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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,884 posts)
Wed Jul 7, 2021, 12:36 PM Jul 2021

The Big Lie is now a litmus test for this Republican Senator

The Republican Party is no longer about conservatism. It's about slavish devotion to Donald Trump and his fact-free fantasy that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

Witness what's happening right now in Oklahoma -- where Sen. James Lankford is facing a rebellion within his party because, well, he refused to cast a vote objecting to the Electoral College results in Pennsylvania and Arizona following the riot at the US Capitol.

According to the Tulsa World, Oklahoma Republican Party chairman John Bennett is not only supporting Lankford's primary opponent -- Jackson Lahmeyer -- but was also in attendance at a rally organized by Lahmeyer late last month that featured former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn as well as Mark McCloskey, the pistol-packing Missouri man who became famous for "protecting" his home during a peaceful protest. Several people who were part of the January 6 insurrection were also featured at the rally.

Bennett's lack of neutrality in the primary didn't sit well with Lankford. "It's more unheard of than it is rare," he told the World. "I'd say it's highly unusual for a state party chair in any state in America to come out and say, 'I'm not going to at least be neutral.'"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-big-lie-is-now-a-litmus-test-for-this-republican-senator/ar-AALSTRB

Gotta kiss the big orange rump.

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The Big Lie is now a litmus test for this Republican Senator (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2021 OP
The Congress is going to get crazier every election leftieNanner Jul 2021 #1

leftieNanner

(15,080 posts)
1. The Congress is going to get crazier every election
Wed Jul 7, 2021, 12:41 PM
Jul 2021

And dumber.

Any idiot with an R beside their name can be sent to Washington DC.

Tommy Tuberville (and likely Mo Brooks next year)
MT Greene
Madison Cawthorne
Boebert
Goemert
Gosar............

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