https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/29/polit...ntv/index.html
My ''Girlfriend'' is open to a reality-based Republican on the January 6 Committee.
I'm trying to think of one in the House. Romney in the Senate, but who in the House?
That term ''reality-based'' is a Hell of a disqualifier.
Originally Posted by Chung Tran
Most Republican Senators and Congressmen are reality based. The reality is that they have three choices -
1. play along with the big lie (Addison Mitchell McConnell III, Kevin McCarthy, Ted Cruz),
2. don't play along with the big lie and risk getting primaried (Liz Cheney, Adam Kizinger, Anthony Gonzalez), or
3. don't play along with the lie and throw in the towel because you know you'll ever make it to the general election (Jeff Flake).
The people who truly drank the Kool Aid like Marjorie Taylor Greene are a minority.
Now there's a lot of variation in category "1". You've got people like McConnell who were working behind the scenes to try to bury Donald Trump's political ambitions. And others like Ted Cruz, who promoted the big lie to try to appeal to Trump fans and further his political ambitions. But all in category 1 appear to believe, rightly or wrongly, that publicly admitting "reality" would be bad for the Republican Party. Why? Because telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth would piss off Donald Trump. And the ex President is a vengeful man.