Posted on 07/26/2021 3:39:01 AM PDT by cotton1706
Call them the Ask for Permission Moderates.
In a string of candid video clips in recent weeks, the Republican nominees for governor in New Jersey and Virginia made pitches to pro-Trump activists, explaining why they can't win without broadening their appeal beyond the Kool-Aid-besotted base that has hijacked the Republican Party.
New Jersey's Jack Ciattarelli asked a crowd at a Hunterdon County gun range for a little more understanding, and a little less orthodoxy, as he hits the hustings.
"Give me a little wiggle room to spend time going to places Republicans typically don't go,'' he told his audience, according to Politico New Jersey. "And give me a little wiggle room on how to talk about issues. Because the goal is to win.”
In Virginia, George Youngkin also made a plea for strategic sympathy at a recent campaign event.
Asked if he would defend Planned Parenthood or "take it to the abortionists" if elected, Youngkin said, "I’m going to be really honest with you. The short answer is in this campaign, I can’t. When I’m governor and I have a majority in the House we can start going on offense. But as a campaign topic, sadly, that in fact won’t win my independent votes that I have to get.”
To Democrats, these pleas for help and understanding reveal their Republican rivals as insincere, two-faced politicians who promise right-wing results in private to the Trumpist base while preaching moderation and compromise in public.
(Excerpt) Read more at northjersey.com ...
But the days of that game are over.
These candidates keep going after the "independents" (who vote for democrats), because their consultants told them so.
How about, I don't know, standing for something, and not flinching and going all wobbly when questioned?
I wonder what the New Jersey candidate had in mind to discuss with the people at the gun range? Maybe something like “hey, we can ban some guns but still have hunting and target shooting, etc”. Giving firearms prohibitionists the short end of the wedge is never a winner.
Hello, Rinos. . .you are SUPPOSED to ask for our permission. We are a governance BY CONSENT of the governed. . .remember? Oh. .and by the way, no you do not have our permission to be a a milk-toast weaselly RINO. We say NO. . .GET IT?
LOL, “Rep moderates” aka RINO’s.
They all need to go and it will take a bit of time. Then any that try to get themselves elected who are not committed Patriots need to know they are wasting their time.
What has happened to us began over 60 yrs ago and it cannot be undone over night.
The vast majority of people who would consider voting for a Republican, are looking for a strong, principled person who supports Donald Trump. Focus on that demographic, and win.
So, he's telling his pubbie audience that he is going to lie to the independents {hoping to get their votes} but if he wins and gets a majority then he will screw the Planned Parenthood baby killers.
He is an equal opportunity liar and with this wishy-washy approach he will never beat Terry Mc Awful.
They can go be real Democrats instead of assistant ones. There are no milquetoast moderates in that party. It’s 100% commie.
What a dilemma for an ordinary bloke like myself.
They now need a waiver from Trumpists, who don’t believe in compromise or moderation.
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Trumpists don’t believe in “surrender” and “marxism”.
Face it, the Club Republican RINO 10 percenters are leading the globalist “Cheap Labor Express” train. Unfortunately that 10 has all the party power and money.
Youngkin is terrible. He wil lose badly 65/35 in a 50/50 state.
We're Freedom Activists.
So, he's basically saying that he is perfectly willing to lie to get into office, but we should trust him, because he's on our side.
I can't go for that. No can do.
No we don't. We mostly left the Republican party because it went soft.
Give up your unapologetic pro constitutional conservatism and let me behave more like a Democrats and maybe I will give you a little lip service once I am elected.
But probably not.😊
Really now? It's worked swimmingly for the Democrats.
I don’t disagree with you, but in some of these areas Trump’s message simply doesn’t resonate with more than 25% of the electorate. He wouldn’t win in New Jersey, for example, if he ran unopposed.
BS.
Way to sweet talk the vast majority of Republicans. Who are they going to broaden the appeal to? A tiny cabal of globalist neocons over at National Review? Trump broadened appeal to working stiffs, blacks, latinos... you know, the kind of folks that the country club, checkered pants, and white tassel shoe crowd views with such distaste.
Fundamentally insincere qualifier. Such qualifiers cause me to immediately dismiss the remaining discussion. "To tell you the truth"
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