Conservatives Should Challenge
Establishment Republicans in 2022
American Thinker,
by
Jack R. Carlsson
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/17/2021 11:00:45 AM
Last week, Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney voted to impeach President Trump. Conservatives were outraged. The Wyoming GOP denounced her. Congressman Jim Jordan threatened to oust her from House Republican leadership. Pundits called for someone to challenge Cheney in her 2022 primary.Meanwhile, establishment Republicans rallied to Cheney’s defense. Dan Crenshaw said that Cheney was “principled” and “fierce.” Peggy Noonan defended Cheney in a lengthy Wall Street Journal opinion piece. When reporters asked a National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman about Cheney’s vote, he sidestepped the question and focused on the 2022 elections, saying the Committee’s “job is to take back the [House] majority.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Cindiana 1/17/2021 11:05:55 AM (No. 663951)
Dan Crenshaw has certainly done a great job sinking what seemed like a brilliant future as a defender of our American values. Was he a fraud from the start? Was he bought off or is there something nefarious he's threatened with? What in the world happens to these people?
30 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 1/17/2021 11:10:24 AM (No. 663958)
Who's going to count the 'votes'? Dominion? Voting is so 1999.
17 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/17/2021 11:14:04 AM (No. 663967)
2022 will be our big chance to rally around Fightin' Roy Blunt.
Fightin' Roy has been fighting for us with every ounce of energy he could muster for over twenty years. Now is our time to fight for him - - and with him. Let's all become Blunt Instruments!
4 people like this.
Who exactly is going to vote for the Republicans to help them take back the House? Likely won’t be at least 1/3 of the folks who voted for Trump. The point of voting for a .Republican is to reward a turncoat who hates us and makes believe they don’t versus a Democrat who hates us and is honest about it?
10 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 1/17/2021 11:27:03 AM (No. 663989)
Understand that running against the political class means calling them out on their playground with their ball and bat. You need charismatic people with thick skin, because as we witness with DJT part 1, attacks are personal from the right, and relentless.
You don’t need a new party, but a specific united front and message. Contract with America. Central to that is an informed well articulated recognition of the true danger of China, the corruption of the Republican and Democratic parties vis a vis the American populace.
Then limited government, the positive aspects of the trump legacy and the failures of the establishment to support and sustain those objectives.
That is a blueprint for success.
8 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/17/2021 11:36:07 AM (No. 664000)
Way ahead of you Jack. Primary every dam one of the Uniraty incumbents. The POOF, Here's the Constitution Party.
Let's see how Congress works as a 3 party system. Mattressback can't sign any bills that Congress can't pass.
8 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 1/17/2021 11:39:54 AM (No. 664004)
OK, this makes the count against Crenshaw one more for "don't trust him". I knew Noonan was a Dem in an elephant suit, but I had thought Crenshaw was a good guy. Starting to think he's just another Deep State guy.
26 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
justavoter 1/17/2021 11:51:27 AM (No. 664015)
Rules for voting:
1. In the Primary, never vote for an incumbent, no matter how good you think they are.
2. In the General, never vote for a Cheatocrat.
That has been my voting strategy for years and wish more people would follow.
8 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 1/17/2021 11:53:11 AM (No. 664017)
By the comments, I'd presume the Dems won't have any trouble keeping their very slim House majority.
Need to stop with the expectation that "it's the People's" house, "they work for US", etc...
Or, being upset because someone comments on something that doesn't specifically align to your particular views.
The whole point is to get Republicans in office, regardless of any one or two political issues. PERIOD.
Without it, you don't govern, and can't do anything. Watch how Nancy Pelosi essentially sidelined the GOP in the House, even with her very slim majority.
They don't turn on their elected officials, ever.
Stop given them the opportunity. The Progressives aren't the majority in this country.
6 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Muguy 1/17/2021 11:59:51 AM (No. 664029)
So many times people yell "primary that person !!!" only to find out that it is next to IMPOSSIBLE to unseat an INCUMBENT.
This is why-- the many challengers who want to take the job DESTROY themselves in the attempt. The incumbent just keeps bringing in cash to their campaign war chest, making more and more "deals" from big-dollar contributors, and just watch the spectacle.
The biggest problem is that with so many challengers in the race, the vote is SO split that almost NOBODY gets into a RUNOFF with the INCUMBENT. Without a runoff, they take the win, and go against a demonrat socialist in the November election, and if they are republican incumbents, they generally have a fine chance to hold their seats because republican voters will turn out.
2020 has taught us that the once "written in stone rule" that TURNOUT is everything is NO MORE.
The NEW paradigm is that people don't have to go to the polls to vote, the polls come to them in the way of 'mail-in' votes...NOT Absentee Ballot By Mail where signatures and identities are VERIFIED, but just accepted as is-- even from anonymous, unattended 'drop boxes' provide free of charge for BALLOT HARVESTING by Adolph Zuckerbery only in heavily dem parts of the voting district--
Those old, white folks who vote are about to be minimized by BiteMe's plan to give amnesty to those 22-35 million ILLEGAL ALIENS, so if the new voting districts are gerrrymandered to boost the demonrats, the call to defeat the GOP/RINOs may be even more difficult, because unless they retire, get caught in a major scandal or die in office-- there's almost no way to "primary them" out of office now.....
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 1/17/2021 12:16:17 PM (No. 664053)
Voting is irrelevant now, and will get more irrelevant when 30 million Hondurans, El Salvadorans and Mexicans get legalized and promise to forever vote Demonrat.
22 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/17/2021 1:23:31 PM (No. 664121)
Substitute Patriots for Conservatives and I am with you. I got a funds appeal in the name of McConnell starting with the words "I will make this quick..." I replied by saying I will make it quicker. Don't expect a penny after stabbing our President in the back.
15 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
LadyHen 1/17/2021 1:35:41 PM (No. 664134)
If the only choice I have is a Democrat who spits in my face and a Republican who stabs me in the back, I won't vote. And take your talk of keep voting GOP come hell or high water and shove it. Done it my whole life, and the GOP itself has supported perpetual war, done nothing about abortion, let in million of illegals, given this nation's economy to China, and laughed all the way to the bank.
The GOP loves being the minority pounding it's tiny fist and saying "If we were just in charge!" but every time it is in charge, all it does it prove it HATES the voters who put it there. They seem suprised we actually expect them to do their jobs and not just grandstand.
So you waste your time and money. I'm through. And with blatant and obvious voter fraud the order of the day and the media p!ssing down my leg and telling me it is raining, at this point "The only winning move is not to play."
12 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 1/17/2021 1:45:14 PM (No. 664145)
All my GOP funding emails (four so far today) have been marked SPAM, and I will continue that training of my spam filter until they stop getting through.
NO more money for GOP.
8 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
idahoskook 1/17/2021 1:48:31 PM (No. 664147)
New party now.
I’ll never vote Republican again.
Never.
13 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/17/2021 2:20:20 PM (No. 664170)
If anyone wants a fighting chance the answer is to take over and reform the Republican party. All those things #10 notes are there to ensure insurgents don't upset the apple cart, that the two parties are forever enshrined in our "two-party system."
Those favoring a third party might want to direct their energies to local and state Republican parties. Most have a problem with too few active members, too little leadership. Or, you can go join the usual Libertarians or Americans or whomever. With your support they may break five percent. Politics is not about principle - but it ought to be about advancing views and causes.
Six state legislatures punked out of their Constitutional duty, all REPUBLICAN. What is anyone in those states going to do about it? So far, little to nothing.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Luke21 1/17/2021 2:23:53 PM (No. 664174)
I love the "charge of the light brigade" people here ready to get their ass kicked for two years, then vote again in rigged elections, then vote some more. They are political zombies.
The Democrats stole the last two elections and look at all the people here ready to eat another plate of manure.
9 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Luandir 1/17/2021 2:34:26 PM (No. 664183)
The Wyoming GOP needs to mount ONE GOOD candidate against Liz Cheney in the primary. Don't let a wider field split the opposition.
7 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 1/17/2021 3:02:10 PM (No. 664213)
Right now, I'm not sure I will ever vote again. I mean, what's the point? The Dem candidate is going to win. Change my mind.
8 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
columba 1/17/2021 3:15:36 PM (No. 664234)
Don't you get it. Elections do not work!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
judy 1/17/2021 3:26:39 PM (No. 664242)
Crenshaw...another Romney, McCain, McConnell, McCarthy republican ...veryyy disappointing...repubs lost our support ...I guess they will go for corporate for Big $$$$$
2 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/17/2021 3:50:24 PM (No. 664267)
Establishment Republicans are backed by hundreds of millions of dollars--from the establishment. Funding opponents is the problem. It won't matter unless election integrity is implemented, as many Republicans are not going to show up for another fraudulent general election.
1 person likes this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Borderboy 1/17/2021 3:50:51 PM (No. 664268)
I'm done with the Republican Party. Sent my resignation yesterday.
Why should I support a political party that doesn't support me?
3 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/17/2021 4:53:15 PM (No. 664323)
Sorry, Jack, but we're two years ahead of you.
2 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/17/2021 5:03:35 PM (No. 664327)
There's only one thing that holding your nose and voting for a wishy-washy Republican gets you - a sore nose. We have all seen that happened when voting for McCain and Romney against Obola and by voting for the mediocre Republican for Congress because we must gain or hold the majority. Those days are over. It feels much better to know your enemy than to think you know your enemy.
4 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/17/2021 6:13:36 PM (No. 664397)
The problem is at the State level Republican Parties as those are the folks who present RINO’s and outright Democrats in disguise to run as bogus conservative Republicans to the grass roots rubes in Republican State Primary Elections where those phonies get nominated.
It’s not only establishment Republican politicians who should be wary of primary election time. As in New York, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez looks to be getting ready to primary out Charles Schumer and oust him from his Senate seat the next time he goes up for re-election.
1 person likes this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
Anti_democRAT 1/18/2021 1:38:55 AM (No. 664615)
Must
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