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Conservative Republican voter terrified by the state of the Trumpist GOP. #ReaganCaucus

Joined August 2023
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Being a pro-life Never-Trumper is such a grueling experience. Forced to choose between an authoritarian MAGA cult which defends unborn life and a party which respects democracy but abandons innocent life in the womb... We need a real option for SANE people who don't drink the left's culture war kool aid AND reject the MAGA cult.
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Dave Hale - Concerned Republican retweeted
Child murder is everyone’s business.
Replying to @Prolife_Sam
No problem. If you're against abortion, don't have one. What other people do with their bodies is none of your damn business.
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Dave Hale - Concerned Republican retweeted
Mike Pence unloaded on both President Trump and Vice President Vance in his first interview since the GOP's midterm shellacking, calling the results not just a rout but "a reckoning." Pence rips Trump's tariffs, his administration's handling of the Iran war and what Pence describes as an "air of corruption" surrounding the White House, including the First Family's wealth growing by more than $3 billion. He directly disputes Vance's claim that the war alone cost Republicans Congress, arguing the causes were "much more complex" and that voters were frustrated because the administration "stopped short and didn't finish it." Pence says the party must recommit to the conservative principles that defined the movement for more than 50 years, charging that "the direction the president has taken our party was roundly rejected by the voters." Full story here foxnews.com/politics/pence-d…
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Dave Hale - Concerned Republican retweeted
Ukraine is winning this war. With American and Allied support, Ukraine can win a lasting victory for freedom. Why Supporting Ukraine Is An Investment In Freedom, Not Charity: My Latest Op-ed in Today’s @realDailyWire 🇺🇸🇺🇦
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Dave Hale - Concerned Republican retweeted
If you intend to make your spouse compete against an endless line of people, please never get married It’s the cruelest way to set the person you love up for failure
do i condone it? no. do i undersand it? compare the pair.
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Dave Hale - Concerned Republican retweeted
We live in a strange moment where people quietly condone moral failures. Most people agree that cheating is wrong. Then they add that they can “see why he did it.” Our collective conscience is shallow if this isn’t obvious: a woman who chooses to build a life with you, who bears your children, and who gives up time with you so you can build whatever empire you want is worth her weight in gold. No pretty young face compares.
do i condone it? no. do i undersand it? compare the pair.
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Dave Hale - Concerned Republican retweeted
Actually I’m really against abortion
You're not really against abortion. You're against women having a way out when a man gets them pregnant. You don't care about protecting life. You care about controlling women. That's the truth.
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Dave Hale - Concerned Republican retweeted
Yet they oppose Voter ID, and age verification for Porn.
California has passed a law requiring age verification to buy creatine starting January 1, 2027
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Repubs made the mistake of confusing the Twitter right for the nation. Dems should not repeat that mistake with the Bluesky left.
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Dave Hale - Concerned Republican retweeted
Happy Veterans Day. My grandfather who served in Desert Storm and great-grandfather who served in WWII.
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The point is that Mitt Romney, however some folks may feel about it, demonstrated considerable political courage and has become a favored populist target for criticism because of it. And we should be emulating Romney's political courage if we want to fully address what has gone wrong for the GOP in the Trump era. Criticizing the man who demonstrated political courage instead of summoning political courage ourselves is not the path of conservative renewal in the Republican Party.
In my newest article at @dcexaminer, I discuss the DeSantis potshot on Mitt Romney, and argue that instead, what the Republican Party needs right now, what the country needs, is political courage. washingtonexaminer.com/resto…
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Dave Hale - Concerned Republican retweeted
In my newest article at @dcexaminer, I discuss the DeSantis potshot on Mitt Romney, and argue that instead, what the Republican Party needs right now, what the country needs, is political courage. washingtonexaminer.com/resto…
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Trump now calling the midterms rigged. Stephen Miller as WH Chief of Staff. Jim Jordan as House minority leader. Republicans are learning NOTHING from these midterms and are CRUISING to a 2028 loss.
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Dave Hale - Concerned Republican retweeted
Trump has done many rotten things to the American republic. Lying about elections — and causing millions of people to distrust legitimate results — may be the worst.
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This is about as scummy as it gets. Everything we have here depends on the understanding that electoral defeats are not the end of the world. There will always be a loser, and before Trump, the losers have always been able to accept the result and adjust their ideas and messaging in preparation to fight in the next election. Defeat does not equate to the "end of one's civilization." A defeat does not equate to political annihilation. A defeat is not existential. Democracy depends on the consent of the losers, and should one intentionally remove that expectation is to drive a stake through the beating heart of everything we have. Donald Trump us doing all kinds of things to sabotage our country. This by far is potentially the most divisive and most dangerous. It is a deliberate attempt to kill American democracy.
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Republicans, simply ignore this deranged old man. If we do not learn the lessons of our defeat, we are bound to repeat them.
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Dave Hale - Concerned Republican retweeted
Yes this is the most politically & culturally tone deaf statement since “let them eat cake.” But “You should have had stock” is the new “this is going to ruin the tour” response in group chats going forward I don’t make the rules
Douthat: There's a Forbes story that said that your net worth went up by $3 billion. Trump: Well, so did everyone's Douthat: My net worth did not go up by three billion, for the record. Trump: Well, you should have had stock.
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Dave Hale - Concerned Republican retweeted
Republicans, we must confront the election deniers in our own party, or continue to see what happened Tuesday night. My op-ed in the @dcexaminer with GOP Maricopa County, AZ Supervisor Tom Galvin. washingtonexaminer.com/op-ed…
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Dave Hale - Concerned Republican retweeted
“Mr. President, you’ve have had the most charmed & remarkable life of anyone in my lifetime. And you’re telling me you couldn’t find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies?” A master class by @Douthat60 and so sad and incredibly revealing about the President of the United States.
“I do hate some of my enemies, and I always will,” says President Trump. cbsn.ws/4epCFnt
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