Back in January of 2019 I said this:
The moment his name came up for Republican leader in the House, I was suspicious. His “teamwork”, we will call it, with Paul Ryan is one
major reason why.Remember Paul Ryan kept telling the president that he didn’t have the votes for the wall, and when it came down to it… he had more than enough votes… Overwhelming numbers.
The only reason Ryan didn’t want to bring it to the floor because he doesn’t believe in it.
I have long since come to believe that McCarthy has the same problem, the same lack of belief in actually being conservative.
Now, before you tell me this, I will say that Kevin McCarthy has in
the past come out repeatedly for border security. Including, the wall.
Thing is, so did Chuck Schumer.Now, long time readers to this website will know that we have been calling for a long time for a complete change of GOP leadership. We havebeen saying that the American people, and particularly the GOP rank-and-file has longed for such a change, believing that there is ahuge disconnect between the GOP leadership and the GOP rank-and-file.
I have to tell you in all honesty that it’s going to take some serious convincing for me personally to believe that Kevin McCarthy
doesn’t suffer from that disconnect, and isnt the wrong choice for
minority leader in the House.
That convincing, never came.
We saw lots of promises, a lot of noise on the speakers official channel on Twitter, particularly for the first few weeks after the Republicans took the house, but no appreciable action… A situation which I must say does not surprise me in the least. Kevin McCarthy is nothing but an establishment critter.
The fact is I had him labeled as such from the word go. I wrote about the GOP establishment back in 2015 of the situation hasn’t changed much except they feel threatened by actual conservatives.
The rank and file of the GOP is by far more conservative than the
leadership is, and has a better idea of what we are supposed to be
about. The leadership is so wrapped up in its fearful traditions, that
it stands no chance whatsoever to fight for the values they claim to
support. Which, in turn, is how we end up with the John McCains the Mitt Romney’s and the Jeb Bush’s of the world. And how it is that we have a huge number of the of the rank and file sitting on their hands during every election cycle.
And here’s the thing that brought McCarthy to this point. He doesn’t believe in conservative values he’s more interested in going along to get along so that he can remain in power.
As I said back in 2015,
There’s a reason they don’t stand up for our beliefs, the leadership.
It’s because they don’t believe in them. I’ll say this again, the GOP
leadership needs to be replaced immediately.
Kevin McCarthy refused to be conservative. With the amount of overstepping that Joe Biden and the Democrats have been doing for the last 3 years Kevin McCarthy had ample opportunity to stand up on his hind legs and say “No!”. He had more than sufficient support to get the conservative agenda moved forward. He refused to utilize that support.
He decided he wasn’t going to do that instead playing both ends against the middle and now he’s paying the price. I say he deserved every single bit of where he is right now. In fact I’ll repeat my statement that he never should have been speaker in the first place. He was the wrong choice.
There is a message being sent by McCarthy’s ouster:
” You will be conservative, or you will be gone. “
