By DEXTER DUGGAN
PHOENIX — Many conservatives’ opinion that “moderate” Republican operatives would just take their marbles and go home rather than stand up for the party was confirmed as August drew to a close.
Some old staffers for Mitt Romney, John McCain, and George W. Bush announced they’re supporting Joe Biden — an extreme pro-abortionist heading up a radically pro-abortion Democratic Party — rather than incumbent GOP pro-life President Donald Trump.
When each of these three “moderates” was nominated for the presidency, conservatives generally voted for them, although Romney, McCain, and Bush mostly weren’t their first choice. Still, these candidates were thought to be better than their Democrat opponents, and conservatives couldn’t get everything they wanted through the political process.
Sometimes, though, there was a feeling that McCain and Romney disdained conservatives but realized they needed their votes. George W. Bush seemed less disdainful, but wasn’t the movement conservative that Ronald Reagan had seemed an exemplar of.
But when the GOP ticket isn’t topped by a McCain, Romney, or George W. Bush, forget it, as far as these operatives are concerned.
One Catholic blogger in Virginia contacted by The Wanderer, Mary Ann Kreitzer, accurately described Biden as “an apostate Catholic.”
Biden rejects all the scientific facts about prenatal development because he regards massive abortion slaughter as beneficial to his political career — although not, of course, helpful for his eternal salvation.
Strangely, the sets of GOP staffers emphasized their regard for the so-called “moderate” Biden personally in late August even though the frail, confused, weary man seemed unlikely to last through even one presidential term.
He was the Trojan Horse for hordes of Democrat radicals for his potential administration. Or, if he did last, he’d be a figurehead president controlled by them.
To draw a culinary comparison, it was as if the staffers ushered you into a banquet room heaped with mountains of cheeseburgers, atop which sat a single thin slice of cheese pizza, and they told you they recommended this banquet feast because they liked pizza.
Except that slim, weak Biden and his mountain of radical strong-armers were far worse for the nation than any 50 years’ worth of bad diets.
Even Biden supporter and national columnist Andrew Sullivan posted at The Weekly Dish on August 28 that “Biden, let’s face it, is weak and a party man to his core, and has surrendered to the far left at almost every single turn — from abortion to immigration to race. You’d be a fool, I think, to believe he could resist their fanaticism in office, or that if he does, he won’t be toast in a struggle to succeed him.”
Sullivan’s article was accompanied by a photo of delighted young radicals burning a U.S. flag in a heap in Minneapolis.
One wonders what hatred of the U.S. fuels these Biden radicals whom the sickly old man feared offending for months — until Biden suddenly feared more greatly that the election was slipping away from him because of his wan passivity. At which point, at the end of August, Biden emitted belated squeaks against months of rioting, arson, vandalism, and looting.
Yet the three sets of Republican staffers endorsing Biden seemed to think he’s a reliable, strong tower of moderation.
In their brief August 26 letter, the “McCain alums” enthused: “Given the incumbent president’s lack of competent leadership, his efforts to aggravate rather than bridge divisions among Americans, and his failure to uphold American values, we believe the election of former Vice President Biden is clearly in the national interest.”
A longer letter from the Romney crew could be characterized as anything from laughable to vicious in its denunciation of Trump: “What unites us now is a deep conviction that four more years of a Trump presidency will morally bankrupt this country, irreparably damage our democracy, and permanently transform the Republican Party into a toxic personality cult.”
Really? “Morally bankrupt”? “Irreparably damage”? “Permanently . . . toxic personality cult”?
Equally risible, the Bush veterans said, “Ultimately, we are looking for a president to lead. We need someone who will quickly course correct and show us the path forward. We need Joe Biden to restore character, integrity, and decency to the White House.”
May these fulminators have even less success electing Biden to the presidency than they did McCain and Romney.
Those who follow Arizona politics weren’t surprised to see such names on the McCain list as Wes Gullett, his U.S. Senate state director, and Grant Woods, his U.S. House chief of staff. McCain had served two terms in the House before moving into retiring Barry Goldwater’s Senate seat as 1987 began.
Political conservatives never held much attraction for such McCain operatives. Gullett, for instance, had been among “Republicans for Janet,” supporting strongly pro-abortion, pro-“gay” liberal Democrat Janet Napolitano for Arizona governor before Barack Obama subsequently plucked her from the statehouse and named Napolitano his secretary of Homeland Security.
And Woods’ presence on the liberal Republican side could be counted on.
The conservative “Seeing Red AZ” blog recalled once again on August 30 that when McCain had moved to the Grand Canyon State with hopes of establishing a political career, he wanted to run as a Democrat until local power-brokers warned him he’d lose the congressional district he wanted under that party affiliation.
When Napolitano later campaigned, the “Republicans for Janet” list “was heavy with McCain aides and staffers, unwilling to support Republican (gubernatorial) candidate Len Munsil,” “Seeing Red AZ” recalled.
An Apostate Catholic
The Wanderer asked three of its contacts for their reactions to the Republican operatives backing Biden.
Conservative GOP political consultant Constantin Querard said on August 30: “There are tons of people in politics, particularly on the GOP side, who are not ideological. They’re out of power because they’re generally swamp people, they don’t like Trump, and they are flattered that anyone should ask for their endorsement, so they rally around Biden in order to matter, even if just for a moment.
“And because they’re not ideological, they can do so easily,” Querard said. “Sure, they’re Republicans, but they can back a gun-grabbing, tax-hiking, #Resist-loving, pro-abort with ease, against their own party nominee who is the opposite of all of that, so they’re not ideological.”
Virginian Mary Ann Kreitzer, who runs Les Femmes – The Truth blog, said on August 31: “Let’s face it, the Republican Party has been filled with RINOs for years. Many of these empty shirts have few principles and embraced the evils of abortion and sodomy decades ago. One can only presume they remain Republicans for some pragmatic reason, presumably money and contacts.
“Their support for Biden just indicates they are going to their true home,” Kreitzer said. “Biden is not a good guy, no matter how much they try to paint him as one. He’s an apostate Catholic, an enemy of the unborn and the family. His actions embracing the Democrat atrocity of abortion through all nine months and infanticide after birth says it all.
“Not to mention his policy of slander and calumny against good men nominated to the Supreme Court like Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas,” she added.
“That he also affirms same-sex ‘marriage’ and actually officiated at one undermines the family and puts children adopted into such perverted households at a lifetime of risk,” Kreitzer said. “We are living in a time where the separation of good and evil is ever more stark and the Democrats truly are the party of evil.
“While these staffers go to their true home, many lifelong Democrats are fleeing. Six Democrat mayors in Minnesota just endorsed Trump and black voters are starting to wake up. A party that kills their babies is a party that wants their elimination,” she said.
“The party that lives in the pocket of Planned Parenthood with its eugenicist founder Margaret Sanger, who considered blacks, Catholics, Jews, and others as ‘human weeds,’ has nothing to offer black voters,” Kreitzer said.
“Many are beginning to understand that and shake the Democrat dust off their feet on the way out!”
Rob Haney, a retired chairman of the Phoenix-based Maricopa County Republican Party, told The Wanderer, “Self-professed ‘loyal’ Republican politicians that subvert the party platform and sabotage conservative candidates” aren’t anything new in GOP politics.
Haney, a longtime foe of McCain, said on August 31, “In the late 1990s, my wife, Marne, and I discovered that our three district GOP representatives to our state legislature were pro-abortionists. We became precinct committeemen to work against their re-election.”
The Haneys later discovered, he said, that the Arizona Republican governor, secretary of state, treasurer, and state party chairman “were all active members of the Women in the Senate and House (WISH), a national Republican PAC. The single purpose of the WISH PAC was to identify, recruit, finance, and elect pro-abortion women candidates to state and federal offices.
“WISH List pamphlets and candidate literature were promoted in the Republican state headquarters’ literature rack,” Haney said.
“Another national cabal working to undermine the pro-life Republican platform was former New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman’s PAC ‘It’s My Party, Too’,” he said. “Former Arizona Republican Cong. Jim Kolbe and Sen. John McCain were on her advisory board. Through the duplicity in his pro-life position, McCain drove the Arizona Right to Life members into opposing factions, which eventually contributed to the historic organization’s demise.
“Even our supposed pro-life former federal representatives, Cong. John Shadegg and Sen. Jon Kyl, added the caveat ‘except for the rape, incest, or the life of the mother.’ This position, of course, is a wink and a nod to the pro-abortion advocates that they were not serious in supporting innocent life,” Haney said.
He recalled that a group of McCain staffers had led the “Republicans for Janet” to back leftist Democrat Janet Napolitano for governor.
“This short trip down history lane is just to point out that the party has long had its Benedict Arnolds,” Haney said. “The resurrection of former McCain staffers, ‘McCain Alums for Biden,’ is just the most recent evidence for this phenomenon. A more accurate name for the group would have been ‘Quislings for Biden’.”
Haney didn’t mention it, but, thanks to such political work as his own, Arizona Republican Party officialdom these days couldn’t be top-heavy with pro-abortionists.
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