Jack Hunter, Rare Contributor
Posted on June 5, 2014 12:24 pm
When Michigan businessman Brian Ellis declared he would primary incumbent Republican Congressman Justin Amash he told the Washington Free Beacon, “Justin Amash is not a conservative Republican.”
This is not the first time a libertarian-leaning member of Congress has been accused of not being sufficiently conservative or Republican by the GOP establishment.
When Rand Paul ran for the U.S. Senate in 2010, former Vice President Dick Cheney endorsed Paul’s opponent Trey Grayson as the “real conservative.” Two years later, Cheney’s “real conservative” would become the head of a Democratic Super PAC.
When Thomas Massie ran for Kentucky’s 4th congressional district in 2012 he was hailed as the “next Rand Paul.” But local Republican chairman Kevin Sell emphasized, “This seat has been recently held by two great Americans: Jim Bunning and Geoff Davis. Neither of these fine men were libertarians.” He added, “If the libertarians want this seat, they should have someone run as a libertarian.”
As a congressman, Massie would become such a conservative Republican that he would be accused of being part of the “Conservative ‘Hell No’ Caucus” because he consistently voted against bills that spent too much or were unconstitutional.
These accusations are nothing new. For at least four years now, the GOP establishment has insisted that libertarian Republicans like Massie, Paul and Amash are not real Republicans.
And they have a point.
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