Wake Up Flaccidcons – It's Not 2005 Anymore
Townhall,
by
Kurt Schlichter
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
8/22/2022 5:53:41 AM
Oh, Mike Pence, you soft, naive little man. Oh, Tim Scott, you kindly and friendly gentleman. I like you both. I really do. I would love you to be my neighbors. If I ran short of sugar or charcoal, you'd square me away. Not so much bourbon, but whatever. If I asked you to help me move or give me a ride to the airport, you suckers would be all in because you are nice guys. And that's your problem and the problem of Republicans like you. You are nice guys in a time that calls for ruthless killers who want to destroy our enemies
Reply 1 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 8/22/2022 6:05:01 AM (No. 1255763)
Outstanding. Must read .
We need generals. We need wartime consigliere.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DW626 8/22/2022 6:32:22 AM (No. 1255768)
Yep, “Ned Beatty in "Deliverance" was a good person too” sums up the RINO part of the Uniparty quite accurately.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 8/22/2022 6:38:13 AM (No. 1255770)
Don’t need coffee after this…
TBIYTC
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Kitty Myers 8/22/2022 6:40:02 AM (No. 1255771)
I do NOT like Back-stabber Pence, and I'm disenchanted by Tom Scott.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Kitty Myers 8/22/2022 6:45:49 AM (No. 1255773)
FTA: "You would prefer a world of comity, collegiality, and unicorns."
I disagree. They're out for money, and not just money but hardcore WEALTH. And the power that comes with it. But most importantly WEALTH. They collaborated with the GOPe and said, Just tell us what to do. And the GOPe smiled.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 8/22/2022 6:45:57 AM (No. 1255774)
Just read something else about the Republican McLeadership — McConnell, McCarthy, McDaniel. They don’t WANT to win, as evidenced by their lack of fight.
I’m hating them worse than I hate the Communists. The Communists are at least more honest in their dishonesty.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
pros7767 8/22/2022 6:49:11 AM (No. 1255776)
Great article to wake up to.
Thanks for posting OP!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
privateer 8/22/2022 6:54:33 AM (No. 1255781)
RINOs such as Pence and Scott CAN'T help us. For if they do get their hands on the levers of power...they suffer from Effectile Disfunction. Nothing they do helps; they aren't willing to do what would. Schlichter nails it: with Flaccidcons.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 8/22/2022 7:01:44 AM (No. 1255785)
Forgive me please in advance, but there was a great line in the movie, Tin Cup…
“Gutless Wonder” describes Pence perfectly.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Msquared112 8/22/2022 7:03:04 AM (No. 1255787)
It’s dangerous to say this, but this is the best thing Kurt has done yet. (Tomorrow he’ll write another one equally good.) He is superb at elucidating the frustration and anger we conservatives are feeling. Dead right: those two men are too soft, not living in the real world, expecting that their decorum is something we need. We don’t. As Kurt said, we need “killers” in the sense that they are not afraid to go to war in the culture and in politics. Way to go, Kurt. As usual, superb.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/22/2022 7:16:31 AM (No. 1255797)
Kurt hits the ground running, with a rifle in his hands. You won't read a better article today.
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Truth!!!! We need a street fighter, not a camp counselor.
We are done with the Romney, McCain type of choices, because we finally saw behind that curtain of evil.
Only one thing I disagreed with in the article...I would not want to live next door to Pence. I would tell my grandsons to stay away from the creepy neighbor.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 8/22/2022 7:17:49 AM (No. 1255799)
Excellent...I didn't want it to end.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Cindiana 8/22/2022 7:44:42 AM (No. 1255823)
He writes in a language we can all understand such as this:
,,,"Mike Pence, Tim Scott, I like you. And I would love to live in your world. But that world exists only in your imagination, and I and the rest of us in the base are stuck here on Planet Earth. You guys can't be president because you are not wartime consiglieres. You are both Tom Hagan, reliable and soft Tom Hagan, when we are Michael and we need a Sonny to go after the Barzinis and Tartaglias of the left...."
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 8/22/2022 7:47:09 AM (No. 1255826)
No more Mr Nice Guy....it’s time to fix bayonets and go over the top!
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downnout 8/22/2022 7:47:13 AM (No. 1255827)
Absolutely brilliant!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
judy 8/22/2022 7:57:16 AM (No. 1255834)
Please allow Pence & Scott a try at the presidency ...see how many
republicans vote for them...remember Jeb with the Big $$$ support....how far did he get with the Big $$??? How did Pence's support help in Arizona ??? It's the people stupid... not the Big $$$. The day of the Big $$$ support & control is over... courtesy of Trump!!!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/22/2022 8:17:05 AM (No. 1255849)
Pence and Scott, you saw what happened to HW Bush in 1992 when he was so gentlemanly with BJ Clinton and Bob Dole in 1996 when HE tried to make nice with the rather sketchy BJ Clinton, or when John McCain in 2008 and Pierre Delecto in 2012 when they both tried to make nice with the Obiemeister during the 2008 and 2012 election campaigns. All got their clocks cleaned - severely.
Do us all a favor, guys, and stay out of the 2024 presidential race. America, as founded, is fighting for its very survival and the last thing we need is your Mr. Rogers schtick. And tell your donors "no thanks".
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Califedup 8/22/2022 8:29:46 AM (No. 1255859)
As usual Kurt Schlichter nails it as to what reality really is regarding the state of affairs of our Republic. We are at war with the communist death democrats which means we must have take no prisoners warriors in Congress, State, County, and local governments, especially on School Boards. Great article.
By the way I strongly recommend Kurt's Kelly Turnbull novels regarding a splitting up of our country into two parts. You can't put them down once you start reading.
No more rhino traitors and quisling republicans in power. That especially goes for the M&M twins China Mitch McConnell and Pelosi's butt boy Keven McCarthy. We cannot win with those two leading republicans in the Senate and House.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
49 Ford 8/22/2022 8:32:13 AM (No. 1255862)
I enjoy Kurt Schlichter's columns. They are emotionally satisfying and often make salient points.
Problem is, you cannot field an avenging army that lacks good NCO's and reasonably hope for victory.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Trapper 8/22/2022 8:49:39 AM (No. 1255883)
Remember the character we REALLY liked in that movie? "You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you WANT me on that wall -- you NEED me on that wall."
Trump and whomever he wants to run with him in 2024. And bring Bannon with his list of people to fire on day one.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
idahoskook 8/22/2022 8:49:39 AM (No. 1255884)
Lead. Follow. Or get out of the way!
Mitch McConnel & Co. need to go away and never come back.
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Daisymay 8/22/2022 8:50:11 AM (No. 1255885)
Kurt never disappoints! He is ALWAYS right on the Target. We need to get him into the Senate! As for Pence, if he HAD refused to certify that Election, think what a Hero he would have been. Instead he went the Route of the Good Guy. Does anyone really believe that if the Tables were turned, and this happened to the Democrats, that they would NOT have certified that Election? They wouldn't have cared one bit if people said that wasn't nice. They would have grabbed that Election with whatever worked. Unfortunately, Pence didn't have it in him to do that and so we now have to live under a Biden Administration that is tearing our Country apart! Thanks, but NO THANKS TO PENCE!!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Encore 8/22/2022 9:00:02 AM (No. 1255899)
“Effectile Disfunction”. Thanks ‘privateer’, that’s a good one, I’ll be using this for a while.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Rinktum 8/22/2022 9:03:26 AM (No. 1255907)
To add insult to injury, democrats are counting on these flaccid Republicans to do what they always have done, cave. Given the chance, they will too. If Republicans take the House and Senate, the narrative will be, “for the good of the country we must unite”. Yeah, right. I completely disagree. You give them no quarter. You tell them as Obama did, I won, you lost. For the good of the country, democrats must suffer. It is necessary that they understand actions have consequences. They must be held accountable. And don’t give me that, we have to get busy doing the business of the people and should not waste time on endless investigations. That is not going to fly. The American people not only want but they need to know that justice can be restored. We have to hold these people responsible and they must face swift and sure justice. Anything less is moral cowardice and a total abandonment of the rule of law. As democrats love to crow, no one is above the law. Make them eat those words.
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Kurt fully gets it, but then again he seemingly always has. It is truly amazing that by now there are people like Pence and Scott that don't get it.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/22/2022 9:31:03 AM (No. 1255928)
Yeah, in 2005 we still had a chance at fixing things but blew it. In 2022, time is up, and we now have to deal with the consequences. The big problem is the debt and that is because we are run by tyrants, crooks, and incompetents. The Democrats won't fix it. Doubt the Republicans will either. Both would rather tell others what to do and line their pockets. Not sure there is anyone worth getting behind. We need warriors? Show me someone we can rally behind first.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/22/2022 9:39:25 AM (No. 1255939)
Excellent article....spot on...the time for tough action is now...or America is doomed...our freedoms are being attacked and WE need a General Patton to lead the troops...not a general Montgomery of England who couldn't fight his way out of a paperbag....it got done....when General Eisenhower called in his pit bull...General Patton....
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
faceincrowd 8/22/2022 9:39:41 AM (No. 1255941)
I would like to believe in Kurt's assessment that Pence and the others mentioned are living in another world. It just doesn't wash. What is going on and has been going on is deliberate. Like Carlin said, it's a big club and we ain't in it.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 8/22/2022 9:56:04 AM (No. 1255964)
I don’t ever want to hear the phrase “ Let’s reach across the isle and work with the Democrats.” Every time they do, they get the crap slapped out of them But they never learn.
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The attempt to make Pence a hero and a contender is - what? - bizarre? Futile? Mostly, it's media arrogance thinking it's their prerogative to pick the GOP candidate again. And of course they want a tomato can.
For the sake of accuracy, Ned Beatty's character Bobby was not a 'good person' in Deliverance. He was a slick, flippant salesman as he himself admitted. He certainly didn't earn his fate, however.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 8/22/2022 10:06:59 AM (No. 1255982)
Mike Pence, a nice guy. I'm not so sure.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
MDConservative 8/22/2022 10:18:39 AM (No. 1255994)
FTA: "The difference is that our response to the manifest proof that the system is totally broken...is to accept the harsh reality."
Nice rant, wrong reality. The UNIPARTY is a union that doesn't differentiate between "commie Dem" and RINO profiteers. The two parties at their corrupt cores are one and the same, as demonstrated by the "commie Dems" fixing the '20 election and the GOPe state legislatures in SIX REPUBLICAN STATES standing down despite the apparent statistical impossibility of the outcome and the open cheating. The common goal was to Dump Trump. And until one understands that party differences are in truth merely differences in degree and "branding", the apparent conflict largely a ruse, the various cults of Republican/conservative heroes will continue to lead trusting patriots to disappointment after disappointment.
It wasn't long ago, for example, that Dubya was hailed as the "Greatest of All TIme" in these precincts. We had the McCainiacs and the Romneybots who would brook no discouraging word about their heroes, each The Man who would save us from Obama and socialist disaster. Paul Ryan stood up to Obama and was a hero until he wasn't. And here we are today...same plot with different characters. New "real conservative" heroes to promote, all in the MAGA shadow, like Tim Scott. And at the core now is an apparent consensus that elections that matter are fixed anyways.
Talk about "softies, (who) cannot get (their) heads around the truth of the situation because to do so would require (them) to go hard, and going hard is not in (their) wheelhouse." It's not in the wheelhouse of many who feverishly shout "Lock and load!" then do nothing, not even turn up on their local "town green" holding a sign in protest. I'm underwhelmed at the public response of "patriots" to J6 and the holding of these American political prisoners on misdemeanor charges treated as mass murderers. No public displays of support anywhere. Anyone even wearing a "Free the J6 850" t-shirt? Any candidates demanding their release? Where are our political cult heroes? Where are local conservative activists? Our "Young Republicans" on campus? Keeping their powder dry, I suppose.
Our elected 'Pubbies may be soft...so then are those who enthusiastically elect/re-elect them to office, often eventually disappointed and disenchanted when the chips are laid down. As Mitch says after another legislative compromise, "It's the best we could do." Just don't hand him cash in the "casino"...it's unseemly.
"So step aside, and let the warriors do their thing." Okay, Kurt, let me know where and when they show up doing their thing. Remember the Tea Party!
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/22/2022 10:25:16 AM (No. 1255998)
I wish that I could share Kurt's optimism, but I can't.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
raspberry 8/22/2022 10:34:40 AM (No. 1256013)
"While it may be apocryphal, Winston Churchill is often quoted as having said (supposedly paraphrasing Orwell) 'We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.' ”
Where are the rough Republicans now that we need desperately to save America?
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Citoyen 8/22/2022 10:59:33 AM (No. 1256049)
I have never believed that there is a uniparty. The stated principles of the two parties differ greatly. The Democrat Party, definitely the tougher and politically more effective of the two, does know how to manipulate and shame the weaklings who make up a large part of the Republican Party.
What is different now, as Schlichter writes, is that the Democrats want not to bother pretending to work with the opposition. Democrats want to eliminate all opposition, even the token opposition offered by the flaccid Republicans. That’s a change and too many Republicans can’t see it.
Hakeem Jeffries, who hopes to replace Nancy Pelosi, recently stated Republicans are fanning racial hatred. This is a slanderous lie yet it is becoming a truism with Democrat voters. No national Republican leader took him to task. The Democrats know what they are doing. Too many Republicans are, as Schlichter say, are stuck in the past.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
T&L 8/22/2022 11:09:03 AM (No. 1256055)
DeSantis voted for TPP. He is a tool of the Uniparty, despite his other pro-freedom actions. He will not be the one to save us.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Alecto2 8/22/2022 12:13:34 PM (No. 1256121)
#5 is spot on. For CONgressional critters, it's all about winning the jackpot. When a Benedict Arnold warmonger like Liz Cheney can go from single digit millionaire net worth to $44m+ in five years of public "service", you know the fix is in.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
cold porridge 8/22/2022 12:15:38 PM (No. 1256124)
This is a great article, but I had to change a line when reading this line: "But you softies, you cannot get your heads".....out of your...."
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Geoman 8/22/2022 3:50:57 PM (No. 1256326)
I thought this article was going to be about the flaccid populace (aka electorate), who sit around griping about the lack of fighting generals. If he really believes the enemies of the U. S. are communists, then he should know that political (verbal) "fighting" does not deter them.
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ussjimmycarter 8/22/2022 5:12:37 PM (No. 1256375)
What he said! Exactly as he said it! As always!
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I don't know why Kurt thinks those two are nice and gentlemanly. That is their public mask. Like a previous commenter said, they are out for WEALTH and they will not stop until they fill their pockets. Anybody who betrays their nation like Judas Pence did, is not a nice man. But I will say this for Kurt, flaccidcons is a great term for all of those GOPe slugs in congress and in the Swamp.
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Takes my breath away. Right on spot. Sigh.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Muguy 8/23/2022 8:45:32 AM (No. 1256841)
His articles always get you blood pumping and your heart racing.....
and then we see low-T RINOs who never put up a fight, rarely even get ANGRY or raise their voices, and the ones that do are hounded and persecuted for DARING to speak up.
Get mad! The "old dogs" need to retire, or be retired, but its damn near impossible to remove the entrenched when so many challengers tear themselves apart and the incumbent get re-elected rather than to vote of a KNOWN socialist in the November elections.
What we have seen in LESS than two years is that the entrenched are worthless..... except to their own self interests and they are NOT going to change the arrangement they have with lobbyists and prior knowledge of potential cushy deals.
What we have is SPENDING and now, TAXATION without raising h*ll about it at any level-- Those old folks like Yertle the Turtle and Cornyn just go passively along LETTING IT HAPPEN. The corruption is deep,
Lord, help us!
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WOW!! Is there anything better in the morning than a Kurt Schlichter article with your morning cuppa Joe??!!