'She is weighing us down': Georgia GOP cringes at Marjorie Taylor Greene spectacle

[brooklynite]

Politico

The Georgia GOP is tearing itself apart in a civil war. It lost two Senate seats in an ill-fated January run-off election. And the once-Republican suburbs in metro Atlanta — the most populous part of the state — have bolted toward the Democratic side.

Now, it’s contending with another budding public relations catastrophe: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the newly elected congresswoman whose extremist beliefs and promotion of bizarre conspiracy theories have rocketed her to national notoriety.

The calls for censure and her removal from Congress don’t appear to have damaged her standing in her conservative north Georgia district — and may have even strengthened the so-called QAnon Congresswoman there for now. She tweeted Friday that she raised $1.6 million off all the controversy and on Saturday told her 300,000 followers she just had a chat with a supportive Donald Trump — the former president who has referred to her as a “future Republican star.”

This is what a nightmare scenario looks like.

With the party reeling in the wake of its 2020 unraveling — when it lost too many centrist voters — state Republicans now worry Greene will emerge as the face of the GOP, tainting the entire ticket with a stamp of conspiracy theory and extremism in the run-up to the 2022 midterms.

[Bettie]

1. She and Bang Bang ARE the face of the modern

Republican party.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. And Lying Nazi Boy

[Bettie]

7. Yes, him too

I'm tired of these people!

[marcj420]

2. Oh well

Nice article. I can't feel sorry for the GOP for creating a nightmare of their own doing. I just can't understand how a so-called professional party can allow someone completely unqualified to have any position in politics again. I guess Trump wasn't enough. Every time I keep going back to the fact that this nonsense is driven by racism and hate; not logic and reason. Until the GOP stops hating they will continue down this road of alienating the rest of the country. So shameful.

[Whiskeytide]

4. Shouldn't have waded into the sea of insanity. n/t

[Dave in VA]

5. Womp, womp...

[Buckeyeblue]

6. She needs to be the face of the Republican Party

If they won't do anything about her, then they are her. Everytime we say Republican, we say Marjorie Taylor Greene.

[peggysue2]

8. That's it exactly!

". . . state Republicans now worry Greene will emerge as the face of the GOP, tainting the entire ticket with a stamp of conspiracy theory and extremism in the run-up to the 2022 midterms."

Democrats must make MTG the face of the Republican Party for the 2022 election, in the same way the GOP has attempted to make AOC and the Squad the face of the Democratic Party.

Yes, the measure of extremism is different but . . . this stretch worked in many of our congressional districts. Frankly, the radical right represents a bigger share of the Republican Party than the Democratic Left and is far more dangerous.

What's good for the goose and all that.

Jewish laser beams from space, Hillary stealing/wearing a child's face, Parkland shootings a staged event?

The ad copy writes itself.