is the two US Senate seats.
IF that’s turning the state over to Far-Left Democrats, then we could use a few more just like it.
LOL! Trump himself endorsed Stacey Abrams.
Who we have Trump to thank for.
The Swamp has made careers over telling people they are for tax cuts and spending cuts, all while raising spending and changing taxes not at all. Taxes as % of GDP have floated along at 18% for DECADES. Any tiny variance correlates with recessions that reduced revs.
So the Swamp has ZERO interest in lower taxes. They haven’t achieved that over a period of 10s of years.
And we certainly know they have done nothing to spending, either, given $32T in debt.
There Are No Issues. All that matters is destroying the Swamp. They LOVE campaigns. They get jobs on campaigns and collect big fees. If you can ever find visibility someday, look up what campaign pollsters cost (and if you look really deep you’ll find they are brothers or children of campaign staff).
So make no mistake here. Erasing theses state party hierarchies is THE GOAL, but after it happens, the MAGA guys will try to do the same thing. People are greedy.
But cross that bridge when we come to it. Georgia and Arizona party hierarchies must be destroyed, and that means voting them out of their state legislature positions — even if it means voting for a Democrat (see above, there are no issues, only drain the Swamp).
California had GOP governors from 1983-1999. How did that work out? You’re whistling past the graveyard on Georgia. It’s only a matter of time until it’s solid blue.
You misspelled Kemp and Raffensberger.
GA GOPe?
The Bush wing is controlling GA. Kemp probably fixed the 2022 elections.
You can try to frame it however you choose, but Georgia currently has two Dem senators because of Trump’s influence in three different elections. He had three chamces to get it right in Georgia, and he blew it bigly each time.
You can be mad that Georgia isn’t doing what Trump wants, but that’s facts.
I have a suggestion to speed up Georgia turning solid blue, let’s trash Kemp and the entire state and let’s nominate Republicans like Herschel Walker that have very little chance of winning, wait the Republicans actually did that.
The State house is controlled by RINOs and has been for decades.
You don't seem to understand. It doesn't MATTER. The ones that control the party DO the same thing. They've convinced people though that there are "good guys" and "bad guys". Either way they get their agenda passed and keep their guys in office because people believe there are two sides when in fact it's one. The longer you let them good cop/bad cop you the worse our country gets.
Would it be better to have Stacy Abram’s Democrats running the State House.
What Republicans need to realize, despite your best efforts, MAGA will never represent every Republican, you work toward that goal, in the meantime you work with what you have, instead of Democrats where you will get nothing.
That my friend, is the CORE ISSUE which many do not understand.
Good to see you know the score!
Who we have Trump to thank for.
Kemp was part of the steal in 2020. It's why we have Biden, and the country is completely dying.
Criminal behavior is just criminal behavior. It knows no ideology. Kemp and Raffensperger in particular are criminals and I would argue traitors as well. They belong in jail.
Kemp is far more conservative than Trump is.
“Would it be better to have Stacy Abram’s Democrats running the State House.”
Didn’t Trump endorse her?
No one here that isn’t a GOP establishment operative should forget this: DeSantis is a tool, a vessel for these interests. The absentee Florida governor is not their candidate per se’, because the benefit DeSantis provides is not contained in his winning the 2024 primary, but rather in stopping Donald Trump from winning it.
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