U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “The Trump-rejecting Florida Republican who has a plan to fix the GOP Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has a message for leaders in Washington,” Politico reports. “Start thinking more like mayors.”
“Suarez is a Cuban Republican, but he doesn’t match some of the usual headlines surrounding Cuban American voters,” we are told. “For one, he didn’t vote for Trump in the 2020 election. He doesn’t have a great relationship with DeSantis, either, and has criticized him openly and done little to support him politically. He even voted for DeSantis’ 2018 Democratic opponent, Andrew Gillum.”
In other words, he voted to help empower the Biden gun-grab agenda. And he tried to inflict a gun-grabbing, crystal meth-abusing, adulterous vomiter supported by socialists who sing songs about killing their enemies with knives and guns on his gun-owning constituents. I’m not making any of that up.
You’d think for a Cuban American, Suarez would understand the evil of the “¿Armas para que?” violence monopoly the tyrant Castro imposed to enslave the island under communism. You’d think the experiences and insights of those who escaped and know the essential relationship between an armed people and freedom would be the stronger influence.
Instead, Suarez in effect says that in order to win elections, more Republicans need to join him in demanding prior restraints on a fundamental right via so-called “universal background checks” that, according to the National Institute of Justice:
“Effectiveness depends on the ability to reduce straw purchasing, requiring gun registration…”
Suarez in effect says that in order to win elections, more Republicans need to join him and his fellow mayors in demanding to criminalize and indefinitely delay private transfers.
And naturally, when it comes to immigration policy, Suarez says the winning strategy for Republicans is to favor “new shapers” (those would be foreign nationals) over “ourselves and our Posterity.” That’s despite all credible polling and all real-world experience proving cultural terraforming combined with a “pathway to citizenship” runs consistently around 70% to 30% in favor of Democrats and citizen disarmament.
That, of course, is right in line with Establishment Republican interests, the ones who, like Suarez opposed the agenda that Donald Trump campaigned and that those who voted for him consider existential.
So it’s no surprise we see former House Speaker John Boehner, now that he no longer needs our votes, declaring “America First … is one of the nuttiest things I’ve ever seen,” and “that gun control would be a top priority ‘if’ he were Speaker now.” And it’s even less of a surprise to see former President George W. Bush throwing out words that play right into Democrat hands like “isolationist” and “nativist” and not forgetting to throw the right to keep and bear arms under the bus:
“Bush remained hopeful that a more moderate Republican — one who supported reasonable gun reform measures, increased public school funding and a path to citizenship for undocumented workers, among other policies — could succeed in the party’s 2024 presidential primary.”
That’s despite an NRA endorsement that, tellingly, only mentioned “hunting and sport shooting” and promoted the asinine contention that “the Constitution gives people the personal right to bear arms.” (With former Democrat aides Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox being the only gun group “leaders” with Trump’s ear, no wonder he got the “give’ business wrong.)
Are Republicans really stupid enough to believe they can take the fire out of the bellies of their core constituents and give the Democrats everything they demand? And still not be ruthlessly attacked as “extreme”?
What is it leftist influencers are now saying about Boehner? His betrayal only earned him their contempt. And do you think they’re motivated to take back the “renegade right-wing extremist” charge against Bush? Even with his inner circle making a big show of abandoning the GOP?
This is what Suarez says Republicans need to project in order to win? That and be like Bloomberg’s mayors?
“GOP leadership has no clue what their base believes in,” Wayne Allyn Root writes on WND.com. He lists 14 statements he made at GOP events where he was the keynote speaker, each resulting in “wild applause” from the attendees, the very Republican voters the tone-deaf GOP establishment refuses to acknowledge, let alone listen to.
So naturally, Nikki Haley, the epitome of an establishment Republican, is considering Suarez as a running mate if she decides to run for president in 2024.
It’s almost like their goal is an elephants’ graveyard.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
Well then… according to this RINO, it sounds as though we do need a 3rd political party to become mainstream. If his idea of being Republican is factual, then I’ve been lying to myself and supporting the wrong political party for over 45 years. His thoughts sound to me to be about 1 generation from full-blown communism control. If Mr. Suarez’s idea of the Republican party is anywhere near correct, I can no longer whole-heartedly support it; I’m too old, and too conservative. I still remember fondly the USA I grew up in, and I’m sad that my grandchildren and… Read more »
Well David, another column that we need to read.
Very clear the GOP is obsessed … with losing.
We need a party of Patriots who are willing to defend our Republic from all enemies, foreign AND domestic.
Suarez doesn’t qualify.
So he admits he is a RINO.
All RINO scum need to be purged from the GOP. They must be primaried at every opportunity!!
And his shiney new P.O.S police chief will be right in there with him
Another Dimwitocrat shows his ugly, anti-American face. There needs to be a law fashioned to be able to instantly remove traitors to the people they are supposed to represent.
Kinda makes him a democrat don’t it?
If the Republican party doesn’t support the Second Amendment, then we don’t have a Republican party and we’ve gone to a one party system. Primary this idiot and get him out of politics completely.
The Cubans I know are arch anti communists, Trump supporters, and are outraged at where our country has become. They are all senior citizens, were children who came to America on the Pedro Plan flights, and whose parents taught them the perils of communism. And if this Suarez guy was alive during the Castro period we know he would be carrying Fidels water. But the young Cubans are all socialists, as are most kids today. They see nothing wrong with the Biden Communists, and think all is well. We are in trouble. Deep trouble. And its going to take far… Read more »
The GOP has done a fine job of repelling gun owners all on their own. They’ve passed more arms laws at the federal level in the last 40 years than Democrats have.