Tillis, Timmy & Phil all backing Cawthorn primary opponent
All of you trying to convince us of Chuck Edwards’s conservative bona fides — get a load of this:
Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina is throwing his weight behind a primary opponent to freshman Rep. Madison Cawthorn — an extraordinary broadside against a fellow Republican from his home state, as internal frustration with the controversial MAGA firebrand reaches a boiling point.
“It comes down to focus on the district, producing results for the district, and in my opinion, Mr. Cawthorn hasn’t demonstrated much in the way of results over the last 18 months,” Tillis told CNN, describing why he is backing state Sen. Chuck Edwards in his primary against Cawthorn. […]
I told you. This guy is meddling in every race he can that has a conservative incumbent or frontrunner. McCrory-Edwards 2022. Tillis can’t get 50 percent of the vote, but thinks he’s some kind of kingmaker.
Oh, and just as I predicted, we are hearing that word ’embarrassment’ leak out. (Cawthorn is ’embarrassing.’ But Dallas Woodhouse is, apparently, NOT. ) Tillis says Cawthorn is embarrassing. So does Richard Burr. And lookee here:
The two most powerful North Carolina Republicans in the state legislature — Senate leader Phil Berger and House speaker Tim Moore — are headlining a fundraiser for Edwards on Thursday, according to the Edwards campaign.[…]
I thought Republican officials getting involved in primary races involving other Republican officials or incumbents was a big NO-NO. A violation of party rules, or something like that.
The NCGOPe is spitting all over conservatism. They want conservative votes at election time. But they don’t want ANY of that family values, limited government stuff. * ‘Crossing the aisle’ is where it’s all at. *
If we ran every elected official out of Raleigh or DC who said something stupid, BOTH of those places would be ghost towns.
The conservatism of Jesse Helms and Ronald Reagan made it safe for Eastern North Carolina Democrats to switch parties and / or to vote for Republicans. Conservatism is what gave the GOP the boost to take over in DC and Raleigh. Now, it’s viewed as pure CRAZY TALK.
Limiting government and ensuring freedom are ideas that are fallen to the wayside. Getting elected to office in DC or Raleigh is all about scooping up as much of other people’s money as you can for yourself.
In 2022, you can continue to be sheep and blindly follow the meaningless ‘R’ at the end of candidates’s names on the ballot. Or you can demand adherence to the party platform — which is conservative — and send the weasels home at primary time if they won’t do it.
Why keep voting for, donating to, and campaigning for these folks who HATE you so much?
Selling out a member of his own Party to CNN. Classic Tillis. How effective does he expect a freshman member of the minority party in Congress to be?
ONLY NC. And the NC GOP wonders WHY their numbers are declining to Indy’s and the Gen Assembly numbers are dwindling. I hope Madison wipes the floor with the entire sot of them…
A Tillis endorsement should be the kiss of death in any GOP primary, as should a Paul Ryan endorsement (hello, Mark Walker!) or a Richard Burr endorsement (hello, Pat McCrory!).
The latest thing we will have to watch Tillis on the radical SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. His statement that he will vote against her on the floor does NOT commit to voting against her in committee, which is the place she could be stopped. The Judiciary Committee is equally divided between Republicans and Democrats, and if all Republicans vote against her, the nomination will fail on a tie vote. A vote on the floor is hopeless after Manchin and Collins came out for her. The vote in committee is the one that counts. Will RINO Tillis vote for her before he votes against her?
Check out http://www.ncgrassrootsgov.com and Friday’s edition of Epoch Times.
NC Constitutionalists are moving on from the failed and compromised GOP.
While the concept of that questionare and endorsement site is good, it should be tempered with a bit of political reality. The US Senate primary race is essentially a two man race between conservative Ted Budd, and RINO Pat McCrory. An endorsement of a minor conservative candidate in that race only helps McCrory and thus hurts the conservative cause..
When a person takes the time to read the life story of the minor candidate endorsed it should quickly become a hard pass for anyone that is rational and wants people that can make good choices in the senate
The main goal is NOT nominating McCrory. Budd is ahead in the polling but knowing McCrory’s consultants and his behavior so far in this campaign, we should expect some stink bombs, and they will probably range from half truths to outright lies, again on the same basis. Walker is fading and down in single digits now. Nobody else is over 2% and the candidate this group endorses has only 1%. Dividing the conservative vote is what lets the RINOs in. We do not need to be dividing the conservative vote. That only helps McCrory.
The other issue is winning in November, and the latest poll has Budd ahead of Beasley by 8 points, Walker over Beasley by 5 points, and McCrory BEHIND Beasley by 2 points. McCrory is a walking disaster, both from a standpoint of principles (he has none) and one of electability.
There is probably more than one minor candidate who would make a good senator, but at this point, they have no pathway to the nomination.
Tim, Dick and Thom should make even moderate Conservatives stand behind Madison.