What is the purpose of the Republican Party? 18 replies, 6/9/2020. “Useless” might be too kind a description of Establishment Republicans

6/9/2020, “What is the purpose of the GOP?” 18 among replies: 



Above, 6/9/20, “What is the purpose of the GOP?" Daniel Horowitz twitter



Above, my choice for best answer: “To prevent a party that will represent right leaning voters from ever rising.”...


















Above replies to Daniel Horowitz twitter, 6/9/20
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Added: 8 examples: ““Useless” might be too kind a description of” Establishment Republicans:
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Added: Myth of the Republican controlled Senate: 

“Regardless of the merits of this or that issue, on the whole they’d rather preemptively surrender.…Doesn’t matter what your issue is, they’ll fold.”…

12/14/2015, “The GOP Don’t Never Dance With Them What Brung Them,” Mark Steyn…Added:  

“Chairman Cruz and his staff failed to properly manage the hearings to insure that expert witnesses were respected and their message communicated clearly to the public.”
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Added: ““Useless” might be too kind a description of them.” 

“Useless Senate Republicans No Match for the ‘Bums of Steele’,” Julie Kelly, American Greatness,

5/22/2020…”“Criminals” is the best descriptive label to put on most Senate Republicans. Seriously, can you think of a more adequate or sensible explanation for why the Republicans have been bending over and caving to the Democrats for the last 20 years?...It’s truly disgusting, watching our country go down the tubes with these corrupt sleazebags in charge.”…Commenter, Uwungelema 
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Added: In Nov. 2018 midterms, 38 House districts had no Republican candidate on the ballot. GOP “leaders” showed us who’s boss-they simply disenfranchised Republican voters in 38 districts. It’s “easier” for democrats to win when they have no opponent. Only 3 districts lacked a democrat candidate. Vacant GOP races included 8 in California, 5 in Florida, 4 in Texas. From Ballotpedia, 12/28/2018. Full list of districts at end of this post.
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Added: “Christmas morning:” The Republican Establishment despises Republican voters: “All they gotta do is throw away their base. That’s Christmas morning for ’em.”…Rush Limbaugh, 10/13/2013 

GOP would be happy in the minority “even if it takes 15 years in the wilderness to rebuild a new base of people who don’t embarrass them.”  

10/16/2013, “GOP Seeks to Rid Itself of the Tea Party,” Rush Limbaugh
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Added: George W. Bush doesn’t get the credit he deserves for destroying the Republican Party, 2006-2010:
 

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Added: “The Sabotage Republicans,” Nov. 8, 2013 

“Sabotaging conservatives is built into the DNA of the GOP Establishment. Unable to win themselves a considerable bit of the time—and then continuing to move the country left when they do win...they have never ever changed…. 

The GOP Establishment will find a way—quietly or not so quietly–to sabotage the conservative nominee if there is a conservative nominee in 2016. This is what they do…. 

The Republican Party has two serious problems on its hands. 

The first is with those like Eric Cantor’s ex-chief of staff who are invited into leadership positions in the party-–when they in fact are not conservatives at all and quietly or openly seek to sabotage the party. 

The second is with those Establishment Republicans who do manage to win–and then see their job as merely managing the leftist status quo…. 

That is the Republican Party’s real problem. And it’s a big one.” 

“Republished with permission from The American Spectator”
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Added: “Republican” Senate votes to “rebuke” President Trump, in 68-23 vote, for seeking to end US taxpayer funded military occupations of Afghanistan and Syria.  

2/2/2019, “McConnell and the Iron Triangle vs. Trump and the Voters,” American Greatness, Joseph Duggan 

“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) aligned with the NeverTrump faction of Republican senators Thursday to introduce and pass a resolution to “rebuke” President Trump. 

Instead of supporting the Republican and independent voters who knowingly nominated and elected a man [Trump] committed to foreign policy change, McConnell is sticking stubbornly to the foreign policy approach that failed America and the world…. 

Kentuckian McConnell…assailed the president’s order to bring American troops home from Afghanistan [and Syria] as “precipitous.”…McConnell’s resolution aims to undermine the commander-in-chief of U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan and Syria. It also takes the side of the permanent intelligence bureaucracy against the president….They are supposed to work for the president, but McConnell is more comfortable if the president is subservient to them…. 

McConnell and crew are not standing up for the rightful power of the legislative branch as the Framers intended; they are shilling for the Iron Triangle. 

Freshmen senators seem to find out early how to win the good graces of…the permanent bureaucracy. Barely four weeks into their tenure, every new GOP senator—Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Mike Braun (Ind.), Kevin Cramer (N.D.), Josh Hawley (Mo.), Martha McSally (Ariz.), Rick Scott (Fla.), and (of course) Romney—voted against the president and for the swamp. Meanwhile, Blackburn, Braun, Hawley, and Scott owe their come-from-behind victories solely to Trump’s unflagging support.”…
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Added: 38 House districts with no Republican candidate on the ballot in Nov. 2018. Vacant GOP districts included 8 in California, 5 in Florida, 4 in Texas. From Ballotpedia, 12/28/18:

• Alabama’s 7th Congressional District
• Arizona’s 7th Congressional District
• California’s 5th Congressional District
• California’s 6th Congressional District
• California’s 13th Congressional District
• California’s 20th Congressional District
• California’s 27th Congressional District
• California’s 34th Congressional District
• California’s 40th Congressional District
• California’s 44th Congressional District
• Florida’s 10th Congressional District
• Florida’s 14th Congressional District
• Florida’s 20th Congressional District
• Florida’s 21st Congressional District
• Florida’s 24th Congressional District
• Georgia’s 5th Congressional District
• Louisiana’s 2nd Congressional District
• Massachusetts’ 1st Congressional District
• Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional District
• Massachusetts’ 7th Congressional District
• Massachusetts’ 8th Congressional District
• Michigan’s 13th Congressional District
• Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District
• New York’s 5th Congressional District
• New York’s 6th Congressional District
• New York’s 7th Congressional District
• New York’s 8th Congressional District
• New York’s 16th Congressional District
• New York’s 17th Congressional District
• Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District
• Texas’ 9th Congressional District
• Texas’ 20th Congressional District
• Texas’ 28th Congressional District
• Texas’ 30th Congressional District
• Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District
• Washington’s 2nd Congressional District
• Washington’s 9th Congressional District
• Wisconsin’s 2nd Congressional District

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Ugliest Trump/Kushner/GOP giveaways in Nov. 2018: In two key Military-intel Democrat House “wins” there was no Republican on the ballot. In these two cases, incumbent Republicans had retired but the Republican Party neglected to field candidates to run in their place: 

11/17/2018, “Eleven military-intelligence Democrats win US House seats,” Patrick Martin, Worldwide Socialist Website  

“With the victory of Jared Golden, an Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran, in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, a total of 11 Democrats with military or intelligence backgrounds have won Republican-held seats in the House of Representatives in the midterm elections…. 

Of the 11 military-intelligence Democrats newly elected to Congress, nine defeated incumbent Republicans, while two won seats left open [vacant] by a Republican retirement. Besides Poliquin, the Republicans defeated by candidates drawn directly from the national-security apparatus include 

(Defeated)

Dan Donovan in New York, Leonard Lance and Tom MacArthur in New Jersey, Keith Rothfus in New Jersey, Scott Taylor and David Brat in Virginia, Mike Bishop in Michigan, and Mike Coffman in Colorado.”
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Of note: Of Obama’s 2009 Nobel Peace Prize: “Europe got the kind of transnational American president it wanted. What it didn’t get was peace and security.” 

“The Obama administration [was] the first in American history to have been engaged in a major military conflict for every day of its eight years.”
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Finally: In Nov. 2020 naughty GOP voters will be sent to their rooms with no dinner. GOP Establishment “parent” George Will says Trump will lose in Nov. 2020 and Republican voters, like “intractable” children, will be getting a time-out from Mommy and Daddy: 

June 3, 2020, “George Will: GOP Voters Will Forget Trump ‘Fairly Fast’ When He Loses Election,” Breitbart, Pam Key 

“Wednesday on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist George Will predicted President Donald Trump would lose in 2020, and that voters will forget him “fairly fast.” 

Host Joy Reid asked, “If Republican voters listen to you and say it’s time to say no, let’s get rid of every single Republican in the Senate that they are capable of voting out, what will happen to the Republican Party?… 

“Our parties are very durable. Our two parties have formulated the political competition in this country since the Republicans first ran a presidential ticket in 1856.” [Will said]. 

He added… “What the Republican party needs — what we parents say when we are dealing with an intractable child, it needs a time-out. I think they’re going to get one.””



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