Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on Sunday pushed back on Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) remarks last week declaring that the Republican Party can’t move forward without former President Trump, amid House Republicans threatening to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) for her vehement criticism of the former president.
Maybe Lindsey means something different when he says “grow”.
Lindsey has always been that pitiful little boy who was shunned all the way through school for his effeminate behavior. He has always tried to “get in” with the popular crowd by kissing up to whichever fad or craze was going around. Why anyone thinks that is any kind of leadership is beyond me.
Cassidy is right.
The party has not moved forward with Trump, Senator Graham, that’s why it lost the election.
I smell another censure vote coming.
Graham is an example of how not to lead. Every waking moment of his life, Graham is calculating how any thought, utterance or deed of his will benefit him some way, no matter the harm to others.
Imagine a man like that described as a “political leader”.
Imagine placing Graham and leaders we have revered through history in the same page, let alone sentence or paragraph.
I’m not convinced Cheney is going to get the heave-ho. It’s a secret ballot and she weathered the last one just fine. If she does prevail, and that’s a big “if”, it may be the beginning of the end for the Teahaddist, Q loving, lunatic, back-benchers.
“We have to listen to the voters, not just those who really like President Trump, but also those who perhaps are less sure,” Cassidy told CNN. “If we do, if we speak to the voters who are less sure who went from President Trump to President Biden, we win. If we don’t, we lose. That is a reality that we have to confront.”
He’s right, obviously, but I think it’s also true that you can’t really do both. Those who really like Trump like him because he’s as awful as they are and he openly hates the same people they do. But they don’t want to hear about policy. They want all culture wars all the time. That’s the whole of what animates them. At the same time, the voters who care about policy and dislike Trump aren’t all that keen on the GOP’s policies because all those policies are ultimately about culture wars.
“If you look at polls, there is a whole group of folks that agree with Liz Cheney and so for us to win in 2022 and 2024, we need everybody,” Cassidy said. “We need those who feel as Liz. We need those who feel as Lindsey.”
“We need P.”
“We need !P.”
“We need … a course in elementary logic.”
All the Republicans have to do is to unify their pro-Trump and anti-Trump factions, their Cheney-ites and their Stefanik-ists, and they will be unstoppable.
Well now there’s your big tent, from “really like” to “perhaps less sure.”
“We have to listen to the voters, not just those who really like President Trump, but also those who perhaps are less sure,” Cassidy told CNN. “If we do, if we speak to the voters who are less sure who went from President Trump to President Biden, we win. If we don’t, we lose. That is a reality that we have to confront.”
Cassidy is appealing to voters who are not quite “sure” about reality, and the true meaning and purpose of being an American Citizen. If you have doubts about either, the Republican Party welcomes you. Your gullibility fits their mold, perfectly.
Cassidy reiterated that the GOP’s focus should be on policies in order to regain the majority in Congress next year.
If the GOP runs on its actual policies it will become the small minority in Congress that it so richly deserves.
if we speak to the voters who are less sure who went from President Trump to President Biden,
Then you demonstrate your complete lack of policies, consistent ideology, or any other defining principle. We are all Susan Collins weather vanes now.
I’m not going to hold my breath, but it does appear Liz Cheney still has enough juice in the Republican Party to generate some pushback against Trumpism.
While it’s still the usual people speaking out, I look forward to hearing (though skeptical) what Miles Taylor’s group is going to announce on Thursday regarding the “resistance of the radicals”.
While I still can’t wrap my head around an actual insurrection and coup not being enough to scare Republicans straight, maybe a Cheney can? Because, apparently, it was Liz who was instrumental in getting all of those former DoD secretaries to sign the letter warning the country about Trump’s intentions.
Ouch!
Republican voters are educable. Republicans just need to settle on one clear meassage, and then their voting base can be molded as easily as waffle batter in a waffle-maker.
Seriously this is interesting. I’ve been convinced for years, based on a lot of background reporting, that most of the GOP caucus in Congress knew Trump was a huge risk and now see his administration as a disaster. Obviously the loyalty of his base keeps them from saying so. But people like Cheney, Cassidy et al. have tested the waters and don’t mind acknowledging reality. The insurrection and his wacked-out behavior before and since haven’t changed that. Trump’s a liability, they all know it, and more are willing to say so. Very, very interesting.
About T rumpp, yes.
About Republican policies, whatever the fuck they are (because they are 100% pro-T rumpp/Big Lie, right now), i strongly disagree.
I find it confusing as fuck! If they all know, but only some say it…
Apparently the mental faculties of the majority of the GQP are now permanently compromised.