Which Piece of Trash Will Today’s RINOs Offer the American People on November 5, 2024?

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart

 

Not a single “Republican” is qualified to lead our nation. This is not an opinion, it is a fact. If they claim to be patriots and love their country’s people, they are lying. They are all hypocrites who ignore the vast majority of our nation’s people in lieu of their super-rich owners.

In the ignorant, red state of Iowa, Trump and his primary rival, the worst governor in our nation, Ron DeSantis, met head-to-head on Saturday evening. (I decided to begin this with a laugh. Two old, braindead, would-be fascists professing to love their country while lying every time they open their pie holes.)

First, an honest observation. If these two ugly, angry, old white men are the best the once Grand Old Party has to offer, the “Republican Party” is dead and gone forever. Even the hypocrisy of Mitt Romney cannot convince men and women with average intelligence that Trump should be nominated by a party which was once known as the “Party of Lincoln.” He is an insult not only to their greatest President, but to our Founding Fathers and they high standard of morals and principles.

Let’s look at other men and women who declared their candidacy as of 7/30/23.

I offered my opinion of the favorites earlier. There are three other contenders equally as laughable as Trump and DeSantis: Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, and Tim Scott. I would like to offer a positive review of at least one of them, but that’s not possible.

As the Governor of South Carolina, Ms. Haley was a respected woman who had the courage to do the right thing most of the time. However, after accepting Trump’s appointment as Ambassador to the United Nation, she surrendered her principles, morals, and her dignity to the worst man in the world. She cannot be trusted. She has joined the American Fascist Party, created by Donald Trump, and everything she says can be considered a lie. Three strikes and she’s out.

It is inconceivable that Mike Pence believes he has a “chance of a snowball in hell” of becoming the President of the United States. Trump’s personal “yes man” proved that he is a coward and a hypocrite not to be trusted. He has zero charisma, no ideas, and is a self-proclaimed fake Christian, a misogynist, and a homophobe. I know none of these matters to Republican voters, they have proven they will vote for anyone with an “R” next to their name, regardless of their crimes, lack of morality, or hatred for the United States of America.

Several years ago, I believed that Tim Scott, Republican senator from South Carolina, might be a real Republican who could be a legitimate candidate for the presidency one day in the future. However, between 2017 and 2021, he bowed to Trump’s every unconstitutional demand, proving that he is just another fake Republican who will never place his country first. He is another paid liar and totally unfit for public office.

There are several long shots. Two with actual name recognition are former New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, and Marco Rubio, Senator from Florida. Both of these failures were crushed by Trump in the 2016 primaries. Exposed by their own words and actions, not a single Independent or Democratic leaning voter would consider either of these two losers. The 2016 election was rigged in Trump’s failure. The 2020 election was a referendum against the fascist and unconstitutional actions and plans of the worst president in American history. What will the 2024 election offer?

If Trump, DeSantis, or any other right-wing candidate’s name is on the ballot, this will be the greatest travesty and most laughable offering  in history. As all elections have become, Independent voters will decide the outcome. Although I know that all voters should reject loyalty to any political party, it is predictable that no one claiming to be a Democratic or Republican voter will cross party lines.

The current number of voters claiming to be Independent is 49 percent, as younger voters decline participation in a single party. This is a positive trend, unless you are a Republican. The only way the right-wing extremists of the 21^st century can win is to receive assistance from a foreign entity, or plan another coup like the failed insurrection on January 6, 2021.

Beginning in 1981, the Republican Party decided to change radically. It abandoned the literal policies of conservatism and adopted more radical ideas which moved farther to the right and eventually encouraged the development of extreme radicals who call themselves the “TEA Party,” and even more radical, the “Freedom Caucus.” Any resemblance to the Grand Old Party of years past is accidental.

Donald Trump did not lead his party into fascism, he is not a leader. However, his policies and the wishes of his supporters influenced the entire party on the right side of the aisle to abandon the principles of me like Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and although he had faults, the ideals of Richard Nixon.

There is only one legitimate party in Washington today, and Democrats are far from perfect. Over my 67 years of interest in American politics, I have witnessed the failures of both parties, and the changes within them. The last true Democrat was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who always placed the American people in priority number one. As politics began to surpass the golden rule, doing the right thing, our government began to fail its people. Today, I believe it is broken beyond repair.

Only you can make a difference and save our country.

Op-ed by James Turnage

Sources:

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/29/trump-im-not-running-to-stay-out-of-jail-00108880

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2023/republican-candidates-2024-gop-presidential-hopefuls-list/

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