Dear Representative Crenshaw,
I recently reviewed your speech at the Texas Liberty Alliance event, and to say I found it appalling and disgusting is a gross understatement. Clearly, by the manner in which you have attempted to frame this situation, you now see yourself as one of those “enlightened” insiders from the GOP “Establishment,” who has grown righteously indignant that the lowly peasantry (that’s the rest of us) would dare question your wisdom. In that, you reflect the RINO mindset that has always held real conservatism in contempt.
The list of affronts to decency and real conservatism exhibited in your commentary is long, but I will attempt to address a few key defining points here.
Your mention of Adam Kinzinger was noteworthy, albeit on account of its total lack of sincerity or relevance. So you claim Kinzinger voted “100% with President Trump” early on. Does that somehow give him a pass to vote 100% in league with Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats ever since? Even Benedict Arnold was deemed a Revolutionary “War Hero” at the start of the conflict. But that certainly did nothing to mitigate his treason, once he no longer considered it expedient to remain a “Patriot.”
As to Kinzinger’s “conservative” voting record, an actual tabulation shows it to be significantly below that of Wyoming RINO Liz Cheney. Do you also laud her as the “genuine article” among conservatives?
Even if you had selectively chosen issues on which Kinzinger’s votes may initially look good, the overall actions of the Republican “Business as Usual” crowd reveal just how duplicitous and ultimately self-serving such a voting record can be. The Republican caucus held innumerable, nearly unanimous votes, ostensibly to “repeal” Obamacare, while Obama was in the White House. Of course they all knew such measures would go nowhere, but the theater looked good in fund raising letters. However, the moment Obama was gone, and such votes held any potential to actually reverse the harm done by his foray into the nightmare of socialized medicine, the GOP suddenly found every excuse in the world to back-pedal and obfuscate.
Your whole “performance artists vs. legislators” diatribe reeks of the Beltway Swamp, or more precisely these days, the sewer! When politicians start throwing around such terms, it quickly becomes evident that the real goal is to have the politician’s name attached to something… anything, so he can grandstand as a “doer” back home. We’ve seen the worst of legislation being passed, with “Republican” collaboration, when the alternative is to be accused of “obstruction” and “partisanship.”
Another thing we ignorant hayseeds out here in Flyover country know: Democrats never engage in “bipartisanship” on any terms but their own. So “bipartisanship” equals complicity with Democrats in their consistently anti-Constitutional lurch towards despotic control and suppression of liberty. Their socialist end-game cannot be achieved in any other manner.
We may not have all of your keen insights, but we do understand basic realities, such as the fact that a Democrat medical “database” like the one you and eighty other “legislator” Republicans helped enact will not have the ultimate effect of protecting the privacy and autonomy of Americans. Democrats don’t work that way. It is really no more complicated than that.
And, since you like mocking and disparaging “We the People” across this land for our gullibility and paranoia, here’s another one for you. The 2020 Presidential Election was stolen. We all watched in total horror as it happened, and no amount of denigration or dismissal by Beltway insiders will erase what we saw. Any effort to trivialize that atrocity against the Constitution ultimately reflects complicity in it.
In my book, “Rules for Defeating Radicals,” I explain that RINOs fall into several categories. Some lack a moral rudder to guide them in a basic determination of right and wrong, according to the Constitution and the founding principles of our Nation. Others are actually liberal Democrats at heart, who know that claiming to be “Republican” has a greater appeal to the voting base back home. In either case, they constitute the single biggest obstacle to halting the leftist onslaught and advancing a conservative agenda. And those who seek to defend RINOs ultimately prove themselves to be RINOs as well.
Does this sound a little too “Us versus Them” to suit the tastes of the ruling class within the D.C. Swamp? Well we Americans, who are forced to live under, and suffer the consequences of the laws dubiously enacted there, have come to realize that we are in fact in a battle for the future of America, and the leftist Democrats are not on our side. But for too long, “Republicans” have gotten away with presenting one face towards their ignorant constituents, while embracing a “business as usual” mindset on Captiol Hill that always redounds to the benefit of the Democrats. The single greatest achievement of President Trump, towering over any of his other accomplishments, was to remove that mask of deceit from the GOP. And it is for that reason above all others that the RINOs hate him every bit as much as do the leftist Democrats.
In this time, it is a “given” that genuine Patriots in Washington will not accomplish anything other than to possibly generate enough public outcry to forestall the latest “nail” being enthusiastically hammered into the coffin lid of America by the left. “Reaching across the aisle” to work with Democrats for the “common good” is a myth. And a party that attempts to embrace both high and low standards, as does the current day GOP “Establishment,” is a party that ultimately only upholds the low standards. Real America is done with that!
So, in your world, the willingness of the Freedom Caucus to face leftist castigation and marginalization, by standing firm on principle, renders them “grifters”? Actually, it is the people who go into public office claiming to be one thing, but doing another for personal gain, who are the real grifters. They are comfortable in a GOP that always promises to eventually lower spending, fight for individual rights and uphold the institutions and ideology that made America great, but somehow never find an occasion to actually do so.
On that basis, it is you who have proven to be the quintessential “performance artist.” The evidence of your double-minded nature has been mounting, and it is now obvious that you have become a creature of the GOP “Establishment.” Perhaps you always were.
Sincerely,
Christopher G. Adamo, Conservative American
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Christopher G. Adamo is a lifelong conservative from the American Heartland. He has been involved in grassroots and state-level politics for years. His recently released book Rules for Defeating Radicals, subtitled Countering the Alinsky Strategy in Politics and Culture, is the “Go To” guide for effectively overcoming the dirty tricks of the political left. It is available at Amazon.
Christopher G. Adamo, great commentary on the RINOS who constantly backstab those of us who are Conservative. Dan Crenshaw certainly is a “duplicitous” RINO. Hey Dan, how does it feel to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
Too many folks, gave Crenshaw a pass, because of his ‘wounded warrior’ status. NO MORE.
HE IS JUST as much of a scum-sucking rino as Romney, Liz or Mccain Ever were…. OR still are!
My sainted mother always used to say: Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are”. For Crenshaw to be defending the rancid Kinzinger and with lies yet, puts him in exactly the same RINO family betraying Republican voters, regardless of his previous service. Benedict Arnold, revered soldier for Americans until he was NOT is an apt comparison.
Dan Crenshaw, RINO! I voted for you, BUT, never again. You promised us one thing and true to Romney style Republican turncoats, you showed your true colors, and revealed your SWAMPNESS!
I’m stunned that a man who would serve our country and risk his life for “freedom and liberty” would turncoat and clime on the RINO’s back ridding it all the way to a bigger and more communistic government. Someone must be blackmailing him… it just doesn’t make sense. SAD
JUST look at who’s IN THE MILITARY these days. MOST of the ‘upper echelon’ are JUST AS TRAITOROUS AS the entier bloody DNC are….
People need to STOP looking at vets (or cops) as only being patriotic conservatives..
Told them.
The in-name-only crowd is an affront to the American people who seek to put their trust into representatives who promise to act on their flowery words. The bait-and-switch political games played in DC is all about voter manipulation and nothing to do with bettering the country and its people.
Very good piece by Adamo. Personally I was already a bit suspicious of Crenshaw from some comments he made months ago regarding “climate change”. I kinda forgot about it because it seemed nothing was ever made of it. I really don’t understand where he is coming from politically. He apparently has some kind of vendetta against some of the people on the Freedom Caucus, but he is certainly cutting his own throat in making his views public. It’s too bad because Crenshaw seemed to be an up and comer.
I’ve been highly suspect about him, SINCE HE FULLY SUPPORTED anti-2a laws such as red-flag laws…..
Wow!! That’s a wake-up call. I had thought he was a good stand up Conservative, but when he and 79 of his RINO pals voted with the Marxist Communist DemocRATS on the HR550 , it ended my support for all the Traitors. I spent 15 minutes researching that bill, and contrary to the never ending lies spewing from the Left Wingnuts, that proposal would make known the medical records of everyone in this country, especially their vaccine status. It’s bad enough that the Scum Sucking LibTards are racially dividing our Nation, they are now going after the unvaccinated to demonize. Since ALL members of the House are up for re-election in 2022, it’s time to rid it of all the Anti-American people posing as lawmakers . That include ALL RINOS!!!!
IMO the rinos are MORE of a threat in many ways, than DEMS are… AT LEAST we know how treasonous the dems are.. BECAUSE they make no attempt to HIDE their hate of our nation.
RINOS Though, cloak their treason in ‘love’ of our nation…. SO TO ME they are worse.
Yes, RINOS are Despicable creatures and must be uncovered and eradicated, but the real enemy is the Deep State. During his 8 year reign, Hussein spread his traitorous underlings throughout all the upper echelons of our government to undermine our Constitutional Republic. He will, if Ever truly investigated, will go down as the Most Successful Islamic State Sleeper Cell, charged with overthrowing our Country from within.
True that.. THere’s just TOO DAMN MANY LIfe long appointed spots, AND folks who no matter HOW BAD THEY KEEP Shanking things up, just NEVER EVER seem to get fired..
Personally, I lost respect for Mr. Crenshaw, when he confronted and belittled a gentleman who “dared” to question the validity of the 2020 election.
Now, Mr. Crenshaw (and others) may believe that the 2020 election was “free and fair”, and that NO fraud took place, but based on the EVIDENCE and accusations of DOZENS of observers and poll workers, I have doubts…
For ANY elected Republican to just dismiss the very real concerns of SO MANY Americans, is, frankly, disturbing!
They should have DEMANDED full forensic audits in those key states/counties (where Biden seemed to magically get “just enough” votes to “win”).
What’s worse, is even WITH ALL that evidence out there, THERE ARE STILL just too damn many of these richard craniums, who REFUSE TO even acknowledge the POSSIBILITY that the election wasn’t fair..
Why should we have to look any farther than those states in which the Executive Branch and/or the Judicial branch, altered election laws, while the election was ongoing, despite the fact that election laws in those states were Constitutionally reserved to the Legislative branch? Isn’t that alone a basis for fraud?
ITnot only SHOULD be fraud, but should ALSO LAND everyone of those governors/judges, IN THE SLAMMER, while awaiting their turn on the gallows..
Another “Republican” not worthy of the name who ran to the right to get elected, then finds Dem positions appealing. If pressured/blackmailed, a true patriot would reveal that to give Dems a black eye and fall on his sword. So what is in that Washington swamp water? Because if someone picks up the Republican mantle INTENDING to cross over to be ‘bipartisan” with Dem destroyers, then RINOs are truly the worst of the worst – liars and actors. To have the temerity to lecture conservative voters after betraying them is beyond belief!
The most astounding thing about this article and the majority of commenters, is the absolute demand for complete party line fealty or else. In the same breath you demand the democrats think of the country first and not toe the party line, you demand anyone with a difference in thought be purged for not toeing the party line. This says you’d rather not work for the people but would rather win at all costs so you can rule. Th GOP is no better than the Dems and your all swamp creatures frankly
ITS NOT “toting the party line” we are irked at, ITS THE LYING TO US that he was a staunch conservative, to GET OUR votes, to get into office.. THEN ONCE he was in, everything he has done since, WAS AS THE DEMS have done…