You would be most welcome, Tulsi Gabbard, to join the Republican party.
Gabbard, who formally parted ways with Democrats earlier this week, has too much common sense, too much respect for the traditional values that built this country, too much overall integrity, to be aligned with that party of hypocrisy, Wokeism, open borders, and handouts for all in the name of purchasing votes.
Gabbard formerly was a member of Congress who has run for president as a Democrat, quickly being dispatched from that latter pursuit by the Democratic machine that didn’t like her independence from their hard-left pitch.
Gabbard is all that the Democrats profess to admire. She’s a non-white woman (Samoan), non-Christian (Hindu) and successful as measured by her political accomplishments. They were willing to overlook her military service, distinguished as it was.
But Gabbard ran afoul of Democratic puppet masters by decrying endless wars and adventurism. She was no fan of open borders and said as much.
For this, prominent Dems such as Shillary intimated that Gabbard was a Russian asset.
How the political world has flipped. Where once Republican Senator Joe McCarthy saw communists lurking under every bed, now Democrats’ kneejerk response to any and all critics is to paint them as Russian stooges.
They are just as wrong as McCarthy was. Perhaps, in the fullness of time, that will be realized. It is unlikely, though, because our public schools and universities are minting fresh crops of ill-informed leftists annually.
While Gabbard was running for president, I used her as an example of a Democrat for whom I could vote, even as a conservative Republican.
This is a pet peeve of mine: For all the Democratic pap about being the party of ideas, inclusiveness, tolerance, etc., Democrats simply never admit their candidate is inferior and vote for the Republican alternative.
On the other hand, on many occasions I have voted for the Democrat if that person was the superior choice.
To understand this blind allegiance that afflicts Democrats, know that even after Clueless Joe Biden has botched domestic and foreign policy in two short years, a majority of Democrats would vote for him again tomorrow.
Gabbard has been holding her nose and sticking with the Democrats for years. Now she has had enough, as she noted in her announcement, of their anti-white racial politics, constant warmongering, and unrelenting attack on American freedoms, the latter being something Gabbard fought to protect during the war in Iraq.
Congratulations to Gabbard for conceding the obvious, she does not agree with the the tenets of the Democratic policy.
Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin clearly identifies with the wrong party, although caving to Biden on the tax/climate bill has dropped Manchin’s support at home by 10 percentage points, giving him a solid Democratic look on that issue and second thoughts about running for another term.
If only RINO (Republican In Name Only) Senators Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) would drum up some courage and move to the party that more closely aligns with their policies.
We’re talking Democrat, although CCP would not be that much of a stretch.
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