Posted on 02/09/2020 3:32:31 AM PST by Kaslin
Carpetbagger Romney!
Here comes a load of crap from Townhall.
Why do republicans need to avoid becoming like democrats on unity?
I'd reserve judgment, but the idea of a US Senator cooking up something with a supposed ‘witness’ against a sitting president - well, yeah, we all know how this plays out. Shocking bombshells sink the president and the knight Romney rides out to save the GOP from their terrible mistake and wins the presidency.
I understand where some people are coming from when they defend Romney - he votes with us most of the time, so you should excuse his vanity poses. But if what I suspect comes to fruition on March 17th (with the accompanying ‘I'm vindicated’ speech by Romney) we'll all know him for exactly who he is.
Gonna have to disagree on this one. I despise group-think, and mob mentality. Probably a large reason why I am a conservative.
Tough calls deserve rational minds, free to think and answer questions and make decisions that are just and fair. However, this was far from a tough call. It was pure partisan BS from the get-go, from before Trump was even sworn in. We all knew Mitt was a Trump-hating flip-flopper, and he proved us all right again. That much is true.
Not every politician was presidential candidate.
Romney is irrelevant. He’s an attention whore. A distraction. Ignore. Now is time to focus on the coup conspirators who were hiding 0bama’s illegal war.
My mid March Comey will be in the dock or Barr will be fired. Romney and Bolton are yesterday’s news.
i’m tempted to agree with the guy about becoming democrats on purity. There’s a tendency on the GOP side to insist on your own ‘rightness’. Expressing a dissenting opinion results many times in being attacked and vilified. But it was never the attackers or the demonizers that ever changed my mind on a subject. It was always the ones who engaged me in a conversation and sought to understand what i am saying. These are the ones that we want to emulate.
So I thought the writer was trying to make that point. But looking closer what he’s really trying to do is to get us to embrace Mitt Romney, and those like Mitt Romney. I’ve explained in past posts that there are some politicians and pundits in the GOP that are a product of the Reagan era ‘big tent’ theory. Those were the days when you could disagree with a democrat respectfully. These days democrats are known for rampaging through the streets breaking windows with baseball bats. Local police wondering whether driving a car into a republican voter registration tent could possibly be politically motivated. That’s not true any more. The democrats that were absorbed by the GOP in the 80’s are mostly still democrats and never were converted. The democrats on the other hand never had a reformative ‘big tent’ era that i know of. The closest thing the democrats did to that was their ‘triangulation’ method of Running to the right and governing to the left.
The democrats exercise absolute party discipline. You can see that mostly in the gallery at the SOTU speech where the evil eye of the ice queen was scorching the left side of the aisle with her imperial command to sit or stand. Perhaps rather than avoiding the democrats ideological purity tests, we should emulate some of their Party Discipline. Romney should be trembling for his job after taking a vote like that. But He has nothing to be afraid of. Because the republicans dont exercise party discipline, like the iranians before solimani there’s no demonstration of deterrence. The democrats have 20 different ways to discipline their elected members and they will exercise every one of them. What i see in the gallery of the left is FEAR.
So rather than talking with Derek here about tolerating a mitt romney betrayal vote we should maybe be talking about taking away some of romneys committee memberships. How about defunding his campaign or primary him over and over until he loses. How about redistrict him out of office. I think it’s way past time that we started to discipline these politicians the way it was intended. At the ballot box. And I think that if trump were to leave a legacy out of his presidency that would be ideal. Trump should start using the weight of his office to push these squishy democrats out of the republican party. Send them scurry back to the democrats where they belong.
Why do you beshit every day with your posts?
this is not a matter of purity, it’s a matter of protection of the herd (in this case the GOP) when it’s under mortal attack from enemies who want to destroy it ... it’s no different than if a wagon train was circling the wagons when under attack, and Mitt the wagon driver suddenly pulled his wagon into the center for selfish reasons, leaving a gap for the attack to penetrate the circle and thereby destroy the entire wagon train ...
And Benedict Arnold was a great military leader except for the little incident in New York. Maybe Town Hall thinks we should have had a counseling session with Mr Arnold.
Eh? Romney is not even moderate. He is a communist witch hunt sympathizer. It is Romney who is the purist who wants to change the RNC with coward PC purity hypocrisy.
Townhall got it a$$ backeards
Sound advice if you have more important real world things to deal with. Those who just want to act out their emotions won’t take it.
Townhall.com wrote this? My are you ignorant
I’m not sure how many people look to a website like Townhall for political insight, but I guess it’s very few.
(This is your #16 that I swiped & pasted coming back at you :))
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