Thommy Boy’s nausea-inducing “Tha-Tha” Thour

Boy, those bridges are burning.

Thom Tillis — after all those years of thumbing his nose at us and generally behaving like an anus —  is doing his damnedest to roast all of us for just not recognizing and appreciating his, um, *greatness.* 

Tillis has had the nerve to go after the reputations and accomplishments of Trump’s advisory team.  Donald Trump took a million dollar investment and turned it into a multi-billion dollar real estate and construction empire.  He has some of the country’s most accomplished individuals advising him and his administration.

Tillis has let it be know to his drive-by pals that he removed himself from the Republican whip team. The whip team is in charge of promoting the agenda of the party.  Given Thommy’s propensity for siding with Democrats and bad-mouthing Trump, his policies, and his nominees on CNN — THAT was probably a pretty good move.

According to Tillis, he actually had no intention of running for reelection in 2026.  Never mind that he’s already held at least THREE — that we know of — fundraisers for a proposed 2026 reelection run.  (One in DC, one in Raleigh, and one in Fayetteville.)

None of the events must have been successful.  We would have been buried in an avalanche of propaganda if they had been.  The one in Raleigh was marked by roughly HALF of the GOP members of North Carolina’s US House delegation publicly complaining about the Tillis campaign putting their names on invitations to the event without permission.

Tillis has gone on the air at his favorite network — CNN — to complain about people calling him a RINO.  Never mind that the most recent conservative ratings from Heritage Action have Thommy Boy voting to the left of socialist Bernie Sanders. 

The GOP takeover of Raleigh.  Tillis and some of his fanboys in the driveby media are trying their hardest to credit Thommy Boy with the GOP takeover of the General Assembly in Raleigh in 2010.  Honest people give a huge chunk of credit for the GOP takeover of Raleigh that year to then-NCGOP chairman Tom Fetzer and his team and their 100 county strategy that made the Democrats actually fight for all 170 legislative seats.

How did Tillis get to be speaker?  Folks who were in Raleigh on Election Night 2010 know. We’ve heard from many a source who was at the GOP celebration that night about some Charlotte money-men dragging Tillis backstage for an audience with the GOP legislative leadership.  “Meet your new speaker!” the money-men reportedly told the stunned legislators on the scene.  

And the rest is history.

Conservative accomplishments in Raleigh.  

One of the more nauseating pieces of spin out there from Tillis and his drive-by media groupies is that he engineered a conservative revolution in Raleigh.  That couldn’t be further from the truth.

Thom Tillis’s ascension to Raleigh was orchestrated in 2006 by Paul Shumaker and RINO state Rep. Richard Morgan.  They recruited Tillis to take down conservative troublemaker John Rhodes — who made a name for himself as a vocal critic of the power-sharing deal in the House between Morgan and Democrat Jim Black. 

Tillis made a name for himself in those early years in the state House working with Democrats to pass alternative (solar and wind) energy mandates and credits.  You know, the stuff that makes all our power bills sky-rocket. 

The GOP caucus that took over in Raleigh in 2010 was much more conservative than what you see there today. Tillis and his team did their best to water down and kill off conservative proposals.  They often had to be dragged rightward – kicking and screaming — by a much more conservative caucus.

There were actually occasions where Tillis and Gov. Pat McCrory had to team up against senator Phil Berger.  Pat & Thommy wanted more spending and more government while Phil and the gang stood firm on smaller government.  (Boy, how things change.)

During his time as speaker, Tillis spent a lot of energy going after conservative colleagues.  Bottling up their bills in the House bureaucracy. Generally making their lives miserable.  Aiding the recruitment and funding of primary challenges.  That’s basically how we ended up with this current GOP presence in Raleigh that answers to the powers-that-be in that city (instead of the folks back home). 

The Senate runs.  

Tillis stayed on as speaker as he campaigned for the upper chamber in Washington.  Quite frequently, we saw campaign donations and heard campaign promises followed by related action back in Raleigh on Jones Street.  

Conservatives had a champion in the 2014 race in the form of Raleigh physician Greg Brannon.  Supporters of Tillis began to encourage prominent Baptist pastor Mark Harris – now a congressman – to jump into the GOP fray.  As expected, the conservative vote was split and Tillis slipped into the general election.

Incumbent Kay Hagan – now deceased – was (politically) walking wounded.  She was an easy *get* by someone who could credibly attack her from the right.  Pizza deliveryman Sean Haugh made it into the general as the champion of the Libertarian Party.

Tillis managed to pull off the victory — despite not cracking the 50 percent mark — in a much closer than expected fashion.

In 2020, conservatives had a credible primary challenger by the name of Garland Tucker, who could have likely self-funded.  An endorsement of Tillis by President Trump – locked in a tight reelection fight himself – put the kibosh on the Tucker effort.

The Trump endorsement was especially frustrating for conservatives who had fumed while watching Tillis openly sabotage Trump’s border wall efforts.

Former legislator Cal Cunningham was the Dem standard-bearer in the 2020 general election.  Despite being ham-strung by a sex scandal, Cunningham managed to keep the race scary-close and again hold Tillis under the 50 percent mark.

Independent Thinking.

Tillis has been on a rampage criticizing the GOP and the Trump White House for not tolerating *independent* thinking.

*Is it really that unreasonable to expect a candidate who receives financial and logistical support from a party to: (1) abide by the party platform and (2) do what he or she told the voters he or she would do upon being elected? *

The Tillis-era North Carolina House is full of stories about wrath being rained down upon folks who did not like what Thommy was selling.  Talk to Robert Brawley in Iredell County about that.

Former congressman Madison Cawthorn dared to disagree with Tillis.  Now, Tillis pal Chuck Edwards has Cawthorn’s seat. 

There was the not-so-subtle backing of longtime pal Bill Graham in the 2024 GOP gubernatorial primary.

I read an interview with Tillis that revealed the senator was advising the 2022 US Senate campaign of Pat McCrory.  You can still see some of the attacks on Ted Budd in Tillis guru Paul Shumaker’s Twitter / X feed.

It’s *wrong* to come after Tillis over his ideological deviations.  But it’s *game-on* for actual conservatives who wander into Shumaker and Tillis’s sights.