Repugs must be smashed at the polls next year

Photo: Damon Winter

Letter to the editor in today's New York Times:

Can the GOP reverse course?

To the Editor:

Finally, someone with stature addresses the “elephant” in the room. Liz Cheney sacrificed her congressional seat for principle. Why don’t the seasoned Republicans who likely will never seek office or an appointed political post again, and have nothing to lose, show some courage?

I think of: Olympia Snowe, Dan Quayle, George W. Bush, George Pataki, John Danforth, Pete Wilson, Elizabeth Dole, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Phil Scott, Christine Todd Whitman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Hagel, Nancy Kassebaum, John Ashcroft, Dan Coats, William Cohen, Alfonse D’Amato, Jeff Flake, Bill Frist, Alan Simpson, Ted Olson, William Weld and a host of others.

J. Michael Luttig could not have put it better: “It’s finally time for [Republicans] to put the country before their party and pull back from the brink — for the good of the party, as well as the nation. If not now, then they must forever hold their peace.”

J.D. Rosin

San Francisco

Rob's comment:

No, it can't be done. Might as well ask the leopard to reject its spots. It's the base of the Republican Party that's the problem---the people that elected Trump in 2016 and have him leading for the 2024 nomination. 

That's why Liz Cheney couldn't get reelected.

What has to be done: decisively and totally reject the Republican Party in November, 2024.

Another Russian falls out a window

Daily Kos:

Gotta watch out for those dangerous Moscow windows.

This time it’s a Russian bank official. I’m sure there wasn’t any financial shenanigans involved in this....