THE MORNING RANT: Brian Kemp’s Presidential Ambitions May Have Saved Us from Another Senator Tillis/Cassidy/Murkowski/Cornyn

There is much consternation among Republicans about term-limited Georgia Governor Brian Kemp opting out of the 2026 Georgia Senate race against Democrat incumbent Jon Ossoff. Kemp was favored to easily get the GOP nomination and then go on to defeat Ossoff, flipping the seat back to the Republicans. Initially there was concern that Marjorie Taylor Greene would get the nomination but would prove unelectable. Rep. Greene has since announced that she won’t be running for the Senate seat either.

There is no reason for a state that Donald Trump carried in the 2024 election to have a hard-leftist such as Jon Ossoff representing it in the U.S. Senate. There are plenty of actual conservative politicians who could beat a hard-leftist such as Ossoff.

That said, I am passionately, fervently, Never-Kemp. I am relieved that he will not become another member of the RINO Senate coalition that works with Democrats to undermine Donald Trump and to sabotage the MAGA agenda.

Perhaps this is the most important question to ask: How would a Senator Brian Kemp vote in an impeachment trial if/when the Democrat-controlled House impeaches President Trump in 2027? I believe with the highest confidence that Senator Brian Kemp would vote for conviction and removal of Trump from office.

Brian Kemp’s animus toward Trump, and his cavalier attitude toward Democrat ballot fraud, made it possible for Biden to win Georgia’s electoral votes in 2020, and it is my opinion that Kemp also wanted to deliver Georgia to Kamala Harris in 2024. Putting this man in the Senate when we need to keep the Trump agenda moving forward would be akin to allowing the enemy into our trenches to jam our guns.

Would I rather have Ossoff in the Senate for one more term than Kemp in the Senate for decades? Yes, I would! If a Brian Kemp were in the Senate, he would probably remain a Senator until he dies or retires. We’ve seen the likes of Thom Tillis, John Cornyn, Lisa Murkowski, etc move further and further to the left, until they are fully allied with the Democrats and only voting conservative when there is a prominent show vote around re-election time. It is virtually impossible to turn out an incumbent RINO in a primary due to the power of incumbency (e.g. name recognition, money, etc.)

Even worse, these Republicans who are actually allied with Democrats get committee seats, and so long as there is a Republican Senate majority, the Republicans generally get just one more seat on committees than Democrats. These RINO Senators effectively flip committee control to the Democrats. I’d rather Jon Ossoff take up a Democrat committee seat on a Republican-controlled committee than have a Brian Kemp take a Republican committee seat and then use it to flip the committee to advance the Democrats’ agenda.

I don’t need to recount for this readership just how much we despair about RINO senators in states Trump won who are undermining the Trump agenda. This is from the boss just last week:

“Leftwing Saboteur Thom Tillis is Blocking the Appointment of Ed Martin to be Trump's US Attorney for DC -- an Absolutely Critical Position -- and Will Allow Leftwing Judge Boasberg to Pick the US Attorney” [Ace of Spades – 5/06/2025]

You may remember that near the end of the Biden presidency, Republican Oklahoma Senator Jim Lankford took the position that the only way to secure the border was with a bi-partisan amnesty bill, so he signed on to a Democrat bill that not only didn’t secure the border, but it actually legalized 5,000 new illegal immigrants per day. Fortunately that bill was defeated, but even after President Trump showed that the border could indeed be closed, Senator Lankford is still out there allied with crime-loving Democrats trying to keep hardened, criminal, illegal aliens in this country.

To my ever-lasting shame and disgrace, I voted for John Cornyn in the 2002 Texas Republican primary, because he was the “moderate” and “electable” Republican most likely to beat “popular” Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk in the general election. Cornyn won alright, and he has been stabbing conservatives in the back for 23 years, and now he is running for another 6-year term in 2026.

Even worse, while living in Louisiana in 2014, I voted for Bill Cassidy in the US Senate race, since he was the most “electable” Republican candidate running against the “moderate” and “popular” three-term incumbent, Mary Landrieu. Not only has Bill Cassidy been hostile to the MAGA agenda, he actually joined Senate Democrats in voting to convict President Trump in the farcical impeachment trial in early 2021.

As a final insult, whenever any of these anti-MAGA Republican Senators are in their final term, they gleefully do a shoot-the-finger farewell tour. Mitch McConnell is doing that right now by consistently voting against Trump nominations and consistently voting with the Democrat minority. Mitt Romney and John McCain also showed us the damage that petty, vindictive, grudge-holders can do once they’re in their final terms. If these political turncoats hadn’t been elected to a first term then they’d never have gotten a final term in which to settle scores and to dishonorably betray their voters.

No more Cornyns. No more Cassidys. No more Romneys. No more Lankfords. No More Murkowskis. I could not be more relieved that I don’t have to worry about a Senator Kemp trying to sabotage President Trump.

Of course, the reason Brian Kemp is not running for U.S. Senate is that when he looks in the mirror, he sees a future President. I’ve got a suggestion for his campaign theme: ”A Chicken in Every Pot, and a Rivian in Every Garage”

Voters can never be allowed to forget that Brian Kemp allied himself with eco-globalists in trying to kill off internal combustion vehicles, and he then embraced corporate communism by dishing out billions of Georgia taxpayer dollars to EV-related startups. May his presidential campaign be as successful as his forays into venture communism.

In my latest piece at The Blaze I discuss how the governing uniparty chose to make “America-Last” the compromise position between MAGA’s demand for “America-First” and the Democrats’ anti-patriotic “America-Never” philosophy.

“America-Only” is a necessary counter-response to move the compromise position to “America-First.”

A coalition of America Only and America First voters has the power to compel the Republican establishment and swing-district Democrats to understand that America First is the compromise position, and if they refuse, then they get nothing on their global wish list.

It’s behind a paywall, but if you’re a subscriber to The Blaze, I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

My latest piece at The Blaze:

America-Only is a rational response to the elites’ rejection of America-First,

America-Last is not an acceptable compromise with the Democrats’ position of America-Never. https://t.co/uiN88YUe7M

— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) May 11, 2025

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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