It should come as no surprise that Bush-era Republicans are frustrated with the middle class “America First” crowd that supports President Trump and the MAGA movement. The cocktail party GOPe have always looked down their noses at the base of supporters; now they report -via Reuters- that they will abandon the Republican party.
(Reuters) – Dozens of Republicans in former President George W. Bush’s administration are leaving the party, dismayed by a failure of many elected Republicans to disown Donald Trump after his false claims of election fraud sparked a deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol last month.
These officials, some who served in the highest echelons of the Bush administration, said they had hoped that a Trump defeat would lead party leaders to move on from the former president and denounce his baseless claims that the November presidential election was stolen.
But with most Republican lawmakers sticking to Trump, these officials say they no longer recognize the party they served. Some have ended their membership, others are letting it lapse while a few are newly registered as independents, according to a dozen former Bush officials who spoke with Reuters. (read more)
Good.
This is an unintentional yet fascinating look into the mind of a NeverTrumper and these Bushites. Frank Luntz wants to go back to the days of the white, male, upperclass, Wall Street Republican interventionists. They want the party of Romney and McStain back. The want to put a freash paint job on the same country club, misogynists, racists, sexists, homophobic corporate weasels. Study and know your enemy folks!
Luntz is irrelevant.
LUNTZ=PUTZ….
I would assume this means that they don’t have a lot of Republican votes for a Senate trial. They also know that Jeb Bush has no chance in 2024
Let them try running Jeb and see what happens
Gave me a great chuckle… Thanks; after all the other bull on all the other supposed conservative sites, I always come back to this for a refreshing breath of fresh air to uplift me…..thanks again.
So is pbs, I call them the public bull sheet station.
Frank’s husband should buy him a better toupe’.
I just skimmed thru it. Luntz is hilarious. He probably has never been outside the perimeter of 4-5 cities he flies into and out of. I bet all his “focus” groups has him bring people in and never he venture “out there” in the great unwashed. Glad these lovers are taking off their masks now.
Lovers should be losers…….or maybe lovers is correct with all these RINOs and their love ins.
Actually this is a pretty good analysis.
I don’t care for Luntz and turn him off.
He says he is no longer a republican. I never thought he was a republican.
America needed a fighter and a disruptor. That’s why we voted Donald Trump into office, and why the establishment can’t peel off his supporters.
He was our hand-grenade into the Washington swamp.
Yep. There are some gems in there if you get past his Trump hate for not using his services. The first few minutes on McConnell and the movement to stop Trump are fascinating. Mask down. He looks like a beaten man who has resigned himself to the fact that the club is under renovation. The unwashed masses have taken over.
Frank Lose?
Wow. Just wow. He even used his serious “inside voice”. Honestly, don’t bother wasting your time. It’s just Luntz going on about “if only the republicans would have listened to ME they wouldn’t be in this pickle of Trump’s creation! What a self promoting putz!
I think Luntz is gay, no?
If not, he is a carrier.
LOL.
I saw that this was on last week. PBS. Our tax dollars at work with more Trump hate.
I guess Mr. Luntz will be a bit upset that I too no longer am a Republican. “My God,” he’s thinking, “maybe I’ll still wind up among a lot of them!”
Just what policies does a guy like Luntz feel failed the American people?
President Trump’s policies failed to put us in chains.
It’s more like, President Trump’s policies shut down their cash flows…spoiled a perfectly good set-up…tsk-tsk.
If enough of them leave, maybe you and the others who left will wish to come back. Taking over the GOP is easier than creating a new party, and it looks like we’re having some success in getting the fakes to self-remove.
Don’t forget. He’s out of a job. YAY! He and Megyn Kelly tried to take out Trump in that first primary debate. I’ll never forget the giggling, the sheer unprofessionalism and childishness they exhibited on her show the day before the debate. Talking of Trump being in the lead of the polls, even at that early stage, Kelly smirked, “Not for loooooong,” and looked knowingly at Luntz.
Then, as if that wasn’t bad enough, she actually made some remark that alluded to the fact that the two of them had come up with something that would undo Mr. Trump.
“Only Rosie O’Donnell”….
And with that Trump destroyed their setup question and won the debate and the nomination
he was so wonderful that night of the first debate, August 6, 2015 –
any loveliness Megyn Kelly had totally vanished
That was such classic Trump!
and when he uttered that line and left them speechless, he had my vote!
Also, notice that “me again” is trying to get her foot back in the door?
Luntz claims we lost Georgia senate runoff elections because of President Trump. I don’t buy it. I believe we lost because of fraud, Dominion machines.
The woman who said she won the Governorship acted like she was Governor. Abrams stole it and the guy in the office she wanted helped her steal it.
NeverTrumpers want the party to go back to being a party for grifter frauds that aren’t conservative at all. That’s what they want.
Inside the Brentwood mansion of Frank Luntz that looks like the White House | Daily Mail Online
Thangs that make ya go ?
Good news for a change. Maybe we did win after all
There’s no “maybe” about it.
President Trump got more votes than anybody else in history.
I’ve got a feeling that it was way more than 75 million votes.
kayleigh stated 81 M and more unconfirmed the most of any president in history and they cheated and lied to all of us using control of tv,radio ,newspapers facebook and twitter etc
GOOD RIDDANCE – GET EM OUTTA HERE!
Best news I’ve heard in weeks. Maybe we won’t need to form a new party after all. I still think we will, but this gives me hope, either way.
Well, this makes me think we shouldn’t form a new party. If the GOPe all leave, then we have won.
yep, all the trash has been emptied into the gutters and now we are all clean and fresh, ready to go forth and conquer.
I am sure you are being sarcastic.
Ugh.
You believe that Bush voters are leaving the republicans because of the triumph of America First policies within the party??????????????????
This is garbage. Fake.
There is no way this is true.
The republican party forced Trump and his voters out of the party.
This news story is aimed at manipulating you to stay republican and keep voting and keep donating and keep believing that you are represented.
And it sounds as if it has WORKED. You seem to have been manipulated into believing that the republicans are great now and will repeal Obamacare just like they promised, etc.
What?????????
First, you have to get the Media (Capital M) to leave the Democrat party…and kick out Biden et alia, wholesale. Don’t forget, this is NOT a political war…no, it’s really not. Politics has failed, period.
I’ve heard that forming a new party is expensive, and after donating to the “Trump” campaign and then finding out that part of each donation went to the “party”, I quit donating. I felt used; knowing that the “party” was going to either keep the “part they took” or give it to someone else that I didn’t want to give to made me quit. IF another party is formed, unless they can say every part of every dollar goes to the person you give to, I will never GIVE again.
Like they voted for him in 2016 or 2020 anyway. Git outta here. Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.
The establishment republicans OBVIOUSLY own the party.
That is why Trump and his voters were forced out.
This story is aimed at manipulating you.
Are people still believing the news?
Have we learned nothing?
They still think it is a political fight, nothing more. Still locked in the politics bubble, taking the political narratives as truth.
The doors to the party will be painted just to make sure you run before they hit you in the tuchus.
This is great news to see. I hope they follow through and leave. Good riddance!
Just leave, ok!?!
“Dozens”?!? Oh, my side hurts…….Gosh, THAT WILL SHOW US!
Now its 80 million minus 24. But we will pick up lots of bernie-voters who hate the ‘establishment’ and bushies, but were repudiated by the Dems. (Seth Rich…)
You have it right.
No, we won’t. Not unless Trump himself gets through to them. They don’t like us. Would even be accurate to say they hate us.
What really made me laugh is that there was not a single household name cited in the RotoRooters “article.”
Just lower-level swamp monstahs looking to get their names in print.
Good entertainment to begin the week!
exactly
Is this a threat or a promise? Either way I sure hope they follow through and do it.
Which of these would you consider to be a loss? In a word, NONE! There’s Colin Powell who jumped ship and joined Obama, Jeb who never had a chance after Daddy and big bro, Romney and McCain (one is allegedly dead–I just can’t figure out which one), the Cheneys–er, what about them, Kinzinger who is not even a blip on anyone’s radar? Loss? Only for the Dems if that’s where they’re going.
You know, I always thought about MAGA starting a new party, didn’t consider these gutless pukes would be the ones to leave instead.
Great news…these rino’s have no where to go. Good riddance to every one of them. Don’t let the door hit your fat asses on the way out.
It’s called a major political realignment wherein the GOP returns to its conservative roots as the cream floats to the top and the dregs sink to the bottom where democrats have been waiting for them with open arms several decades now.
That’s exactly what should happen. Our principles are good, honest, correct and, do reflect good Will towards others. Where’s the disconnect? Is up now truly the new down?
Conservative leaders better learn that they are no longer dealing with political opponents who have any regard for or need to adhere to the Rule of Law and are up against a playbook which is a combination of “Rules for Radicals” and the asymmetric warfare employed by savage Islamic terrorists . . . . . .
. . . . . . . as brought to our body politic by Barack Hussein Alinsky himself.
Loss 20% RINOs gain 60% of the Blue Dog Dems WINNING!
I didn’t see Republican law makers sticking to Trump. I saw law makers sticking it to Trump. We’re not even close to resolution. Glad they are leaving. Wonder what they will try to do next. The government was their piggy bank.
We know why the white house stepped in to help the hedge fund raiders. That’s how they become multi-millionaires…. one of many ways. (The other ways include things like setting up organizations in countries receiving “foreign aid” so they can take a large piece of it.) Do they think they will just walk away from this? We’ll see…. I hope not.
Why would Bush republicans leave the republicans? This story is an obvious lie.
Wow.
Even the highly clued in readers at the Treehouse appear to be EASILY manipulated by propaganda.
What?
Are we supposed to believe that the republican party is where America First policies are supported?
Trump was tossed.
His voters were tossed.
How can people already forget this?
There’s still a long way to go, but yes, we can get rid of them.
It’ll work kind of like a neutron truth bomb. It will remove the RINO meat puppets, all of whom have now been exposed for what they are, but leave the party organization, which we need.
IMHO there would never be enough time to get a third party off the ground in time to storm 2022. And 2022 has to be stormed.
How? By voting, lol. It’s all moot until that’s fixed!
War is chaotic, especially in the beginning. It’s just choosing up sides right now…
“Good.” ~ Bette Davis
Bon Voyage!
So, dozens are leaving for one reason and millions are leaving for a different reason. Oooooo, I know I’m scared now.
That is forgetting they are showing themselves with the real enemy, which has just stolen the White House, and controls the Media. It’s the Insane Left Democrat party, in power, that is the real enemy.
We know they voted for JoeBama just as they voted for Hillary before that..
Like stepping in dog doo before entering the room. They tried to wipe it off / hide it..
But everyone knows what they did.
Good riddance.
I heartily approve. Now those jerks know how we’ve felt.
Well bye.
Just remember Dick Cheney and his wife and daughters will not be far behind. The GOP needs a giant enema. Where will these so-called Republicans go? I bet right where J Street tells them to.
They’ll join the DementoRats.
This is good news…now is the time to destroy the Republican Party and start a third party; if we also defect they will never win a national election…their choice I guess..us or them…haha.
It is exactly the time to destroy the republican party. Yes.
It’s time for a hostile takeover.
Good.
RINO’s & other NeverTrumpers are conservatives the same way 0bama is a Christian.
Don’t forget that alter boy who is in the White House now. Model Christian. Practicing Catholic. The only practicing ole Joe is doing is the same kind that got some of the priests and cardinals defrocked! Now that is practice that Joe has perfected!
The Reuters article states that some of these people are “letting their membership lapse”.
Is there any place where people’s political party has n expiration date that can
lapse?” Never heard of such a thing.
Is the author of the article just stupid or the possessor of a small vocabulary or am I the one that is ill-informed?
It was the club card that is expiring. You know The Club.
More theatre and distraction, IMO.
No, membership doesn’t “lapse.” Fake news.
“Am I the one that is ill-informed?”
———-
You are the one who has detected that this is FAKE news. It’s a GARBAGE story even in its details.
It makes no sense.
I for one didn’t know we could let a “membership” lapse. I have been a “no party member” forever because I don’t like being a follower of a pack. Not even the “independent” pack. I go my own way and do my own searching, then I decide “who” is the best choice “for ME” to —- with a party.
Good riddance to all that rubbish. I in turn, have left the republican party for good after the stolen election. I just happened to go into our RINO headquarters today after having our Chair test positive for Covid. I wanted to see if she was alright. I was greeted with a blank stare from Chair #2. Hadn’t I heard SHE TOO had tested positive? Who cares! Anyway, after all that Chair#1 comes out and I ask about her well being and she wanted me to volunteer either Tues, Wed, Thurs. I said I might be able to on Wed. She rolled her eyes and said MIGHT! I added that I was very disappointed with the R party and even their Messiah Ted Cruz had come out against our POTUS and you would have thought I had let out a wet fart! I had just seen his comments here this morning and I repeated them but they told me I had the WRONG INFORMATION. Couldn’t get out of there fast enough. Never going back! F the Repugnicants.
I certainly don’t blame you.
The Republican party committed suicide, no reason to resuscitate. We tried that already.
You really should do -SWALWELL- thing and leave….it would be best statement to this traitorous whores…
Good for you!
“… now they report -via Reuters- that they will abandon the Republican party.”
Well, isn’t that special.
A specially delivered lie right into your brain. To manipulate you into thinking, “Oh, the republicans are the America First party.”
That’s how stupid they think we are.
Are they correct???????????????
Talk about stupid? Some still think we can vote our way out/through this.
This is good news!
Although they beg for our money, in reality, they despise us.
Now we know. I wish them well. In the meantime, we will overwhelm them, because there is more of us than them.
So where are they going?
To hell, I hope.
to mediate with mcstain….
Fox News?
Bye-Bye… don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.
PS: Don’t bother to return.
Hmmmmm
So, if they leave the Republican party, does that mean they are saving US the trouble of forming a third party to get away from them? If the rats all voluntarily leave the barn, then you no longer have to burn the barn down to get rid of them, now do you? Interesting development.
That’s the lie you’re supposed to believe.
Of course they’re liars.
But I want MAGA to take over the party. Possession is 9/10 of the law – and we can own it.
The math dictates this move. As satisfying emotionally as a third party would be, the tiny remnant of these RINO clowns left, if we went third party, would always be enough in number to keep the DementoRats in power forever.
If the math really changes sufficiently, we should make the leap. But not until it does.
So you still think we can vote our way out of this?
Too bad they won’t all leave…..they are too attached to the —-.
Seems like their arrogance has long outlived their necessity. Good riddance.
Rush Limbaugh’s summary of the MAGA Movement:
https://trendingpolitics.com/rush-limbaugh-sends-dire-warning-over-gop-plans-for-maga/
Rush reminded his listeners that 75 million people voted for Trump last election. Rush’s take on the GOP establishment:
“That’s a political party right there, my man. That is a political party. And it’s got to be dealt with. If you are part of the Washington establishment, the 75 million that voted for MAGA, that voted for Trump, we can’t have that. So not only do you have to take out Trump, you have to destroy his agenda at the same time. You can’t let somebody else pick up the mantle.”
Republican Party, RIP.
The same Rush that was a strident supporter of Republican neoconservatism and the Bush family political agenda for decades.
George W. Bush also declared that “Islam is love, not hate”. Sometimes I think that man could not find his own butt with both hands and a blood hound.
I was so stupid when I actually voted for him, thinking he cared and would put America’s interests and military members first.
what a fool I was.
Me too. I am ashamed.
I’m not believing any more of these lies about how the republicans are in our favor.
He was the lesser of two evils, both times.
I agree. Right after 911 he declared islam a religion of peace. That’s when I left the Republican party.
The same ploy as all those Hollywood hypocrites who threaten to move to another country. If only. It actually does reveal something in that they are specifically frustrated that elected officials and paid staff of the Republican party are not uniformly proclaiming the end of America First. They probably have good reason to expect this from them.
Hallelujah !!!!!!! Better they leave than 75 million.
Can they leave the country along with Hollywood.
Maybe they should start there own party. The could call it the Dinosaur Party, or the War Party, or the Pedo Party, or the CoC Party, the possibilities are endless.
Truth is, they are scared as hell of us.
Why would they be scared of us? We literally do nothing but march and protest and sit behind our keyboards. There’s nothing to fear.
Because they can’t control the illusion.
we see through it.
Exactly correct, Ellie!
We are controlled by the illusions that been internalized into us since childhood.
They are all slogans, implanted in us by the government.
“This is a free country.”
“This is a country of law and order.”
“Equal justice.”
“Lady justice is blind.”
“One person one vote.”
“You have free speech even when it threatens the powerful.”
“You have the freedom to peaceably assemble.”
“The FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the world.”
“America is a unique country of liberty and justice for all.”
The brilliance of the United States government is how it has obtained CONTROL over the population by having it BELIEVE a set of slogans that are, in actuality, false.
People are obedient to the laws because they believe they have a voice and a vote about how those laws are enacted.
But in truth, the laws are written by corporations and passed, unread, by the Congress.
There is no actual representation happening.
And there is no law and order equally applied.
All of these are slogans, pretty lies, to keep the people oppressed by those who truly rule us: the global banks, the global corporations, big tech, and the globalist rich.
Even Trump, a billionaire, can be destroyed by these forces. WE have no chance, UNLESS we SEE THE PRETTY LIES.
Okay, and? Seeing the illusion does nothing if we don’t destroy what’s casting it. So far all we’ve done is point out the illusion to each other. We’re not even making loads of headway into the greater population.
Yes there is….they don’t want our bodies, they just want the money….don’t give them any.
They have ways of stealing our money without us needing to spend it on them… that’s just the sprinkles on the ice cream.
This is fantastic. Instead of us worrying how we would overtake the Elites, THEY are leaving! God works in mysterious ways. Gaetz et all will take over easily now.
Sorry, forgot one of SD principals, read the entire thread before posting. Guilty. I was so enthused, I should have known that EVERY creeper would feel the same way!
edit not working. I typed treeper and you would think spellcheck would not give me creeper?
Using “spellcheck” is just like wearing a mask; it’s giving away your personal responsibility and freedom. Why do so many DO it?…and then COMPLAIN about it?!
Such drama and vapors by the Bushies over the small handful of representatives and senators who supported President Trump?
Maybe it is real. They all have been ensconced in their echo chambers for so long they may really think they are relevant.
How much more mileage is the infamous, dangerous “QAnon” and the “insurrection” event going to produce?
Honestly, this is why we’re in this mess. The media dishes out the worst, most misleading analysis and people lap it up.
The Republican party doesn’t listen to the people. They back crappy candidates and make promises they don’t deliver on.
Let these entitled malcontents start their own party.
Exactly.
This story is obviously fake. The Bush republicans OWN the republicans. They kicked out Trump and his voters.
Bye bye.
That’s one way to take over the GOP… let the rats leave and walk into the empty house.
And liberally sprinkle rat poison at every inch of the foundation afterwards.
Reuters, makes it sound as if all of these folks were strong conservatives. 60 or 70 former Bush administration officials? 70 really. That’s it the party is in shambles after losing the third worst presidential administration in history, behind Obama & Clinton, ok also Carter. None of them are currently republicans, most admitted to voting for Biden. You cannot call yourself a member of a party if you voted for the guy in the other party. The freedom loving people from both parties have a lot of work to do. The swamp is vast, it includes people from every department within the federal government, accountability to the people needs to be restored.
Well, it’s a start. I would be jumping for joy were it Miss Lyndsey, McConnell, Romney, Murkowski and other traitors warming seats in the Senate and Congress.
Are they gone yet?
Bush lied about WMD in Iraq and got thousands of Americans, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, killed for nothing achieved even remotely worth that price
He should be on trial for crimes against humanity.
Whenever I think of Bush, I think of the 18 year old soldier in my town who was gunned down in Iraq and returned to his family mangled and dead.
At the time, I believed we were in Iraq to protect the United States from weapons of mass destruction.
Now, I see that was an OBVIOUS lie. And I am ashamed that I supported Bush.
It was a war for global banks and global oil corporations.
And maybe also a personal vendetta against Sadam Hussein by the son of Bush the First, another evil man who once ran the CIA.
Question? Would there have been a 911 if gore had won? bush was the lesser of two evils.
I am not a fan of the Bushes, but I do think that the deep-state CIA probably came up with the lie and convinced Bush of it, which would not be hard, since he’s a part of it.
Buh bye.
It’s good to see that the tone deaf deadweight are going elsewhere.
Ted Cruz just recanted to the establishment, saying that there was no significant voter fraud. No one on this site should ever consider Cruz in 2024. He was a weasel in 2016 and still is.
Someone tell Cruz to join Bush, Romney, and the other GOPe turncoats and just leave.
Texas voters – you have a task ahead – find a replacement for Cruz and get him or her overwhelmingly elected.
I left the GOP 4 years ago when I moved to NC (Independent now)… My first vote was in 1962 and I voted for JFK… last and only time I voted Dem…
I may rejoin if enough of the slugs bow out… we’ll see LOL
Just remember that Kennedy lost. He stole the election from Nixon.
The idolization of Kennedy irks me.
He was an illegitimate president, just like Biden.
JFK would be to the right of many so-called Republicans today.