Moderate Republicans building 'farm team' to recapture House in 2022

[mystery-ak]

 By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times - Monday, November 11, 2019

The Republican Main Street Partnership is beginning to build a “farm team” to help the GOP recapture the House from Democrats come 2022.

The group of moderate Republicans, which bills itself as “the governing wing of the Republican Party,” counts 55 members of Congress in its ranks, according to its website, and it is in the early stages of charting the GOP’s way back to the majority in the House.

Republican Main Street Partnership CEO Sarah Chamberlain said her team is focused in 2020 on protecting vulnerable House Republicans while flipping a handful of seats that Democrats added in the 2018 midterms.

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[roamer_1]

moderates. woohoo. And all y'all will vote em in...

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Moderates are a dying breed, and unwelcome in the nationalist GOP.  They should quit as so many others have.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Moderates are a recipe for failure.

Trump was elected, not moderates like McCain or Romney.

Idiots never learn.

As Ron White famously said. "You can't fix stupid"

[cato potatoe]

Well, you do need several dozen moderates to form a majority.  Most of the swing vote dwells in the suburbs.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Well, you do need several dozen moderates to form a majority.  Most of the swing vote dwells in the suburbs.

That is absolutely true, but the GOP does less damage as a minority party.  They should stay rabidly true to whatever passes for their principles today.

[sneakypete]

What's their campaign slogan going to be,"Vote Wishy-Washy in 2022!"?

Or maybe something like "Unlike our opponents,we don't have a record to stand on!"

[sneakypete]

Why? They won't do anything with it if they do capture it.

[skeeter]

What's their campaign slogan going to be,"Vote Wishy-Washy in 2022!"?

Or maybe something like "Unlike our opponents,we don't have a record to stand on!"

'Try our mush, it tastes - OK"

[Chosen Daughter]

moderates. woohoo. And all y'all will vote em in...

Moderates are the ones opposing securing the country.  And I am sure that moderates are the 27% Democrat kind of people attending Trumps rallies.

[skeeter]

Moderates are the ones opposing securing the country.  And I am sure that moderates are the 27% Democrat kind of people attending Trumps rallies.

For the love of Pete please stop.

[Chosen Daughter]

For the love of Pete please stop.

No, I won't.  The cat is out of the bag.  And do you know any Democrats that want to build a wall or secure the border?  All the Democrats I know are open border people.  Most globalist.

[skeeter]

No, I won't.  The cat is out of the bag.  And do you know any Democrats that want to build a wall or secure the border?  All the Democrats I know are open border people.  Most globalist.

[sneakypete]

Moderates are the ones opposing securing the country.  And I am sure that moderates are the 27% Democrat kind of people attending Trumps rallies.

@Chosen Daughter

ROFLMAO! You really are funny,even if you don't know it.

[sneakypete]

No, I won't.  The cat is out of the bag.  And do you know any Democrats that want to build a wall or secure the border?  All the Democrats I know are open border people.  Most globalist.
 

@skeeter  I guess she is tired of arguing with us,and has decided to argue with herself?

[Formerly Once-Ler]

@Chosen Daughter

ROFLMAO! You really are funny,even if you don't know it.

@sneakypete
Some people spread joy unconsciously. 

You don't.

[Applewood]

No such thing as a "moderate Republican."  Anyone who says he is a "moderate Republican" is a liberal. 

[dfwgator]

World's Shortest Book...."Great Moderates In History"

[Right_in_Virginia]

Where's the conservative "farm team"??

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Where's the conservative "farm team"??

That would be the state legislators and governors who are turning blue at an amazing pace.

[Bigun]

No such thing as a "moderate Republican."  Anyone who says he is a "moderate Republican" is a liberal.

   Absolutely!

[jmyrlefuller]

Where's the conservative "farm team"??

You mean the one your team slaughtered in a scorched-earth fire on Trump's way to the top?

[jmyrlefuller]

That is absolutely true, but the GOP does less damage as a minority party.  They should stay rabidly true to whatever passes for their principles today.

Uhh...

That's a pretty convenient twist, but it also means the Democrats are left unchecked to cause even worse damage. Remember 2009?

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Uhh...

That's a pretty convenient twist, but it also means the Democrats are left unchecked to cause even worse damage. Remember 2009?

@jmyrlefuller
That's a binary choice I gave up on in 2016.  I found both choices unacceptable.  Usually parties are kept in check by the voters and the rest of society.  If a Party passes an over reaching unpopular healthcare bill, the voters replace the party in a backlash like 2010, and the states refuse to adopt it.  Even if the rats swept the Senate and the White House the GOP media, the GOP states, and GOP judges would obstruct.

President Trump had 2 years of GOP control of Congress.  All he passed was taxcuts.  Every Republican passes tax cuts.  Some of them do it with a democrat Congress. 

The President is the poster child for promises unfulfilled.  That's not scary.  I have no reason to believe democrats will enact their unworkable pie in the sky campaign lies.

I have lost faith in the GOP as a protector of standards of political conduct.  They have not kept the worst tendencies of President Trump in check but rather excused his behavior and even relished in it.  When Nixon directed the break in of the democratic office in the Watergate bldg, the GOP didn't cheer it on and say the President was obligated to investigate corruption.

I don't understand that thinking but I understand that some people think it is a valid excuse.  They scare me, because for me it is a compelling democrat campaign issue.  The GOP has become a one issue party.  Trump.  The rats have become a one issue party.  Stop Trump.
I think the rats "put a check on President Trump" argument is superior, and popular, but we will know in Nov.

I ask myself am I better off than I was 4 years ago and I can't tell.  Its been 8 years of suck.  Food prices are higher, gas is lower.  I can say I feel worse about my country and my children's futures.  I feel politically alienated and I hate the animosity between Americans that Trump encourages at every twitter/bathroom break.  I don't like our leader and I hope he gets replaced with someone who can honestly say they're President of all the people even democrats, and Never Trumpers.

Thanx for the reply

[roamer_1]

@jmyrlefuller
That's a binary choice I gave up on in 2016.  I found both choices unacceptable.  Usually parties are kept in check by the voters and the rest of society.  If a Party passes an over reaching unpopular healthcare bill, the voters replace the party in a backlash like 2010, and the states refuse to adopt it.  Even if the rats swept the Senate and the White House the GOP media, the GOP states, and GOP judges would obstruct.

President Trump had 2 years of GOP control of Congress.  All he passed was taxcuts.  Every Republican passes tax cuts.  Some of them do it with a democrat Congress. 

The President is the poster child for promises unfulfilled.  That's not scary.  I have no reason to believe democrats will enact there unworkable pie in the sky campaign lies.

I have lost faith in the GOP as a protector of standards of political conduct.  They have not kept the worst tendencies of President Trump in check but rather excused his behavior and even relished in it.  When Nixon directed the break in of the democratic office in the Watergate bldg the GOP didn't cheer it on and say the President was obligated to investigate corruption.

I don't understand that thinking but I understand that some people think it is a valid excuse.  They scare me, because for me it is a compelling democrat campaign issue.  The GOP has become a one issue party.  Trump.  The rats have become a one issue party.  Stop Trump.
I think the rats "put a check on President Trump" argument is superior, and popular, but we will know in Nov.

I ask myself am I better off than I was 4 years ago and I can't tell.  Its been 8 years of suck.  Food prices are higher, gas is lower.  I can say I feel worse about my country and my children's futures.  I feel politically alienated and I hate the animosity between Americans that Trump encourages at every twitter/bathroom break.  I don't like our leader and I hope he gets replaced with someone who can honestly say they're President of all the people even democrats, and Never Trumpers.

Thanx for the reply

That was a brilliant post!