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Vivek Ramaswamy to Bari Weiss:
I would rather speak the truth about my own beliefs at every step and lose the election than to play some political Snakes and Ladders. And I believe that our voters across this country have a good sixth sense for being able to tell the difference for somebody who’s actually sharing their true beliefs versus somebody who’s giving them carefully constructed, poll-tested slogans.
Donald Trump without the baggage? Donald Trump forty years younger? Donald Trump with more melanin? Or, maybe Vivek Ramaswamy is his own man with strength of character and a ramrod spine.
Adversity and controversy tell you a lot about a person. Following the most recent indictment of President Donald Trump by MCU bad guy Jack Smith, former Vice President and perpetual jerk Mike Pence sent out the following Tweets:
Our country is more important than one man. Our constitution is more important than any one man’s career.
On January 6th, Former President Trump demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution. I chose the Constitution and I always will.
— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) August 2, 2023
Bull bleep. Trump did not ask Pence to choose between him and the Constitution. Trump wanted Pence to send the electors from the contested states back to the state legislatures. That seems reasonable. Pence being the pious, smug, self-righteous and self-satisfied twat the he is, wasn’t ruing his chance for a show on MSNBC. Pence let Trump take the fall.
Ramaswamy went in the opposite direction. He railed against the politicization of speech:
It’s hard to imagine someone in the time before Trump being that forthright. For two years, Vivek has said hard truths about our Republic. Our Carol wrote about Vivek’s thoughts about the causes for the Capitol riot last month. You can read it here, he echoed the same thoughts before this latest indictment. Red State picked up on how much Vivek showed up Pence:
Ramaswamy acknowledged it would be easier for him to win if Trump were gone, but he said that wasn’t how he wanted it and that it was about “first principles.” He said we do not want to become a country where “the party in power uses banana-republic-like tactics to eliminate its political opponents.” But he said, “That’s exactly where we are.”
Vivek pointed out how Trump had “specifically told protesters to behave peacefully” — yet the media and the Democrats always leave that out. Not just peacefully, but also “patriotically.” He also pointed out that in the lead-up to this, there was all kinds of suppression of speech, that prevented people from finding out the truth, such as the shutdown of the Hunter Biden laptop story, that Twitter even shut down the account of the NY Post.Ramaswamy said he was afraid that we might be approaching something even worse if these issues were not addressed.
“But the first and most important step that we as candidates can take in this race is to speak — and to speak forcefully — on the side of principle. To say that even if we’re competing against Donald Trump, as I am, I do not want to see him eliminated from competition using these politicized tactics. It is wrong for our country, it is wrong for our future. I call on my fellow candidates to condemn it.” He also called on Joe Biden “to do the right thing and drop these politicized charges” as the first step to “uniting our country.”
Ramaswamy has filed lawsuits against the Department of Justice regarding the Trump Indictments. He is in Nashville today calling for the release of the manifesto belonging to the Nashville Christian School shooter:
Meanwhile in Nashville, Vivek Ramaswamy is holding a press conference with Candace Owens in front of a podium that reads WE CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH. pic.twitter.com/96iZOnuzx7
— Stephanie Murray (@stephanie_murr) August 2, 2023
Gossip on the street is that Ramaswamy is running for Veep. Mebbe. A strong leader would be lucky to have him. Mike Pence can go pound sand.
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GWB says: speak — and to speak forcefully — on the side of principle
And understand that the otehr side is speaking on the side of principle. The problem is their principles are not those of Christian Western Civilization, but of a totalitarian religion called Progressivism. The fundamentalist Progressivism to which they subscribe says the use of political power to achieve their utopic ends is not only fine but demanded (By Any Means Necessary).
But this is absolutely the one thing our side needs to hold to. Stand on principle, not mere pragmatism or “he fights!”.
Mike Pence can go pound sand.
You said it more nicely than I would have, the weasel.
His principle, as so many other establishment Republicans, seems to be “Don’t do anything that might upset the apple cart, because that would be un-conservative.”
GWB says: I need to riff a bit more about “principles”….
Understand they need to be the actual Christian Western Civilization principles that built all of this around us. NOT the Progressively corrupted principles.
This means we need to do things like put “tolerance” back into its proper place, re-establish that some things are worth punching someone in the nose over (even if just metaphorically), and that the government doesn’t – it can’t – exercise compassion. Most importantly that “compromise” is NOT a principle, but a tool used to achieve your ends. If the other side is actually tearing down your principles, compromise so they only get 1/4 of them torn down is NOT a virtue.
If Ramaswamy wants to list his principles somewhere, I’d be happy to see if they stand up, and maybe even support him.
BTW, I don’t need the candidate to believe in their stated principles. It’s enough that they actually act on them.
Stephen C says: Most of the Republican candidates are forthright but Ramaswamy is more forthright than all of them. He has a clarity DeSantis doesn’t have. Somehow.
JAW3 says: The only problem i have with him is that he has Soros money in his background.
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