I was talking to a neighbor who is running for JP as a "R". I asked him about it as I thought he was always a "D"

[LiberalArkie]

He said than in Arkansas you have to run as a Republican and that doesn't mean that they like Trump...

That needs to change.. To me, we need to use "Republican" instead of "Trump" now. They are all complicit even down to local JP's.

They are all Guilty, maybe not ALL pedophiles, but are guilty of enabling it, accessories to it. Guilty

[SheltieLover]

1. Absolute must. Magats are not adept at connecting the dots

[CrispyQ]

2. I disagree. They don't deserve to be called republicans anymore.

We need to pin Trump to them until they all publicly denounce him or go down with him.

Someone on DU said every time they hear someone say the Democrat party they're going to respond with the Epstein party.

[LiberalArkie]

3. Not when they say that Trump is just one person and he does not represent the party. The party has to be guilty also.

Otherwise nothing at all will change..

The Germans made the Nazi party and beliefs toxic not by just going after individual politicians but buy going after all who were in the party.

That has to be done to the Republican Party. Because in essence they do in fact believe in Trump.

[dsc]

4. In NC there is a bit of an organized effort to have people run in GOP primaries for state house and senate

Here we have GOP near super control of the legislature despite Dems actually winning the two party vote for state legislature. We figure this is the only way we can break through to have pro education people run in those primaries. We will see the extent to which it worked on Tuesday.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. We don't need duplicitous candidates.

They'll keep throwing lambs in the fire to appease the lions.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. "you have to run as a Republican"

Tell that to all the magats who have been losing in special elections lately.

[ret5hd]

7. well, pedophelia isn't a deal breaker...

we know that much.

[Martin68]

8. I agree. We can't let them get away with dismissing it as "MAGA" or "the Tea Party." It is the GOP.

[ClaudetteCC]

9. pardon my ignorance

What is a JP?

[surfered]

11. Justice of the Peace, a judge for misdemeanor offenses.

[ClaudetteCC]

12. Thank you!

[surfered]

14. And civil suits under a certain dollar amount

[surfered]

10. The same in our area. Former local elected officials switched from Democrats to Republican purely for electability

It’s worth remembering that Rick Perry was once Al Gore’s Texas campaign manager.

[Warren_Pointe]

13. It was the other way when I was young.

I've lived in Arkansas since I was 5. In high school, my history teacher told the class that a candidate had to run as a democrat because the democrats ran unopposed in the general election, so the battle was really in the Democratic primary.
Now the shoe is on the other foot. Republicans run unopposed in the general election. The party needs to get behind candidates all the way down the ballot. I don't know how far down the ballot goes along party lines. I My father was a JP in Sherwood and he had no party affiliation. I know school board candidates run without affiliation, but that is usually a politicians first taste of competition.

[LiberalArkie]

19. I personally hate the non-partisan races. I really want to know which is a maga and which is a Democrat.

[mwmisses4289]

15. We need to run as what we are, even in magat areas,

and be proud of who we are. Running as repuke, then espousing a democratic agenda, will cause all sorts of issues for any dem who goes down that path, even with the best of intentions.

[hay rick]

16. There are only two sides: Republicans and non-traitors.

People who don't approve of Trump have to reject the Republican brand which can not be separated from tolerance, if not support, of authoritarianism.

[azureblue]

17. if you are a Republican

Unless you say out loud that you refute Trump, you approve of a pedophile.. End of Story...

[DownriverDem]

18. Someone in TN

once told me that only black people are Dems in TN. I was in shock.

[TomSlick]

20. I have told kin in Arkansas that I cannot vote for them if they are running as a Rethuglican.

I get it. A Democrat cannot win in local elections in my county. Nevertheless, I will not vote for a Rethuglican - ever. I will vote for a woefully unqualified Democrat or a mangy, three-legged yellow dog first. If no Democrat is running, I skip that part of the ballot.

[LiberalArkie]

21. What is weird is that from 2019 and before all county and city offices were Democratic. The R's only got in with Trump

[TomSlick]

22. Before President Obama was elected this was a solidly Democratic county.

My town still trends Democratic but the good Christian folks out in the county will be slow to forgive the Democrats for putting an African-American in the White House as anything but a servant.