Good day all. Over the last 8 years, we have seen people and groups arise that have been going after what is referred to as the “Republican Establishment.” The best known was the Tea Party, which took several GOP(e) scalps.
The GOP(e), with the help of the Obama regime, managed to wreck the Tea Party groups, or so they thought. Instead, they morphed into other groups and helped to bring about President Donald Trump. The GOP(e), or RINO’s, have refused to acknowledge the fact that all their preferred candidates lost the election.
Last week, they thought they had another chance to prove to the peons and serfs who was actually in charge, by pushing Alabama’s Luther Strange in the Republican Primary. Strange was tapped to fill the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions until a special election could be held. Strange’s major opponent was Judge Roy Moore. The Uniparty and GOP(e), led by Mitch “The Turtle” McConnell dropped millions on Strange’s campaign. They even managed to get President Trump to campaign for him.
On Moore’s side were the old Tea Party people, Sarah Palin, and Stephen Bannon, former aide to President trump and who helped him win the White House. The end result was a crushing defeat for Luther Strange, and Roy Moore moving into the General Election. President Trump immediately moved to support Judge Moore’s campaign, which has led a number of people, (such as myself), thinking that there was some sort of fix involved.
Bannon has announced that he has a list of Establishment Republicans and is going to work to defeat them in their primaries in 2018. Well, the GOP(e) doesn’t appear to have learned anything, and is essentially ignoring what happened with Prtesident Trump and now, Judge Moore. Here are the details from The Hill:
Establishment Republicans are skeptical that former judge Roy Moore’s victory in last week’s Alabama GOP primary runoff means that an alliance of insurgent conservative groups, led by former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon, are about to knock off more Republican incumbents.
Bannon and his allies have used Moore’s Tuesday night victory over the establishment-backed Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) as a springboard to float challenges against a fleet of Republican incumbents. Bannon and his allies see the wind at their backs after a unified and high-profile push, arguing that the win means that no incumbent is safe.
But some establishment Republican strategists aren’t buying it. They argue that the influence Bannon and his Breitbart News outlet had on Moore’s victory is overblown and that the unique set of circumstances that won Alabama won’t be easily transferable to other primary challenges across the country.
“Moore was leading this race long before Bannon got involved and he won this race for reasons that have nothing to do with Bannon’s involvement,” said Alex Conant, a strategist who worked on Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) presidential campaign.
“There were a lot of extenuating circumstances that made it difficult for Sen. Strange to win.”
Yes, there were a lot of “Extenuating Circumstances”. Some of these were the support of the McConnell, McSlime, Rubio, and all the other scumsucking swamp dwellers of the Beltway Uniparty. There were other factors, true, but they all point to problems with the RINO Elite.
The Alabama race hinged on several factors that are unlikely to reappear the next time Bannon tries to take out a GOP incumbent.
I wouldn’t bet the farm on that bub.
For one, Strange had been appointed to the seat temporarily by then-Gov. Robert Bentley (R), who later resigned in disgrace and pleaded guilty to charges related to an alleged affair.
Now if he had been a Democrat, Bentley would have been feted as the Bill Clinton.
Moore also had a unique popularity with Alabama’s evangelical GOP voters, thanks to his role in two controversial court showdowns — one ordering him to remove a Ten Commandments statue he commissioned from public land and one over the federal Supreme Court’s decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
I recall those fights. I found them very entertaining. It was also very instructional into the mind of Judge Moore. He stood by his principles even when it cost him. Most of the swamp dwelling members of the Beltway Uniparty stand only for things like lining their pockets and maintaining their positions. However, the GOP(e) money people don’t see Moore’s stands as being a “positive”.
A post-election memo from the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), the super PAC aligned with Senate GOP leaders that spent millions on Strange’s behalf, points to both of those factors as keys to Moore’s victory.
“The massive resources that independent groups can deploy in races tend to obscure the paramount importance of candidate quality,” read the memo from SLF President Steven Law.
You considered Strange to be a “Quality Candidate?” Just like you considered Juan Ellis Bush to be a quality cadidate, then Marco Rubio to be a quality candidate. So how are things with President Jeb Bush or President Marco Rubio anyway? Oh, yeah, right. Between the two of them the flushed $150+ million dollars down the drain.
“Moore is a folk hero with rural religious voters who admire Moore’s intransigent stands on displaying the Ten Commandments and bucking the U.S. Supreme Court on gay marriage. … Most critically, Strange was dogged by his appointment to the Senate by disgraced former Gov. Robert Bentley.”
I can’t comment on the Bentley mess. I don’t know anything about it. The Supreme Court’s ruling on Gay Marriage is extremely unpopular and questionable on a Constitutional level. However, I suspect that Justice Kennedy, who cast the deciding vote, may have had eggs for breakfast instead of oatmeal.
The memo, first obtained by The New York Times, also downplays the role of Bannon and Breitbart, as well as its own impact on the race. It adds that Moore was uniquely suited for a low-turnout special election campaign that relied on an enthusiastic base of supporters, a dynamic that will be hard to reproduce in other states’ primaries.
I think that was the same thing these morons were talking about in last year’s presidential primaries. We saw how that came out.
One of the things the GOP(e) is still not understanding is just how angry the Republican Base is. The RINO’s kept saying things like “Give us the House and we will fix things!” and “Give us the Senate and we can fix things!”, but little was done. They finally said “Elect a Republican President!!” and we did, and what happened?
When the GOP Base gave the scumsucking GOP(e) swamp dwellers what they asked for, they forgot one thing. The RINO’s despise President Trump. When it became clear he was going to win, they went into a panic and literally tried to steal the nomination from him. When President Trump was sworn in, the GOP(e) didn’t know what to do.
They expected, originally, that Jeb Bush would win, or at least Marco Rubio. Failing that, they would be perfectly happy with Felonia von Pantsuit. None of them would have actually expected the Republican Congress to actually have to make good on their promises.
Well, Trump won and was sworn in. He then began to work on keeping his promises, and he fully expected McCockless and Paul Ryno to actually get things done. Instead, the failed and failed miserably. Now the GOP base is pissed and have had it. This is what Bannon, Trump and the others are seeing that the RINO Elites are missing. Now that Strange is done, Trump is moving to punish those who, bluntly, betrayed the GOP Base.
“It’s only going to get harder for [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell and his friends at the Senate Leadership Fund because they won’t have President Trump backing their preferred candidates in races like Arizona or Nevada,” said Andrew Surabian, Bannon’s former White House political adviser, who worked on the pro-Moore push.
“The other side knows what I know: Mitch McConnell today, in a Republican primary, is what [House Democratic Leader] Nancy Pelosi is to Republican voters in a general election — absolutely toxic.”
The last I read, McCockless is currently at about 18% approval in his home state. If he ran today for reelection, he would be out on his ear.
There’s one thing that all sides agree on: The Republican base’s anger with Republicans in Congress is palpable.
One Senate GOP campaign manager pointed specifically to the failure to repeal and replace ObamaCare as a source of deep frustration within the base. Now that even full Republican control of Washington wasn’t enough to repeal the health-care law, despite years of promises, Republican primary voters could be willing to shake up the party once again.
We’ve since learned that the House and Senate didn’t really expect to win the Presidency this time and because of that, didn’t have any real plans in place when Trump took office. When Trump came in, he delegated the job to Ryno and McCockless, assuming, erroneously, that these two fools actually knew what they were doing. President Trump is a businessman and if someone that high in management screws up, he gets rid of them. Unfortunately, Trump can walk into Congress and say:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75SEy1qu71I
“The electorate was angry at Washington in 2016 and the electorate remains angry at Washington in 2017. … Any candidate who fails to appreciate voters’ anger is going to struggle in the midterms regardless of party and regardless of whether they have Trump’s support or not,” Conant said.
Anger is putting it mildly. Blinding rage would be more accurate. We’ve already seen one RINO pull out, Tennessee’s Robert Corker has announced he’s “Retiring” after two terms. He won’t say why, but the obvious answer is due to ill health. The voters are sick of him. Still, the RINO Elites still don’t see Bannon as a threat.
“Bannon is able to tap into that anger in a way that the establishment at times is not, but that should not be confused with Bannon having undue influence or power,” he added.
He doesn’t need undue influence. All he needs to do is provide the Republicans who are challenging the retards in the Republican Party with information and connections. This is exactly what he did with President Trump. People like Conant simply refuse to see it. Come January, 2019, when the new Congress is sworn in, provided things go the way I hope, there are going to be a lot of new faces, and many of the RINO’s will be with Eric Cantor asking, “What the Hell happened?”
Thatisall
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