Beginning of the GQP implosion?

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Not Insane

The conservatives in my circles have wanted Liz out for a very long time. She's in the "elite" group of Rinos that are so far left we just see them as "not so covert" democrats. You know, folks like the last two R presidential candidates before Trump - which made those two election cycles uber-stupid.

This isn't a party schism. It's a party purification.

This is party schism and its just starting.
Please be informed before you regurgitate your spewing points, since most of us here are well informed and we share links. Please read this:

May 7, 2021 at 12:33 p.m. PDT

House Republicans are preparing to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) from the No. 3 Republican position in the House and replace her with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.). Why? Is Stefanik more conservative than Cheney? No, Cheney has an 80 percent lifetime rating with Heritage Action for America compared with a 48 percent rating for Stefanik.

Well, did she vote more loyally with President Trump? No, Cheney voted with Trump 92.9 percent of the time, while Stefanik voted with Trump just 77.7 percent of the time. Indeed, Stefanik steadfastly opposed key elements of the Trump agenda. She voted against Trump’s singular legislative achievement — his 2017 tax reform bill — and against making his tax cuts permanent. She voted to block Trump from withdrawing from the Paris climate accords. She voted to condemn Trump for calling on the courts to invalidate the Affordable Care Act. She voted to overturn Trump’s emergency declaration at the southern border so he could fund the border wall, and then voted to override Trump’s veto of a bill that reversed his emergency declaration. Trump calls Cheney a “warmongering fool” who wants to “fight ridiculous, endless wars,” but Stefanik voted with Cheney to oppose Trump’s withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria.

That is not all. In his statement Wednesday supporting Cheney’s ouster, Trump once again slammed the congressional certification of the 2020 election results, declaring, “Had Mike Pence referred the information on six states (only need two) back to State Legislatures … we would have had a far different Presidential result.” But Stefanik voted to certify the election results in Arizona (though not Pennsylvania).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...t-loyalty-him/

[Rajoo]

This bit of an opinion piece is quite revealing.

The MAGA cult, however, is not Cheney’s only problem. As became evident during the past administration, Republicans don’t believe in much of anything other than retaining power. Are they pro- or anti-Big Business? Protectionist of free-traders? Do they want to rebuild international alliances or go it alone? Are they climate-change deniers? Do they care about deficits (or only if they aren’t caused by tax cuts)? If you have not got a clue, you are in good company.

If Cheney is to slay the MAGA dragon, it will be essential to not only explain what she is against — historical revisionism, lying, coziness with Vladimir Putin, white supremacists — but also what she is for. The agenda of the GOP in which she spent most of her adult life is badly out of date and, frankly, unappealing in the 21st century. Tax cuts for the wealthy and for corporations may excite the donor class, but actual voters — especially those non-college-educated, White voters the GOP has been courting — would just as soon sock it to the rich. Repeal of Obamacare excites the public about as much as cutting Social Security and Medicare (that is, not at all). Even Republican voters applauded massive government intervention to battle the pandemic and recession, shrugging their shoulders about deficits. Be it good or bad policy, withdrawal from Afghanistan wins something akin to 70 percent approval among voters.

The MAGAmorons may soon morph into MAGArats, the ship is beginning to list.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...other-problem/

[Rajoo]

Roger Stone Wants Americans to Punch 'Fat' Steve Bannon for Claiming Trump Has Alzheimer's

n a statement shared to conservative social media platform Gab, Stone alleged: "Bannon was an informant for Robert Mueller and indisputably perjured himself at my trial. He also accused Donald Trump Junior of being a Russian traitor and insisted that President Donald Trump was suffering from Alzheimer's."

He added: "If you see this fat disheveled load of s**t I strongly recommend that you punch him in the mouth as hard as you possibly can. Do it for America !"

https://www.newsweek.com/roger-stone...eimers-1589910

[donquixote99]

More purification.

[Rajoo]

Here comes the food fight.

A conservative Republican accuses House leaders of ‘rushing to coronate’ Stefanik, calling her insufficiently conservative.

The drive by House Republicans to purge Representative Liz Cheney from their leadership ranks prompted further pushback within the party on Tuesday, as opposition grew among hard-right lawmakers to a replacement some of them view as not conservative enough.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/05...y-conservative

[RickeyM]

If "not conservative enough" is a thing why are they supporting tRump?
On today's happening, I'm getting tired of the media's minute-by-minute blow-by-blow Party of tRump's knifing of Liz Cheney. Because she won't back the big lie it's a done deal. What I'll be watching for is what comes next.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

If "not conservative enough" is a thing why are they supporting tRump?
On today's happening, I'm getting tired of the media's minute-by-minute blow-by-blow Party of tRump's knifing of Liz Cheney. Because she won't back the big lie it's a done deal. What I'll be watching for is what comes next.

With that crowd, 'conservative' does not mean what it used to. Now it means 'loyal repeater of lies, butcher of principles and enemy of any part of the nation not subservient to Trump.'

[Rajoo]

Will she go on Fox? Does Faux want her on Fox?
Rest of the media circuit will just have an echo chamber effect.

[RickeyM]

Some less than maniacal Repubs want to split from the party. Could this result killing off the party? I saw a Sci-fi flick once where aliens would took over a body. The only cure was to kill the host so the alien would leave it then the person would be revived. Think that would save the Repub party?

[barbara]

Rickey, after watching the hearing yesterday on tv where a republican stated there was no insurrection, it was just tourists visiting the capitol, I wonder if republican politicians have been taken over by aliens.