The definition of insanity, a written deal, and, um, NINE TIMES ???
Actually, Dear Leader Kevin lost two more times — making it a total of ELEVEN — while we weren’t watching. (Like THAT makes it any better, though …) 
The RINOs, the GOPe types, are getting testy. They’re hurling names at House conservatives like “traitor” and “saboteur.” It’s like the January 6th kangaroo court committee has reconvened. (Except, NO Liz or Adam. )
Most people, if they get rejected eleven straight times, get the message and move on. But not these folks. The GOPe talks a good game about hating on the libs, but MAGA-types are who REALLY piss them off. 
You would think there would be some effort to meet the Freedom Caucus halfway. But, no. The GOPe McCarthy Fan Club keeps trying to pound their favorite Beach Boy down everyone’s throat. If they would only be this aggressive against the folks on the other side of the aisle.
I think the real story here is that only NINE percent of the US House Republican caucus will commit to a conservative agenda. (Talk about party disloyalty.)
The Kevin fans refuse to allow conservatives on key committees, refuse to insist on balanced budgets, refuse to push for term limits, and refuse to even consider the border security plan being promoted by Texas leaders.
Word comes today that a written agreement between the Kevin Fan Club and the Freedom Caucus is just about complete. North Carolina’s own tiny RINO Pat McHenry is leading the negotiations for Team Kevin. McHenry’s puppet strings are pulled by his BFF Dee Stewart and Dee’s daddy Paul Shumaker.
Richard Hudson is already on McCarthy’s leadership team. And you may have noticed pathological liar Greg Murphy camped out behind McCarthy on the House floor during all these debates. (Remember how ol’ Greg ran as a Freedom Caucus type, but defected to Team Kevin as soon as he got to DC?)
There is a whole lot of NCGOPe representation in this kerfluffle. 
Dan Bishop, however, is the only Tar Heel with any courage or integrity or cojones. He’s the only hero in the whole bunch we’ve sent to DC.
A written agreement won’t impress me. These folks mail out complete bullshit to us ALL THE TIME in writing. What’s one more smelly piece of crap?
This is a hill worth dying on. Trying to force the GOP to stand firm on the conservatism that has won it so many elections is a noble cause. It’s pathetic to see 91 percent of the House GOP caucus suckling on the McCarthy teat — craving that lobbyist and PAC cash.
Such an apt description of Eastern North Carolina’s worst vax shill, Ukraine First Greg Murphy, who would gleefully send our sons off to war as he hobnobs with Frank Lutz’s boyfriend, Kev. How can blood red Carteret County be so stupid??
So crystal clear how much these people hate us.
Pray for Dan, contribute to Dan, call to express your support for Dan. And all of the other fearless 19.
Stand strong, Dan.
So true. Crystal clear. From Walter Jones to this. It blows my mind.
I heard WTIB’s “Talk of the Town” this morning. Big Hen was complaining about these Freedom people holding everything up; also complained about being called a RHINO. He wondered what the H stood for. It obviously stands for ‘Henry’ Big Hen.
The basic problem with the entire GOP “leadership” in both Congress and the General Assembly is that they are errand boys for the special interests, and serve the special interests instead of the Republican voters. Mitch McConnell, Phil Berger, Kevin McCarthy, and Tiny Tim Moore are all peas in a leftwing sellout pod. Republican voters demand better than these Democrat enablers that call themselves “Republican leaders”.
So, sleazy special interest con man Frank Lutz, once McCarthy’s roommate and possibly more (I bet that made Renee Ellmers jealous!) is back hanging around McCarthy. That should tell you all you need to know that McCarthy would just continue as a spear carrier for the special interests. Republican voters deserve better.
Biden hobnobbing with McConnell in Kentucky and celebrating their joint big spending projects shows us what absolute traitors these establishment Republicans are. Biden praised McConnell for his “loyalty” but loyalty to Biden is disloyalty to Republican voters. That makes the base even more determined to see McCarthy GONE.
The other member of the McLeadership who very badly needs to go is the incompetent establishment hack Ronna ROMNEY McDaniel at RNC. The worst of the lot, McConnell seems to have survived, sadly.
No internal reform is possible. Get that through your conservative heads. Move to the NC Constitution Party, take it over, and start throat-cutting the Whatley special interest caucus by forcing the ncgop to a power sharing arrangement on conservative terms.
I look at the third party result in the conservative Canadian province of Alberta as to how this would likely work. The Progressive Conservative Party there strayed off to the left on a whole host of issues. The result was the formation of a more conservative third party, the Wild Rose Party, named after the province’s official flower. The Wild Rose Party started winning seats, and it finally won more seats than the Progressive Conservatives, but in that same election, the split of the vote between the two parties allowed the far left New Democrats to win a majority in Parliament. The Progressive Conservatives and the Wild Rose Party then negotiated a merger, with its platform more like that of Wild Rose and the new leader of the new United Conservative Party being from Wild Rose. That leader has recently been replaced by another former chairman of Wild Rose and she has just put the Alberta Sovereignty Act through parliament that declares that the provincial government or any local government within Alberta may disregard any Canadian federal law if they feel that law is disadvantageous to Alberta.
The end result in Alberta has been a staunchly conservative party in solid control of the province, but the path on gettiing there, allowing a far left party to run the government for a term, was a huge negative. Even worse, if one or the other parties had resisted merger, then that could have continued indefinitely.
How would a similar situation play out in North Carolina? Are we prepared to run the risks to find out? Should we even attempt that before all possibilities of righting the ship at NCGOP are exhausted? I, for one, am not ready to roll the dice on trying to create a new party yet.
Conservatives were purged from the NCGOP on a mass scale by the Holshouser wing in 1973 and yet came roaring back in subsequent years. When I served on the Central Committee in 1974-75, I was one of only three conservatives on that body, the 5th district chairman who very narrowly won reelection at his district convention because of his close association with Congressman Mizell, the 9th district chairman who survived because Congressman Jim Martin had told Holshouser he would personally get involved in the convention battles unless his district chairman was left alone, to which Holshouser caved, and myself as newly elected College Republican state chairman. The Holshouser people were successful in purging the Young Republicans and the Womens Federation, but the College Republicans fought them off.
Conservatives are in a much better position in the NCGOP at the beginning of 2023 than we were at the beginning of 1974. It is not time to give up the ship.
Well, I suppose we’ll know whether you’re right or at I am after we see who becomes State Chairman this year. But the longer we take to push the ncgop rightward is time lost dealing with the leftists. And frankly, I’m not willing to exhaust any more precious energy on the ncgop if a major change for the better doesn’t occur in 2023.