New England Republican ⚓️

Conservative Episcopalian - liberal Republican - Whig. Alleged “Rockefellerite Bastard”. God Bless America.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

“My politics is like my religion, I never change. I am careful about serving my Lord and voting the Republican ticket.”

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

@Synthesis_ofic @SenatorDanforth Never said Fazio was bad! He was a great candidate.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

This also applies to CT, by the way.

John Rowland and Jodi Rell were both moderates and they won with commanding majorities.

The problem is that Lamont has decided he wants to compete for the old Republican base as well.

[Midwest Moderate @ModerateIndy]

Stop running dogshit candidates

Let’s take a look at what Rs have won the Gov or federal office in the past 26 years in Illinois.

George Ryan
Pete Fitzgerald
Mark Kirk
Bruce Rauner

Ideologically, none of these people are even mildly close to Darren Bailey.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

@TuckerClassic I agree! He was a very good candidate. With that in mind though, I’d like you to point where I said Fazio was a bad candidate.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

@CTIronman That is a whole separate conversation, yes.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

@CTIronman Also true. To win going forward, the party would need to really invest in the future. But that would mean the CTGOP being present outside of election years and that seems unlikely.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

@JoeyGreen33333 @NegativeWatts I agree. He did very well for what he was given!

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

@CTIronman This is definitely true. But this erosion didn’t happen overnight and nor was itinevitable. Charlie Baker, Phil Scott, Chris Sununu, and Kelly Ayotte are evidence of this.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

@NegativeWatts I highly, highly, disagree.

But even if that were the case? Running bad candidates at the top of the ticket hurts everyone down ballot.

There is no incentive to run bad candidates.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

@dotNectar

[Midwest Moderate @ModerateIndy]

Stop running dogshit candidates

Let’s take a look at what Rs have won the Gov or federal office in the past 26 years in Illinois.

George Ryan
Pete Fitzgerald
Mark Kirk
Bruce Rauner

Ideologically, none of these people are even mildly close to Darren Bailey.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

@sillygoose762 Reading state constitutional cases is mind numbing.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

I am rather convinced that Judicial supremacists do not have the displeasure of reading state court decisions with any frequency.

If they did, they would all become legislative supremacists.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

@thedixieliberal So long as we maintain that spirit, we will never fail.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

That the American is something of an optimist, confident in themselves, is definitively a good thing.

This exact self confidence won us a Revolution, settled the West, and put a man on the Moon.

Americans being optimistic and confident is a virtue and not a vice as many posit.

[Robert Kearney @Robkearney1981]

Vonnegut's criticism of American POWs reminds me of that scene in The Sopranos where the Russian woman tells Tony that Americans expect nothing bad to ever happen to them (while the rest of the world expects only bad and isn’t disappointed) and that they have everything yet still complain.

This attitude of automatic expectation of good fortune in all things—which most people who grow up in the U.S. take as some sort of birthright—probably goes the furthest toward explaining why so many Americans seem to crack so easily when they experience the slightest setback or misfortune.

It's a way of looking at life that few throughout the rest of the world could probably even comprehend.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

@MakeUSAVAT That’s the job of church to remind them they aren’t. “For dust you are and to dust you will return.”

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

@MakeUSAVAT Blah blah blah. Pound sand, pinko.

Being optimistic and confident does not mean believing you’re entitled to greatness.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

@JebPosts

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

A “holistic” approach needs to be taken to the platform.

It’s all well and good to be tough on crime (something I believe “sells”) but eventually many of these criminals will be released. We need to come up with policies that prevent recidivism as much as they punish crime.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

Much to like in this but the statement’s implicit language to double down on a rightward shift/shift to the base strategy is precisely the reason why the Connecticut Republican Party finds itself with three senators.

A “bring out the base” strategy has not, and will not, work.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

@sillygoose762

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

Much to like in this but the statement’s implicit language to double down on a rightward shift/shift to the base strategy is precisely the reason why the Connecticut Republican Party finds itself with three senators.

A “bring out the base” strategy has not, and will not, work.

[CT Senate Republicans @CTSenateGOP]

State Sen. Rob Sampson (R-16) has been selected as Senate Republican Minority Leader, with State Sen. Eric Berthel (R-32) serving as Senate Republican Leader Pro Tempore. Read their joint statement here: https://t.co/X53rTa9Ou3

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

@AMoser_E @AtticTruther Reverse prisons is where you’ll likely lose a lot of support.

[New England Republican ⚓️ @PineTreeGOP]

@AtticTruther Here’s to hoping!