McCain Conservatives Are Rallying Behind Justin Amash

Warlord · Dec 20, 2019

On Wednesday, as Rep. Justin Amash (I–Mich.) was voting with the nearly-unanimous House Democrats to impeach President Donald Trump, a group of former Republican campaign strategists for the likes of former Sen. John McCain and former Gov. John Kasich announced the formation of a new Super PAC to support Amash's effort to retain his swing-district congressional seat as an independent.

"While we don't agree with him, or each other for that matter, on every issue, we think Washington needs more Justin Amashes," wrote Country Above Party Super PAC co-founders Rick Wilson, John Weaver, and Jeff Timmer in a joint Michigan Live op-ed yesterday. "Whether Amash is successful or not in his re-election bid as an independent will have consequences beyond his district's boundaries or even Michigan's borders. Allowing him to be swept aside in favor of a craven Trump apparatchik will further coarsen our politics and threaten the rule of law."

Wilson, author of the 2018 bestseller Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, previously worked on campaigns for George H.W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani, and Evan McMullin, and was appointed to a Defense Department job by Dick Cheney. Timmer, an Amash constituent and former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party, announced last month that he "will support any Democrat—even a yellow dog—against any Republican who supports Trump." Weaver, a key strategist in both McCain presidential runs (though he was canned from the second when it was floundering in 2007), headed up the quixotic presidential bids of Jon Huntsman in 2012 and Kasich in 2016, and has been drawing a $10,000 monthly fee from the pro-Kasich Super PAC New Day for America ever since.

Wilson and Weaver on Tuesday joined former McCain advisor Steve Schmidt and the interestingly married legal analyst George T. Conway III in announcing the formation of a parallel national Super PAC, the Lincoln Project, dedicated "to defeating President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box and to elect those patriots who will hold the line."

More:

https://reason.com/2019/12/19/mccain-conservatives-are-rallying-behind-justin-amash/

donnay · Dec 20, 2019

Not a surprise really. The RINO's are just right of the communists democrats. John McCain waa such a traitor along with Kasich, Lindsey and Romney.

sparebulb · Dec 20, 2019

"McCain" and "conservative" are mutually exclusive terms.

acptulsa · Dec 20, 2019

Wilson, author of the 2018 bestseller Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, previously worked on campaigns for George H.W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani, and Evan McMullin, and was appointed to a Defense Department job by Dick Cheney.

That certainly qualifies him as an expert on the worst president ever.

It's funny the establishment is paying people and paying them well to use the fact that working for Dubya left them tainted and untouchable to give bipartisanship a bad name. It's an interesting golden parachute for Bush hatchet men.

It's sad anyone believes anything they say.

At least they've gotten a tiny bit more subtle since they paid David Duke to endorse Ron Paul.

jmdrake · Dec 20, 2019

Warlord said:
More:

https://reason.com/2019/12/19/mccain-conservatives-are-rallying-behind-justin-amash/

Good. I hope Justin somehow pulls this election rabbit out his ass and states in the house.

Warlord · Dec 20, 2019

jmdrake said:
Good. I hope Justin somehow pulls this election rabbit out his ass and states in the house.

I take it you're going to continue your donations to Justin? He needs all the help he can get.

jmdrake · Dec 20, 2019

Warlord said:
I take it you're going to continue your donations to Justin? He needs all the help he can get.

I have not. But I will. I gotta get through Christmas and all that.

Sammy · Dec 20, 2019

CNN,the Young Turks & the Neocons praise Justin Amash.
I have a big problem with that.

acptulsa · Dec 20, 2019

Sammy said:
CNN,the Young Turks & the Neocons praise Justin Amash.
I have a big problem with that.

Really? Because I never gave a shit what any of them say.

Valli6 · Dec 20, 2019

And what's Justin Amash's response to being praised by "McCain conservatives"? Is he very proud of himself?

acptulsa · Dec 20, 2019

Valli6 said:
And what's Justin Amash's response to being praised by "McCain conservatives"?

They seem to be beneath his consideration.

Swordsmyth · Dec 20, 2019

ALL the right friends.

acptulsa · Dec 20, 2019

Swordsmyth said:
ALL the right friends.

What does an unsolicited poison pill "endorsement" by unpopular enemies have to do with the man's friends?

Swordsmyth · Dec 20, 2019

acptulsa said:
What does an unsolicited poison pill "endorsement" by unpopular enemies have to do with the man's friends?

It comes after he does their bidding and hangs out with them and it is far from the only one.

acptulsa · Dec 20, 2019

Swordsmyth said:
It comes after he does their bidding and hangs out with them and it is far from the only one.

Do you expect me to believe any of these lies?

You have no proof Rick Wilson, John Weaver, and Jeff Timmer asked him to do anything or ever met him. You have no evidence Rick Wilson, John Weaver, and Jeff Timmer asked him to do anything or ever met him. You have no reason to believe Rick Wilson, John Weaver, and Jeff Timmer asked him to do anything or ever met him.

What does that make you?

Swordsmyth · Dec 20, 2019

acptulsa said:
Do you expect me to believe any of these lies?

You have no proof Rick Wilson, John Weaver, and Jeff Timmer asked him to do anything or ever met him. You have no evidence Rick Wilson, John Weaver, and Jeff Timmer asked him to do anything or ever met him. You have no reason to believe Rick Wilson, John Weaver, and Jeff Timmer asked him to do anything or ever met him.

What does that make you?

He is hanging out with the swamp, it doesn't matter which individual members.
And most importantly he is endorsing their treason and destruction of the Constitution.

acptulsa · Dec 20, 2019

Swordsmyth said:
It comes after he does their bidding and hangs out with them and it is far from the only one.

What does this make you?

CCTelander · Dec 20, 2019

acptulsa said:
Do you expect me to believe any of these lies?

You have no proof Rick Wilson, John Weaver, and Jeff Timmer asked him to do anything or ever met him. You have no evidence Rick Wilson, John Weaver, and Jeff Timmer asked him to do anything or ever met him. You have no reason to believe Rick Wilson, John Weaver, and Jeff Timmer asked him to do anything or ever met him.

What does that make you?

Last time I checked guilt by association was still a fallacy, and usually with good reason. Imagine my utter shock when I see SS using it ... CONSTANTLY, and usually against people who had been considered allies in the struggle for human liberty. What does THAT tell you?

acptulsa · Dec 20, 2019

CCTelander said:
Last time I checked guilt by association was still a fallacy, and usually with good reason. Imagine my utter shock when I see SS using it ... CONSTANTLY, and usually against people who had been considered allies in the struggle for human liberty. What does THAT tell you?

If Swordshyll is right and guilt by association is valid, then Swordshyll is an enemy of liberty.

CCTelander · Dec 20, 2019

acptulsa said:
If Swordshyll is right and guilt by association is valid, then Swordshyll is an enemy of liberty.

Say it isn't so!

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