....and so it begins...the purge of the elitist Republican Party.
First nail in the coffin was voting for Ryno to replace Boehner.
Huelskamp went on Fox News Sunday a few weeks ago to trash Trump. Kiss of death. I hope Ryan and McCain are next.
Cool. Good riddance to this worthless turd.
Sounds like he was a Ted Cruz supporter that became a “Ryan type” Trump supporter.
http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/election/article86352772.html
Both candidates made it clear they support Trump and vehemently oppose Clinton. But they offered contrasting approaches to a Trump presidency.
Marshall: “I will support the president and work with him to get things done.”
Huelskamp: “One thing to know about Tim Huelskamp is I have conservative principles, and I’m going to stand on those conservative principles. If you don’t have conservative principles, I will work against you.”
Well, the GOPe got their guy. We just lost a Tea Party conservative because the television ads against Huelskamp worked.
Antone know if ethanol was an issue in this race ?
July 5th, 2016
HOUSTON, Texas — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today endorsed Tim Huelskamp for re-election in Kansas’s First Congressional District.
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I said Toxic Ted’s endorsement would be the Kiss of Death.
It appears that those “Conservatives” that are trying to “thread the needle” and be “for Trump but against his rhetoric”, or “standing on Conservative principles” is a liability position. Also, we’ve seen examples of those who rode the “Tea Party wave”, but either breathed the rarified DC air, or were lying and became part of the establishment pronto. This may be an example of one, or both, I’m not from KS, so I don’t know. IMO, this is a different time and place and traditional “party” positions matter not...the voters are pis*ed off and want an outsider to say the things that need to be said, expose the corruption and cronyism and crack some eggs...even if that outsider does not for the “mold”. They are sick and tired of waiting for the doofuses to right the ship before it capsizes.
I don’t what’s worse, the RINO winning or morons on this thread thinking it’s a good thing. This didn’t have a damn thing to do with Trump, the GOPE took out a hit on a conservative congressman. Sickening.
He was endorsed by Canadian Ted and he trashed Trump? Bye bye
He was endorsed by Canadian Ted and he trashed Trump? Bye bye
Chamber of Commerce beats Crane in GA.
Chamber of Commerce wins in Kansas.
and next in Wisconsin????
If the Cruz and Trump factions want to win, they’d better find a way to make peace. Both here on FR and in other Conservative and Trump media the Trump supporters seem to be very poor winners. And the Cruz losers seem to be very poor losers.
Erickson has his Red State convention in Colorado next week.
Glenn, the R primary winner for Senate is a Cruz man who enthusiastically supports Trump.
Glenn desperately wants Colorado to unite around both Trump and him.
We’ll see if Erickson is purist or compromising or scorched earth next week. So far, his strategy has seemed to be to take down as many with him as he goes down.
And in the rest of Kansas Governor Brownback was issued a stinging defeat as 11 of his conservative allies in the House and Senate were all defeated in their primaries by moderates.
This is a mixed bag. I head Huelskamp was a real-deal conservative but he was also Anti-Trump, which means against closed borders.
Yet Marshall is described as an Establishment Elitist, who DID endorse Trump.... but he’s probably lying.
I think the net-loss for those who want closed borders (me) is zero here.
Lesson of the day: Don’t stand for limited government principles. Vote and support the establishment, and the organizations that bankroll the establishment.
Huelskamp was ok. He was one of those sanctimonious “Trump is too vulgar I don’t know if I can vote for him guys”. Its good to see a lawyer replaced by a Dr. And Dr. Marshall is just as conservative as Huelskamp on all the issues that matter and has been far more supportive of Trump’s agenda. 3 terms(18 years) is enough for any elected politician. The club4Growth of trade deficits and outsourcing supported him. The local chamber supported Marshall. The real irony is both Cruz and Ryan screwed Huelskamp. Cruz and Huelskamp had endorsed each other but Cruz went on to hire two firms that were actively trying to defeat Huelskamp. The real issue that killed Huelskamp was getting tossed of the Ag committee. Paul Ryan refused to put him back on after he voted with Pelosi against the farm bill.