Posts Tagged ‘the stupid party’

If the Republican Party would stop being the stupid party for this election that would be great

Posted: July 11, 2024 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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Time and again the Republican Party has proved to be its own worst enemy.  Way too often the leadership has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by behaving rather stupidly, at the worst possible moment.  Examples of this include nominating squishes like Romney and McCain, purging Conervatives from leadership positions, and constantly squabbling with each other.

Just this past week the leadership of the Republican Party executed another of their patented mind numbing blunders.  As happens with astonishing regularity, the Christian satire site Babylon Bee provided very informative and entertaining analysis of the GOP’s latest screw-up: Republican Party Implements Emergency Platform Change After Seeing How Close They Are To Winning Landslide Victory | Babylon Bee

U.S. — With campaigning for November’s elections running at full speed and polls showing GOP candidates building sizeable leads, the Republican Party rushed to implement an emergency platform change after seeing how close they were to winning a landslide victory.

Struggles on the Democratic side of the ticket, including the growing scandal surrounding President Joe Biden’s cognitive ability, led to Republicans gaining tremendous momentum in recent weeks, causing leaders to shift gears and push for changes to the GOP platform in hopes of avoiding any decisive wins in November.

The author of the Babylon Bee article really captures the essence of the Republican Party’s incompetence with some fictitious quotes by the actual chairman of the Republican National Committee Chairman.

“We were just getting way too close to winning big,” said Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley. “Some of these recent polls really got us spooked and concerned that we might actually run away with this thing, so we knew we had to take drastic steps to avoid steamrolling our competition. These changes to our platform should help frustrate, anger, and alienate enough of our loyal voters to make the races a lot closer.”

The updated GOP platform included changes or outright omissions of longstanding Republican stances on abortion and traditional marriage, giving the party the negative reaction it was looking for from lifelong GOP voters. “Thankfully, there’s been some good backlash,” Whatley said. “With any luck, we’ll see our leads start shrinking as we head into the home stretch of these campaigns. We don’t want to do anything that might put us at risk of ensuring total victory.”

It was a sound strategic move when President Trump softened his stance on abortion.  The liberal media was painting him as an extremist on abortion.  That was costing Trump the much needed support of independents.

The abandonment of one of the cornerstones of the Republican Party’s platform is a blunder of epic proportions, especially doing it now that the Republican Party has tremendous momentum..  It is a surrender that will only sow division and acrimony.  As you can see from these headlines, it has already begun in earnest.

The pro-life opposition to the new RNC platform is painfully naive – American Thinker

Republican Party’s new platform: A strategic move or a concession? – American Thinker

GOP’s Surrender On Abortion Leaves Pro-Life Voters Out To Dry (thefederalist.com)

I suggest a backward House Vote

Posted: October 25, 2023 by datechguy in congress
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It’s now been nearly a month since the dogs caught the car and they still haven’t figured out what to do with it.

Since it only takes six house GOP members to keep a speaker off the chair both the ultra MAGAs and the NEVERTRUMP wings of the party have the ability to reject any candidate that doesn’t reach their purity levels.

And the Democrats of course who suckered the GOP by voting with the six as all kinds of house business isn’t getting done are having a grand old time over it.

The cycle is pretty straightforward.

  1. An internal vote takes place to see who is the preferred candidate
  2. Members who voted for a different candidate highlight positions unacceptable to their group
  3. Candidate either drops out or loses floor vote.
  4. Go to #1

Given the inability to vote in a house speaker among the members I’d suggest voting in Gingrich if we has willing to do it and if the house would have him with the understanding that if the House can get 218 GOP votes for someone else he would step aside but if the plan is to vote in a current member of the house then we need a different tack.

Here is what I propose:

  1. Each GOP house member is given a list of the entire GOP house caucus
  2. Each member crosses out any name that is unacceptable as speaker of the house
  3. The ballots are checked to see if any house member failed to be crossed out on six lists or less that person is put up for speaker. If somehow there are more than one then the person crossed off the fewest list is the primary candidate
  4. If there is not a house member who has been removed from six lists then a person outside the house should be nominated for speaker.

This plan has the virtue of at least establishing if the GOP can elect a speaker from among their members.

Let’s find out if there is at least one house member not despised enough who can be advanced if not the I suggest Gingrich, if not him then find a GOP candidate among the state legislatures or perhaps a retired judge.

I’d be willing to do it for 3 million but not a penny less. I don’t need the grief.