12 Times The GOP Kicked Conservatives In The Teeth

[Ozarks Tom]

Tired of numbered threads?  OK, last one for today.

We all knew about these, but just as a refresher in case we're tempted to trust them again.

1. The 2014 Mississippi Senate Primary: In order to stop Tea Party Conservative Chris McDaniel from unseating Thad Cochrane, a superannuated Washington lover of pork spending (who didn't even want to run for re-election), the GOP establishment ran a ruthless campaign of attacks and dirty tricks, and when those failed, they openly courted Democrat voters to cross over into a Republican primary. (The GOP-E also intervened in Kentucky and Kansas to protect moderate establishment Republicans from conservative opponents.)

2. Funding Obamacare and Executive Amnesty: In 2015, the GOP Congress voted to fully fund Obamacare and Obama's Executive Amnesty, despite campaigning in 2014 on a promise to defund both. Defunding them against an entrenched Democrat administration was always unlikely. However, the GOP-E went beyond failure by attacking conservative Congressmen and Senators who fought to defund them as extremists who were siding with terrorists.
ricochet.com/12-times-the-gop-establishment-kicked-the-conservative-base-in-the-teeth/

[Txsteader]

Thanks for posting that. I didn't know about some of those, some I'd forgotten.

This part was pretty funny....

5. Gang of 14: In 2005, moderate Republican John McCain....

rotfl

[Deleted]

To label McCain a 'moderate' is quite a stretch in and by itself!  To my way of thinking, he's left of center!

I'm ashamed that the party ran him for prez and even more ashamed to say, that I voted for him....

Although in an effort for full disclosure, and in all honesty, I was half-way hoping that he'd expire mid-term

(of nature causes of course) and that we'd have our first fully conservative woman president.... hey one can dream right?

It was either that, or not vote at all.  Not sure it would have made any difference; the old bird is still kicking it today.


Talk about a real "manchurian candidate".

[Ozarks Tom]

When Karl Rove comes on I change channels. He's a very smart snake in the grass. Purely establishment.

[paisley]

We had a take over of the republican party in our state..it made the new very bad reporting one side to the max. My only involvement was knowing both sides. I was in constant communication with Debbie brown cause....I was mid wife for her goats..and they were kidding during this time. so there was a legitimate reason for what she was doing.... picture Trey growdy watching hilary at a shredding machine ....and just what he might do. Well Debbie was in those shoes. See could only watch as an outsider till the moment she was the valid state president of the gop.... That's why she changed the locks but the goo nationally supported the old guard as did the media... they trashed her.