CNN works with the GIGO principal: Garbage In = Garbage Out posing as Fake News!
Posted on 01/29/2018 4:00:35 PM PST by mdittmar
(CNN)Another one bites the dust. On Monday, New Jersey Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, a noted moderate and chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee, announced he was leaving Congress after 12 terms -- joining a rapidly expanding group of Republican moderates heading for the exits in advance of the 2018 election.
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CNN works with the GIGO principal: Garbage In = Garbage Out posing as Fake News!
The are celebrating because of the high re-election rate of incumbents.
“governing wing of the Republican party is nearing extinction”
Was thinking the same thing about CNN and MSM.
Not to mention VOTER FRAUD.
From your lips to God's ears, let it be so.
Various members of congress are resigning because with trump as president they can be more that reasonably assured that a Republican will replace them.
1. He comes from a New Jersey family that has had a presence in the U.S. government going all the way back to the founding of the country. I think there's been a Frelinghuysen in Washington in some House, Senate or executive branch capacity over most of U.S. history since 1790.
2. He's independently wealthy and doesn't need to sell himself for votes or campaign contributions. He's an heir to the Proctor & Gamble fortune on one side of the family and Ballantine Beer on the other.
3. Despite his family's wealth, he's always demonstrated a civic duty. He served in Vietnam even though he probably could have secured a deferment like the kids from many other wealthy families in those days.
When someone like this feels no interest in serving in Congress anymore, you know he doesn't hold out much hope for his home state and the district he represents.
It’s not so great. You’d give a moderate Republican without Frelinghuysen’s name and popularity a coin flip’s chance of winning in November, and a conservative Republican will lose 55-45 if he does even that well.
Oh dear!
All we have is:
the President,
the vice president
51 US Senators
248 Congressmen
33 governors
27 state legislatures under our full control
Looks like our governing wing is in danger.
It goes without saying where islamidemocommucrats are concerned.
“Rodney Frelinghuysen, a noted moderate...”
I’m sure he’ll be included in a forthcoming book titled “Great CNN Moderates I Have Known and Almost Remember.”
No “Trump acolyte” is every going to win in that House district in New Jersey. We hashed that all out a couple of weeks ago with some jack@ss Freeper who claims he’s been voting for Democrats in that district for years because Frelinghuysen “isn’t conservative enough.”
When someone like this feels no interest in serving in Congress anymore, you know he doesn’t hold out much hope for his home state and the district he represents.
He’s 71 years old and not a senator. Maybe it was just time.
How do you "Make America Great Again" in a place where your average voter is probably already among the top 5% of the voters in this country by any financial measure?
It doesn't sound like he was really planning to do this.
He’ll be replaced by a Democrat?
Same difference in that NJ was lost long ago.
And the "moderate" thing isn't something that should be taken at face value. He's a New Jersey Republican, so of course he's a moderate, but just exactly what that means - what stands he's taken on which issues - isn't something one can simply conclude from the "moderate" label.
Sometimes it's the moderates who defeat good Republican measures. Sometimes it's the moderates who put the bills over the top and make them law. If he's replaced by a Democrat it wouldn't be any improvement.
Anyway, his family has been in politics since before there was a Republican party. It's impressive that he stayed with the party when so many of his peers ditched it and went over to the Democrats. Good for him to give somebody else a shot (and bad if there's a Rodney Jr. who thinks he's entitled to it).
And like “Frelinghuysen”,you will never hear a thing.
If CNN’s Cillizza likes him then we know he must be a RINO POS.
One of the challenges in a place like New Jersey is that the national parties hate funding candidates here. These House districts are all in the New York City or Philadelphia media markets (and some of them are in both), so campaign ads are very expensive compared to most of the country.
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