As we reported, John Gibbs pulled off an upset victory against pro-impeachment Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI). Now, that is likely an indication that Republicans want to turn out the pro-impeachment folks — we’ve seen it elsewhere in other races.
However, in this race, there was also the interference of the Democrats buying ads to help promote Gibbs with the thought that he might be easier to beat than Meijer would be in the general election. We saw how well that thought worked when they tried that in 2016 with Donald Trump, thinking he would be easier for Hillary Clinton to beat.
But Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) went on CNN with Brianna Keilar and called out the Democrats for promoting Gibbs to take out Meijer.
“Democrats own that.”
Rep. Adam Kinzinger on the GOP primary defeat of Rep. Peter Meijer, a Republican who voted to impeach President Trump.
“The DCCC needs to be ashamed of themselves,” he says. pic.twitter.com/7Pul80RvJM
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) August 3, 2022
Kinzinger said they shouldn’t be asking where are all the “good Republicans” if they’re promoting people who question the election. “The DCCC needs to be ashamed of themselves,” he said.
Of course, he’s right about the Democrats being hypocritical — not about the framing that he’s a “good Republican” — but because they don’t mean what they say when they call people a “threat to democracy.” It’s all about attacking their opponents to get power. This is proof of it. If they truly thought that the people they were demonizing were that bad, they wouldn’t be promoting them. But Kinzinger doesn’t see — or perhaps he doesn’t care — that that’s the real problem.
Kinzinger talks about “threats to democracy,” but he’s thrown in with Democrats who have objected to the electoral count in the past like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD). He’s thrown in with those who are trying to preemptively block out a potential candidate from running again in 2024 through a biased process that doesn’t even allow defense or rebuttal. Talk about an affront to “democracy.” He’s thrown in with Democrats who have been causing such significant harm to the country — who have been moving the country radically to the left — and he doesn’t seem to give a darn about that.
Kinzinger threw in with these folks — perhaps thinking that might advance his quest for higher office. But as I said with Meijer, they will throw him under the bus the minute they no longer need him. All they care about him is what they can use him for now. If he thinks they’re ever going to support him for higher office, he’s deluding himself. But he’s already shown he doesn’t get it. He doesn’t care how much his dalliance with the Democrats may hurt the country.
