A report today in Politico states the next Senate Leader, the heir to the McConnell legacy, John Thune, will be endorsing South Carolina Tim Scott for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. This approach makes sense, because the modern Senate is a rogue division within the modern branches of government.
The modern Senate has unique corrupt interests that are specific to the upper chamber, and those interests must be defended from any possibility of diminished influence. The current U.S. senate does not consider themselves to be a co-equal branch, especially since they created the weaponized intelligence apparatus to give them greater power.
The Senate is where the DeceptiCons rule with targeted desire, influence and affluence. They consider themselves more important than the government they are a part of. Nothing was more detrimental to the principle of freedom than the 17th amendment. The Senate rulers stroll the halls like Greek Gods filled with omnipotent power. They are vile parasites destroying our republican form of government… They are DeceptiCons.
WASHINGTON DC – Sen. John Thune, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, is endorsing the presidential campaign of Sen. Tim Scott, according to a person familiar with his plans.
The South Dakota senator will appear at Scott’s presidential launch on Monday in South Carolina, the person said. Scott will announce his presidential run on Monday in North Charleston and has already launched an ad blitz.
In backing Scott, the Senate minority whip becomes the highest-ranking congressional Republican to back the South Carolina senator. And he joins his South Dakota colleague Sen. Mike Rounds in backing Scott, who is popular among Senate Republicans. Some members of House leadership have already indicated they support former President Donald Trump’s campaign.
But Thune is making good on his hopes of turning the GOP away from Trump and presenting a more forward-looking vision for the party. Thune recoiled from Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, famously declaring that his election challenge would go down on the Senate floor like a “shot dog.” That drew a political threat from Trump, but Thune easily won reelection last year.
Since then, Thune made clear he did not think Trump’s style was suitable for the party, and said in November that “it’s clear that running on relitigating the 2020 election is not a winning strategy.” He has also praised Scott’s strengths as a candidate, concluding last year that Scott has “obviously helped a lot of people around the country in the last year, raised a lot of money and built a lot of relationships that can be very useful if he does” run.
Scott could pick up more Senate endorsements in the coming days because of his throwback style of conservatism and optimistic rhetoric, particularly for Republicans looking for a non-Trump candidate to get behind. (read more)
Thune and his ilk is the reason Trump will have an uphill fight. Most Republicans are completely useless.
It sounds like the DeSantis/Bush team has fallen short.
Time to field a new opponent.
Unfortunately, the Dems plan on crucifying PDJT with multiple prosecutions this Aug./Sept.,
which will once again blow up in their faces and, simultaneously, catapult him well-past
any GOPe opponents.
When will the uniparty learn?
Can South Dakota get rid of this Rino?
Follow him on FB. He’s a snake in the grass. He portrays himself as a loving family man, visiting county fairs, waving the flag. Yet in reality, he’s a DC swamp rat. Mitchell is his mentor plain and simple.
Nice thought but I doubt it. I live here and people think he’s just great. That’s because they don’t REALLY follow the news like they should. Thune is and always has been a rino and a complete and utter waste of human flesh.
You do realize that Scott is doing Trump a favor, right? The more candidates running, the more the non-Trump vote is split. One big reason Trump won the nomination in 2016 was the huge number of people running. In a number of winner-take-all states, Trump won despite not coming close to a majority. That’s another reason Trump has to keep his focus on Biden and stop calling DeSantis names … all he is doing is making himself look juvenile while DeSantis looks like the adult in the room.
I disagree – Scott will throw his support behind DeSantis just like all the rest of them will as the race comes closer. DeSanctomonious, indeed.
absolutely. all working together as a team to crush MAGA.
I really hate the names he calls DeSantis, even though he merits him it does look sad at their point
The influence of money and power can never be underestimated. But the level of corruption that accompanies it is unprecedented and now permeates all levels of the federal government and many state/local governments. The elected and appointed individuals driving and participating in this current level of corruption purposefully ignored or never intended to uphold their oath of service to this country and the Constitution. In addition, note that donors always exist but only those who have no integrity, principles, moral character and the fortitude to do what is right, will bow a knee to their pandering and desires. That pretty much sums up the totality of all the GOP and Democrat (actually uni-party) opposition/candidates to DJT and MAGA. Now for the eye opening reality. Many of the opposition, with few exception, actually support the intent of the current policies of this administration and if put into power will push forward, maybe in a more subtle covert manner, to enable their outcome. And the end result of those policies, actions, etc., are to subvert and subjugate this country while willingly destroying the livelihood and lives of the US citizen. In closing, say what you will, but the actions of the majority of our elected and appointed federal and state officials border on outright sedition and treason against this country and her citizens.
LOL…”Protect its Interests” = If you aint in the club … You aint in!
What about protecting the INTERESTS of the American people? The Senate is as corrupt as the other institutions. This federal government must be REDUCED or REPLACED.
What about the interests of the states which they’re supposed to be representing?
As I see it, there’s nobody in the GOP field that can beat Trump in the primaries. He drives too much enthusiasm, and his opponents are the emodiment of everything GOP voters are fed up with. Even the once-presumed unstoppable DeSantis now looks very flawed, and allied himself with the wrong people. So the GOP will have to do what the DNC did to Bernie Sanders in 2016. They’ll change the rules.
“His kind must not be allowed to rise again.” Which is to say: “our kind.”
My name is Mitt Romney and I approve this message.
Scott is controlled opposition. Of course Thune supports him.
DNC and RNC working together for reason. They want South Carolina to be first.
DNC Approves Biden’s Request to Remove Iowa as First Voting State – Replace it with South Carolina… Iowa is Too Whiteby Cristina Laila Feb. 4, 2023 6:15 pm
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/dnc-approves-bidens-request-remove-iowa-frist-voting-state-replace-south-carolina-iowa-white/
Bush hides behind John Thune, and John Thune hides behind Tim Scott.
But it’s doubtful, unless President Bush and John Thune actually wheel the cash in on John Deeres, that South Dakotans will care where the money came from. And thanks to some clever politicking by Daschle, it now appears South Dakotans may blame the White House for not giving them enough money.
And one of the key states Bush and Rove and company targeted with the farm bill was cattle-rich South Dakota, where Democrat Sen. Tim Johnson is in a tough re-election bid against popular Republican Rep. John Thune.
https://spectator.org/52874_raising-bush/
Scott is another Rino tool enlisted to stop VSGPDJT.
Sorry Tim Scott, you may be a nice man but you’re still eGOP beholden to an oligarchy class. Forward thinking is removing the trash from the House, Senate, WH, executive branch alphabet agencies and sad excuse for the courts, returning the Constitutional Republic to The People and rule of law instead of a blackmailed, pay-to-play criminal enterprise corrupted by a foreign and domestic enemy oligarchy class.
If MAGA isn’t on the ticket, it likely won’t be an establishment R, D or S that will get my vote. We owe that much to JFK, Ronnie, DJT and all that died before them who helped make America the Shining City on the Hill.
TWO FACE SCUMBAG had a role in the coup d etat of the rightful President.
“Sen. Tim Scott will vote to certify Biden’s Electoral College win”
“Tim Scott Breaks With Pro-Trump Senators Over Certification Fight: ‘No Viable Means’ to ‘Overturn an Election”
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/tim-scott-breaks-with-pro-trump-senators-over-certification-fight-no-viable-means-to-overturn-an-election/
Repealing the 17th Amendment is popular with many conservatives, but repealing it would mean that U.S. senators would be chosen by the political establishment within their state and would therefore likely represent the will of the establishment and not the will of the grassroots.
In my home state of Illinois, there would be no chance of any Republican, either RINO or grassroots, to ever become a senator as long as the corrupt Democrat machine that runs the state remains in place.
There were two senate candidates running in the 2022 Republican primary in Illinois who ran as grassroots, conservative, MAGA candidates: Peggy Hubbard and Bobby Piton.
If the 17th Amendment were to be repealed, neither one of them would have a chance to even be considered as candidates for the Senate.
Even a grassroots, non-establishment Democrat wouldn’t have a chance to be considered for the Senate if the 17th Amendment were repealed.
This wouldn’t just be a problem for blue states as red states are also controlled by the political establishment which would make it nearly impossible for a grassroots, conservative, MAGA candidate to ever become a senator.
Take Kentucky for example. Kentucky currently has an establishment senator, Mitch McConnell, and a grassroots senator, Rand Paul. If the Kentucky political establishment were in charge of appointing the senators for Kentucky, they would both be establishment senators in the mold of McConnell.
Likewise, the senators appointed from Arizona would both likely be in the mold of John McCain and the senators appointed from Georgia would both likely be in the mold of Governor Brian Kemp.
I realize that the establishment dominates the Senate now even with the public directly voting in senators, but having senators appointed by their respective state governments wouldn’t give the grassroots a greater voice in the Senate.
In fact, one would likely need to be a part of the establishment to even be considered for a senate appointment in the first place.
At least there is a slight chance of a grassroots person, like Rand Paul, being elected to the Senate with a popular election, but there is an even slighter chance of them being appointed by their state government.
I realize the Founding Fathers originally wrote the Constitution to stipulate that senators be appointed by their states, but it’s unlikely that the founders ever thought that the state governments would become as overly controlled by the establishment as they are now.
I also realize that it was the progressives of the early 20 Century who created the 17th Amendment.
Even though I typically despise anything done by the progressives of the early 20th Century, the ability for the public to elect senators does provide a slim chance of having at least some grassroots senators break through the establishment stranglehold.