Nikki Haley -- Jeb Bush with a UTI* -- started a presidential PAC today. As expected.
@JesseKellyDC
We’re now 3.5 years away from the DC pundit-class being SHOCKED when Nikki Haley gets 5% of the vote in Iowa.
* Yes, I know, technically speaking, Jeb Bush himself is "Jeb Bush with a UTI."
Steven Kruiser: Squish Republican Turncoats are More Vile Than Democrats
The Republicans who like to go begging for favor from the mainstream media will always tell you that they're driven by conscience and deep principles.
That, my friends, is a trainload of hooey.
They're pathetic emotional midgets who are desperate for attention. If they became full-time Democrats, they'd just be one in a big crowd. If they remain Republican, they've got an easy, albeit brief, attention fix. Whenever their fellow Republicans need them, all they have to do is slip a shiv in their backs and they get a pure hit of New York Times love for a few days.
There have been a few Republicans running for cover since the riot at the Capitol. And by "running for cover: I mean "saying whatever the Democrats want you to say."
I agree, mostly, though I don't agree that their defections and betrayals are
always due to the need for validation by the only people that matter, aka rich progressives in the media and corporate and government worlds.
The thing is: If you crave validation from
one particular socio-political group, in fact, you identify as part of that socio-political group, period.
Bill Kristol doesn't just suck progressive dick only because he wants progressives to buy him a drink and some breath mints afterwards.
He sucks progressive dick because he's attracted to progressives and their dicks.
There are a class of "conservatives" who are always scolding conservatives, always betraying conservatives, always jumping at the chance to "tell conservatives some hard truths." These same "conservatives" also are forever pitching "The Conservative Case for [x] Progressive Policy Position.
The reason they do so is not entirely for career advancement and social blandishments. A lot of it is that, but it's not all that.
A lot of it is and always have been something deeper and strong:
Their actual group affiliation and loyalty is to their progressive allies.
Families can squabble, but they're still family.
The fake "conservatives" have always been members of the progressive family, just having a family squabble over minor things like what the corporate tax rate should be. That's why they always leap to defend their progressive family members' right to speak -- while gleefully supporting their progressive friends taking
your right to speak away from you.
You're just allies of temporary convenience. The left is their actual permanent
family.
And blood is thicker than corporate tax rates.
Speaking of Dan "Ben Sasse with an eyepatch" Crenshaw...