RINOs already writing off 2022 ‘red wave’?
THAT is what it sounds like when you take in the latest comments from King RINO himself, Mitch McConnell:
[…] Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell raised doubts this week that Republicans will take control of the Senate and pointed to the “quality” of some of the candidates as the reason.
“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate,” the minority leader anticipated. “Senate races are just different, they’re statewide. Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.”[…]
(Thom Tilli$$$ is nodding his head vehemently in agreement.)
Translation: Too many “right-wing wackos” are winning primaries over our more sensible folks.
*That’s nice.* Defeatist attitude and rhetoric from the alleged party leader in the Senate. We get lectured all the time by these people when conservative candidates come up short in primaries against RINOs. We need to be team players, we’re told. Think about the good of the party and the country, we’re told.
But when one of OURS beats one of theirs? No dice. They either sit out or run an independent candidate or just badmouth the conservative nominee. In 1964, there were “Republicans for Johnson” — RINOs mad about Goldwater. In 1980, they ran RINO John Anderson as an independent in the general election against Carter and Reagan. Look at all the badmouthing of Trump in 2016 and 2020.
Dan Forest’s 2020 campaign for governor was one of the ugliest, most incompetent spectacles I’ve ever seen. (Almost as bad as Hayes for Governor in 1996.) But I am convinced he got knifed in the back by quite a few RINOs. (As did Hayes in 1996.)
I don’t know about you, but I’m done playing nice with people who don’t like or respect me. To them, it’s all about the ‘R’, and very little about conservatism.
‘R’ is just another letter in the alphabet. These people would rather scoop all of the meaning out of the party, and just have the ‘R’ crowd and the ‘D’ crowd operate like social clubs, like Rotary and Kiwanis.
How about showing us how you being in the majority will be different from the current majority? (Or different from the last time you were in the majority?)
If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for everything.
I’m &$%#ing furious, and getting closer and closer to just sitting this election out. None of the Patriots running for our local offices stand a realistic chance, the Raleigh guys overruled our local Patriot candidate in the GOP primary, and the Demmies are going to steal whatever they can anyway. What’s the point?
I’m not disputing what you say, but I’m just curious how “the Raleigh guys overruled your local Patriot candidate in the GOP primary.” Please explain what they did. Thank you.
I attempt to repeat something I said 2 or 3 yrs ago at a 3rd dist meeting. That being, ‘anybody not on the Trump train by now is either our enemy or a damn sissy. ‘ I certainly have NO problem bringing that statement to current time.
To be clear, Rinos do not necessarily fit the sissy frame. I too, a Patriot, am :<;*@(<÷ OVER being nice.
ANY Republican who “reaches across the aisle” to work with the demcommies on ANYTHING, at ANY level of government, is either being bribed, blackmailed, or physically threatened. There’s absolutely no other explanation.
In NC11 Thom Tills’s PAC spent $2m to buy this seat for Chuck Edwards. The donors to that PAC — Dee Stewart (over $1m) and the address his group used to donate is not theirs. Hmmm
Other donors — Biden’s #2 individual donor and his brother. Hmmm
Tillis is working on amnesty with Durbin, changing the electoral college with Romney and Collins (why would he want the Governor to be the lead?? Plans??) and of course voted with Dems on infrastructure and numerous Biden appointments, including AG Garland and numerous judges.
Tillis’s name may not be on the ballot in 2022, but his policies and $$$$ is!
I echo some of the comments here. I am fed up completely with Republicans that can’t find a principle, articulate it, then act accordingly. I’m so over McConnell and wonder how he manages to hold on to his power. Probably the likes of aforementioned Tillis, Collins, Romney, et al. Having said that, I will never sit it out or decide to not vote. As an aside, I have met Ted Budd a couple of times and want to believe he will talk the talk and walk the walk. He is a member of the Freedom Caucus and that should count for something. My house seat is another matter but I’ll still vote. Wake may be a lost cause.
McConnell has sold us out over and over. He is in China’s hip pocket thanks to the ChiComs getting up his wife and her father in a lucrative shipping business. He is a traitor to America and to the GOP. He needs to GO.
What is encouraging is that many Republican Senate candidates this year are saying “no comment” when asked if they will support McConnell for GOP Senate leader. I can understand their keeping their powder dry, and hope that a successful conservative challenger to McConnell will arise after the election.
Can elect whomever we like that ‘supposedly’ walks the walk and talks the talk. Mostly all turn into Renee Ellmers-types. Recall, she was the darling of the Tea Party and the biggest conservative of all time and turn-coated the second her feet hit capitol hill. She didn’t know the Tea Party and didn’t know one bit of conservatism.
That’s the game we play. dems elect and the dems toe the line . party, party,, party to the death knell. R’s get elected and do a 180 and it’s over. It’s like thanks for the vote but I never knew you….AND that’s just NOT on capitol hill. Raleigh is filled with r-hypocrites and gaining strength every election. Jesse Helms would call these traitors out by name and run them out of town.
Two comments–
1. It took a few election cycles, but Renee Ellmers eventually got what she so richly deserved from conservative/republican voters–three straight losses in primaries. I hope we never see her name on another ballot in North Carolina.
2. As far as Raleigh being filled with r-hypocrites, maybe we need to fire Michael Whatley and find a REAL conservative to be our State GOP Chair.
China Mitch McConnell has been vehemently anti-conservative for as long as I can remember. Nothing would make him happier than to stay in the minority, so he can keep blabbing about fighting the good fight, while doing nothing good and making lucrative deals for himself along the way. I will not support any Republican that supports McConnell. I would be a fool to do so.
This Republican Party leadership behavior is not confined to McConnell. We’re saturated with it. Even locally (in my county) we have a Republican Party that goes out of its way to not support local Republican candidates, unless they are the darling liberal Republicans, and even publicly bad mouths conservative candidates in an election season. These creeps are a problem.
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Burr and TIllis are doing nothing to help the cause. Absolutely worthless.
What this pair of scoundrels actually do is hurt the cause by causing lots of base Republican voters to lose enthusiasm for voting. All of the liberal crap that Tillis is putting out in the media these days hurts Ted Budd and all other GOP candidates down the line. Tillis is much worse than Richard Burr because at least Burr does his liberal crap quietly, while Tillis likes to run off at the mouth about it with the media, causing a higher level of disgust among Republican base voters. Thom Tillis is a huge liability for the 2022 Republican ticket. If Whatley can’t shut him up, Whatley needs to resign and let someone who will push Tillis hard take the position.
Tillis’ consultant is Paul Shumaker and Shu has some judicial candidates he is supposed to be working for this election. Tillis’ liberal pronouncements are hurting their chances, but Shu does nothing about it. But having sold his soul to the green extreme left, who knows who else might have bought Shu as well or what his real agenda is in this election.
Conservatives MUST decide in these midterms if we are going to stop holding our noses for RINOS. Why would we give the NCGA a veto proof super majority when the leadership has focused on medicaid expansion and medical marijuana, but won’t take up the transgender bill? And the “Cooper will veto it” excuse is old and tired. Force the dems to vote on issues like born alive and transgender sports. BUT they won’t do it! Why? Because they has sold out to Google, Apple, etc. It is about business, not families.
I am not holding my nose in November. This will be the 1st time in decades that I skip races, because the “R” is not a conservative and has NOT earned my vote!
DC believes the masses will NEVER vote for a dem and no matter how bad we are (Tillis, Burr), those conservatives won’t ever pull that d switch. Well, I’m with you. Not voting a dem, but dang sure not pulling a r lever either.
NC GA believes the same. NO WAY the rural and conservative voters pull the d lever; they will complain and grip but never not support us….
Medicaid expansion was my hot button. So, I’m done. Same for GREEN anything, done x2. And allowing coop and Stein to run the state for 2Y in lockdown and masks, and Emer Orders, just because…
We deserve and get what we vote for. Therefore, I’m done voting same and expecting diff results. I’ve been disappointed at the national level for about 30Y and state-wide, 10Y now. Should have been a wake-up call seeing the super majority decrease and decrease, but apparently not.
Completely agree. Loathe ALL of them and will ABSOLUTELY NOT hold my nose in November or ever again. NCGOP loves Cooper, hates its base. The past two years are proof positive.
Want change? Conservatives need to wake up to the fact that working INSIDE the ncgop will never cut it. Print out a signature form from the NC SBOE to put the NC Constitution Party back on the ballot, walk it around to every conservative GOPer and unaffiliated you know to do the same, take it back to the BOE, then re-affiliate as an NCCP member, and force the establishment gop crowd back rightward or lose power altogether. It’s time to drop the “we can’t divide forces in the face of the Dems” argument. NY GOP office seekers know they can’t drift too far left and stay in office or they’ll lose the vote of the NY Conservative party. We need to go to that system here in NC.
I agree strongly with a lot of these comments. Tim Moore, and Thom Tillis before him, have given a lot of lip service to being conservative, but have been more motivated by playing it safe and not offending special interests who might withdraw their campaign funding if conservative principles are truly upheld. Dan Bishop fought a good fight to get HB 2, the bill against men in women’s restrooms, showers and locker rooms, passed a few years ago. When the ACC, NCAA, NBA, Paypal, and big corporations objected and threatened not to do business in North Carolina, Tim Moore and other slaves of the business elite quickly insisted we had to repeal it. As a result, we went from 75 Republicans in the NC House to 65 in the 2018 election. When we met in Raleigh that December to conclude some business, I stood up in a caucus meeting and told them, “I hope you realize that of the ten seats we lost, eight were people who voted to repeal HB 2. I keep trying to tell you people that if you would stand up for conservative principles, you would have people coming out of the woodwork to support you who don’t bother now because you are no better than the Democrats.” Well, you can imagine that went over like a lead balloon. Tim Moore is counting on getting back a supermajority in this year’s election, and doesn’t even recognize that it was his cowardice and duplicity that lost the supermajority we had. I am proud to have been one of the 38 who voted not to repeal HB 2. Because I stand up to him, and he knows I have never supported him for Speaker, Tim doesn’t like to let my bills be heard, and I am the only member of the House who was not appointed to any interim committees this last term, but that is not why I am leaving Raleigh at the end of this year. I am leaving because I promised when I was appointed in 2011 that I would serve no more than five full terms after that, and this year ends that fifth full term. While I share the frustration of some of these folks who have written replies here, however, I cannot agree with the idea of sitting out the election. As bad as things are under the RINO’s, it will be far worse if the Democrats gain control. It is unfortunate that too many citizens didn’t wake up in time to take some of these people out in the primary this year, or even a few years back. However, I am hearing of some good conservatives who are running this year, and hope they will keep enough of a spine to stand up to our RINO “leadership” once they get to Raleigh, like I have done. That isn’t easy. I’ve seen some people with the best of intentions get worn down by the corruption in Raleigh. I have had a hard time there because I refused to bend under the pressure. We must vote. I understand the desire to leave some spots on the ballot blank or to write in someone else. I have done that myself occasionally. But we must stay in the fight, and we can’t preserve or restore our freedom and our society by handing it over to the left. Okay, so it is too late in some races to get the RINO out and get a patriot in this year. I get that. So hold their feet to the fire and get busy NOW getting them replaced. Consider whether you, yourself, might be the candidate to do that in two years. Don’t just say you can’t do it. I was just a small church Pastor and a forklift operator and company chaplain in a factory when I got appointed to replace my predecessor. In the next five elections, I was out-funded 8-1 the first four times and over 10-1 the fifth time, and our “leadership” did all they could to take me out in the primaries, but they never could. If I could do it, maybe so could you.
We all live under our Constitutional system and all of those who are DH followers, like myself, I believe, would not want to abandon that system of government. So that system says we, as a Republic, elect our representatives who in turn do the business of the state and nation. However, once the nominees are elected, they do business under “majority rules” according to the dictates of the NC and US Constitutions. To be clear if the Republicans do not have majorities in both the US and NC House and Senate we DO NOT EVEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY to pass laws and control rule-making according to our party platforms. Constitutionally Roy Cooper will remain Governor for the next two years and at the US level sleepy Biden will also be there for the same two years therefore the only Constitutional way to control the levers of power in the next to years is to have super-majorities. This IS A FACT not theory. We, in NC, have an opportunity to achieve that this November and an opportunity to achieve majorities in the US House and Senate. Having a super-majority in both the NC House and Senate only guarantees OPPORTUNITY not results. Cooper vetoed 75 passed bills in the last 6 years. With the opportunity we could have over-ridden all of them, without opportunity we over-rode ZERO.
As a longtime follower of the DH I have felt to pain of squandered opportunity and have voted against pieces of Republican legislation that I felt was a violation of our party platform’s dictates but the time to correct that is at primary election time not the general election. I will miss my friend Rep. Larry Pittman in the General Assembly and hope his district will replace him with someone of equal conviction but whatever the case may be over the next two years we will have no opportunity to change the course in NC without Republican super-majorities. Look at the bright side – the 2024 primaries are only 20 months away!
Mark, there are many conservatives who would love to see you run for Speaker. Please give it some thought. You are one of the good guys.
Tim Moore is Liz Cheney without the skirt, and sometimes I wonder what pronouns s/he uses!
Here is another example of wanting the red wave to go away. A conservative attorney friend of mine who is a four figure per candidate political contributor each cycle had been planning to send a check to Trey Allen for Supreme Court. However he saw where Allen had talked about being “non-political” on the court. This sounded to him like a John Roberts so he called Allen and Allen had the same spiel in a one on one conversation. Now, although he is still voting for Allen considering the alternative, he is not sending Allen a dime.
This is not the Trey Allen I met in the pre-primary period. Then he talked a solid conservative line. While I voted in the primary for April Wood, I thought Allen would probably be just as conservative on the court.
What changed? I suspect this is strategy cooked up by Allen’s hare-brained consultant Paul Shumaker. It smells a lot like Shumaker’s “non-partisan” strategy he ran when he drove Justice Bob Edmunds reelection campaign into the ditch in 2016, thereby handing the Democrats a Supreme Court majority. A favorite Shumaker strategy in races seems to be to fake to the right in the primary and then run to the left in the general.
The frightening thing is that Shumaker is the consultant for both GOP Supreme Court candidates, and I hear third hand also for the NCGOP Judicial Victory Fund. That spells disaster with a capital D. If April Wood had won the primary, at least we would have one court candidate with a competent consultant, as I hear she was using Doug Raimond.. Unfortunately Allen had a lot more money in the primary and those dollars spoke louder.
I am like my attorney friend. I will vote for Allen, but I no longer have much confidence in his chances of victory.
Republicans play to appease; Democrats play to DESTROY.
And here we are.
What a feckless fool ‘rule of law’ Allen is.
We don’t need Allen for a GOP majority, We just need to elect Richard Dietz. So you can have your majority and skip out on Allen. The truth is, Newby doesn’t really want his Demobuddy Ervin off the court, and he damned sure doesn’t want an independent conservative woman like April Wood on the bench, which is why he and Berger went all in to deny her the GOP nomination.
did Paul Shumaker and Dee Stewart give North Carolina HB 951?
https://cleanenergyconservatives.com/states/north-carolina/
https://cleanenergyconservatives.com/what-we-believe/
https://cleanenergyconservatives.com/about/board-members/
https://cleanenergyconservatives.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CCE-NC-Energy-Poll-Presentation-6-7-22.pdf
Given that Civitas discovered megabucks paid by far left Sea Change Foundation to Stewart and Shumaker for strategy on climate alarmist policies in the NC General Assembly, and given the sneaky underhanded power plays used by Berger and Moore to pass HB951 (Wind Action had a good article on NC’s Green New Deal, spelling it out in full), that is likely a good assumption.
I would not trust either of these political prostitutes who will sell their soul to the far left to run ANY Republican campaign. They have proven they will prostitute themselves for money to the other side, and when they are involved in anything, it is hard to tell who they are REALLY working for or what their real agenda may be. Our judicial candidates are probably toast for trusting one of these scoundrels, which is really sad.
“Conservatives for Clean Energy” is an oxymoron, a false flag organization. Civitas had it listed as one of NC’s left wing organizations in its Mapping the Left series. It is like “Jews for Hitler”, “Aristocrats for the French Revolution”, or “Muslims for Pork”.
I suppoerted April Wood. Trey Allen has never been a judge. No one who has never been a judge should be put on the Supreme Court. I will write in April Wood in November.
I will write her name in as well. One of my establishment friends wanted to get Allen to call me to alleviate my fears. Told him not to bother.
Folks!! I found Thom Tillis!! He will be hanging out with bestie Cal at UNC in November. Event is open to the public! https://www.unc.edu/event/abbey-speaker-series-conversation-with-cal-cunningham-and-senator-thom-tillis/
Let’s go!!
The bio of the moderator seems like the most interesting part…. I can feel the leftist bias from here
IF I was a GOP candidate for NC House or Senate I would run on a pledge to support the repeal of HB 951.
It is the Trump train or the $gravey$ train. Why would anyone choose to benefit themselves AND China, rather than fight for their childrens freedom? This remnant son can’t get there.
Thank you, Mr. Douglas. I fought hard against that bill, and was deeply offended by others who fought it until it got to the floor, and then spoke in favor of it and voted for it. I guess Moore, Szoka and Arp must have gotten to them somehow.
As an electric ratepayer, thank you Larry. Our electric rates in the coming years are going to look like our gas prices over the past year thanks to weak kneed ninnies among the GOP caucus who caved in to Moore and Berger.
Who got to them? It could have been George Soros and his crowd. It could have been Roy Cooper and Joe Biden because HB951 fits perfectly with their loony left agenda. It could have been “woke” Duke Energy. It could have been Red China because those wind turbines and solar panels are mostly made there, often with slave labor, and many of the parts and raw materials for them also come from China. This nonsense will destroy our energy independence since we will be dependent on China for wind and solar equipment.
Those who voted for HB951 should be called Biden Republicans because they voted for the energy policies of Joe Biden and against the energy policies of Donald Trump. They deserve primary opponents in 2024 from real Republicans.