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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: 240B on April 11, 2018, 01:34:45 pm
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The Gateway Pundit
by Kristinn Taylor
April 11, 2018
Never-Trump leader Erick Erickson reported Tuesday night via Instagram and Twitter an alleged conversation he had with an unnamed Republican Congressman over his and many of his fellow GOP Congressmen’s hatred of President Donald Trump and their willingness to “take out the President†through impeachment if he fires Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
This would be their punishment for what they fear to be the loss of their Congressional majorities in the House and Senate come the November elections.
Erickson said the Congressman is afraid to speak out publicly because he would be primaried and voted out by the Trump supporters in his district.
A transcript and embed of Erickson’s Instagram post in which the Republican Congressman is quoted as saying they and others are prepared to “take out the Presidentâ€:
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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/04/report-anti-trump-gop-house-members-happy-to-take-out-president-over-mueller-looming-loss-of-congress/
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Sounds good.
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Do that, and the GOP will die for good.
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Sounds good.
Wow. You really long for the status quo. Sorry change is too messy for you. :laugh:
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That was quite a rant. Much of it rings true, but the congressman does not acknowledge any of his own failings. The GOP civil war is likely to resurface this fall.
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Wow. You really long for the status quo. Sorry change is too messy for you. :laugh:
I see reckless spending, abandoning principles of conservatism, capitulation with rats, betrayal, scandal, and maybe war as the status quo.
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Do that, and the GOP will die for good.
You’re right. According to recent polls establishment republicans are on the outs. This is Trump’s GOP now.
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Do that, and the GOP will die for good.
Isn't it just like the GOPe to begin talking about 'taking out Trump' just as he breaks the 50% popularity barrier.
The gang that can't shoot straight.
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You’re right. According to recent polls establishment republicans are on the outs. This is Trump’s GOP now.
Who would you like to see President Trump appoint as Speaker?
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Who would you like to see President Trump appoint as Speaker?
San Fran Nan.
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Do that, and the GOP will die for good.
Yet, Nixon took a big fall, Ford replaced him for the remainder of his 2nd term until 1976.
And in 1980 Reagan was elected. The guy that used to be pictured on this very site.
Republicans held the Presidency for the next 12 years and America was better for it. (not perfect, much to the never-ending dismay of "true conservatives")
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San Fran Nan.
That's one way to stay ahead of the curve.
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Yet, Nixon took a big fall, Ford replaced him for the remainder of his 2nd term until 1976.
And in 1980 Reagan was elected. The guy that used to be pictured on this very site.
Republicans held the Presidency for the next 12 years and America was better for it. (not perfect, much to the never-ending dismay of "true conservatives")
This isn't the same people, culture, society or country that it was back in the 1970's and 80's.
Your hoped-for cyclical repeat of history is a fantasy of proportions that cannot be measured.
Back then, the GOP leadership did not tell their Christian base to shut up or get lost - and back then the GOP wasn't just another arm of the Democrat Party.
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Sounds good.
YEP.
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Sounds good.
Pence is a loser. He was about to lose reelection to Gregg before Trump saved his ass and offered him the VP slot. He also has the charisma of a dead fish.
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Pence is a loser. He was about to lose reelection to Gregg before Trump saved his ass and offered him the VP slot. He also has the charisma of a dead fish.
Francis. That is all fine and good. Personality is highly overrated. A dead fish is what the nevers want.
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Yet, Nixon took a big fall, Ford replaced him for the remainder of his 2nd term until 1976.
And in 1980 Reagan was elected. The guy that used to be pictured on this very site.
Republicans held the Presidency for the next 12 years and America was better for it. (not perfect, much to the never-ending dismay of "true conservatives")
Reagan was despised by the Country Club Rockefeller Republican establishment.
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Francis. That is all fine and good. Personality is highly overrated. A dead fish is what the nevers want.
I can see why. Wild animals love to feed on dead fish.
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Pence is a loser. He was about to lose reelection to Gregg before Trump saved his ass and offered him the VP slot. He also has the charisma of a dead fish.
Pence is my kind of loser.
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Francis. That is all fine and good. Personality is highly overrated. A dead fish is what the nevers want.
Close. I don't give a rusty shit about personality. It doesn't matter a whit.
What does matter is Conservatism, and Pence is 100 times the Conservative Tump is, and there ain't no denying that.
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What does matter is Conservatism, and Pence is 100 times the Conservative Tump is, and there ain't no denying that.
They don't want Conservatism.
They want an immoral street brawler that tickles their base instincts and will say or do whatever they think is necessary to punish and drive into fits, those they hate and despise.
They don't care what their actual fruits of character are. As long as they say what they want to hear, and they create illusions by the power of their breath and sleight-of-hand, they prefer the showman over substance.
That is where the 'Conservative movement' has arrived.
It's no longer 'Conservative'. It's populist. Even if the mechanics are Socialist or Fascist - they no longer care. They will label them Republican and 'good'. Such as trillion dollar deficit spending budgets and ObamaCare being renamed Trumplicare.
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I see reckless spending, abandoning principles of conservatism, capitulation with rats, betrayal, scandal, and maybe war as the status quo.
In all candor, I've not felt a sense of political conviction from you --- excepting, of course, your hatred of Donald Trump. So, I'm not buying what you're selling here. :shrug:
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They don't want Conservatism.
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That is where the 'Conservative movement' has arrived.
Running to their prophets with itching ears...
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Pence is a loser. He was about to lose reelection to Gregg before Trump saved his ass and offered him the VP slot. He also has the charisma of a dead fish.
It is amazing what folks will claim to they have forgotten, or never knew. 88devil
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I don't normally agree with @Frank Cannon when it comes to GOP Politics but in this case he is right @Right_in_Virginia. You may need to do a refresher read on the Religious Liberty Bill in Indiana that he totally flubbed, proving to most his so called 'Conservative Principles' are wishy washy and for sale to the highest bidder. He's not as bad as Trump but not much better on the grand scale of things.
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In all candor, I've not felt a sense of political conviction from you --- excepting, of course, your hatred of Donald Trump. So, I'm not buying what you're selling here. :shrug:
@Right_in_Virginia
In all candor, I'm not surprised, and I don't care, that you can't feel the truth. :seeya:
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the Religious Liberty Bill in Indiana that he totally flubbed, proving to most his so called 'Conservative Principles' are wishy washy and for sale to the highest bidder. He's not as bad as Trump but not much better on the grand scale of things.
I am on the record saying as much - though I will take a spineless Conservative over a bold NYC Liberal any time.
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Back on topic, I think the GOPe would be just fine with this. I think they spurned Cruz, who had bucked them in the past for Trump, whom THEY THOUGHT WOULD LOSE TO HILLARY, which would continue the cushy status quo they had with Obama. Well, that didn't work, but for them, this might be the next best thing.
These are the people who lied to us all, not just the TEA party, when they said they just needed the House, the Senate, the White House... to do whatever, and we gave them that and now they still won't do it.
VBO (Vote the Bastards Out!)
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I don't normally agree with @Frank Cannon when it comes to GOP Politics but in this case he is right @Right_in_Virginia. You may need to do a refresher read on the Religious Liberty Bill in Indiana that he totally flubbed, proving to most his so called 'Conservative Principles' are wishy washy and for sale to the highest bidder. He's not as bad as Trump but not much better on the grand scale of things.
Pence had a sting of vetoes that were overturned by his own party in his state near the end of his first term.
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@Right_in_Virginia
In all candor, I'm not surprised, and I don't care, that you can't feel the truth. :seeya:
Oh, please don't misunderstand.
I simply think you're more a contrarian and provocateur than a politico with convictions.
And FWIW ... kudos, you are very good at both.
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Do that, and the GOP will die for good.
Its dead Jim.
This is just the stench starting to take hold.
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VBO (Vote the Bastards Out!)
Well, the Republican Party Establishment made that a lot harder to do in the last two conventions with the wonderful rules changes they made.
The option they left us is either voting for a liberal Republican or sit home and let the Democrat win with help from the GOP if the Conservative they do not want wins the primary.
You have two fully-greased and irreparably corrupted Statist national parties. Your choice is essentially limited to Stalin or Mussolini.
Which one is the lesser evil, is the campaign that will be waged.
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Trumpers be like "Damnit, Bones, ain't there nothing you can do?"
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