We obviously don't agree on the Congresswoman-elect's qualifications or intelligence and I also don't agree with your selection or rating criteria for woman.
The fact that Congresswoman Boebert is smoking hot is not a qualification for office. It's a bonus! What can I say? A beautiful, TRULY conservative, brave woman of true conviction with an open carry sidearm does it for me...
As for rating Boebert's intelligence, I really haven't heard enough from her to offer a quantified assessment. However, if we are going to use a standardized intelligence test to establish criteria for our elected representatives, I fear the House would have about 40-50 members instead of the current 434. I would bet my next pension check that you could eliminate the entire 212 in the Democratic caucus with such a test immediately.. The fact that they vote as lemmings regardless of the issue is not a demonstration of unity to me admired. It's one of fecklessness and low intelligence. But, I digress from the original point..
What I do know for a fact about Boebert is that she is a fearless and apparently much more of a clever politician than given credit for given the outcome of the SOH votes. She's also apparently smart enough to be one of 20 true conservatives who showed themselves to be collectively skilled enough to "out politic" the the politicians to affect actual change in the swamp for the first in a very long time.
Liz Cheney is pretty intellectual.. How would she rate in your test to be qualified for office? You pick your politicians your way, I'll stick with the ones who have more courage and conviction over intellect any day. Besides, elected representatives aren't supposed to be required to build rockets or explain quantum physics. They are supposed to tenaciously represent the will of their constituency.
I am underwhelmed by her intellect and the notion of her offering meaningful representation on any number of critical issues to this country Is laughable.
Speaking of what is actually laughable, just based on the outcome of the SOH vote alone, your assessment of her doesn't seem to have aged well overnight.. I recommend that you read some of the more than 40 bills she has sponsored or co-sponsored in her first term, and then honestly tell me that any of that legislation isn't meaningingful to the America-First agenda or conservatism. You are being dismissive based on personality, not factuality.
Your belief that everyone seemingly has “to go“ who disagrees with you is a perfect example and the road to political oblivion.
It's not about who agrees with me or not. It's about perpetuating real conservativism. If you honestly believe that this republic is going to be saved by the status quo and false conservatives that are currently in charge, you are delusional. We've come to a point of no return where no conservatives may ever control D.C. again. Radical, uncomfortable changes have to happen or nothing will happen. I'm truly shocked that you don't acknowledge that.. We have to purge the elected part of the swamp before we can cleanse the non-elected bureaucrat part of it. It will be extremely uncomfortable if not downright ugly if we are serious about it.
I am not entirely comfortable with 10% of regionally elected representatives determining who is number three in line to the President. Particularly if Boebert and Gaetz are leading the process. And a vote for Trump? It simply makes a joke of what should be serious.
Comfortable or not, it's part of the process that the founders created. Had McCarthy delivered more red seats as promised instead of playing politics and trying to primary out his "MAGA" colleges who he deemed threatening, he would not have had to rely on any one single vote. In all reality, all of this could have been avoided if he had taken the Freedom Caucus' requests for revisions more seriously instead of arrogantly assuming the position. That arrogance in itself is one of many reasons McCarthy and his brand of republicans are such a huge part of the problem.
Make no mistake.. I believe it is now quiet apparent to everyone that Gaetz is a serious as a heart attack. Gaetz's vote for Trump was a middle finger to McCarthy and all the rest of the false conservatives and their arrogance. Obviously, Trump's nomination by Gaetz for SOH was not indented to be taken seriously by the people, but it was intended to make McCarthy and the rest of the false conservatives take the will of the holdouts seriously, which they eventually did.. Drawing out the process to make these guys twist in the wind for a while longer was harmless in the end, but very effective in it's messaging.
think our differences are really over issues of pragmatism. Idealism is useless if it is unachievable. The founders gave us a set of tools. Tradition gave us a two-party system. At the moment both current incarnations of those parties seem determined to embrace the extremes of their respective ideologies.
I've always been a pragmatist. Yet, even pragmatism is guided by perspective, of which you and I seem to be polar opposites. An example of this is my disagreement with you that both parties are embracing their extreme ideologies. The democrats certainly are, but I absolutely do not see it that way with the republicans. I forget who said it but I feel this quote best applies to my current sentiment in regard to the republican party of today: "I never left my party, they left me.."
I would vehemently argue that what is being wrongly described in our culture today as "MAGA" and "Extremist" is nothing more that the believe in the basic principles that I outlined earlier in my definition of America First. These are not radical or extreme ideologies, and those who claim they are are not to be taken seriously. They are the basic tenets of any true conservative that no one would have given a second thought about a few years ago...
In the last few decades, the republican establishment across this country has forsaken these fundamental principles that never left the average American. Trump was the first since Reagan that recognized this and tried to reestablish the doctrine. The weak, feckless, and greedy republicans are just as responsible for suppressing these ideologies as are the lunatic, liberals. The truly disgusting part is at least the liberals are being honest about it.
So, to finally address your comment: Pragmatically, they ALL do need to go, or ideally the the country will be lost..!
