{"id":1980051,"date":"2023-07-21T21:40:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T01:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-gop-establishment-needs-a-wake-up-call-pence-christie-ryan-are-out-of-touch\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T21:42:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T01:42:51","slug":"op-ed-gop-establishment-needs-a-wake-up-call-pence-christie-ryan-are-out-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-gop-establishment-needs-a-wake-up-call-pence-christie-ryan-are-out-of-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: GOP Establishment Must Wake Up &#8211; Pence, Christie, Ryan Out of Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fop-ed-gop-establishment-needs-a-wake-up-call-pence-christie-ryan-are-out-of-touch%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1980051&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The\u2064 Delusions \u200cof the \u200cGOP Establishment: Pence,\u2063 Christie, and Ryan Out of Touch<\/h2>\n<p>The only people more delusional than Sam Smith are\u200d our establishment Republicans. In the same way Smith fancies himself a sex symbol now,\u200b the Republican old guard fancy themselves relevant and savvy political minds.<\/p>\n<p>The latest instance came last weekend when former Vice President Mike\u200d Pence torpedoed himself during an\u2062 interview with Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Referring to the \u2064ongoing decay of major\u2064 American cities while\u200d Ukraine receives billions in \u2063foreign aid, Carlson asked Pence, \u201cWhere is \u200cthe concern for the United States?\u201d\u2063 Pence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tucker-carlson-confronts-mike-pence-tanks-ukraine-us-cities-rot-receives-shocking-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded<\/a>, \u201cThat\u2019s\u2064 not my concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In\u200d four words, Pence created attack ads that he\u200d will \u200dnever live\u200b down. Immediately, commentators were ablaze. Bizarrely, instead\u200d of moving on from this peculiar \u2064declaration, Pence shared a\u2064 clip of the comments on social media.\u200d His own followers were\u2062 resoundingly \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/drop-pence-fire-4-words-said-tucker-become-center-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outraged<\/a>. If Pence\u2019s comments were a fire, he \u200dused social media\u200d to fan the flames.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, presidential\u200c candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/chris-christie-slams-tucker-goes-quiet-carlson-hits-simple-request\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Christie<\/a> has become\u200c king of \u201cself-owns,\u201d as the kids call it. (A self-own is when you humiliate\u2062 yourself, usually unwittingly, often while intending to brag.)<\/p>\n<p>Christie\u2019s \u20622019\u2062 book \u201cRepublican Rescue\u201d was a huge self-own \u2014 or perhaps very small because it didn\u2019t sell very many copies.<\/p>\n<p>A recurring motif \u200cin the book is\u200d that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/smart-guy-trump-reacts-possible-team-democrat-2024-re-election-bid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> obviously does not\u2063 trust or like Christie, yet Christie does not \u200cseem to realize it. Eventually, the self-owning comes to a head\u2064 when Christie is repeatedly led on by \u200dthe \u200dTrump transition team (which \u200bhe\u200c chaired before being demoted), and they offer\u2063 him one job after another to neutralize him during a\u200c sensitive\u2063 period for the administration. Eventually, he\u2019s left with nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Christie recently continued his \u2063tradition of self-inflicted humiliation in his attacks on Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/06\/07\/did-chris-christie-really-destroy-marco-rubio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bragging<\/a> about his ability to \u2063do to Trump what he did to Marco Rubio on the debate stage \u2062in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>First, \u200dno one can remember what he\u2019s talking about. Second \u2062\u2014 even assuming he did take out \u2063Rubio in 2016 \u2062\u2014 why did he\u200c attack\u2064 Rubio and not Trump, who was the front-runner? This\u2063 is \u2062a self-own with more layers than\u200c an onion.<\/p>\n<p>Though not\u200c running for president, the most delusional politico \u2064is former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan\u200b appeared \u2063to conveniently forget history during a recent\u200b TV appearance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2023\/06\/28\/paul-ryan-it-is-a-disaster-if-we-nominate-trump-he-could-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complaining<\/a> \u2062that the \u2063GOP does \u2063not win under Trump. Ryan seemed to \u2062forget \u200bthat the \u200cGOP lost an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-gop-summer-swoon\/\" title=\"The GOP Summer Swoon\">extremely winnable race<\/a> in 2012 when he\u2064 ran\u200c as\u2063 VP\u2062 with \u200cfellow establishment Republican\u2062 Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan also seemed to forget that the House of Representatives was \u200dlost during his\u2063 speakership, thanks in part to his choice not\u2063 to help Trump marshal resources\u2062 to\u2062 build the wall, secure\u2063 the border, and pass a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/far-left-fumes-over-draft-from-bidens-supreme-court-commission-on-packing-the-supreme-court\/\" title=\"Far-Left Fumes Over Draft From Biden\u2019s Supreme Court Commission On Packing The Supreme Court\">major infrastructure package<\/a>. \u200cRyan delivered tax cuts for the Republican\u200d donor class, lost the House, and\u2062 then retired without \u2062any concern\u2064 for the fact that he had obstructed most of \u2062the GOP\u2019s mandate in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Of course,\u200b Trump is not without some blame\u2064 here. Trump\u200d should have\u2062 anticipated that Ryan\u2062 would betray the\u2064 populist wave in\u200d the \u2062party\u2063 when he \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/10\/10\/politics\/paul-ryan-said-he-wont-defend-donald-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stopped campaigning<\/a> for Trump in the weeks before the 2016 election. Trump\u200c also \u2062never took bold\u200b executive action on building the wall or used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-gop-establishment-needs-a-wake-up-call-pence-christie-ryan-are-out-of-touch\/\" title=\"Op-Ed: GOP Establishment Must Wake Up - Pence, Christie, Ryan Out of Touch\">talented pro-border security minds<\/a> like Kris Kobach\u2064 to secure our southern \u2064border.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless,\u2062 Ryan fails to notice that \u2062he shares much of the blame. He also\u200b omits\u2064 that Republicans expanded control of the Senate under Trump \u2064in 2018 and \u200cthat if it \u200cweren\u2019t for Trump-appointed justices,\u2064 we likely would have \u2062never had a Supreme Court brave\u200c enough \u2063to strike down Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p>With so much madness within \u2063the ranks of the GOP establishment \u200b\u2014 \u200band with President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-biden-nearly-biffs-going-short-stairs-air-force-one-holding-dear-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poor health<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/skeptical-federal-judge-admonishes-biden-dhs-failure-properly-track-illegal-aliens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incompetence<\/a> obvious to\u2063 all\u2062 \u2014 the problem is clear: These \u2062men are unfit to\u2062 govern.<\/p>\n<p>A \u2063hammer, yet again, needs \u200cto be taken to \u2062Washington \u2014 but who can do it?<\/p>\n<p>The best choices are just \u200das\u2062 clear as \u200cthe problem itself. Trump and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rfk-jr-s-speech-gets-roaring-applause-dems-attempt-stop-testifying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a> are \u200dthe only two \u2064men\u2063 who\u200b seem\u200c authentically bent on \u200dchanging American governance for the better.<\/p>\n<p>Both men have been attacked\u2062 for challenging the powers that be in Washington. Both men\u200b have connected with voters because of their ability to identify\u2063 and \u2062zero in on the issues middle America\u2064 cares about, including immigration, crime, inflation, ending pointless \u2063foreign \u2064wars, boosting domestic \u200cproduction, and rolling back COVID totalitarianism.<\/p>\n<p>But \u2064wait! What about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bad-news-desantis-ron-now-tied-surprise-candidate-2nd-place-gop-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis \u2064remains an elusive\u200b figure. He was inarguably the bravest governor in the country during the pandemic. After agreeing \u200bto the\u200c initial lockdown, DeSantis was put \u200cunder immense pressure from\u200c Biden and the corporate media \u2064to impose further lockdowns and vaccine mandates;\u200b nevertheless, he resisted.<\/p>\n<p>However, DeSantis\u2019 position on \u2063intervention \u2062in Ukraine remains mysterious. His ability to resist \u200dthe lobbying of \u200dentrenched corporate interests is \u2064similarly murky.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis successfully took on Disney,\u2063 a major corporation in his state, because of its\u2064 propagandizing of children\u200c with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-denies-biological-reality-issues-first-passport-with-x-gender-option\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Denies Biological Reality, Issues First Passport with 'X' Gender Option\">woke gender ideology<\/a>. However, although \u2062DeSantis never\u200d voted directly \u2063on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secretary-of-state-outlines-bidens-foreign-strategies-says-us-will-lead-with-diplomacy\/\" title=\"Secretary of State Outlines Biden\u2019s Foreign Strategies, Says US Will \u2018Lead With Diplomacy\u2019\">free trade agreements<\/a> while \u200cin Congress, his vote authorizing President \u200bBarack Obama\u2019s fast-track trade authority indicates that he may \u200dhave been \u2062open to the Trans-Pacific Partnership\u2063 \u2014 potentially clouding\u2062 his record.<\/p>\n<p>Considering this, Americans should\u200d cautiously keep an open\u200c mind as \u200bto a third option for \u200dpresident.\u200b There could be three men in this race who \u2062could reset Washington, but each should be made to prove himself, and he must \u200cbe\u2063 ruthlessly\u2063 held to account\u2064 where\u200d he falls short of\u200b his promises.<\/p>\n<p>If Americans\u2062 want \u2062to make sure our governing class snaps out of its \u200ddelusions, we must reserve our votes for those most capable and committed to breaking up business as usual in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bpost <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-gop-establishment-needs-wake-call-pence-christie-ryan-touch\/\">Op-Ed: GOP Establishment Needs a\u200b Wake-Up Call &#8211; Pence, Christie, Ryan Are Out of Touch<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The\u200d Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to Sam Smith as delusional, the text highlights the similar delusion of establishment Republicans who consider themselves politically astute. 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