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Category: Republican National Committee

  • Sarah Palin: “Hey Lisa Murkowski – I can see 2022 from my house”

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    Lisa Murkowski voted against closing debate on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh; had the vote not passed it would have killed the nomination.

    She has stated she will vote “present” on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, so that Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., can attend his daughter’s wedding — avoiding the need for a frantic flight to D.C. for the father of the bride.

    Murkowski said she is a “no” on the nomination but will “pair” her vote with Daines and be marked “present” instead, meaning that Daines can remain at the wedding and not have to rush back.

    Pairing of votes in the Senate (sometimes called “live pairs”) is a rare but Senate accepted custom between senators on opposing sides of an issue, so their votes essentially offset each other. They reach a gentleperson’s agreement to “pair” their votes if one of the senators will be absent. Pairing will not affect the outcome of the vote.

    Mitch McConnell has stated any Republican Senator who votes against Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation will “…be toast…” meaning that the support one could expect for re-election from the Republican National Committee, and the office of the Senate Majority Leader, will evaporate.

    Enter Sara Palin, former Governor of Alaska and McCain Presidential running mate.

    Palin issued the tweet suggesting a possible challenge to Murkowski in 2022, when Murkowski is up for reelection.

    Early days, of course, but interesting. Murkowski losing senate support, and facing a possible primary challenge to her seat from the very well known Palin, may make her rue her decision to buck McConnell and down vote Kavanaugh.

    Read the entire article over at Legal Insurrection.

  • Bellavia tosses GOP under bus

    TSO sends us this link from the Weekly Standard in regards to David Bellavia;

    “I will endorse a candidate, but it will not be Jane [Corwin],” Bellavia told me during a phone interview this evening.

    Bellavia indicated, without explicitly saying so, that the candidate he will endorse in the May 24 election is Jack Davis, a former Democrat now running as a “Tea Party” candidate. “Jack is a veteran. Jack is a self-made man,” Bellavia said. “He’s a guy who will leave his factory to his workers when he dies. He’s right on immigration. He’s right on jobs. The issues that I disagree with Jack, I disagree with all three [candidates]. There’s not one pro-life candidate in this race.”

    In fact, David and I had an email exchange with one of the influential advocacy groups last night in regards to whether they should support Jane Corwin or not. David told his horror story of his experiences with the GOP and Corwin machine when he was trying to run a fourth party campaign. I know how important it is that we put a Republican in that seat, but the Monroe County GOP doesn’t deserve the seat because of their ham-handed behavior in this race.

    Let this put all of the local GOP committees on notice when they pick their candidates next year.

  • Oh, sorry, GOP, I thought you were serious

    I got an email today from Reince Priebus, the RNC Chairman asking me to take part in a straw poll at their website. I thought it was nice that they asked me to tell them who I think the candidate should be next year.

    I saw at the bottom of the page that there was a bunch of campaign contribution stuff – I haven’t given money to the RNC since 2004 because they act like Democrats and if I won’t give money to Democrats, why should I give money to people who act like Democrats? Well, I skipped over the contribution part and clicked to send my choice for president.

    I got an error message rejecting my choice because I didn’t fill out the “required” fields. The required fields were the contribution part.

    Sorry, GOP, I thought you were serious about wanting to know which candidates would earn my vote and contributions. I’m still not giving you any money, until you come up to my standards and quit wallowing in the Democrats’ mudhole.

  • Barbour out, Paul in

    So the GOP field of candidates is filling out. Yesterday, Haley Barbour announced that he won’t run for the presidency next year, while Ron Paul announced that he will announce his candidacy today.

    I don’t think Barbour did much for the GOP by running. Intellectually, he’s about the same as Newt Gingrich (who I’ll never support) and although I think he never got enough credit for 1994 revolution, I don’t think his was a serious candidacy despite what the navel-gazing Washington Post says.

    I’m looking forward to a Paul campaign because it’s been a long time since I’ve been told to “read a book” as a discussion point. Let’s see if the basement-dwelling denizens will act like pompous, arrogant fools like they did four years ago and turn off 99% of the voting public. I’ll be interested to see if 1% of the primary votes translate into the candidate’s inevitable success.

    By the way, if you go to the Gateway Pundit link above, you’ll notice Dr. Paul, the brainiac, still blames the US for Islamic extremism – so that much remains the same.

  • Falling in the same old trap

    Republicans tend to pick their presidential candidates from two categories. The first being whoever’s turn it is (example: Bob Dole), the second being whoever Republicans think Democrats will vote for, too (example: John McCain). I knew in 1993 that Bob Dole would be the candidate in 1996…because the GOP convinced us that it was his turn. And he lost. The Democrats told us from the primaries in 2000 through 2008 that they would have voted for McCain, and, of course, everyone believed them…until November 2008 when they didn’t.

    Now we’re looking down the barrel of that gun again. Look at the results of the Wall Street Journal/NBC poll. Mitt Romney (21%) leads tied-for-second-place Mike Huckabee/Donald Trump (17%). Two of the three are the “Democrats will vote for them” candidates. Mike Huckabee has been trying to convince us that its his turn since 2008.

    House Speaker Newt Gingrich got 11%, just ahead of former Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s 10%. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, considered a strong contender by political handicappers, remains largely unknown, with just 6% support. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota had 5%, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum 3%, and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour with just 1%.

    Why Gingrich leads the last few, I have no idea. Someone ought to remove that lecherous, backstabbing politician from the party. There are two, maybe three out of the crowd I’d vote for – but I’m not thinking about how Democrats vote when I make my choices.

    If you look back at the 2000 election with your 20/20 hindsight, who would rather have as President in the ensuing eight years; Al Gore, John McCain or George W. Bush? The Democrats would have chosen Al Gore or John (the Bush tax cuts are for the rich) McCain. I think America made the right choice.

    You can’t believe those lying cocksuckers when they tell us who their choices are among Republicans.

    Democrats are making their choices of a Republican presidential candidate based on who their candidate can beat. That’s why they picked McCain in 2000 and 2008. But, for some reason, the GOP falls for it almost every time.

    And if you can believe the WSJ/NBC poll, we’re about to fall for it again.

  • Yeah, don’t bother, Newt

    Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich who squandered his four years in that chair, told a mega-church audience that he expects to be running for President within the next month or so.

    Newt Gingrich said he’s worried the United States could be “a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists,” in the foreseeable future, according to Politico.

    Gingrich was addressing Cornerstone Church, a megachurch in San Antonio, Texas, led by the Rev. John Hagee, an influential leader among American evangelicals.

    Yeah, don’t bother, Newt, we don’t need your portly visage blocking our view of other more trustworthy, more viable candidates. I don’t worry about a “secular, atheist country”. I worry that absolute pigs like Gingrich might run the country.

    Callista Bisek was the last straw. We said we couldn’t trust Bill Clinton because of his infidelities, so what would make us trust you more? I turn the TV off when you’re on because it reminds of how foolish I was to think you were any different than any of the others I despised.

    Honestly, I can’t believe that Gingrich has the unmitigated gall to run for anything. I don’t usually talk badly of Republican candidates, but Gingrich deserves it. Two Republicans I don’t mind trashing are Rudy Giuliani and Gingrich…not that I’m a saint, or even a practicing Christian, but people who can’t behave themselves for short periods in their life while they’re in public office can’t be trusted.

    Someone tell the RNC to convince these two to leave the party like they did with Pat Buchanan.

  • GOP Valentine’s Day Cards

    Need a special message to send to your special Valentine? The GOP has something to suit your sweetheart.

  • Democrat avoidance

    The other day I mentioned South Dakota’s Stephanie Herseth Sandlin who ran a completely conservative ad without mentioning that she’s a Democrat. Well, the GOP has noticed, too with this parody ad featuring a popular culture Stephen Slater reference;