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From the Conservative BizPacReview:
‘Huge mistake’: Conservatives fume over reports James O’Keefe is being ousted from Project Veritas
Politics is a messy business. Look at the way democrats had to sacrifice Debbie Wasserman Schultz as a scapegoat when Assange exposed the dirty DNC emails Seth Rich had given him.From the Conservative BizPacReview:
‘Huge mistake’: Conservatives fume over reports James O’Keefe is being ousted from Project Veritas
DeSatanist is colluding with the people who are cheating:
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Opinion piece by conservative Marc Thiessen, Fox news contributor and former Trump booster:
Here we go again.
In 2022, Republicans blew a historic opportunity to take back the Senate because, in state after state, they nominated extreme candidates whose only qualification was fealty to former president Donald Trump.
While positive, forward-looking conservative reformers such as Govs. Ron DeSantis (Fla.), Mike DeWine (Ohio), Chris Sununu (N.H.) and Brian Kemp (Ga.) trounced their Democratic opponents, MAGA Senate candidates including Herschel Walker (Ga.), Mehmet Oz (Pa.), Don Bolduc (N.H.) and Blake Masters (Ariz.) lost winnable races. Voters’ message could not have been clearer.
So, Republicans learned their lesson, right? Apparently not.
When former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels (R) announced he was exploring a 2024 bid to succeed Sen. Mike Braun (R), who is running for governor, Republicans should have been elated. Daniels (a Post Opinions contributing columnist) was a whirlwind of reform in the governor’s mansion. He ended collective bargaining for state employees, privatized Indiana’s toll road, established one of the country’s largest school choice program for low-income students and created a conservative alternative to Medicaid that gave citizens more control over their health-care choices. He inherited a $700 million deficit but left the state with a $2 billion budget surplus — achieved while he implemented the biggest tax cut in Indiana history. Then, as president of Purdue University, he earned a reputation as the United States’ most innovative college president. Daniels rejected vaccine mandates and covid lockdowns, replaced full-time dining hall employees with student workers, scrapped the vast fleet of university-owned buses in favor of a private contractor and froze tuition for 10 years.
In other words, Daniels is exactly the kind of bold, thoughtful conservative reformer voters flocked to in 2022. And he was well positioned to win the GOP nomination. A December poll showed him leading Rep. Jim Banks — a Trump loyalist who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s election — by 22 points.
Then came the RINO hunters. The Club for Growth released an ad excoriating Daniels as a tax-and-spend “old-guard Republican clinging to the old ways of the bad old days.” Donald Trump Jr. tweeted “The establishment is trying to recruit weak RINO Mitch Daniels” to run for Senate, adding that “he would be Mitt Romney 2.0.”
It worked. Like Republican Govs. Doug Ducey (Ariz.) and Sununu — who both declined Senate runs in 2022 rather than face a barrage of MAGA hate — Daniels decided that life is too short to spend the next two years fending off attacks and distortions of his record from the right. He opted not to run.
If Ducey and Sununu had been their state’s Senate nominees in 2022, instead of Masters and Bolduc, the GOP would probably hold the majority today. Indiana is probably red enough that Banks can win — much as J.D. Vance won in Ohio by six points, despite running on the same ballot as DeWine, who won by 25.
But the anti-Daniels campaign should set off early warning signals: MAGA world is not chastened by its disastrous failures in 2022. And if they are allowed to drive candidates like Daniels out of races across the country, the GOP will jeopardize its best chance in a generation to take back the Senate. . . .
MAGA world attack on Mitch Daniels is an early GOP alarm bell for 2024
Here we go again.
In 2022, Republicans blew a historic opportunity to take back the Senate because, in state after state, they nominated extreme candidates whose only qualification was fealty to former president Donald Trump.
While positive, forward-looking conservative reformers such as Govs. Ron DeSantis (Fla.), Mike DeWine (Ohio), Chris Sununu (N.H.) and Brian Kemp (Ga.) trounced their Democratic opponents, MAGA Senate candidates including Herschel Walker (Ga.), Mehmet Oz (Pa.), Don Bolduc (N.H.) and Blake Masters (Ariz.) lost winnable races. Voters’ message could not have been clearer.
So, Republicans learned their lesson, right? Apparently not.
When former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels (R) announced he was exploring a 2024 bid to succeed Sen. Mike Braun (R), who is running for governor, Republicans should have been elated. Daniels (a Post Opinions contributing columnist) was a whirlwind of reform in the governor’s mansion. He ended collective bargaining for state employees, privatized Indiana’s toll road, established one of the country’s largest school choice program for low-income students and created a conservative alternative to Medicaid that gave citizens more control over their health-care choices. He inherited a $700 million deficit but left the state with a $2 billion budget surplus — achieved while he implemented the biggest tax cut in Indiana history. Then, as president of Purdue University, he earned a reputation as the United States’ most innovative college president. Daniels rejected vaccine mandates and covid lockdowns, replaced full-time dining hall employees with student workers, scrapped the vast fleet of university-owned buses in favor of a private contractor and froze tuition for 10 years.
In other words, Daniels is exactly the kind of bold, thoughtful conservative reformer voters flocked to in 2022. And he was well positioned to win the GOP nomination. A December poll showed him leading Rep. Jim Banks — a Trump loyalist who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s election — by 22 points.
Then came the RINO hunters. The Club for Growth released an ad excoriating Daniels as a tax-and-spend “old-guard Republican clinging to the old ways of the bad old days.” Donald Trump Jr. tweeted “The establishment is trying to recruit weak RINO Mitch Daniels” to run for Senate, adding that “he would be Mitt Romney 2.0.”
It worked. Like Republican Govs. Doug Ducey (Ariz.) and Sununu — who both declined Senate runs in 2022 rather than face a barrage of MAGA hate — Daniels decided that life is too short to spend the next two years fending off attacks and distortions of his record from the right. He opted not to run.
If Ducey and Sununu had been their state’s Senate nominees in 2022, instead of Masters and Bolduc, the GOP would probably hold the majority today. Indiana is probably red enough that Banks can win — much as J.D. Vance won in Ohio by six points, despite running on the same ballot as DeWine, who won by 25.
But the anti-Daniels campaign should set off early warning signals: MAGA world is not chastened by its disastrous failures in 2022. And if they are allowed to drive candidates like Daniels out of races across the country, the GOP will jeopardize its best chance in a generation to take back the Senate. . . .
I will always support American patriotism over third-world democrat fascism
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So does that mean you're for the Republican or against the Republican?
I support traditional American patriotism, honor for God and country, opposition to infanticide and sexual immorality, and so forth.
You gotta watch out for groups like the KKK and BLM for all the violence they have done over the years.
Lots of people think DeWine is partly to blame for this mess. Bannon is one of them.
Is DeWine a RINO or a MAGA?
I don't know. I don't keep up with those sorts of labels.
You'd better keep up with RINO and MAGA labels. The evil RINOs are out to sabotage you.
Steve Bannon came out swinging against Fox News at his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday. Bannon said he would “go after” the right-wing media giant and gave a preview of his line of attack: “The Murdochs have decided that Trump is not going to be President of the United States. Well, we've decided that Fox is not going to be a major network anymore.”
Steve Bannon Vows to Go Nuclear on Fox News in His CPAC Speech
Bannon told a reporter that he is planning to say he has “decided that Fox is not going to be a major network anymore.”
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Trump's CPAC speech was something else wasn't it? Off the wall loony, incoherent, garbled and then some but the GOP have let this narcissistic clown practically tear the Republican party apart...
Donald Trump’s CPAC speech proves why he is a problem for the GOP
Donald Trump is signalling more and more clearly that he is willing to tear the GOP apart if it defies him
In his keynote CPAC speech, Donald Trump once again demonstrated why his leadership of the Republican Party has led to electoral loss after electoral loss. His rambling speech was unlikely to appeal to anyone not already firmly ensconced in the conservative bubble. When he did settle into a coherent statement, it was more often than not a vicious attack on his Republican rivals.
The combination is a looming nightmare for the GOP. Trump has no vision for the future himself and is determined to torch the party if it attempts to move on from him. The media loves Democrats in disarray stories, but Trump makes it clear that there is an almost limitless potential for Republican dysfunction in 2024.
It would be giving Trump too much credit to say that his speech had a theme. He alternately boasted about his exaggerated accomplishments as president and whined about how persecuted he is. He repeatedly claimed that he had won the 2020 election, of course, reiterating the election lies that led to the January 6 insurrection. He repeated false claims that he forced NATO countries to pay more for their own defense, and that he had almost finished his border wall. He also claimed radical leftists kept calling him during his presidency to compliment him on his handling of the economy.
Interspersed with these greatest hits was a familiar list of grievances. He kept returning obsessively to the numerous criminal prosecutions targeting him. He attacked Stormy Daniels, the adult performer to whom he made hush money payment ahead of the 2016 over an alleged past affair. He also insisted again he had not pressured Ukraine to dig up incriminating material about Joe Biden.
Normally, Trump’s meandering and tedious speech would signal a potential opening for his rivals in the GOP. But the annual CPAC straw poll suggests that Trump continues to have a stranglehold on the party faithful; he won 62 percent of the vote. His chief rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, only garnered 20 percent.
When some protesters gather the left calls them just. When other protesters gather the left calls them wicked. It all depends on the bias of the observer.
Sadly, most Americans look to politicians and the government to provide their needs and solve their problems. God-honoring Christians trust God, not the government.Trump's CPAC speech was something else wasn't it? Off the wall loony, incoherent, garbled and then some but the GOP have let this narcissistic clown practically tear the Republican party apart...
Donald Trump’s CPAC speech proves why he is a problem for the GOP
Donald Trump is signalling more and more clearly that he is willing to tear the GOP apart if it defies himwww.independent.co.uk
In his keynote CPAC speech, Donald Trump once again demonstrated why his leadership of the Republican Party has led to electoral loss after electoral loss. His rambling speech was unlikely to appeal to anyone not already firmly ensconced in the conservative bubble. When he did settle into a coherent statement, it was more often than not a vicious attack on his Republican rivals.
The combination is a looming nightmare for the GOP. Trump has no vision for the future himself and is determined to torch the party if it attempts to move on from him. The media loves Democrats in disarray stories, but Trump makes it clear that there is an almost limitless potential for Republican dysfunction in 2024.
It would be giving Trump too much credit to say that his speech had a theme. He alternately boasted about his exaggerated accomplishments as president and whined about how persecuted he is. He repeatedly claimed that he had won the 2020 election, of course, reiterating the election lies that led to the January 6 insurrection. He repeated false claims that he forced NATO countries to pay more for their own defense, and that he had almost finished his border wall. He also claimed radical leftists kept calling him during his presidency to compliment him on his handling of the economy.
Interspersed with these greatest hits was a familiar list of grievances. He kept returning obsessively to the numerous criminal prosecutions targeting him. He attacked Stormy Daniels, the adult performer to whom he made hush money payment ahead of the 2016 over an alleged past affair. He also insisted again he had not pressured Ukraine to dig up incriminating material about Joe Biden.
Normally, Trump’s meandering and tedious speech would signal a potential opening for his rivals in the GOP. But the annual CPAC straw poll suggests that Trump continues to have a stranglehold on the party faithful; he won 62 percent of the vote. His chief rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, only garnered 20 percent.