I love how in these takes, members of the Republican Party (elected members, party apparatchiks, fundraisers) and Republican voters have ZERO agency (and thus zero responsibility) for where we are today. Democrats share some of the blame - especially with their recent meddling elevating more "beatable" candidates in GOP primaries - but at the end of the day, it's Republicans green-lighting and pulling the levers for candidates like Trump, Walker, Oz, and Harriet Hageman (later today).
Complaining about Democrats online isn't going to change any of that. We need to be working harder at the local level to get more sane fellow party members to vote in primaries to deny wins to the quacks and probably to begin a reverse "Precinct Strategy"[1,2] and start pulling power back from the quacks at the local party level. (I recall when ColdWarrior introduced this idea on RedState about a decade ago, and how devastatingly effective it's been.)
Let me know if you'd like a post on this and I'd be happy to draft one.
This is pathetic. I mean pathetic even by Steve's normal level of pathetic. Liz Cheney is going to lose because the right cannot abide someone who tells the truth. It's as simple as that. Which you proved yourself by this pathetic expose of perceived victimhood.
BTW, democrats owe people on the right absolutely nothing.
I'll put up with a lot of character defects to rid us of the bungling, useless and destructive administration and congress we have now. Steve is clearly disgusted with both parties as am I. The difference is that he overloads his narrative with Trump hate. The two parties are equally guilty and neither has a higher level of decency. Steve seems to want to sit it out. I chose to try to further the agenda I prefer.
Those who listened to Liz Cheney's speech tonight will notice that she didn't bother to blame democrats she rightfully pointed out that she went from getting over 70 percent of the vote to losing all because she wouldn't lie about the election.
Perfectly illustrating the actual issue with the GOP. It is made up of Steve Berman's and not Liz Cheneys.
I just stopped by to say that was WAAAAAAAAAY too long, but what I skimmed was ridiculous or petty.
Trump was a disaster, and you oddly move between excusing it to saying he really was. And you voted for him, knowing all this.
I have little respect for that. You’re playing both sides, and that kind of fence play nearly cost us democracy itself on Jan 6.
Democrats are a mess. We’re a bigger one. Wanna talk short sighted? Virtually every GOP policy and talking point today.
And it’s destroyed the party, which may actually ruin America because there’s no truly free market party remaining.
I love how in these takes, members of the Republican Party (elected members, party apparatchiks, fundraisers) and Republican voters have ZERO agency (and thus zero responsibility) for where we are today. Democrats share some of the blame - especially with their recent meddling elevating more "beatable" candidates in GOP primaries - but at the end of the day, it's Republicans green-lighting and pulling the levers for candidates like Trump, Walker, Oz, and Harriet Hageman (later today).
Complaining about Democrats online isn't going to change any of that. We need to be working harder at the local level to get more sane fellow party members to vote in primaries to deny wins to the quacks and probably to begin a reverse "Precinct Strategy"[1,2] and start pulling power back from the quacks at the local party level. (I recall when ColdWarrior introduced this idea on RedState about a decade ago, and how devastatingly effective it's been.)
Let me know if you'd like a post on this and I'd be happy to draft one.
[1] https://precinctstrategy.com/
[2] https://redstate.com/diary/coldwarrior/2015/07/13/redstaters-can-unite-increase-chances-electing-conservatives-n230197
This is pathetic. I mean pathetic even by Steve's normal level of pathetic. Liz Cheney is going to lose because the right cannot abide someone who tells the truth. It's as simple as that. Which you proved yourself by this pathetic expose of perceived victimhood.
BTW, democrats owe people on the right absolutely nothing.
I'll put up with a lot of character defects to rid us of the bungling, useless and destructive administration and congress we have now. Steve is clearly disgusted with both parties as am I. The difference is that he overloads his narrative with Trump hate. The two parties are equally guilty and neither has a higher level of decency. Steve seems to want to sit it out. I chose to try to further the agenda I prefer.
Those who listened to Liz Cheney's speech tonight will notice that she didn't bother to blame democrats she rightfully pointed out that she went from getting over 70 percent of the vote to losing all because she wouldn't lie about the election.
Perfectly illustrating the actual issue with the GOP. It is made up of Steve Berman's and not Liz Cheneys.