At a recent House Republican caucus meeting, G.O.P. Members attacked Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) for criticizing President Trump, according to Politico.com. One Member allegedly told the Congresswoman that if she has differences with Donald Trump she should keep them to herself. Is that what we want from our elected officials? Are Republicans in Congress obligated to shut up about their contrary views in an election year, or any other time?
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Much ado about nothing… I personally despise the term “RINO.” Republicans are not obligated to vote the way their party’s President wants them to. Leave the hive mind to the other side of the aisle. I draw a very broad line between someone like Romney or the late John McCain who vote against Trump out of spite, or someone like Rand Paul or Mike Lee (e.g. the vote against using emergency funds for The Wall) who do so out of ideological conviction.
Speaking of that vote. I was on a pro-Trump Facebook group at that time (not anymore for obvious reasons) where Susan Collins was being roasted for that same vote. The comments were calling her every name in the book, “RINO”, even traitor, and other words I won’t use here. As I said in a recent post, and as Bill seems to be saying here, supporting a President sometimes means calling them out when they do stupid things. The die-hard MAGA crowd, the ones who really would vote for Trump if he shot someone on 5th Avenue, are doing more harm to the cause than good. Refusing to criticize a President for anything is only a half-step higher than refusing to give him credit for anything. Just the funhouse mirror reflection of MSNBC.
Bills example of a mom doing the tough, but right thing for her daughter brought back a time in my life where because I care and love my son so much, that while he was still living at home and getting hammered on the synthetic pot, (spice) I called the police on him. It was one of the hardest things I have ever done, but not as hard as watching him drool all over himself, bent over and mumbling while he curled his fingers in front of his face. It was the most disturbing, demented like behavior I have ever witnessed in anyone, much less my own beloved son. When they came and cuffed him, he screamed at me saying “how could you do this?” Through tears I said “because I Love you son.” One of the officers came and hugged me, and said I have a son too. Today, three years later, he is clean, married to a wonderful woman and is raising two sweet girls. I am grateful not to have taken some others advice to simply kick him out, although I understand these circumstances may have come to that if he were stealing or being violent. He wasn’t. He was simply destroying himself, and I refused to watch it happen. As his father, I prayed to God and said, “I will not let the enemy have you, with your help Lord.”
It is interesting (to me at least) to know exactly what she disagreed w/ Pres Trump about, but the MSM don’t care about those details. They just want to hail her (like they did McCain and Romney) as being a renegade Republican. But Republicans always think for themselves and their people first (that’s what I’ve been led to believe, at least), they don’t tout the Party line like Democrats.
But this is politics, and it’s an election year, and since a president up for re-election should be attempting to carry senators and congressmen along with him on his ‘coattails’, any petty disagreement intra-party is going to be blown up by the MSM, hoping for a shocking quotable set-down from Pres Trump. Hope he does’t give it to them!
Gotta disagree w/ you. I thing you were speaking too generally about a rather specific situation. There comes a time when everyone on the team need to be on the same page. Once the primaries are over an a candidate has been selected everyone on the team needs to get on board. And by “on the team” I mean actual Republican Party canidates, operatives, hell, even volunteers. Public dissent at that point is counterproductive (McCain at the Obamacare vote).
Now, folks who are not officially on Team Republican, say some guy out in Studio City who’s been shooting his mouth off on a webzone is perfectly free to continue bitching about the canidate. Nay! I would encourage it as his criticism could, maybe, get back to the inner circle and cause them to alter course.
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What she should be keeping her complaints to is AWAY from the fake-stream media.
I wish the Republican Party had told John McCain to shut up and sit down. Had they done that, we might be totally rid of Obamacare right now. McCain torpedoed the whole deal over personal peeves with Trump. That’s not serving the nation, it’s self-serving and nothing more.
Couldn’t agree more. Although I despise the term RINO and think it much over-used, there is a stark difference between someone like the late John McCain, and Mitt Romney, who will vote “against” Trump out of spite, and someone like Mike Lee or Rand Paul, who even when they vote “against” Trump, they do it out of ideological conviction, because they truly believe the bill is wrong and/or unconstitutional. I may not agree with them voting against, say, using emergency funds to build the wall, but I have great respect for them nonetheless.
What I find almost as problematic is when I see Trump surrogates go on friendly radio or TV shows and they and the host simply go back and forth about what horrible people the Democrats and mainstream media are (as if we need to be convinced), and as if we can win this election by making fun of the other side and whistling past the graveyard.
Say ‘Hell no!’ to yes people.
Trump would be wise to call Liz and tell her to not worry about it.
Perzactly !!!!
A life lived without validated principle is a life lived open loop. Meaning reality is optional by which your thoughts and actions are based upon ambient (social?) noise. It is the walk of the totally drunk.
Well said.