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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Never Trumpers Are Back with a New Name

June 11, 2025 By Robin M. Itzler @ American Thinker

Democrats have failed to conduct a thorough deep-dive analysis as to why they lost the presidential election and Congress, and it seems many Never Trumpers also don’t want to look in the mirror. Instead of accepting that their RINO time in the D.C. spotlight is over, a bunch of Never Trumpers got together and started an organization called Our Republican Legacy.

They do not accept that the MAGA populist movement is here to stay. Among Our Republican Legacy (ORL) founders and leaders are:

  • Former House Speaker John Boehner
  • Former Vice President Mike Pence
  • Former Vice President Dan Quayle
  • Former Republican National Committee Chair and current Independent and current MSNBC host Michael Steele
  • Former Missouri Senator John Danforth
  • Former Maine Senator William Cohen
  • Former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson

Aren’t you excited? I bet you can barely restrain yourself from clicking on the group’s website to join ORL. If you attend a meeting, you might run into other “esteemed” members such as former representative and current CNN commentator Adam Kinzinger, who in 2024 endorsed Kamala “word salad” Harris over Donald Trump. Even many in Kinzinger’s own family disowned him! Another ORL member you might chat with at an event is former Representative Charlie Dent, who endorsed Joe Biden in 2020.

Chris Vance, former chairman of the Washington State Republican Party and ORL senior advisor, said in a May 29, 2025, interview:

We’re just getting started. Our state organizations will recruit members, engage local media, drive the conversation on social platforms, and show up visibly in Republican Party events at every level. We are building the leadership structure for a Republican Party in exile—ready for its return.

Notice that most ORL founders and leaders have the word “former“ in their titles. It’s Never Trumpers who are in exile, not today’s America First MAGAs!

The new organization (an NPR affiliate) erroneously believes the Republican tent has room for Never Trumpers and MAGAs. My guess is that most America First Patriots would rather have a root canal without anesthesia than have Never Trumpers in the MAGA tent. We America First Patriots firmly believe that President Trump and his dedicated administration are working 24-hour days to correct the Uniparty mess that many ORL founders and leaders helped to create along with their Democrat buddies.

My suggestion: If you are at an event and meet someone from Our Republican Legacy, recommend they call 202-863-8000. That’s the phone number for the Democratic National Committee.

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Robin M. Itzler is a regular contributor to American Thinker. She is the founder and editor of Patriot Neighbors, a free weekly national newsletter. Robin can be reached at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com.

Monday, January 29, 2024

Under Pressure: GOP Never-Trumpers in the Hot Seat

Pulling together a fractured party may be Trump’s greatest challenge.

by | Jan 29, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

Former President Donald Trump’s path back to the White House – despite difficulties – appears broader each day, Neither lawsuits, FBI inquiries, jailing of friends and allies, or the January 6 incident seem to be able to quell his momentum. He has even had a smattering of primary opponents step up and endorse number 45 to be 47. But where does this leave the merry band of Republican Never-Trumpers? As the iconic 70s rock band, Queen, might croon: under pressure.

At the top of the double boiler? Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD) are just two such folks who didn’t make sure that Trump was out for the count before publicly skewering the guy. And everyone knows the former president already has trust issues.

Never-Trumpers and Unintended Consequences

Seems like it was eons ago when McConnell delivered his scathing review of the January 6 episode. “The mob was fed lies,” McConnell told the chamber, “they were provoked by the president and other powerful people.” Of course, time and hindsight have proven the narrative inspired by the media was heavy on the spin. And perhaps McConnell is now realizing his premature bandwagon jump. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) has an explanation for this:

“Just like four years ago and four years before that —people say pretty strong things. And then when he becomes a nominee, they just kiss the ring, as Donald Trump has said. Oh, I’m not going to be doing that.”

Still, roughly 130 House Republicans and 30 Senate Republicans have thus far added their names to the endorsement list. This roster includes some of the minority leader’s closest allies: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE), who both counsel McConnell and members of his leadership team. It appears that some folks can battle it out and still leave the animosity on the field.

Thune and McConnell must not have seen this coming, and the insiders are scratching their heads. Trump’s Iowa Caucus win was historic. And through all the fanfare and media touting, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s double-digit loss in New Hampshire soon followed. And that was apparently the reality wakeup call Florida Governor Ron DeSantis needed. With his usual calmness, the Sunshine State governor announced he saw no path to victory and promptly endorsed his rival, the Donald. And that loss and win gave sideline Republicans the confidence to join Team Trump.

The other prominent message besides how big a margin Trump is pulling is unity. Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), and former candidates on the GOP ticket, Vivek Ramaswamy and ND Gov. Doug Burgum, all mimicked the soundbite.

The only one standing in the way of presumptive nominee status is Haley. And she is one stubborn opponent. Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel attempted to sway Haley into conceding so that the GOP could present a united front, saying she could not see “the math and the path going forward” and called for everyone to “unite around our eventual nominee, which is going to be Donald Trump.” Whether the entirety of the GOP likes it or not.

But that also leaves a nagging question: What happens if Trump wins the whole enchilada? McConnell is still the Senate Minority leader, which could be a damper on getting the work done. “Mitch is a pretty pragmatic guy,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), who has also endorsed Trump. “I think part of the question is: Can Trump work with Mitch? That might be a tougher question.”

McConnell and Thune may want to drop their membership in the Never-Trumpers and instead make a plan on how to govern in concert if the former president grabs the brass ring.

 
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Sunday, January 21, 2024

New Hampshire: End of the Line!

By Rich Kozlovich 

On January 16th I published this piece, The Fat Lady Sung, And it's Over  saying:

"It ain't over till the fat lady sings"!  Well, the fat lady sung, and it's all over in Iowa, and Donald Trump won massively...."

What I should have titled that piece as, "It's Now Over, Period!"

There was a lot of talk about how cold it was in Iowa, and because there was so much snow many would stay home and not vote.  Where do these people live?  Iowa, just like Ohio, gets a lot of cold days and lot's of snow, and guess what?  They don't stay home, they're used to it, they know how to navigate it.  

As for the outcome, that was as predictable as night follows day, and if DeSantis and Haley had any class at all, they would have dropped out afterward just like Vivek did.  But they didn't because unlike Vivek, they've been attacking Trump making all sorts of claims, sounding more like Democrats than Republicans. 

DeSantis was already in trouble having to lay off staff , and neither he nor Haley got a Gary Hart bounce from Iowa.  DeSantis' polls are now in the toilet with Haley's polls not much better.

DeSantis claims he made mistakes in Iowa but the fact is, what he did, didn't do, or could have done, wouldn't have mattered.  Nothing can save him.  O'Reilly claims his problem was he's the worst campaigner since Herbert Hoover’.   I disagree.  

He lost because he betrayed the conservative base by running in the first place, and then criticized Trump's policies, successful policies, and in effect denigrated and insulted the base.  He made himself high smelling and low down to conservatives.  
 
He then had the nerve to claim the Democrats want Trump to be the nominee, which seems to me he's saying you must vote for me because Biden can beat Trump but he can't beat me.  Yeah, right, and I think he just might believe that.  That's the kind of thinking that occurs when listening to sycophants and hearing only what one wants to hear, failing to understanding what people really want, and what's really happening. 
 
I've said from the beginning I have no idea what was going on in his mind deciding to run against Trump.  Unlike Haley, he could have had a chance in 2028.  If he had waited that time could have given him a priceless opportunity to build a real and broad political base for such a run, and it's likely Trump would have helped him, or at the very least not opposed him.  As it were, he was sounding more and more like a Liz Cheney Never Trumper, along with both George Conway and Mitt Romney who think it's the Trump supporters who are out of touch with reality.   He's toast, and from now on.
 
Nikki Haley claimed Iowa was an aberration, and the media claimed the problem was that there were just entirely too many white people and Christians living in Iowa.  Outrageous!  How dare they vote for Trump?  Haley was sure New Hampshire was going to correct that aberration.  Well, she's wrong, and she's crashing in the New Hampshire polls also.  Hannah Bleau Knudson saying Trump towers over Haley.

Why? 

Well, Haley has no real following among conservatives in America.  For one thing she gushes over misanthropes like Bill Gates, and she's weak on every conservative issues of concern. She's sounds more like a Democrat, or at the very least a "Me Too" Republican.  

"She supports open borders. She is a supporter of amnesty. She was opposed to President Trump’s border wall in 2015. She had the audacity to say that in many cases, quote, ‘Illegal immigrants are more patriotic than American citizens.’ She also said illegal immigrants are not criminals. By definition, they are in fact criminals, and they are wreaking havoc on American communities every single day."

It's also clear her support really is coming from Democrats, and neo-con Never Trumpers.  She's "their" Republican candidate.  Her big donors are as delusional as Haley, pushing Democrats to switch parties in order to vote for her.  And as always, the Democrats just can't take a chance on fair play and actually letting the masses express their views, after all, they might not have the right view. 

How do people that stupid get so wealthy? 

There's talk claiming her refusal to attend another debate is big negative for her campaign.  Horsepucky.  It seems to me she realizes it just doesn't matter.  Plus, she's not very good at it.  With all the negatives her opponents keep beating her with, why bother?  And no matter what the the pundits are saying failing to do another debate won't have a thing to do with keeping her in the race. She's toast, and from now on.

At the beginning of this campaign I wondered if her past history of infidelity was going to become an issue.  I knew about that, and even posted articles dealing with it years ago, but Trump certainly couldn't bring this up with his history.  I am a bit surprised it's coming up now, except South Carolina is next, and when she was Governor, her infidelity was common knowledge in her state.  

If she stays in, I'm betting that was going to be discussed with Republicans in that state.  But no matter, even Governor Sununu, who shot off his Never Trumper mouth about how she was going to crush Trump, and how damaging Trump is to the party and to the nation, is now forecasting her loss in New Hampshire. 

As Jack Hellner over at American Thinker observed, Nikki Haley and the Never-Trumpers couldn’t be more wrong about Trump saying:

He's "not a loser and has not harmed the Republican Party; he has given it a backbone, and his policies are popular because they were very successful."  

We'll come back to that, but let's start with the fact Joe Biden isn't Trump’s real opponent, and the more they attacked him, and the more they corrupted the legal system against him simply solidified their support because American's hate cheaters and bullies.

"Biden is a symptom, not a cause of America’s illness.  The cause lies in the embrace by the Democrat party of a Marxist/fascist hybrid collectivism, to be elevated by any means necessary..............Our enemies are within the gates; indeed, they have taken control of the gates and are opening them wide to nearly every external threat they can find.  They’re fully aware of the catastrophic consequences to our nation of their treachery and accepting of it as simply the cost of “fundamental transformation.” ..............Trump is the disruptor of all this.  He’s the only true threat to the existence and further hegemony of the “uniparty.”  However, unless we aim him toward the true enemy — the Democrat party as a whole....."
 
Steve McCann noted in his article, Donald Trump and the Fate of the Nation:
 
No American president since Abraham Lincoln has ever carried more scars of office than Donald Trump. However, it is these scars of battle, his larger-than-life persona, and the reality of dealing with a well-armed Democrat war machine that Trump, if he accepts the nomination, will face in November of 2024. Thus, thrusting him into a win or be solely responsible for the fate of nation situation.............There can be no question that Donald Trump harbors a deep affection for this country and its people. He, therefore, is well aware of the dire consequences for this nation and his legacy if he loses. It is vital that Trump, despite his ongoing legal battles, begins to immediately focus on doing everything he can to ensure a victory in November...........
 
 
Without a monolithic black vote, Democrats can't get elected, and we're seeing a surge in black voter support for Trump.   Senators like Ted Cruz are endorsing Trump, and the big hit came when Senator Tim Scott's endorsed Trump.  He's black, he's Republican, he's conservative, he was initially a candidate, and he's from South Carolina where Haley was governor.  If she stays in, she'll be humiliated in South Carolina.  The fact is, Donald Trump owns the Republican party, so get over it, because the fat lady sung, and it’s over!!! 
 
Update:  DeSantis has dropped out and endorsed Trump.  He went on to say:
 
......that he "signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee, [and he] will honor that pledge....because we can't go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear — a repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.....The days of putting Americans last, of kowtowing to large corporations, of caving to woke ideology are over,"................
 
At this point I'm not going to beat on him, because I think that would be really tacky, but, as the reporter in Charlie Wilson's War said:  We'll see!  
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As for Nikki, she says, ‘May the Best Woman Win’........


Tuesday, January 16, 2024

The Fat Lady Sung, and It's Over!

By Rich Kozlovich

"It ain't over till the fat lady sings"!  Well, the fat lady sung, and it's all over in Iowa, and Donald Trump won massively, which outraged Rachel Maddow saying Trump is a dangerous fascist, but his supporters are even worse.  Imagine that!  And why are they worse?  According to that MSNBC's resident racist, Joy Reid, Iowa has entirely too many whites and Christians. Imagine that. 

I often wonder if these nitwits even know what the definition of fascism is, because if they don't that means they're stupid.  If the do, and yet keep making that claim, it means they're deliberately lying and stupid.

Well, Maddow has just under 4 million viewers, and in a nation of 332 million people that means 328 million people didn't hear a thing she said, and the ones who did, already believed her nonsense, and like her, they're either stupid, or stupid liars.    So, who cares what she thinks?  And if I didn't read news sites I couldn't have known what she said, and I was even surprised to find she's still on the air. 

Let's start with Chris Christie.  Even as stupid as he is, he knew what was coming and no matter what he would say afterwards, it wouldn't erase the humiliation of getting almost no votes, and finally did something smart for a change, and dropped out ahead of time. Something former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson failed to do and got less than 1% of the vote, even less than Ryan Binkley, and I have no idea who he is, but he got .07%.  How much less did Hutchinson get?  I have no idea, but get this:

“We plan on going to New Hampshire. I’ve got my flight booked there. But we’re going to reevaluate after this evening. We’ll see where we finally end up and if we’ve got the strength to carry on this campaign beyond Iowa,” Hutchinson told KCCI in Des Moines.

Remarkable, what's going on in this nitwit's head?

As for As of 11:30 pm ET, last night with 95% of the vote counted, Trump had 51.0%, Ron DeSantis came in a distant second, 21.3% and Nikki Haley getting 19.1%, and Vivek Ramaswamy also ran.  He ended up with 7.7%.  He wisely ended the pain, and I'm a bit surprised he didn't finish closer to Haley as he beat her up badly during the campaign. 

While Vivek Ramaswamy has dropped out, he has given his full endorsement to Trump, and Trump is being gracious in return saying, "He did a hell of a job".  Not only did he call Trump to tell him he was out and fully supporting him, he'll be appearing with him to campaign in New Hampshire. 

He'll get a spot in the administration if he wants it, no matter what he's said about that in the past.  Perhaps being appointed to be the "Gut the Deep State Czar" might be a good spot, especially to see who and what he really is, which I think was the knock on him.  He had history that concerned conservatives.   I found that whole campaign bizarre to tell you the truth, but then again, I've found this entire run by Republicans bizarre, especially DeSantis.   What is going on in their heads? 

DeSantis came in second, a distant second, and whined about it trying to put a smiley face on this failure for his staff.  Even claiming the media was in the tank for Trump.  Huh?  The media's in the tank for Trump?  Ya just gotta be kidden me!  He can't really believe that...can he?  If he does it further shows he's delusional, which I've believed from the beginning of his campaign, and he's toast from now on nationally.  However, at this point it seems clear he plans of staying in the race.  

I think that's called masochism?  

Talking about masochism, there's Nikki Haley, who practically groveled to the Iowa voters and they dumped her into third position, and probably only did as well as she did because Democrats could vote in the Iowa Republican primary, which is stupid, and she's the Republican candidate for Democrats.

Now she's dissing them and saying New Hampshire will correct these Iowa nitwits, and she's getting support from Never Trumpers Bill Kristol, and Governor Chris Sununu.  Now, let's see a show of hands on how many conservatives will change over to Haley due to those endorsements!  She actually thinks these Iowa results make this a two person race.  She must think Trump is going to drop out.  

Here's a thought worth noting.  Combined, DeSantis and Haley spent 72 million dollars, far more money than Trump to come in a far second and third.  Where's that money coming from?

Rand Paul has been ripping Haley, but Sununu says no one in America cares what Rand Paul thinks about Nikki Haley. Really?  Well here's what he thinks, Here, Here, and Here, and it ain't pretty.

Which in effect, affirms what I said from the beginning, she's not to be trusted.  While she seemed to have been outstanding as the Ambassador to the United Nations, she proved to be a leaky vessel, and turned on Trump for reasons I never understood, although here are her excuses, which I think tells the whole story on Nikki Haley.  

I think she's a as slippery as an eel, unwilling to state a man can't be a woman, and is on board with the climate change climatistas, and is weak on every issue that's important to conservatives.  She's a "make believe conservative", all too common among Republicans, and if Nikki Haley, is the Establishment’s last hope, they're toast.  But here's a thought worth exploring.

Final thought.  I've said over and over again I have no idea what's going on in the heads of these two nitwits.  If DeSantis had stayed out of it he had a chance in 2028, and he's still young enough, but Haley was toast from the beginning because she's shown just how untrustworthy she is.  Who were these two listening to?  Why would they believe they actually had a chance against Trump? 

Answer?   They weren't connected to the base, and isolated themselves in a echo chamber of head nodding self promoters, and now both are toast nationally, and DeSantis will be another also ran former governor like John Kasich who no one wants anything to do with, except the main stream media who trots him out like the talking head he is to smear Trump.  

The only political future I see for all these people is the No Labels Party, better named the No Future Party. 

 

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Kristol Clarity On ‘Conservative Scholars’ Seeking to Ban Trump

Shockingly, erudite rightists hailed by NYT aren’t above the fray after all.


For what seems like the millionth time since former President Donald Trump first went down those escalator steps in June 2015, the big-box media has dug up “real” and “authentic” conservatives to loftily rule against his fitness to be the Republican Party standard bearer. The daydreams always involve permanently banishing Trump from the world of American politics. The latest tactic? Keep him off the ballot in 2024.

“Conservative Case Emerges to Disqualify Trump for Role on Jan. 6,” reads the headline of an article published by The New York Times on Aug. 10. This has drawn renewed attention now that certain New Hampshire Republicans are indeed hoping to forcibly exclude Trump from the state’s presidential ballot next year.

The NYT was eager to stress the alleged rock-ribbed rightist bona fides of the subjects in question. “Two prominent conservative law professors have concluded that Donald J. Trump is ineligible to be president under a provision of the Constitution that bars people who have engaged in an insurrection from holding government office. The professors are active members of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, and proponents of originalism, the method of interpretation that seeks to determine the Constitution’s original meaning,” the paper exclaimed in an especially pregnant lead sentence.

‘We’re Constitutional Scholars’

The article takes pains to point out that these eminent legal scholars were guided only by free inquiry, bringing no preconceived notions to the table:

“The professors – William Baude of the University of Chicago and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas – studied the question for more than a year and detailed their findings in a long article to be published next year in The University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

‘When we started out, neither of us was sure what the answer was,’ Professor Baude said. ‘People were talking about this provision of the Constitution. We thought: “We’re constitutional scholars, and this is an important constitutional question. We ought to figure out what’s really going on here.” And the more we dug into it, the more we realized that we had something to add.’”

This cherished contribution to conservative thought was quickly seized upon by a notable New Hampshire Republican keen on preventing Trump from being an option to Granite State voters in 2024.

“Bryant ‘Corky’ Messner, an attorney and prominent Republican who won the 2020 Republican Senate nomination thanks in great part to Trump’s support, is mulling a lawsuit if Trump later this year files to put his name on the New Hampshire primary ballot,” Fox News reported on Aug. 30. “This article presented a very, very, compelling analysis that in fact Donald Trump is disqualified from being on the ballot,” Messner told Fox, referring to the piece authored by Baude and Paulsen.

Dominant establishment news site Politico, which is so in thrall to ruling progressive elites that it allowed French President Emmanuel Macron to edit the content of an April interview it conducted with him, transparently used Messner to justify crafting a lengthy article playing up the notion that Trump could be disqualified from the ballot is indeed a compelling legal question. “I’m a Constitutional conservative. The words say what they say,” Messner told Politico. “I quite frankly believe it is in Donald Trump’s best interest to get this looked at as quickly as possible.”

But even Macron’s favorite American political journal had to admit that the scheme is a longshot at best. What Politico or The New York Times did not tell readers, however, is that the scholarly article Messner was leaning on while posing as a staunch “Constitutional conservative” is as impartial as CNN on Election Night.

Stowing Away the Trump Derangement Baggage

A cursory look at the two authors finds them canoodling with noted Never Trumper Bill Kristol and expressing open loathing of Trump years before their supposedly above-the-fray piece.

Michael Stokes Paulsen “is a graduate of Northwestern University, Yale Law School, and Yale Divinity School,” his Federalist Society bio states. “Professor Paulsen has taught as a visiting professor at Princeton University [and] Georgetown” and “was a fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, in the Department of Politics at Princeton University.”

In other words, his Swamp-soaked academic credentials are impeccable.

Two days after Jan. 6, 2021, Paulsen penned a frothy opinion piece for The Bulwark, the notorious Never Trumper website that touts Kristol as “editor-at-large.” Its unambiguous title: “The Constitutional and Moral Imperative of Immediate Impeachment.” Its lead sentence: “President Trump should be impeached and removed from office immediately.” Paulsen’s screed was the exact opposite of calm and sober-minded.

Trump “has, without doubt, committed acts constituting ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors’ within the meaning of the Constitution’s impeachment standard,” Paulsen asserted. “He has attempted to preserve himself in office, notwithstanding his defeat for reelection, by seeking to subvert the results of a series of popular democratic state elections — a terrible attack on our constitutional republican government. He has done so by developing a tissue of lies and repeating them endlessly, in a fraudulent effort to undermine public confidence in election results.”

Baude also has a fine elitist academic resume. He “received his BS in Mathematics from the University of Chicago and his JD from Yale Law School” and “was a fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center,” the Federalist Society bio details. On Oct. 8, 2021, Baude sat down for a cozy chat at the “Conversations With Bill Kristol” podcast dedicated to discussing “electoral subversion.” Care to guess who they wanted to talk about? “I think it’s terrifying that one important way to be in good standing in the Republican Party and to rise to prominence in the Republican Party is I guess the big lie, it’s to say, ‘I believe Donald Trump won the election and that Republicans who failed to take his side, failed to find a way to keep him in office, have betrayed him and I’ll be a true party loyalist,’” Baude told Kristol.

“And then you, of course, have the storming of the Capitol [on Jan. 6], which in some ways, I mean, was the most dramatic and got the most coverage,” he luridly stated. “In some ways, it’s not nearly as scary as a lot of the other pieces of this puzzle.” While expressing relief that Trump was not allowed to advance his election fraud case, Baude let Kristol know just where he stands as a “conservative.”

“The treatment of Lynne [sic] Cheney makes that more nerve-wracking,” he declared. “Although, the fact that [Senate Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell [R-KY] remains in control of his party in the Senate is encouraging. He made no bones about the fact that he did not like what Trump was doing, did not think it was proper. He gave some strong speeches. Now, he didn’t ultimately join the impeachment effort, didn’t ultimately have the votes. I get that. So, the fact that he’s still around, makes me sleep a little easier. If he’s displaced by some other senators, then I’ll really get nervous.”

There you have it. Meet the two constitutional conservative heroes as touted by The New York Times. Gee, that whole “when we started out, neither of us was sure what the answer was” tripe suddenly sounds a whole lot less convincing, doesn’t it?

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

David Limbaugh Notices Something in Common With All the “Conservative” Never-Trumpers

Up and down the line of current and former RINOs who continue to be Never-Trumpers, there is a trend. The very people who claim Republicans abandoned “true conservatism” by supporting Donald Trump are not out there fighting for limited government or attacking woke culture. Instead, they’re invariably letting their true colors shine by endorsing Democrats, embracing wokeness, and defending the Biden-Harris regime’s disastrous policies.  From Liz Cheney to the Lincoln Project, Never-Trumpers are going full-blown leftist in their efforts to stop Donald Trump. This is confusing, of course, because by their reckoning Trump lost “fair and square” in the 2020 election. Why are they STILL supporting Neo-Marxism?...........To Read More....

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

‘Republicans For Biden’ Owe The Nation — Heck, The World — An Apology

In the run-up to the 2020 election, the Biden campaign was gleeful about the flood of prominent Republicans who’d crossed the aisle to support Joe’s candidacy. These Never-Trumpers weren’t just expressing their disdain for President Donald Trump, they were heartily, lovingly, making the case for Joe Biden.

Back then, they were lauded as heroes by the establishment. Today, everyone knows the truth.

These Biden-supporting Republicans were utterly, embarrassingly, dangerously wrong about the man they were touting for president. And we are all now paying an enormous and rapidly increasing price for their arrogant stupidity.

Nothing better encapsulates the “Republicans for Biden” mindset than the statement issued by nearly 500 former national security officials in the fall of 2020 backing Biden.

Forget about the fact that they trafficked in anti-Trump lies such as the “Russian bounty” story and sided against Trump on China, climate change, and other issues of importance to conservatives.

What stands out today is when they claimed that Biden “is the leader our nation needs.”

“It is unthinkable,” these “experts” said in their statement, “that [Biden] would ever utter the phrase ‘I don’t take responsibility at all.’”

Would anyone make such a claim today?.............. To Read More...


Monday, June 7, 2021

The Time of Romney-Ryan Republicanism Is Over

Paul Ryan (I know, sorry for bringing him up) delivered a speech at the Reagan Presidential Library at the end of May in which he sought to reassert himself as a leader of the Republican Party.  His shtick was the same spit wash that Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, and George Bush have tried rubbing on the Republican electorate time and again since Biden's official installation.  We're better than this reality TV outsider who hijacked the party.  Boo to populism; yay to True Conservatism, Inc.!  This is serious, people; we're at a 'crossroads' here.................

After all these years, Paul Ryan and his "Washington Generals" cohorts are still so blinded by their hatred for Donald Trump that they'd prefer the double-team of Mao's Cultural Revolution and Stalin's dissident purge (Where did everyone go?  I don't know; they just "disappeared.") presently napalming freedom in America to taking a hard look at why Republican voters abandoned them in the first place.............  

While recognizing that Trump actually succeeded in expanding the party's appeal to a diverse electorate (a truth that most every other NeverTrump has buried while ignoring that President Trump won more votes in 2020 than any sitting president in history — and nearly ten million more than Obama won in re-election)............Is it any wonder after decades of being led by a bunch of mealy-mouthed Washington neoconservatives who go out of their way to demean regular, everyday Americans, Republican voters finally said enough?  ..........In reacting to Paul Ryan's speech, an online commenter going by the name Zendor summed it up with a clever portmanteau: "The only leadership shown by Rinosaur Ryan is leading other rinos to extinction." .....To Read More....

 

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

The GOP’s Trump Solution

At some point, the former Republican establishment will have to familiarize itself with the consequences of being defeated by Donald Trump within its own party.

  By

Having been commendably supportive of the former president through most of his term, the Journal joined in the general embarkation of NeverTrumpers over the ostensible election results. The theory that inspired this headline is Trump had his chance but lost the election in a manner practically indistinguishable from defeated incumbents Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H. W. Bush in 1992 (when there were no suggestions of questionable results). The editors suggest further that Trump had exhausted any grounds he had for contesting the fairness of the counting of ballots, and that it was his duty to go quietly into that good night and do everything that he could to elect Republican senators in Georgia to preserve the Republican majority in the Senate and to enhance the likelihood of the reelection next year of Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia and his secretary of state Brad Raffensperger.............To Read More.....

My Take - Interesting piece in contrast with these two diametrically opposing views.

Here's the thing. These two are losers.  Flake really is a flake and Kasich, whom I've met, suffers from a serious case of weird compounded by a massive infection of hubris, and both suffer from the Mind Projection fallacy, where they see what's in their head, whether it's real or not.  Will Trump shrink the GOP?  Yes!  By driving out the invertebrates, collaborators and self-serving traitors like these two, and John Boehner, who's absolutely a disgrace, and if reports are correct, a drunk. 
 
 

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Trump Voters Will Never Forgive Shameful GOP Establishment

Grassroots Republicans are furious, and that anger is not going away.

By —— Bio and Archives--February 15, 2021

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In 2016, Donald Trump was elected President of the United States despite being opposed by the establishment of the Republican Party. After four successful years as President, he received a record-setting 74.2 million votes. Obviously, the vast majority of Republicans strongly supported President Trump and approved of his performance in office. Polls showed that President Trump’s support level among Republicans reached 90% in 2020, an amazing feat considering the type of opposition he faced.

Not surprisingly, he did not receive this type of support from his enemies within the Democratic Party, the Deep State, the media, and the Republican Party establishment. These GOP opponents were powerful, although they did not represent a significant number of grassroots Republicans.  Establishment Republicans saw a perfect opportunity to destroy the future potential of the MAGA agenda

Some of the anti-Trump Republicans formed the now disgraced Lincoln Project. This group raised millions of dollars to purchase political advertisements encouraging voters to reject President Trump. They ridiculed him in every way imaginable; however, it is now poetic justice that the despicable actions of its leadership will lead to the organization’s demise.

Other Republican Party leaders who hated President Trump were careful to give lip service to his “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) agenda, but they never truly supported it. In fact, these policies are despised by many Republicans, who prefer the big government globalist agenda supported by former GOP presidential nominees like the late U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and the current U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT).

In the unconstitutional and unfair second impeachment of President Trump, these establishment Republicans saw a perfect opportunity to destroy the future potential of the MAGA agenda. In the U.S. House of Representatives, ten Republicans voted to impeach the President. After a sham U.S. Senate trial, with a partisan Democratic Senator sitting as “judge,” seven Republicans shamefully voted to convict the President..............To Read More.....

 

 

 

Thursday, January 28, 2021

The GOP Purge Is Coming!

By January 27th, 2021

The Never Trumpers & Republicans for Biden cabal of corrupted politicians don’t realize the danger headed their way. I wrote, following the Left’s successful coup against President Trump, there are now two Republican party’s, Trump’s, if he wishes to embrace it and the other one, and the other one is in danger of being replaced. Good riddance. It’s a start!

I think the purge may have started to roll in Arizona. The Arizona Republican Party under the strong leadership of Chairwoman Kelli Ward has censured, for what it’s worth now, Cindy McCain, John McCain’s widow, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, and former Arizona GOP Senator Jeff Flake (what an appropriate name) for actively supporting President Trump’s removal. Kelli Ward has shown her true conservative grit as a solid supporter of President Trump who, unlike the three mentioned above, have stood firmly against endorsing the Left’s baseless claims of no election fraud in her state...........To Read More....


Monday, January 25, 2021

Future of GOP Will Be Determined By Trump Trial

  By —— Bio and Archives--January 24, 2021

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As a candidate and President, Donald Trump completely transformed the Republican Party. Gone were the policies that promoted endless wars, open borders, and bad trade deals. Trump ushered in an “America First” platform that answered to the citizens of our country, not the elitists and special interests.

As an independent businessman who was not beholden to powerful donors, insiders and organizations that normally control politicians, Trump was a different kind of Republican. In fact, he was a breath of fresh air for a stale party that had become accustomed to losing elections.

This change was never accepted by the establishment wing of the Republican Party. This traditional power base of the GOP has been represented by the Bush family, U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), former House Speaker Paul Ryan, the late U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and the party leaders of today such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). These Republicans hate Trump as much, if not more, than the Democrats.

Trump’s outreach was met with leaks, opposition, and complete betrayal.........To Read More....