OPINION:
More than 200 staffers and aides for the GOP’s George W. Bush, Sen. Mitt Romney and the late Sen. John McCain rushed to show their support for Kamala Harris and send out a letter endorsing her, not Donald Trump, for president.
Two hundred! Well, hell’s bells. This is the part where Trump is probably supposed to bite his fingernails in fright and run like a little girl from the campaign trail — right?
Only — wait. As The Hill notes, the “majority of the group also endorsed President Biden in 2020.”
These aren’t Republicans.
These are the typical Republicans In Name Only who’ve gone off the deep end on hating Trump. They’re feverish with Trump Derangement Syndrome.
These are also Democrats wearing GOP buttons so they can get more face time in the media.
CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC and the rest all hate Republicans, but their bookers know that in order to make the claim of unbiased news they must stomach the idea of having members of the GOP on their shows. They seek out the Republicans In Name Only so when the Republicans In Name Only come on their shows and agree with the Democrats, they can pretend like only the most radical of Republicans — the Trump types, for instance — disagree. Then they can dismiss the core conservatives of the nation whose many, many, many voices are represented by these so-called “radical” Republicans as similarly radical.
This is the playbook of these 200.
They’re trying to act like they’re genuine conservatives so the media can then play along with that tag and in so doing, report on how astonishing — shocking! — it is for so many Republicans to pick Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, over Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio. Then they can carry on that conversation a bit longer by having all the pundits in the media masquerading as scholars of political science with their pulses on society at-large — by having these giants of media wax long and hard about the deplorable status of Trump, by pointing to the refusal of these 200 to endorse Trump as irrefutable evidence of his deplorableness. Yawn.
“Of course,” these 200 fake Republicans wrote, “we have plenty of honest, ideological disagreements with Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz.”
No, they don’t.
They just hate Trump.
Or, more to truth, they hate Trump more than they hate communism, because that’s what Harris and Walz bring to the political table: communism.
How do you vote for communists while claiming to be Republican?
The 200 also said all their friends and colleagues should “vote for leaders that will strive for consensus, not chaos,” The Hill reported. And like a hyena running to a carcass, the Harris campaign jumped to attention.
“The Harris campaign touted the endorsements Monday, weeks after it launched the Republicans for Harris coalition,” The Hill wrote.
There are no Republicans for Harris.
There can never be Republicans for communists and collectivists.
These two things do not coexist.
What there can be are opportunistic fake Republicans riding the GOP ticket to Democrat-ville with expectation their yellow-belly, cowardly cloaked communism will eventually pay off and win them power and prestige and media attention. That’s the 200.
Republicans for Harris are RINOs for Not Trump, and everybody, including the media, knows this.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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