Posted on 02/01/2022 2:46:42 PM PST by NoLibZone
A baffling Trump endorsement in Tennessee has caused quite a stir in MAGA country. If you haven’t been paying close attention to political minutiae lately, Politico has the story:
Former President Donald Trump is facing serious backlash from die-hard loyalists over his decision to intervene in a Tennessee House race, with his supporters accusing him of spurning a staunch Republican ally who’s running. Trump on Tuesday evening endorsed Morgan Ortagus, who served as a State Department spokesperson during his administration and is pondering a run for a Middle Tennessee-based congressional district. The announcement has caused a firestorm, with far-right, high-profile backers ranging from North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn to conservative activist Candace Owens taking to social media to voice their support for Robby Starbuck, a rival candidate who’s been a mainstay of the pro-Trump movement. [Politico] Is this all just a tempest in a teapot? Our research indicates this Trump endorsement is even worse than you might have thought at first glance. Megan Ortagus might be President Trump’s former State Department spokesperson, but she holds GOP establishment neocon views that are diametrically opposed to the America First, MAGA-movement.
Mere hours after Trump’s endorsement, The National Pulse publicized statements Ortagus had made vowing to “faithfully [serve] the incoming Biden Administration,” and trashing Trump back during the 2016 race. It turns out that, in 2016, she dutifully repeated all of the Never Trump talking points of the GOP establishment:
“You have somebody who makes fun of people with mental and physical disabilities. That’s disgusting; there’s no other way around it,” remarked Ortagus in January 2016 during an interview with Fox News. Ortagus, while working for a super PAC associated with Trump’s primary opponent former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, said she “fundamentally disagree[d]” with Trump’s approach to foreign policy. “In his gut, he does not think that Americans should be, quote unquote, the policemen of the world,” she said during a 2016 panel discussion dissecting Trump’s foreign policy speech. “I don’t see it that way. I think that America is the glue that holds the world together. … So there were points that I agreed with him today, but overall, I fundamentally disagree with his isolationist approach to foreign policy,” she added. Ortagus and her second husband were married by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in 2000. [National Pulse] Getting married by Ruth Bader Ginsburg might simply reflect a profound lack of taste in Ortagus’ personal life that can be overlooked, but championing America as the “policemen of the world,” casting President Trump’s policies as “isolationist,” and stating that she “fundamentally disagrees” with Trump’s America First, Jacksonian approach to foreign policy are political sins that cannot be forgiven.
Of course, many people criticized Donald Trump in 2016, and later came around on the importance of the political realignment he led. The issue with Ortagus, however, isn’t limited to her criticism of Trump—it’s her clear failure to have learned anything after serving in his administration.
If Ortagus is elected to the House, she will become one of the most extreme warhawks in the Republican Party—a natural ally of figures like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Her Twitter timeline features a cascading list of demands that America get involved in a dizzying array of foreign entanglements.
Ortagus calls for the US government to ship more weapons to Ukraine, immediately:
The picture explains a lot.
Because she was her next door neighbor.
More concern trolling.
Thanks in advance. This would be a great service to many freepers.
Leni
She’s hot with a nice rack? Thats my guess.
“Trump only endorses candidates after he determines that they’ll win.
That’s why he never endorsed Moore. He knew a loser when he saw it.
Interestingly, Trump had every reason to undermine Jeff Sessions when he ran to get his old seat back in 2020, but he refused to endorse his primary opponent Tommy Tuberville until polls came out very late in the campaign showing him with a huge lead.“
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Your post captures the true essence. My family won’t support someone just because someone else does, it doesn’t matter who they are. We make our own judgment and we enjoy trying to come to a consensus over who we’ll support. Sometimes we’re fully aligned, like voting for whoever can replace Brian Kemp in GA, and sometimes we’re not like voting for our Rep. Barry Laudermilk.
None of us will vote for Romney, Pence or Rubio. We would just as soon vote against them. We totally despise RINO traitors. We consider them much worse than Democrats.
Seems to be the only qualification for office that matters for a lot around here.
I might be drawn into this district. Currently in 7th but I have yet to see the new map in detail.
I have no idea who the child Robby Starbuck is. I know who she is. I have no problem with her. Like her on Gutfeld. And....hubba hubba.
Is she more RINO? Not sure. Again, I know nothing about Starbuck. Wasn’t he on Battlestar Gallactica?
I read somewhere they thought it might be daughter and son in law.
A hot woman could be a serial killer, but she’s “not guilty”.
#1 criteria should be whether they will abide by their Oath of Office. Just look at the Federal Budget for a start on how seriously out of control the lawlessness is in DC. Our fundamental rights like the 9th/10th Amendments are being violated all the time by these oath breaking scumbags in Congress.
We see the quid now what is the quo? This is a verrry bad move on Trump’s part. I see he is still getting the stellar advice now that he got while in the W.H.
I don’t care that Trump endorsed her.
Or why he endorsed her.
But I would rot in the gutters of hell before I would vote for a neocon. Or give them money/endorsement/advocacy.
Yep. Everybody is smarter than Trump.
Robby Starbuck should win that race.
I don’t think this neocon will win, with or without DJT’s endorsement.
I like Trump, but he confuses that over-polished fake tits glam look with intelligent and good quality for appointments.
Why is any bad decision by Trump someone else’s fault? conservatives own up, take responsibility. At least we used to.
At the end of the day, yes he is at fault. But you would think he would have learned.
He has been moving the party left since the begining.
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