Why Are Red State Republicans Often Such Losers? Kurt Schlichter

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Why Are Red State Republicans Often Such Losers?
Kurt Schlichter


How come we are always so grievously disappointed by red state Republicans? You would think these guys would be the hardest of the hard, but instead, they are softer than Chris Christie’s gut. It’s obnoxious. They should be the best, but they’re often the worst. Squishy. Craven. Dumb. Come election year, they are Ripley in “Aliens;” the rest of the time they are Burke.

We’re not talking about Susan Collins here. Maine is a blue state, so she’s the best we are ever going to do. You can’t hold her being a moderate against her because she doesn’t pretend to be anything else. No, I’m talking about the guys from the manly red states. I’m talking about guys who should be channeling Godzilla and instead channel Barney the Dinosaur.

Take Senator Jim Lankford – that’s James to you, peasants! Take him, please! He’s from Oklahoma, so he should be so right-wing he makes Genghis Khan look like a San Francisco pinko pervert. But no. Given the chance to negotiate immigration reform – a proper reform would consist simply of us shutting the border and deporting all illegals – Jimmy rolled over for Chuck Schumer and agreed to the most embarrassingly bad deal since a bunch of Dutch sharpies ripped off the local indigenous peoples by buying Manhattan for 20 bucks worth of beads and some smallpox-laden blankets.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

Doubling down on the same ineffectiveness and crazy is not the solution.

The GOP, as a national party, is being subsumed by Trump's MAGA Cult of Personality.  Trump is the GOP.  The GOP is Trump.

Trump is a locust who feeds upon other people's money; when that money is gone, he moves on to find another pile of money to consume.

The national party has devolved into feifdoms of SuperPACS.  Who needs a party when there are SuperPACs to bankroll their campaigns?  SuperPACS can be owned by billionaire megadonors, who run them as corporate poltical enterprises that buy, lease, rent the expertise necessary to conduct national campaigns.

The SuperPAC's competitive advantage over political parties is fundraising.

[Bigun]

Why Are Red State Republicans Often Such Losers

I'll take "Because they have both Democrats and establishment Republicans constantly working their asses off to defeat them" for $2000 Alex.

[DefiantMassRINO]

... or, that Republican candidates are less popular than Dem and Independent Candidates.  Elections ARE popularity contests.  Candidates matter.

A candidate for US Senator for Pennsylvania should:

1.) Live in Pennsylvania, well before the campaign starts.
2.) Not grocery shop at Whole Foods, aka Whole Paycheck.

[catfish1957]

Two of the Three most powerful Republicans in the Country are Donald J. Trump and Mitch McConnell.

I'll just leave it at that.