Is there any such thing as moderate Republican any more?

[Anonymous]

Most Republicans feel Trump should be immune from criminal prosecution.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-immunity-jan-6-opinion-poll-2024-01-08/

I guess they didn't also ask if they thought Biden should be immune from criminal prosecution, too.

Yes

No

Maybe?

[abc3643]

There are but the psycho-Republicans call them RINOs. The rational, intelligent (well, as intelligent as a Republican can be) Republicans understand and support The Lincoln Project.

https://lincolnproject.us/

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WE HAVE SEEN THE BEST AND WORST OF American POLITICS

The Lincoln Project is dedicated to the preservation, protection, and defense of democracy. Since our launch in December 2019, The Lincoln Project has played a unique role in American politics. We entered the political arena with two stated objectives: first, to defeat Donald Trump at the ballot box in 2020. (Done.) The second was to ensure Trumpism failed alongside him. We understand that the real fight against Trumpism is just beginning and we’re committed to seeing it through. Our democracy depends on it.

Founded by former Republican strategists who understood the grave threat of Trumpism to our nation, the Lincoln Project team has expanded to include individuals from across the political spectrum. We are first and foremost: pro-democracy.

WHY WE FIGHT
Our mission is to protect the American Republic from Donald Trump and those who identify (publicly or privately) as MAGA supporters. While we are optimistic about the future, we are not complacent. In 2020, it took an ad-hoc coalition to ensure Trump’s defeat. In 2022, we built a coalition across the political spectrum and again bought democracy some breathing room. We agree with Trump on only one thing: 2024 is a battle for America’s future.

President Abraham Lincoln led the United States through the bloodiest, most divisive, and most decisive period of our nation’s history. He fought not because he wanted to, but because he knew the dual goals of preserving the Union and the end of slavery would be achieved only through armed conflict. At Gettysburg, he implored us not to forget those who had given “their last full measure of devotion” to preserving the American experiment.

Today, we find our nation divided again – faced with a growing authoritarian movement populated by millions of radicalized voters for whom this fight is existential as well as hyper-partisanship and Ultra-MAGA movements within the government itself. Donald Trump and those who ascribe to Trumpism are a clear and present danger to the Constitution and our Republic.

This is why we fight.

[DryGermanGuy]

They are in hiding as long as the rabid MAGA crowd is tearing up the party base.

[DryGermanGuy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZON6WDxkgkY

[Avicenna]

The party that has gone far off the rails is the CCP's DC branch, aka the "Democratic" Party. Republican politicians at the federal level are mostly a controlled opposition and are hardly "conservative".

[Asker]

OMG.

[exitseven]

Most Republicans are moderates. It is just that they look very conservative next to the wacko democrats

[Asker]

You mean the people they call communists?

[milyjohn]

I was talking to a guy that you might call a Blue Dog. He said: "The Democrats hijacked your party, and I don't know what the fuck hijacked my party."

[loveslongnails]

LMAO "Most Republicans are moderates" I don't know if I should laugh or vomit, or both. There hasn't been a moderate Republican since Olympia Snowe. Most Republicans today are borderline fascists.

[abc3643]

@loveslongnails They crossed the border a while ago.

[exitseven]

@loveslongnails If JFK was alive today he would be a Republican.

[Asker]

LMAO. If Reagan were alive today, the Republican party would have kicked him out long ago. He had an amnesty for illegal immigrants, he passed gun control laws as governor of California.

[abc3643]

No JFK would not be a Republican for a variety of reasons. Certainly not today's MAGA Republicans.

[abc3643]

LOL yeah about Reagan. He's not "ideologically pure". And the "Christians" would reject Jesus too because he's a social justice warrior.

[exitseven]

@abc3643 JFK was a pragmatist. He believed that America could accomplish anything. He implemented tax cuts and was tough with Russia. He believed in equality and not so called equity.
A lot of the things that America First is in favor of.

[loveslongnails]

Equity and equality are brothers, sisters or brother and sister, dude. You won't find one that's working without the other. JFK would never have been a Republican.

[loveslongnails]

Reagan understood how the economy of California was dependent on immigrants, illegal or otherwise. That, and gun control, were about the only things he got right. He gave the impetus to ending the middle class and moving wealth to the top 5%. Trickle-down economics was a scam but he sold it well. Hence, he's still the darling of the GOP.

[exitseven]

@loveslongnails Equality is when everyone is treated the same. Equity is when one group is given an advantage because they are deemed to be "disadvantaged".

[loveslongnails]

Try again instead of making it what you want it to be, hmm?
Equity SIMPLY means:
"JUSTICE according to natural law or right, specifically FREEDOM from bias or favoritism."

Equity has NOTHING to do with giving one group an advantage over the other. By its very definition, it is the LACK of bias or advantage. Geez. Look up the word, for heaven's sake!

[abc3643]

@loveslongnails I can believe that JFK was a pragmatist, but also a visionary.
Being a pragmatist disqualifies him from today's MAGA GOP which requires ideological purity and the only vision they have is a theocratic autocracy... you know, like Iran.

[gorydetails]

Yes, Republicans think that Trump should be immune from the fake prosecutions brought on by the democrats because they know they can't beat him on policy.

[Asker]

What is his policy?

[gorydetails]

Making America Great. Securing the border, bringing energy independence back to America, killing all the DEI bullshit in the government, stopping the bleeding of cash to Ukraine.

[Asker]

America is energy independent.

[gorydetails]

It was, yeah.

[Asker]

It is.

[gorydetails]

And the rest? When are the millions of illegals going to stop under a biden administration?

[Asker]

So, what you're saying is there's no such thing as a moderate Republican. At least if you're an average one.

[gorydetails]

If you consider securing the border extreme, you're the one off the reservation.

[Asker]

Killing people trying to come across it is extreme.

[gorydetails]

If it's secure, no one comes across. Nice try, though.

[Asker]

So it was insecure under Trump, and every other president ever.

[gorydetails]

Not nearly to the level of invasion that Biden has allowed... and Trump wanted a wall, remember? You twats called it 'racist'

[milyjohn]

@asker

If America was energy independent,, then why is Biden begging countries to sell us some oil?

[Asker]

@milyjohn Is he?

[normalice]

There are but they usually get primaried in a hurry.

[Friendlybro79]

Moderate republican voters yes. Are there moderate republican politicians? A few. Not many. Chris Christie is but he clearly dropped out because he bashed Daddy trump.

[milyjohn]

He dropped out because he was done swindling his donors in order to promote his book. He was never there to win.

[Friendlybro79]

@milyjohn Do you have evidence of this? It's interesting how you have such insight. If you can't it's not fact because you just feel this way. Also he ran because he wanted his own party to stop defending a known criminal. Take him at his word. He wanted to try to get through to his brainwashed colleagues and maga voters that Trump is not good for our country. That's why he ran and ultimately why he didn't get enough support. The difference in what I'm saying and what you're saying is simple. You can fact check me by just re-watching any debates. Do you have him in record saying that's why he's dropping. He knows he can't win and that's all.

[milyjohn]

"He knows he can't win and that's all."

[Friendlybro79]

@milyjohn I didn't ask you if he cared about his approval rating and yes that's why he dropped out. I'm saying it had nothing to with his book as you suggested. If he could have won he would want to be president and he accomplished telling the American people that not all republican politicians are scared of Trump. I don't agree with his standings on many of his policies but I respect that he stood up to Trump and doesn't care what anyone else thinks because he knows he's right.

[milyjohn]

OK, it had nothing to do with him going on countless TV shows and promoting his book.

[Friendlybro79]

@milyjohn Hey good for you! You got it right. He didn't run in the primaries to soley sell books lol. He promoted his book and also wanted to win the primaries. He dropped out when he realized he couldn't win.

He's allowed to sell books lol. I'm not even a registered Republican and I'm defending him on this lol. Good night

[milyjohn]

Did you even know about his book before I told you?

[Asker]

@milyjohn If not, he wasn't do a great job of selling it. Everyone knew he was running for president.

[Friendlybro79]

@milyjohn Yes I did and that doesn't mean he ran in the primaries to soley sell his books hoping hed have to drop out just to sell books. He could want to win the primaries and sell books lol.

[Friendlybro79]

Now show me something other than that he has a book for sale that states he was in this to just take donor money to sell books.

[Friendlybro79]

I watched the debates (most of them) and don't recall him talking about his book. Did he even mention it? I tried to see if he did to give you credit but I can't find anything. Then I remembered you made the claim to know this as fact. I asked you to share evidence and you did not other than he's just selling a book, which he's allowed to do. Do you have him at any of the debates trying to sell his book?

[lightbulb27]

plenty but the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

[Anonymous]

Yes, uts just that they don’t look moderate to far left loonies