President Donald Trump has endorsed Florida Senator Marco Rubio for re-election. This has angered many MAGA supporters who view Rubio, correctly, as a DeceptiCon establishment figure. However, there is a pragmatic political approach evident that should be considered.
First, it must always be remembered that the Republican party is a private club. The RNC is part of that private club. Both the Democrat Party and the Republican Party are private clubs. There are no federal, state or local election laws or rules that require club participation in order to run for elected office. The clubs exist to facilitate the infrastructure of a process that is guided by inside rules made by club members.
Second, within the MAGA community there has been a recent argument about the Republican party that essentially boils down to this: (A) President Trump should start a new party; a new club; and/or (B) President Trump should reform the Republican club from within, removing the establishment elements.
Within the club President Trump can influence the rules and agenda, but the club itself must support them. As we saw in 2016 there is a significant portion of the club who do not want Donald Trump within it. Thus all moves to influence the club should be cast against this reality.
President Trump endorsing a club member should not be a surprise to those who have advocated for Trump to take-over the republican party. Rubio has enough support within the club that a non-endorsement, or Trump’s support for a primary challenge, would exhaust a lot of political capital and ultimately result in a fight within the club.
Trump remaining inside the club, influencing the club, and carrying a sword of Damocles (endorsement or lack thereof) inside the club, could and should be viewed as the most pragmatic approach toward changing the club. Indeed, President Trump has previously said he preferred to remain in the Republican party as opposed to starting a new party from the ground up.
Currently we have a rather unique political dynamic. Arguably, the club now needs Trump more than Trump needs the club. However, also arguably, the club infrastructure is factually a value to President Trump.
The argument over “club value” boils down to one of political loyalty. ¹Example: if members inside the club are permitted to undermine the MAGA agenda of Donald Trump -the historic reference- then what value does the club actually have? ¹Example-2: if local and state club officials are tepid in their support, or worse yet actively work to undermine their candidate, then what value is the club? This has been my argument for over 15 years. Alas, if I am to support the MAGA objective I must defer my opinion to the person who really is the decision-maker, Donald Trump.
Again, Trump remaining inside the club, influencing the club, and carrying a sword of Damocles (endorsement or lack thereof) inside the club could be viewed as the successful approach toward changing the club. The historic reference here would be Barack Obama taking over the DNC club….. against the Clinton machine.
Clinton was to the DNC as Mitch McConnell and the Bush clan (et al) are to the RNC. Reference what Hillary Clinton did to Bernie Sanders (’16); successfully. Reference what Bush (and club) tried to do to Trump in ’16; unsuccessfully.
Barack Obama now owns the DNC club and has full control. Donald Trump is still working through the process and does not have full control; hence he has to navigate through the tribal issues that remain inside the RNC club.
President Trump endorsing Marco Rubio is pragmatic and keeps options A and B open. If Trump had not endorsed Rubio, or endorsed a challenger, then Option B (takeover of the club) would be much harder as the club would fight to save Rubio. Within the club Rubio is viewed as a more valuable club asset than Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski.
Yes, Rubio is a self-centered and compromised DeceptiCon and should not ever be trusted. On the positive side Rubio is tough on China and aligned against the influence of China in the U.S. That can be seen as a value.
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¹CTH readers will long-note that I have personally been an advocate for starting a new political party. I know how challenging that approach is, and I am wide-eyed to the reality of it. That said, I have also wanted the Republican party to reform so that a new party was not needed. However, years of suffering through broken promises of club reform leave me strongly cynical…. but I am willing to give President Trump every opportunity to succeed because, well, if I am being honest, we have not had a person on the inside genuinely trying to reform the party.
However, if Trump endorses anyone like Murkowski or Haley, my support for Trump’s effort will end immediately.
Oh no!
He’s all for gun control and “red flag” laws. He’s been nothing but a Trump back stabber.
Rubio wasn’t supposed to run LAST time.
To quote Sundance from his May 18, 2020 article when Mitch appointed Rubio to replace Burr on the Senate Intelligence Committee…
“To understand numerous layers within the overall dynamic it is important to remember Rubio was a never-Trumper. Nikki Haley, Trey Gowdy and Marco Rubio formed the trio of GOPe advocates to defend the interests of the deep state during campaign 2016. The original opposition research into Trump by Fusion-GPS came as an outcome of Rubio supporters initiating and funding the research. That effort evolved into the Steele Dossier after team Rubio dropped funding in March 2016; and the Clinton campaign took over.”
So I still don’t understand why Trump would endorse a snake like Rubio. Could it be possible that Trump is under-estimating the fury that is evident out here in MAGA flyover land? That any pretense of endorsing a snake like Rubio doesn’t look good to us MAGA supporters? This Rubio endorsement only leaves us more disillusioned.
What the heck is going on?!!!
The whole post by Sundance about Rubio 2020 is here…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/05/18/mcconnell-appoints-marco-rubio-as-acting-senate-intelligence-committee-chairman/
It could be as simple as President Trump is running out of time.
He’s not a spring chicken anymore.
Starting a new party would eat valuable time that he doesn’t have , if he is to right this wayward ship USSA.
So I guess he is being practical and choosing whatever way forward gets him over the finish line.
Maybe Trump’s endorsement is nothing more than presenting the appearance of playing pro-club … knowing WeThePeople in Florida will NOT vote for the Gang-of-Eight Traitor.
I guess your could say it is the same as hand-picking Jeff Sessions & William Barr as AG, hand-picking Chris Wray as FBI Director (why does Biden let Trump’s handpicked FBI Director stay in his job?!?), stacking the Supreme Court with Trump Judges Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett & Neil Gorsuch.
It’s that sort of pragmatism we can expect from President Trump.
Wow! At least someone has the cajones to tell it like it is. The man is either inept, compromised, or unwilling when it comes to vetting people. I would venture to say it isn’t a coincidence that he refused to field his team with any conservatives.
IMO, we need to take a step back and reassess our thinking. For too long we “worshipped” an image of Trump that was part fantasy, authored by us. We saw what we wanted to see, believed what we wanted to believe, called losing, winning and spun everything to make US feel better. We excused every Trump failure with “the plan”, “VSG”, “he was threatened” or some other pretzel twisting.
The facts are, Trump has been endorsing RINOS from day one. Why? IDK, but while I might have given him a pass initially, not now.
From the day he stood at the podium with fauci, pence, birk(?), shutting down our country, I lost trust in him and his judgement. Whatever power he might have had left, he handed it over, destroying his own creation and ours. He opened the door for this sh!tshow nightmare we are still living. The harm to us is immeasureable. If he wants to throw in with the same traitors, that’s on him. I will not follow.
Trump, a mortal, was removed. I mourn the loss of this once great nation, but I have a deeper faith in our one true God.
oldschool, your comment took a lot of courage to write here. I am in complete agreement. We took Trump’s bravado and bluster a little too seriously. I honestly believe that he knew his Presidency was over before January 6, but he needed one more rally of adulation. This hurt him immeasurably. I firmly believe he won the election and the same RINOs he is now endorsing know it also and knew it at the time they looked the other way. We always blame Pence, but the entire Republican party was complicit and to now see Trump cuddle up to these vermin makes me sick.
Agree with all you say and the Jan 6th rally only hurt his loyal followers.
Yes, many falsely accused of participating in criminal activity just by being in D.C., not even in the Capitol Building or participating in any wrongful act. Many of these people were outed by corporate America (BofA, et al) via credit card use. In my opinion, the entire fiasco was a congressional inside job.
I am glad he didn’t give up.
I’m not going to blame him for a Deep State Reichstag Fire.
Yeesh, I have no idea what he’s doing going forward but he did superhuman attempts for America for 4 years straight.
Who is “we?”
We didn’t blame Pence only. We know he was our last resort after everyone else betrayed us too.
We have over 99% corrupt RINO’s, 100% corrupt Marxist-crats.
This is the site that invented the word UniParty so we know we have 2 rotten sham parties.
We just don’t know if one is fixable or not. We tried with the Tea Party, MAGA and only know this is not promising for a 3rd try.
We’ll see. Obviously seeing him with Rubio and Lindsay Scam looks hopeless but we cannot be sure.
Very well said Oldschool. My thoughts are very similar
If you let four years go by attacking people who questioned Trump’s judgement and trusting the plan, then a new party isn’t going to solve anything. You’ll be less effective than the Libertarian Party who have only succeeded in raising tax revenue by legalizing marijuana and gambling, almost pedophilia and prostitution now, as well. It might be time take over the GOP and cut Trump loose. No cheering for Lara in NC or joining the pillow guy’s social media platform. Carefully vet your local politicians starting with your school board, judges and sheriffs. No more wedge issues pushed by FOX or Rush, who are dead now in different ways.
When I’ve posted anything like that, especially on Gab, I’ve been attacked by those who seem to worship Trump. When I say he’s just a man with weaknesses and flaws like everyone else, you’d think I’d written blasphemy. When I wrote “I think I’m done with Trump,” my God, that didn’t fly well at all.
I know.
Blackgriffin, there are people on the “right” who are every bit as infected with the cult of personality as are on the “left”. Perhaps they are enjoying a nice week-end with outdoor activities, but honestly I am shocked you have not been accused of being a “troll”, a “never Trumper”, or much worse – no critical thinking whatsoever just blindly following the latest talking point.
we need to be a party of principles, not men. men falter and fall. men die. principles carry on.
look at Ron Paul. the guy had more money than he knew what to do with when he ran for president. but where are his people now? scattered. ineffective. because they followed a man instead of determining.a set of principles and sticking with them.
the tea party on the other hand had no figurehead (despite the attempts of the republican party to install one) had a fairly unified set of principles, and continues to influence politics today. the tea party formed the base of the MAGA movement.
whatever it becomes named, WE own MAGA. it’s ours. we just need to claim it. Trump can be a part of it. but we should not be afraid to thank him when he’s right, and spank him when he’s wrong.
Excellent perspective.
Cruz in no Rin0
The truth was that Rubio, McCain and others in the decepticon camp did not even find out about the Steele dossier until long after Hillary paid for that research and the DoJ used it to spy on the Trump campaign. What they did with the information was to give cover to the FBI as they looked for a pathway to avoid having to arrest her in 2016. She was a prohibitive favorite to win the Demcommie nomination and to follow that up with a landslide victory over Trump. The bureaucraps in the DOJ were in near panic mode about doing something that would piss off the Demcommies if she became their chance to continue control of the executive branch.
The truth is that the corruption of our Government goes a lot deeper than anything the decepticon politicians could ever make happen. Our number one enemy has to be the Demcommie Party, who control all the levers of our Government from inside all of its Bureaucracies. We can defeat these bastards in 2022, but we will spend a generation in control of the political levers just trying to remove all of these Bureaucrats from their entrenched positions.
I understand the reasons we should detest Marco Rubio, but that is my take on the reality of our current position on the outside looking in.
Put your arm around the weak, for they are lost in their predicated delusion, taught by the man with the money.
Rubio is a punk, but he’s not a communist.
He does run at the mouth a bit.
It makes him feel taller.
I feel smarter reading his gibberish.
He voted for most of the MAGA agenda.
There are much bigger fish to filet, than Marco.
He is a fair weather Republican.
Allowed.
you are correct he voted more with Trump then Rand Paul Rubio voted for the wall. Rand Paul never did
Good Grief. So, there is no one in Florida to run against Rubio? People want term limits, that is how you obtain them.
Exactly. We fail to hold them accountable. Take a look at our Senate! On us, no one else.
Yup, you get it.
Rubio is one of the few Hispanics serving in Congress as a Republican and very popular with his Cuban constituents. He’s been rewarded with a senior leadership position on the prestigious SSCI, most likely chairman again if Republicans retake the Senate. Why would Florida voters challenge him, especially with Trump’s endorsement?
Answers like that is why the GOP remains stuck and useless. Do you have any idea the bad dealings that are tied w/what you call the prestigious SSCI?
So – how’d Trumps picks for CIA, FBI, DOJ, VP turn out?
I’m seeing what Ann Coulter saw in him. Rubio is a snake.
https://nexttobagend.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-lady-in-red.html
McConnell controlled who President Trump could pick.
A played out excuse.
But McConnell doesn’t control who Trump endorses for re-election.
If you have a problem with Jeff Sessions, Bill Barr, Gina Hapoel, Chris Wray or Mike Pence just say so – do you really think your could have picked anyone better?
Had Trump not caved and fired Flynn, there would have never been a special counsel.
ric grenell and john ratcliffe were pretty good. much better in all likelihood gets you a scaliattack.
the kennedy murders were a warning.
Do you remember how long it took Grenell in fas Ambassador for Germany?
Ratcliffe was rejected by the likes of the GOP Senate swamp initially remember?
How quickly people forget how the swamp has worked against PDJT and actual MAGA candidates from the get go.
Ratcliffe who was a month late with the DNI report that found no meddling by China? Trump should have used the vacancies act that put Grenell in office to push Congress to confirm his nominees like they eventually did with Ratcliffe. He could have been doing that all along instead of leaving Pence’s buddy Dan Coats there.
Grenell was never confirmed by the Senate, an “acting” (read: temporary) pick. And Ratcliffe was previously shot down before he was eventually confirmed (after his main opponent got embroiled in a corruption scandal LOL).
I agree with the other posters in that it wasn’t easy to get solid guys into the White House, and the confirmation process is often out of Trump’s control without extreme leverage. But Trump can pick who he endorses. And I’m not liking them.
Rubio would like to keep his job. Trump would like to take the Senate majority in 2022. The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t. Reforming the Republican Party will take several election cycles.
I’ve questioned some of Trump’s moves . . . in and out of office. What he was able to accomplish with all the forces against him is amazing. I think there were only a handful of people in DC who he could truly trust. Almost all the agencies and institution heads worked against him. I think he didn’t call for the Insurrection Act because he knew the top military brass would not support him. Imagine that! The President and CIC is defied by his own commanders. That would have been the end of his political capital and the MAGA movement.
No one who should have protected our election integrity did their job save a handful of citizen patriots. The DOJ, FBI, SCOTUS and even state and local GOP politicians failed us. Where do we turn when our own institutions are against us? No one person can fix this mess. It’s going to take every one of us to turn the tide. Write, call, visit your rep’s office, get involved in party politics, support MAGA candidates (financially or otherwise), talk to people. I’m amazed how little my own family even knows about what’s going on under Biden. The corrupt media is hiding the truth about Biden’s policies.
My biggest disappointment with Trump was on 1/6/21. He said in advance of the rally it would be wild. I think some of us expected a huge reveal that would keep him in office. Even attendees said it was cold and his speech was long and boring. Nothing new. And the Dems set him up big time. Really bad optics.
Deperno’s analysis of the Antrim County election in MI came out today. Over 66,000 unregistered ballots in just nine counties. Plus modern chipsets were installed in voting machines motherboards. Little by little, in spite of efforts to hide their corruption, the truth will come out.
I’d like to know how much money the RNC is raising these days. I hope it’s dropped precipitously.
Keep the faith. ?? In God We Trust! Remember, the battle was already won at Calvary’s Cross. ✝️
This is all well and good, with all things being equal, and a correct path of reform for the GOP. However, all things are not equal. Democrats and Dominion are still in control of key population center vote tabulation systems. We must begin developing a strategy that neutralizes all of the DNC election cheat schemes.
I say red states should not finish counting red counties until all blue counties have reported first. Then perhaps GOP candidates will win after “every vote is counted” licit or otherwise.
Just saying we are whistling past the graveyard until all DMC election cheat schemes have countermeasures deployed against them. Otherwise, it’s 2020 all over again, and I’m voting for Hugo Stieglitz if that’s the case?
Are there any Dominion machines in your State?
Maybe you should take them out.
They can’t be used to count votes if they aren’t there.
True The Vote has a county by county list of the machines used, just go there, pick your state and county. If those machines have modems, they must be discarded or disabled/removed.
Deperno found modems in the Dominion machines, designed to function on a VPN, and non- detectable by ordinary wireless means.
Start now, in your county, with friends. Be prepared to sue. That means YOUR MONEY, because there are no sugar daddies for conservatives. Now I’ll watch for flinching.
BTW, although I’m on a modest retirement income, I gave all my stimulus to Deperno, Sidney, Kline, etc, patriots in AZ, all of whom are STILL fighting the DS criminals on our behalf. I can think of no better place to “stimulate”.
You should start writing a blog ,like this one.And by the way it is President Trump,
“My biggest disappointment with Trump was on 1/6/21. He said in advance of the rally it would be wild. I think some of us expected a huge reveal that would keep him in office. Even attendees said it was cold and his speech was long and boring. Nothing new. And the Dems set him up big time. Really bad optics.”
Michelle Malkin
@MichelleMalkin
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This is gross. Amnesty Marco is an America Last traitor. Beltway Swamp wins again.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/547302-trump-hands-rubio-coveted-reelection-endorsement-in-florida
Trump hands Rubio coveted reelection endorsement in Florida
Former President Trump on Friday endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) reelection bid in Florida, throwing his support behind the incumbent senator and former GOP…
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Michelle Malkin is a Never Trumper but I do agree with her on dissing Rubio.
When people keep voting the snakes back into position just because they have an “R” after their name doesn’t work. The GOP had a slim majority back in 2016 and yet snake Ryan and McConnell made sure Trump couldn’t get his agenda done. So giving the GOP the majority doesn’t matter. We need PATRIOTS to run and take over the majority and that would NOT include Rubio. Rubio will always be a swamp boy.
We here in FL will take care of Rubio if he decides tooo stray… Prez Trump gave him the “nod” for now…
Not one objection to denying recess appointments!
Not one!
I can’t see giving 6 more years power to any senator!
Start over, now that everything’s been surrendered. Too hard to weed out the snakes later.
Great discussion. I see things a bit differently. I think there’s only one club and it works hard to create the illusion that there’s two, primarily to keep all of us divided and distracted. It’s clear we are now under the thumb of a national security state. Congress’s role is to give a quasi-legal imprimatur to what the security state determines to do, and that’s it. We are officially rules by tyrants. The only way to expose it at thos point is to simply kick out every republican… there is no value to any of them. In that set of useless republicans, I would include everyone one at the state level in the 6-7 states that cheated Biden into office.
With regard to the SC, I would call on Thomas to step down and to make a lot of noise on the way out. The SC and the DC circuit are obviously corrupt. There is no point in a decent man remaining part of a corrupt court system.
As for us, we must forget the guns. There is no path to victory involving use of weapons. I think the only way forward is for the 70 mil Trump supporters to stop work, stop everything and simply refuse to participate in a corrupt regime. I’d like to see 70 mil in the street, but Jan 6 shows the perils. But if we do nothing, the stranglehold will get tighter and tighter. It’s coming. The sooner we resist and shove back the more likely we would succeed. Or we can continue to watch until it’s too late.
Use your pepper spray,
“As for us, we must forget the guns. There is no path to victory involving use of weapons.”
king and gandhi had the technique. refusal to obey is enough if it is widespread. the owners are drunk on their success and think even the most unpopular policies can be enforced.
chinese emperors had far greater autocratic control and still the mandate of heaven was sometimes withdrawn.
There is always a path to victory using violence or revolution. Guns are like nuclear weapons, It keeps evil in check.
But now like nuclear weapons, violence is not necessary.
1)What is necessary, is to be informed by the truth. Seek it out, it can be hard to find, but it’s there.
2)Love the ones your with, The left wants to divide us, don’t let them.
3)Spend your money where it benefits you and not the left.
We’re busy people, some more than others. So you don’t have the time or make up, to be a political activist. Do the above 3 things everyday. You are in some form or another anyway, every day.
Being truly informed, defends your sanity, and protects you from propaganda, and helps us to make good decision for ourselves.
Protect your own. Kids are the biggest victim of misinformation. Empower them with truth and the show them why the truth works.
Education is great, if you’re learning, and worthless if your not. Our kids need to understand the difference. Their future depends on it.
Science is a theory, to be debated,
Survival comes with a set of proven facts, live them, teach them.
Evil has failed at leading men, every single time it’s tried.
Not with guns, but virtue, conventional morality and faith.,
Evil will rot to mold and death, right in front of your eyes
Speak it, brother. The ones doing the dirt these days are under the exact same spirit of evil that controlled those who finagled the crucifixion of the Christ. These evil ones are the spiritual children of Satan, the murderer; Satan, the father of lies; Satan, that old serpent. It’s amazing to witness the vicious evil of Satan coming to life in people like McConnell, Rubio, Ryan, Boehner, Romney, etc. — and that’s the Republicans! The Democrat children of evil are too numerous to name. Anyone who goes into any kind of political activity these days had better put on the Whole Armor of God. Otherwise, it’s mincemeat time.
The political situation at present is spiritually, morally and materially debauched, degenerate, perverse. I don’t know how to take hold yet, but I’m waiting on the sign that is sure to come. Men and women of goodwill and determined purpose will all know when and how to act when the right moment comes.
Christ promised that He would not leave us comfortless and He knows with perfect understanding what is happening in this very instant. “All things are naked and opened to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.” Chuck Schumer & BarrieObama may think they have a lot of big important secrets. They are in for a big, big surprise. Ultraviolence was once my default way of living. The LORD Christ is teaching me a better way.
Trump did this?
Focus on The lord!
Maybe Trump is using a “Rope-a-Dope strategy” with endorsing Rubio?
Definition of “Rope-a-Dope strategy”:
“Relating to or being a strategy in which one behaves passively or with little aggression until an opportune moment arises for successful action.”
More like “endorse a dope”.
100% agree! What the heck is going on?!!!
5th Level Chess!!
We have to get every sitting Senator out so the game plan is to endorse the swamp creatures!
Was that his strategy during his whole Presidency then?
So he sets up an Election Integrity Commission in 2017 and instead of playing hardball with the states he disbands it soon after.
Was that rope a dope as well?
Can’t say it worked too well.
The states would not cooperate! What are you supposed to do when GOP and DEM governors reject his commission? There was no choice but to abandon it.
46 States Are Now Refusing To Fully Cooperate With Trump’s “Voter Fraud”
InvestigationMany state officials say cooperating would only legitimize debunked claims of widespread voter fraud.
Adolfo Flores
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Last updated on July 6, 2017, at 6:24 p.m. ET
Posted on June 30, 2017, at 5:36 p.m. ET
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/more-than-20-states-are-refusing-to-fully-cooperate-with
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I don’t give a flip what President Trump did relative to Rubio. It was disappointing and a mistake, no matter the “rationale”.
When Rubio started betraying us in Florida, AFTER we supported him in his attempt to reclaim status via the Senate, I became committed to working against his next election. I told them as much via correspondence. We need a strong conservative to primary this corrupt snake.
Some questionable calls in the early stage of President Trump’s life after the fraud election. If you’re going to reform the R’s, be bold and strong against the jackass pretenders.
So… How are you in the process of finding that strong conservetive? You are in FL?
I am a supporter of Trump and voted for him twice. But. I am not a blind follower. If I am told to eat a fecal sandwich, he needs to present a reasonable argument why. I will listen. Otherwise, I will provide feedback with my vote.
Well – this destroys my plan for President Trump to run for the Florida Senate seat, take out Marco Rubio, then resign and run for President and have Governor DeSantis appoint a MAGA replacement for Trump.
I guess he can still run for the House to become Speaker!!
He doesn’t have to run for the House to be named Speaker. It can be an “outsider”.
Trump will not run for the Senate and the swamp will not pick Trump to be Speaker.
Has he endorsed MAGA Man and Patriot Eric Greitens for Missouri Senate yet?!?
If not, why not? Javanka again?
the crucial dynamic is that of likud mossad zionism. obama never and biden never advocated for israeli citizenship for the disenfranchised palestinians. trump, with his one-state solution, did. as well, he said on the day it happened that bombs not just planes destroyed the world trade center, again, not part of the establishment narrative.
no one went to prison for crossfire hurricane, which really happened. one, clinesmith, pled guilty to one count. durham’s report will be out at the end of summer.
mueller sent seven people to prison, and russiagate wasn’t even true.
Could you please observe the grammar and punctuation rules of standard English? Your posts are hard to read.
First Tim Scott, now Rubio. I guess President Trump needs quite a few tuition lessons from Jobama on how to get your agenda implemented at lightning speed. Seriously, President Trump is a rookie and the so called senile old man is running circles around him.
President Trump may have 80 or even 150 million supporters but the fact is Jobama has them surrounded.
I am very close to getting disillusioned by our “genius ” President. Yeah right, some genius who let his AGs, DOJ, Military let him rail road him for 4 years and all he could muster was complain on Twitter about witch hunt and how unfairly he is treated? We will not be in this mess today had President Trump dealt with the domestic opponents as strongly as he dealt with China, Iran, ISIS, etc.
I know lot of people will skewer me for this post, but someone has to call the baby ugly when one sees one. No point in being politically correct.
Still haven’t given up on President Trump back by ending 2021. If SP, LW, ML, MF are successful, will need everybody, the Senate and House, on board.
Politicians are going to do what Politicians do. Just got to be better at it than they are. Dirtiest game this side of HELL!
Better to have all judge’s exposed and in the public eye like romney, collins, murkowski, sasse, burr, etc so that way when they turn on the President, President Trump, and his supporters, will turn on the likes of lezzie cheney and nikki hailey, being mitch, cowardly backstabbing california sellout mccarthy who in essence self destruction themselves!!
In politics, sometimes better the devil that you know than the devil that you do not know until the appropriate time and changes can be made!!
If beijing mitch has something in lil Marco then you better believe so does President Trump!!
When it comes to President Trump, I trust him emphatically!! He has in my book a 100 plus batting average in bobbing and weaving and political rope a doping big dopes l8kevjoebama, killiary and the rest of the scum rino – crats!!
Judges should be changed to read “judas’s”!!
President Trump is thinking about the Senate and Hispanic vote.
Remember GA? How did that work out for us?
This needs to be thought through…there’s no guarantees in electing someone else. How many people have we witnessed campaign one way, then get to DC and do differently?
Just think: elect someone new, they arrive in DC in this political climate. How long will it take them to know where their office is? where the metro stations are? or, where to park? their way around the building? where the elevators are? which hallway? people, positions and names? where the bathrooms are? printers, coffee, dos and don’ts? etc. Then someone becomes their mentor, introducing them to the ways-of-things. In other words, starting at the bottom, and being led to conform to the system/swamp!
Most politicians come to DC wanting to succeed. To succeed, it takes money and the right connections…right connections in the “power pecking order!”
President Trump knows and understands this. He understands better than most, that people can’t always be trusted to stay the same, once they get the taste of power. (How many times did we see this one?) Something that can’t always be predicted. Thus, “better to deal with the devil you know!” And, one that is already established and in position to get things done. He also knows politicians want to move-up. So, if he can help them in that, he’s found a team player.
After what happened with the election, they weren’t sure how things would go. So, they kicked into survival mode, hedging their bets on who to side with. They chose the one they needed most…the party establishment.
In the end, it’s about job security. Even though many, if not most, actually agree with President Trump’s policies. Once Turtle is gone, many/most will fall in line with President Trump…creating a totally different political landscape. One that has not been seen in this country for far too long! …instead of swamp, fertile ground! for Making America Great Again!
The way it’s playing out, President Trump will actually be able to get more done. More of the world will be on-board, too.
Imagine President Trump with God’s favor, a supporting team, and patriots actively involved in their local/state affairs…
Exciting to see the first five things on his list…
Although I agree with your pragmatism, as a Florida resident I will not support RINO snake Rubio and can only hope that someone will step up to primary him. If it ends up he’s on the ballot and I’m faced with the lesser of two evils I may be forced to hold my nose.
So…What are YOU doing to find a suitable candidate…Anything??
Will this enforce with Marco how the President threw him another lifeline?
He went to the Senate as a Tea Party candidate, and immediately forgot who sent him there.
Can a RINO change its spots?
Rhetorical question?
President Trump went to D.C. to clean out the swamp, how did that work out? Trump made the same or similar mistake that Bush made with Ted Kennedy. He thought after a knock down drag out campaign he could make friends with these people. He couldn’t trust his own V.P., let alone the other snakes and yet he did. While he accomplish much, it has mostly been destroyed over the past four months all the while the Republicans do absolutely nothing but scratch their private parts.
I LOVE President Trump but, I will not vote for Rubio again. He has let us down too many times.
Good comment Grumpy.
The people have on occasion voted against Trump’s picks before, so it could happen again if Rubio had any republican primary challengers in the wings. Short of that, Rubio re-elected, I suppose, is better than a democrat getting the seat (barely)
redonkulous!
The CONgress has sold the U.S. citizenry and all that we have over to the folks holding the 30T$ debt.
Do you REALLY think those folks will allow the TRILLION$ to just walk away?
There is no way we are EVER going to be a free people again.
I’ll not be voting for Rubio in the next election. He’s a snake-in-the-grass.
Controlled opposition.
Say it with me
At this point… I’m asking what Trump is thinking. As a voter and supporter it seems we’re more interested in being a Repub than we are doing the right thing. We deserve an explanation!
I’m biting my tongue… But I’m about a half step from calling shenanigans. Rubio, the tea party trader and globalist shill. Trump the man trying to reinvent the party within the republican party all over again…
This stinks…
Perhaps a process of triage is taking place?
Group 1 – those who might not be perfect, but are as good as it gets: Nunes, Jim Jordan (sadly, not many more)
Group 2 – those that can be saved, with work: Rubio
Group 3: the hopeless cases: Murkowski, of course
A bad actor can easily be flipped from pile 2 to pile 3. And the threat is ever-present.
All republican candidates begin the process of earning their way into Groups 1 or 2. Those who won’t try, consign themselves to Group 3. David Perdue took his banishment to Group 3 quietly. A good sign. Haley tripped and fell into Group 3 (an own goal).
That actually makes sense.
I agree with your assessment of this move by PDJT. You cannot take over a 170 year old Party by ignoring its operational core. What Trump is saying is that Rubio will be a better ally than an enemy. Rubio is not my idea of a good Conservative, but removing him by primary could easily backfire and elect a Demcommie replacement. Granted Rubio is a decepticon, but he also hails from a state that will hold him accountable if he exposes that side of his political personality more than only rarely. Florida’s Conservatives may have the best chance of keeping him on the right track. Do I think it will work? Not necessarily, but this strategy will have to be used in isolated cases where the political dynamics can help accomplish our goals. I expect a few other situations like this to crop up before the 2022 elections.
The problem is that picks like this don’t help Pres. Trump’s cause, they hurt it. You can be sure each time he does this, he sheds more supporters.
#walkaway doesn’t only have to be Democrats.
Where are the actual MAGA candidates to run though? Easy to complain but if no one runs then it becomes a devil you know. Remember, President Trump had to convince DeSantis to run for Governor. Not every state is full of patriots instead of RINOs willing to run. Look at my home state of Ohio. Squishy RINOs keep running.
Is Donald Trump controlled opposition?
Have we been duped?
Who, exactly, is Sundance?
If you had been here since Trayvon days, you would know who SD is.
If this doesn’t work with Trump turning the lost GOP around then we will have nothing left save whats left in our second amendment rights to fix things. The founders had forseen these events. They (the elected) don’t fear us and that’s the problem (Liberty=they fear us; Tyranny=we fear them). At some point we may need to stop putting faith in others to do the needful and rise up against those we elect, and those appointed. THAT will be the only assured way of putting the fear of GOD in them; when they realize they are vulnerable. You cant tell someone they dont have a right to provide for their family for a virus that has a 99% survivability rate, we are at the beginning of what the Nazi’s were doing to the Jews. History is repeating itself and if things dont get corrected there will be (IMO) another civil war in this country.
Totally agree with the above analysis and have commented before on the challenges of creating another party. There needs to be another contract with America for which we can measure success, failure and evaluate those who represent us.
In the mean time
My President Donald J. Trump sure makes a lot of wrong decisions when it comes to his Political allies …
and they always Stab him in the back at their Earliest Convenience !
Trump has a serious issue with identifying character. Trump removed strong conservative voices, and allowed liberal big government shills to be put into his Administration. Trump failed to attack and remove the Swamp creatures sprinkled throughout the government by Obama.
One of the first things the Biden Regime did was to immediately wash out any conservatives.
Trump is endorsing weak rinos like Rubio. I mostly like Trump, but he will never achieve his goals unless he surrounds himself with strong conservatives who will ruthlessly run rinos and liberals out of government.
Trump has said the swamp was much bigger then he had thought. He knows you cannot make the rules to play the game. BUT change can come from within. I’m good with his support for Rubio. As Sundance explains its a tactical move.
Another dumb move by Jared, Parscale and Jason Miller. I don’t trust these clowns like I never trusted Mike Pence from the git-go.
Lack of judgment or lack of options?
Eternally thankful to President Trump, best President, but either way this decision makes me sad, tired of the 3D chess.
Excellent column. Totally agree.
I don’t foresee President Trump endorsing either Murkowski or Haley unless one or both are photography literally kneeling and kissing President Trump’s clothed butt (clothed to protect President Trump’s dignity, obviously, not Murkey’s or Haley’s).
Trump has the one thing Rubio does not, i.e., credibility with 75 million voters, many of whom are voters who voted for Obama and Clinton. Trump earned that credibility the hard way, by getting things done when both parties opposed him. If the GOP wins back the Senate, Rubio will chair the Senate Intelligence Committee and will do so with more Republican Senators who owe the election to Trump’s endorsement. Creation of a third party would have an effect at the national level, but would jettison any hope of leverage on a Republican Senate. Farage created the Brexit party and was incredibly successful on that issue, but in handing Parliament to Boris and the Tories, he gutted his ability to influence other legislation. Only Trump can give instant credibility to Republican candidates. That is his leverage and it is substantial. And it increases everyday with the train wreck that is the Biden administration.
Disappointing, like so much of 2020 and 2021 so far.
I’m not a Rubio fan. President Trump’s endorsement for Rubio is underwhelming. Yawn
Good gosh. Why not go for broke and endorse Romney, Collins, Sasse, Cheney, Kemp, Murkowski, Cornyn, Lankford, Ducey … ???