{"id":18722,"date":"2022-04-28T18:04:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T22:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=18722"},"modified":"2022-04-28T18:07:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T22:07:10","slug":"the-great-rino-hunt-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/the-great-rino-hunt-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great RINO Hunt of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Polls continue to stream in confirming just how toxic the Democrat brand is right now.\u00a0 The latest one by Susquehanna Polling & Research<\/a> has the generic Republican congressional candidate up 10 points over his hapless Democrat challenger.\u00a0 So, it\u2019s getting harder and harder to believe that the Republicans won\u2019t be the recipients of a totally undeserved election gift.\u00a0 They\u2019re going to be given majorities in both Houses.<\/p>\n

But I find none of that compelling.\u00a0 What I\u2019m fascinated by is knowing exactly how many RINO\u2019s are going to be primaried out of office.\u00a0 To my mind this is a much more important number and one that will determine whether the GOP will be useful or useless to us over the last two years of the Biden reign of stupid.\u00a0 After all, if a bunch of traitors like Liz Cheney and Lisa Murkowski get kicked to the curb in November it will have a salutary effect on other RINO\u2019s like Mitt Romney who were not up for re-election in 2022.\u00a0 For a slug like Mitt losing his senate seat would be tantamount to disgrace.\u00a0 So, if he sees his fellow mollusks cast out of their cushy sinecures this year he will scurry back to the middle where he will try to portray himself as a \u201cseverely conservative\u201d culture warrior.\u00a0 Who knows he might even start swearing and claiming that he\u2019s not happy about the January 6th<\/sup> protestors being left to rot in prison for years.<\/p>\n

Trump has a list of the ten Republican congressional representatives who voted to impeach him and seven senators who voted to convict.\u00a0 Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is the only senator up for re-election in November but of course the terms for all ten representatives are also up then.\u00a0 But already four of them have decided to retire.\u00a0 The six remaining reps are all being vigorously pursued by primary challengers who probably have a very good chance of bumping them all off.\u00a0 And Murkowski is also in a dog fight to survive her primary senate challenger.\u00a0 I understand that Rep. David Valadao of California is a friend of minority leader Kevin McCarthy and will get as much support as he can hope for from that ally.\u00a0 But I\u2019m sure Valadao is sweating pretty hard about his chances.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing scientific about how I\u2019m looking at this RINO hunt.\u00a0 But I think the results can be used as a good barometer of whether election results will track the will of the conservative voters.\u00a0 First off, if Cheney isn\u2019t booted out then there is something hopeless about the chances of getting good Republicans in Congress.\u00a0 From what I\u2019ve read her approval rating is in the neighborhood of 10% of the Republicans in Wyoming.\u00a0 And even if a bunch of Democrats vote for her, she should lose in a landslide to the woman that Trump endorsed.<\/p>\n

The Valadao race is in California and between the dominant nature of the Democrat party there and the likelihood of voting skullduggery I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if he survived the primary.\u00a0 And there are two other candidates from Washington state which is also highly progressive.\u00a0 So at least three of the six have some doubts attached.\u00a0 But Cheney and the other two races should be slam dunks.\u00a0 And to my mind Murkowski should be toast too.<\/p>\n

So, let\u2019s just say that if any of those four dead ducks survive that will provide strong evidence that even where Republicans are in the majority that RINO\u2019s aren\u2019t going to disappear.\u00a0 I\u2019ll characterize this as a test to see just how stupid the Stupid Party really is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Polls continue to stream in confirming just how toxic the Democrat brand is right now.\u00a0 The latest one by Susquehanna Polling & Research has the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[3343,148,1110],"class_list":["post-18722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-trump","tag-2022-elections","tag-rinos","tag-stupid-party"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Great RINO Hunt of 2022 - Orion's Cold Fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/the-great-rino-hunt-of-2022\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Great RINO Hunt of 2022 - 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