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‘Worst foreign policy blunder in decades’: Republicans turn on Trump over Iran deal
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... and they'll do it again!
MTG picked the perfect moment to leave Congress.
At this point, I have her as the front runner for the 2028 GOP nomination.
I don't think she'll ever make a serious bid at the presidency. She might throw her hat into the ring to grift and raise money but MAGA will never accept a woman as a leader and even the majority of conservatives think any white man is better than a competent woman or non-white individual.
Harris never won a primary and ended up Veep and a potential President.
Politics is a complicated game, and so far she's shown some good moves.
2028 is along way off. I am not counting anything out.
I guess we'll see. On the one hand she's a blithering idiot, which is a feature for the smoothbrains that vote Republican.
But on the other hand, she doesn't have a penis, which might make it really hard for the Nat-C types in her base to overcome. I mean, their own text prohibits women having dominion over men.
I've never spoken to her, or met anyone who has. But let's look at the facts.
She didn't just leave Congress. She waited until a point in the news cycle where she'd get a lot of notice. She gave up her office before being placed in a position to go against Trump in a realistic way [e.g. voting for impeachment.]
She's in a great position to be a TV pundit for the midterms, which means more money and more exposure.
For a nitwit, she's played some pretty cunning moves.
I mean, we've already seen them vote for and otherwise support women (including MTG herself) for political office, so it seems this "principle" is pretty flexible/unimportant compared to all the hateful shit they'd like to get up to.
True. That's why it will be interesting to see how it plays out. I saw some of them go ga-ga over Palin as potential VP, too. And she was just as gross and nasty and unqualified as MTG. And McCain was up there in years, and so him passing while being in office was not all that remote of a possibility.
It's possible that she was a factor in him losing that election, though.
I'm familiar enough with lots of conservatives and heard them talk about women holding power. Being a Rep is one thing, being President is quite another...I don't know who she ran against as far as Republicans, but she was from a R+19 district.
But ultimately, watching them try to balance "but she's a woman she should not rule over men" up against the truly awful and un-American and disgusting things she would likely try to bring about, for example, making this a "Christian nation" will be interesting.
That may very well apply here, too, but by "Nat-C", I was turning around Christian Nationalism and making it match, phonetically, the party that it most closely resembles.
If people are not already familiar with Christian Nationalism / New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and the plots and schemes of movements like the Seven Mountain Mandate, they should definitely brush up on it.
Marj is associated with Christian Nationalism and the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) by the way.
I find it rather alarming to see that some people seem to be platforming Marj (and Tucker, FFS!) just because she's criticizing PEDOnald on the Epstein thing and things like needless wars. Sure, a broken clock can be right twice a day, but people need to be very, very wary of people like her. Same goes for Tucker. I could see those two forming a ticket, by the way.
I haven't seen any polls that put her at double-digits.