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Evolve Dammit

(16,760 posts)
Sun Oct 8, 2023, 06:45 PM Oct 2023

Where are the allegedly "moderate Republicans"?? Are they simply on bended knee to

The Orange Boy and Putin by extension? The silence is a chilling warning to where they are, IMHO. Orange Boy has essentially shut down Congress via a dozen enablers and cash from?

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Where are the allegedly "moderate Republicans"?? Are they simply on bended knee to (Original Post) Evolve Dammit Oct 2023 OP
They're a mythical creature at this point. Elessar Zappa Oct 2023 #1
media created mythical creature I suppose. Another misnomer, like "conservative."... Evolve Dammit Oct 2023 #21
No such thing as a moderate Republican. Marius25 Oct 2023 #2
I hate to go there, but recognize they may have all drank the Kool-Aid. Like 1930's Germany. Evolve Dammit Oct 2023 #4
If they haven't drunk the Kool-aid they are beholden to the bucks rurallib Oct 2023 #15
I guess they are the ones who don't swallow. Chainfire Oct 2023 #3
Please explain Evolve Dammit Oct 2023 #6
Please stop with the homophibic remarks. nt leftieNanner Oct 2023 #16
There are no moderate Republicans. Autumn Oct 2023 #5
Kinzinger and Cheney are. There may be others? Evolve Dammit Oct 2023 #7
Kinzinger and Cheney are sane, but not moderate. Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2023 #8
in todays climate I think they are rational and dedicated to the Constitution. Evolve Dammit Oct 2023 #10
Dedicated to the Constitution does not make them moderates. Autumn Oct 2023 #13
I would say it is "better" than those that don't?? Evolve Dammit Oct 2023 #19
They're dedicated to the Bush doctrine: "...as long as I'm the dictator" JHB Oct 2023 #14
I fear you are correct and it is crushing my 60's (and 70's) idealism. Evolve Dammit Oct 2023 #18
Joni "The Obedient" Ernst palling around with DeSantis. BRILLIANT MOVE IA8IT Oct 2023 #9
There aren't any. They vote as 1 solid block. The_Casual_Observer Oct 2023 #11
media label, like "conservative?" Evolve Dammit Oct 2023 #23
Out of office and/or the party... RockRaven Oct 2023 #12
good analogy Evolve Dammit Oct 2023 #22
Still hiding in caves waiting for Trump to be gone so they can say they didn't support him. Wonder Why Oct 2023 #17
yeah. willing enablers and too fucking scared of the MAGAT base to utter a peep. Evolve Dammit Oct 2023 #20

rurallib

(62,445 posts)
15. If they haven't drunk the Kool-aid they are beholden to the bucks
Sun Oct 8, 2023, 07:51 PM
Oct 2023

and fear alienating the Trumpers cause they need those votes

JHB

(37,161 posts)
14. They're dedicated to the Bush doctrine: "...as long as I'm the dictator"
Sun Oct 8, 2023, 07:17 PM
Oct 2023

They want the Constitution as a fig leaf, not torn up the way Trump does.

In congress, both of them voted in lock-step with the MAGAts.

You know Trump's recent "Democrats want abortions after the baby is born" malarkey? Liz has said the same. If she believes it, she's not rational, and if she doesn't, she's just a deplorable with a different brand of seasoning.

IA8IT

(5,559 posts)
9. Joni "The Obedient" Ernst palling around with DeSantis. BRILLIANT MOVE
Sun Oct 8, 2023, 06:55 PM
Oct 2023

Her Rubber Stamp Senate Leadership makes me nuts

RockRaven

(14,991 posts)
12. Out of office and/or the party...
Sun Oct 8, 2023, 07:09 PM
Oct 2023

I feel like Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch would be appropriate here. Michael Palin is the MSM/cable news, "moderate Republicans" are the parrot (obviously), and John Cleese is everyone who has been paying the slightest bit of attention for the past decade or so.

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