Ted loves Thom
Well, who doesn’t? The trailer-park, weed-eater haircut. The trashing and betrayal (and primarying ) of conservatives. The flexible, ever-shifting moral code. And let’s not forget all of Thom’s crossing-the -aisle and promotion of many things liberal.
I know Ted Budd has a lot of the same campaign operatives who orchestrated Thom’s two Senate campaigns. (You know, the close calls against very weak Democrat opposition.)
Budd has done well in the House with Dan Bishop as his mentor and role model. Lately, Budd has apparently been advised that his key to the Senate lies with buddying up to Tilli$$$. (Never mind that Tilli$$$ and his goons bank-rolled and engineered Pat McCrory’s mean-spirited, arrogant, scorched-earth primary campaign against Budd and Mark Walker.)
Budd has been signing on to a lot of “letters” and legislation primarily involving Tillis. In fact, Budd announced another team-up with Tillis just the other day:
Today, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas requesting the Alien Files (A-Files) and all relevant information on the individuals charged with the murder of Wake County Deputy Sheriff Ned Byrd on August 11, 2022.
Sen. Tillis and Rep. Budd also chaired a roundtable discussion today with NC sheriffs, state legislators, and border patrol to highlight the need to stop sanctuary cities in North Carolina.[…]
I know for a fact that Budd’s campaign team has been advised to hug their client up tight to Trump. Nobody reputable has ever mentioned Tilli$$. Thom has never seen 50 percent of the vote, and has survived primarily due to packing the primary with useful idiots to dilute the conservative vote. This dream-team Budd-Tillis pairing has produced similar results to what we’ve seen in Tillis’s Senate campaigns: weak performance in polls frequently showing a weak Democrat too-close or even ahead — as well as a too-too-close Election Day.
But wait, here are the key parts of the Budd-Tillis team’s letter to Mayorkas:
[…] In recent weeks, North Carolina has grieved the death of Wake County Deputy Sheriff Ned Byrd, who was killed in the line of duty on August 11. Five days later, brothers Arturo Marin Sotelo and Alder Alfonso Marin-Sotelo were taken into custody. They were subsequently charged with first-degree murder in the brutal death of Deputy Byrd. On August 24, their brother, Rolando Marin-Sotelo, was charged with a firearm crime.
Based on public reporting, we have reason to believe that one or more of the Marin-Sotelo brothers may be in the country illegally. This raises significant questions about how they entered the country, why they were able to remain in the United States, and whether robust immigration enforcement would have apprehended them sooner and prevented the death of Deputy Byrd. In light of the serious nature of this matter, we request that you transmit to our offices the alien files and all relevant and pertinent information for the following individuals:
– Arturo Marin-Sotelo
– Alder Alfonso Marin-Sotelo
– Rolando Marin-Sotelo
We are deeply concerned by the public reporting by local news media that is currently available about these individuals. We look forward to your swift response to our concerns as we seek answers for why this heinous crime was committed and whether it could have been prevented by immigration enforcement.?[…]
Since when has ol’ Thom been concerned about illegal immigrants or what goes down at the southern border? He has devoted an inordinate amount of time to passing amnesty for illegals. He has worked to increase work visas for lower-wage immigrants to fill jobs that could be worked by actual Americans. Tillis even fought Trump’s border wall tooth-and-nail.
Why is Thom suddenly here? Has he finally realized that he’s been on the wrong side for the last eight years? Or is this simply more of his say-one-thing-to-my-DC-buddies-and-tell-another-thing-to-the-rubes-back-home routine?
Personally, I’d rather have a Democrat in the seat than yet another mealy-mouthed pretend-Republican who will aid and abet Tillis’s war on MAGA and conservatism. At least the Democrat will be open and honest and up-front about his or her plans to screw you.
The stink of Tillis is what’s keeping candidate Budd so close to his Dem opponent. Principled conservatism has been tried successfully plenty of times before. It got Jesse Helms 30 years in the Senate. It and Helms and Reagan greatly helped bring the former Dem-domain of eastern North Carolina over to the Republican Party.
Right now, Dan Bishop is all we as conservatives have to depend on in our state’s congressional delegation. Let’s ensure Dan has some help in the Senate, and not just Tillis-lite.
Hold Ted’s feet to the fire. Tell him to leave Thom at home.
Tillis is one tar baby who any candidate who wants to win does not want to grab hold of. Tillis has been beating his chest on a lot of liberal issues in the last few months and voting liberal on way too many Senate votes. Tillis, along with Berger and Moore are depressing the GOP base vote with their dalliances with leftwing positions. This threesome is hurting the entire Republican ticket with their repeated sellouts to the woke special interests.
Budd should have publicly disagreed with Tillis on key legislation like the gun control bill and the same sex marriage idiocy. Budd does vote right on these things, but he should be letting voters know that, and that he does not agree with Tillis on them. Budd needs to be very public about his own positions that are contrary to Tillis.
Both the Senate Conservatives Fund and the Club for Growth have vetted Ted Budd, as has President Trump. I trust all three of them to only push candidates we can trust. But it is not my vote that counts. It is all those base Republican voters who are very leery, and with good reason, over Tillis, and may carry that attitude over to Budd unless Budd puts some daylight between himself and Tillis. He badly needs to do that because it is whether or not we turn out our base that will make the difference between winning and losing, and Thom Tillis is absolute poison to the GOP base.
I hope that Paul Shumaker is not one of those trying to get involved in the Budd campaign. Shumaker is a liberal establishment hack who is radioactive among conservatives. Shumaker prostitutes himself for large sums of money to the wind and solar grifter whores. A consultant who is in bed with the Greta Thunbergs and AOC’s of the political world simply cannot be trusted in a Republican campaign.
This is extremely disturbing. I have been an ardent supporter of Ted Budd, PRECISELY BECAUSE I felt he would be a conservative counter-weight to Tillis. I no longer have much money to give to candidates, but I handed Ted a check for $100 back in March, and would have given him much more if I could have. So I sincerely hope he will open his eyes and distance himself from Tillis post haste. And I hope they both see my comment.
If Budd becomes another Burr or Tillis, then why even have a NC Republican Party?
Tillis or no Tillis. Any conservative who advocates voting for Cheri Beasley needs to take a moment to reconsider. Ted Budd all the way ! We need EVERY Republican to vote Budd and alot of Independents. There aren’t enough Republicans to win without Independent support and btw i to think Tillis is a bum.
Compare and contrast Ukraine First Budd’s campaign with Arizona’s America First Blake Masters’. Proof is in the message. Budd is Tillis’ bitch.
BS. Pat McCrory was Tillis’ bitch. Burr’s, too. All three shared the same leftwing establishment RINO consultant. They did all they could to smear Budd in the primary and Budd beat their asses. Ted Budd is the candidate of Donald Trump, the Senate Conservatives Fund, and the Club of Growth. Ted Budd is the candidate of all the gun rights groups, from the fickle NRA to the more solid groups like Gun Owners of America and Grassroots North Carolina.
Most conservatives view the Ukraine invasion as totalitarian Putin engaged in naked aggression, and that Putin is one of those dictators like Xi of Red China and the Iranian mullahs who are a clear and present danger to the US. What outrages us is that while Trump’s strong positions would have kept this invasion from ever happening, Biden’s weakness on Afghanistan and on Ukraine itself before the invasion happened encouraged Putin to attack, Trump would have made a much cheaper investment of serious weapons before Putin moved in and that would have likely deterred him. Biden made stupid comments like “Putin’s got to do something” and that a “small invasion” was okay that gave Putin the green light. His failing to send Ukraine weapons when it would have deterred Putin has resulted in the US having to spend far more than we should have to. Overall, IMHO, the left wanted this war and wanted it to last as long as possible as a smoke screen for how they are really destroying our energy sector with all of their “green” nonsense.
Tillis has been in bed with the greenies since he was in the legislature. Budd on the other hand votes solidly for conventional American energy. Phil Berger and Tim Moore are also in bed with the greenies like Biden, Greta Thunberger, and Al Gore.
“Most conservatives…” Surely you jest. Our country is falling apart at the seams, our border is wide open, education has become a perv indoctrination camp… and you think we give an F about Ukraine?
Chumming around w Biden BFF, Thom Tillis, is at best bad optics, at worst represents an ideological marriage for Budd.
Either Budd is with us or he is against us. Right now, Budd is falling into the ‘against us’ camp. Along w Moore, Berger, et al.
Weak, pathetic, duplicitous and I repeat the opposite of America First Blake Masters.
Stop making excuses for this crap.
In foreign policy, I agree with Reagan and Trump to stand strong against our enemies, and Putin and Xi are certainly a pair of them. Biden’s weakness is why the war is going on in Ukraine. If we still had Trump in the oval office, his strength would have prevented it from happening.
On the big issues that matter in this election, Ted Budd is with us – on stopping big spending and big taxing, on supporting conventional energy instead of the fantasy sunshine and breezes crowd, on protecting our gun rights, on border security and cracking down on illegal immigration, on protecting free speech, on protecting religious liberty, and on the right to life.
You are spot on as to Tim Moore, but you seem to not say quite as much about Phil Berger who is equally awful. I agree that it is bad optics to be anywhere near Thom Tillis during a campaign, but more important are the votes. The things Tillis has voted wrong on in the Senate, Budd has voted right on in the House.
One of the national conservative websites pointed out that many Republican Senate candidates this year were not making commitments on reelecting “China Mitch” McConnell. At the federal level, he is someone we need to replace. Budd is one of those keeping his powder dry on that position. Of course, I like the handful like Alaska Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka who openly say they will oppose McConnell, but I understand those keeping their powder dry, too.
The real question is if Budd was on our side that he would do a interview with the haymaker or buy some banner adds here… I mean something other than the terrible campaign it looks like they are currently running
We’ll need to stay on Budd’s a$$! I’m sick to death of rinos.
I’m pushing for Dan Bishop to primary Tillis!!
NC voters must decide NOW – how much influence are we going to continue to allow Tillis to have? Amnesty, infrastructure, Biden appointments, AG Garland, etc. Is Tillis one of Biden’s “mainstream Reps” he likes to work with? Do your research for 2022 candidates – if Tillis backs them – are you going to vote for them? I know my answer!