But if Republicans think that the way to win elections is to put election deniers and court critics like Mike Lindell front and center in the public eye, who am I to stop them?
Republican candidates and officeholders will be there. Maybe I will learn something that will help me understand the new GOP. If nothing else, I can help document what has happened to it.
Some Republican voters have fully and totally drunk the Trump Kool-Aid. That would include Mike Lindell. Like Trump, Lindell believes that Trump won the 2020 election in a landslide. Lindell, like Trump, is a critic of America's courts. Even GOP Speaker of the House Mike Johnson isn't Trump-loving enough for the Pillow Guy. Johnson attended the New York false-document-election-interference trial to support Trump dressed in the dark blue suit, red tie uniform of Trump supporters. Lindell said Mike Johnson wasn't passionate enough in his press conference in support of Trump.
Some Republican voters have fully and totally drunk the Trump Kool-Aid. That would include Mike Lindell. Like Trump, Lindell believes that Trump won the 2020 election in a landslide. Lindell, like Trump, is a critic of America's courts. Even GOP Speaker of the House Mike Johnson isn't Trump-loving enough for the Pillow Guy. Johnson attended the New York false-document-election-interference trial to support Trump dressed in the dark blue suit, red tie uniform of Trump supporters. Lindell said Mike Johnson wasn't passionate enough in his press conference in support of Trump.
This our guy has no passion for our country, he has no passion for our great real country, this guy has to go, I'm serious.
This is disgusting—him up there, reading off some notes.
If you have passion for our country or passion for what's going on, the travesties going on against our real president, you can speak from the heart and speak out and get the country behind you.
Is there any room in the GOP for people who are simply low-tax, less-regulation, pro-gun, anti-abortion conservatives? To be a Republican must you be so zealous in support of everything-Trump that even Mike Johnson is a heretic? Apparently so, at least in Southern Oregon. Local Republicans chose their keynote speaker.
I think it is a mistake for Republican candidates to get anywhere close to the Mike Lindell fringe of the GOP. Every political party has its extremists who damage a party's reputation with otherwise persuadable voters. Partisans may think a little "red meat" rouses up the party and that it is worth it if it angers some Democrats. That would be a feature, not a bug.
My own sense is that Lindell isn't moving the window of acceptable thought -- what political scientists call the "Overton window." He is just echoing Trump at his most extreme, when he is complaining about elections and juries, not when he is talking about inflation and immigration. Lindell is attaching the full scent of the Trump/Lindell election-denying, court-denying message to local candidates.
If you like Mike Lindell, you will love our county commissioner candidate.
I think it is crazy and self-destructive, but nobody asked me. But I will happily sit quietly, watch it happen, and take notes.
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Thank you for going so we don't have to.
We're talking about a political party here, so hopefully this isn't off topic. Today is Juneteenth, but House Republicans celebrated it a few days ago by voting on an amendment to a must-pass bill restoring a Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery that had been removed last year. Republicans overwhelmingly supported the amendment, but it failed because a few joined all the Democrats in voting against it.
To point out the obvious racism behind their support for the memorial would undoubtedly elicit cries of “woke” from the usual suspects, so let’s just say they were sending a message to all those commie progressives who think there’s something wrong with overthrowing the government when elections don’t go your way.
The convicted criminal Republicans are pushing for president called those Confederate tributes to slavery and treason “beautiful.” Naturally he and his cult can relate – honoring the traitors of old is like honoring themselves. The GOP has become the Neo-Confederate Party. Insurrectionists are “patriots.” What it’s come to stand for, from the election lies at its core to its contempt for the law, is sick and wrong. Considering the way they act, I'm not convinced their most extreme faction is their least popular. It looks to me like they took over back in 2016 and are still going strong.
The front page of the Seattle Times is “Once again,GOP puts its extremism in black and white.” Guess the GOP that thinks that is everywhere.
“U.S. House” scheduled for 1:15. So does that mean Rep. Cliff Bentz will appear, just unbilled by name?
Will someone please close the Overton on the right?
A cruel wind is raging…
Low; Qliff surely won't miss an opportunity to burnish his creds with the Krazy Kaukus. He can brag about his record of obstructionism and failure introduce a single piece of Legislation which might benefit his Constituents, much less get something passed into Law. That last sentence might be wrong, I haven't checked his Legislative Record in a couple of months, but neither have him crowing about getting something for, beyond trying to take credit for $Billion Intel is receiving from an Act he voted against.
As I recall, Randy Sparacino got decisively thumped in his last Campaign as he tied himself to the Election Denying Seditionist tried. I wonder if he learned anything from that experience?
Jackson County Republicans issued an official resolution rejecting the certified results of the 2020 election. With such a prominent whack-job coming to reinforce their delusions, I expect well-armed willful ignorance will be out in force. Now that bump stocks are legal again, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear them ululating and firing their machine guns – hopefully in the air.
Peter should get some good shots of merch tables. This being such a fire prone area, someone could make a fortune selling tinfoil hats guaranteed to protect them from Jewish space lasers. They could even have a first aid station that provides horse dewormers and Clorox injections for those who don’t like vaccines.
Doubtful.
Should that happen (Ululation, firing bumpstockbequipped Assault Rifles, even inside Central Points City Limits, I'm sure the Sheriff Sickler, an avowed Second Amendment Guy ( his words) will stand by with a smile on his face.
Sparacino losing in Senate district 3 is a very different animal than Jackson County at large. While Denise Krause’s combative antics may please south valley partisans, I’m not sure her supporters understand how unappealing she is on a county-wide basis. Dems were on the right track ceding way for independent centrist Al Densmore in the last commissioner election, but in local government it is always a tough sled running against an incumbent. I was intrigued by the doctor from Eagle Point, but it seems she did not want to step on Krause’s toes and dropped out. Jackson County dems have some work to do to figure out how to win in a red county. I predict Sparacino will win handily.
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