That and a withering state county GOP committee system
He does. Trump will pick a RINO as his VP. Angry Trumpers have branded every possible candidate from Nikki to Noem to Vivek and more as RINO's. And they won't vote for Trump if he picks a RINO.
(grabbing popcorn)
Trump backs winners. He'll support a RINO who wins over a MAGA champion who loses -- all day long.
I'm surprised some conservatives haven't figured this out yet.
Trump picks the most electable candidate that tell him they agree with him on his big issues. He or his wing of the party needs to be recruiting candidates in each winnable district. Rove doing that is what’s keep the Establishment-side alive.
Yes.
Conservatives sleep through everything.
“Sorry, but Trump backs RINOs”
I’ll still be voting for DJT. But come January 20, 2025 if he hasn’t learned his lesson about the RINOs and their duplicity then he deserves everything they do to him.
“Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.”
already has here in Arkansas - we had the chance to primary the RINO/turncoat Womack for the 3rd Congressional District... and conservatives simply didn’t even show up to vote... Never mind that our judicial elections are settled in the primary as well -
“A whopping 24 of the 31 GOP senators who voted for the Ukraine grift have been endorsed by Trump...”
Is the definition of a RINO that he votes to support Ukraine in its war against Russia? I think not. I suspect that Trump himself will sign a bill authorizing more aid to Ukraine after he’s sworn in. He has been very cagey on whether he supports Ukraine. But his comments about this have been primarily designed to motivate the Europeans to chip in more aid, and it has worked. I doubt that he would want to show weakness by bailing out on Ukraine at this point. More likely, he will want to show Putin (and Xi) who is boss.
Anybody notice in their respective states a dearth of conservative Republican candidates for lower offices? Especially so-called ‘blue states’?
Here in MA, there are very few repubs running for state rep, state sinate, governor’s council.
I believe it is 2020 fallout - conservatives living thru ‘The Steal’, and having extremely little enthusiasm to enter local races.
Yet, I still maintain the glass is Full/Full, as this is no ordinary election year. It’s not really about an election, but restoration of the Republic, and its organic Constitution, which happens under Trump 24.
Red Wave! LOL...
Mississippi is no longer a guaranteed GOP lock.
38% of the state is Black, and 100% of them are registered to vote.
Since Black voters are 80%-90% Democrat, that means white voters need to hit 70% Republican just to break even!
Doesn’t the author not know that half of our voters don’t care about anything else but Trump. Every other officeholder (that isnt Trump himself) is apparently establishment & deep state. Trump won’t need any other elected officials (because apparently he’s magically going to snap his fingers & pass legislation & get officials appointed & run agencies & have funds provided all by himself. Besides, none of them are worth voting for & the office might as well be held by a Democrat, it wouldn’t make a difference (because a Republican that votes conservative 80% of the time is just as bad as a Communist Democrat that votes conservative 0% of the time). And anyways, it won’t make any difference because Democrats chest & there are too many idiot voters & we won’t win, so let’s just stay home and whine while thumping our chests about how much we love & care for the USA 🙄
The warning sign is lit obey or crash it’s that simple democrat voters better give EVERYTHING a second thought too.
Will conservatives be running in the primaries? And if they somehow win with the GOP let them have important committee spots or shunt them off to the side?
And once you accurately answer those you see why there’s not much reason for actual conservatives to care about the GOP primaries.
Short answer…yep!
Al lot of Republican politicos and Conservative pundits seem to be exhibiting the same air of confidence in the results of the probable outcome of 2024 elections, just like they did in 2020 without considering the ability of the Democrats to cheat. Appears to me the Democrats are concentrating on the swing state with lots of Electoral College votes ... just like they did in 2020.
Trouble is in the extremes - It’s not a Purity test.
It’s just whichever gang is favored by the writer/speaker/promoter/endorser.
Moderate Conservative Republicans who want government out of your lives, don’t care about Gay Marriage, or a National Abortion law, and don’t support America First
Free Trade Globalists and War Pigs that leave us with nothing to Conserve -the McRomBushRyan gang
Deep State UniParty Phony Conservative Across-the-Aisle Reachers like Johnson that sell out for a few pieces of silver.
They hate us, we hate them- Why be ruled over by Crooks that see you as a Tax Donkey and Canon Fodder?
National Divorce is the answer-
No Civil War - Civil Separation
People are voting with their feet, and the States are almost there.
I will gladly vote for Trump, but there is a high likelihood I will never vote for his VP, if they seek the presidency, later.
Horowitz is dead on the money with this.
There has been a huge sea-change since the Tea Party era that I am incapable of explaining and incapable of understanding, and nobody will explain it to me. Everything is just so quiet. There are instances where I think the pre-Tea Party Bush Era actually had more healthy conservative activism than what we have today. In general, I'm apoplectic about it.
The only way, - the only way - , to get things done, is for all of us to stand up, do the hard work, and get things done. What we have arrived at though is a post-hard-working-conservatism era. It's Maximum Uninvolvement. I have no other words to explain it.
Yeah, conservatives will work hard at their jobs, yeah, they'll work hard in regard to their families. But the amount of disconnect that there is now in regards to our constitutional freedoms would make all of our Founding Fathers sick to their stomachs. The Founders were not just farmers, they didn't just go to work, then ahh well time to call it a day! Oh some stuff is going on? Well I'm just gonna go to work, don't talk to me about all that! I'm just gonna farm.
No!!! The Founders said "Somebody ought to do something!" then turned right around and planted their fat fingers right in their own chests. "I'm going to do something. I will do it." That's what we had in the Tea Party era, Tea Partiers said "I will do it, I am going to do something", but we sure as heck don't have anything like that now. That's what was given up, and its probably the most valuable thing we ever had.
And we can't call it apathy, because everybody sees whats going on. We know they see it because the complaints are through the roof. That is the one thing where there isn't any quiet. But the only thing reaching higher heights than the complaining is the infinite stubbornness with refusal to ever get involved.
I cannot understand why. How do people think this is working? This is where I get stuck.
Everybody can see that Maximum Uninvolvement doesn't work. Nobody on the planet will ever attest to it's success. Everybody can also compare Maximum Uninvolvement to the Tea Party Era and see that this was way more successful than Maximum Uninvolvement.
SO WHY THEN IS EVERYBODY STILL ACTIVELY CHOOSING MAXIMUM UNINVOLVEMENT OVER THE SUCCESSFUL MODEL??????
I cannot understand why. I'm incapable of getting it. I just start rubbing my head and rubbing my face saying "I don't, I don't, I don't" It makes me stupid. I don't understand. I don't understand! Please. Please. I don't understand. I can't make this math work, I'm stuck. How is everybody doing this all at once, all at the same time, and forever.
Maximum Uninvolvement in our post-hard-working-conservatism era is leading to a terrible ruination.
It's exactly what Lord Acton said. Evil doesn't necessarily have to succeed. The good people just have to do nothing. Maximum Uninvolvement.