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.
It's not about purity. It's about America are we going to be a first world country with rule of law or are we going to be a corrupt 3rd world shithole. Impeachment was about corruption, front and center, and Romney voted for corruption. It's what you would expect. He was a global vulture capitalist.