Let’s Roll the Dice on Primarying These RINOs
Kurt Schlichter
Sometimes you have to be cautious, and sometimes you have to be audacious, and the correlation of forces and events happening right now gives us America First Republicans an opportunity that could pay big dividends in November 2026 if we are audacious. Instead of betting on incumbents, the safest choice, there are two major targets for a Senate primary from the right. We should go for it. It will be risky, but it’s worth the risk. We can build a stronger, more cohesive Senate majority while also demonstrating the fate of spineless Republicans who dare to defy the will of the people. I say we roll the dice.
I’ve previously explained why Thom Tillis deserves to be primaried. He’s one of those guys you can always count on not to be able to count on. The guy is a buffoon, but he’s our buffoon, and if challenging him would put that North Carolina seat at an unreasonable risk, we’ve got to stick with him and endure another six years of his tiresome backstabbing. But it’s becoming clear that the risk is not as risky as we may have thought because there’s a candidate who can kick him into the obscurity he so richly deserves. Perhaps it’s worth being audacious and seeing if we can not only win but win with somebody who’s not a goofy half-wit sporting the same kind of scraggly beard recently popular with the likes of Chris Murphy and Pete Buttigieg. Every time I see a picture of Tillis these days, he looks like a middle-aged dentist who just got divorced, bought a Porsche 911, and moved into a condo in Marina del Rey with his 31-year-old hygienist, Sherilyn.
We also have a chance to do better than John Cornyn, the painfully generic Republican squish from my soon-to-be adopted state of Texas. Texas would be a huge prize for the Democrats. They’ve been furiously working to win a statewide seat in Texas for decades. Cornyn is bad, and more than that, he’s annoying. He looks like the stuff-shirt father of every girl in every 80s teen movie. But if Cornyn is the only one who can hold the seat, then we have to stick with him, as awful as this gun control-supporting, less shiny version of Mitt Romney is. However, the facts on the ground indicate that maybe we can not only keep the seat but get a senator who is more interested in our agenda than the one embraced by corporate donors, the Washington Post editorial page, and the Bushie stiffs he hangs out with at the country club.
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