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JohnSJ

(92,217 posts)
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 03:37 PM Aug 2022

Former Arizona GOP House Speaker Rusty Bowers says the US Constitution is 'hanging by a thread'

"Former Arizona GOP House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who lost his bid for a state Senate seat, said America and the Republican party are in dire straits.

"The constitution is hanging by a thread," Bowers told The Guardian in an interview published Saturday. "The funny thing is, I always thought it would be the other guys. And it's my side. That just rips at my heart: that we would be the people who would surrender the constitution in order to win an election. That just blows my mind."

Earlier this month, Bowers, who testified in front of the House January 6 committee lost his primary to Arizona state Sen. David Farnsworth, who was backed by former President Donald Trump.

Bowers ran for the senate seat because of term limitations for serving in the House."


https://www.businessinsider.com/former-az-house-speaker-says-constitution-is-hanging-by-thread-2022-8?amp


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Former Arizona GOP House Speaker Rusty Bowers says the US Constitution is 'hanging by a thread' (Original Post) JohnSJ Aug 2022 OP
Having a sad..but said when asked, yes he would vote for tfg again...he doesn't care. He cares PortTack Aug 2022 #1
Best for people like this to STFU NQAS Aug 2022 #2
And yet he has not left the Party... Grins Aug 2022 #3
Why would he leave? FreeState Aug 2022 #5
Mormon? That's the white horse verbiage FreeState Aug 2022 #4
Repugs.... The Unmitigated Gall Aug 2022 #6
+++ JohnSJ Aug 2022 #7

PortTack

(32,773 posts)
1. Having a sad..but said when asked, yes he would vote for tfg again...he doesn't care. He cares
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 03:39 PM
Aug 2022

Because he lost his re-election bid

NQAS

(10,749 posts)
2. Best for people like this to STFU
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 03:44 PM
Aug 2022

Remember, when asked he said he’d vote for trump again.

So, hanging on by a thread - a thread he’s prepared to snip.

Grins

(7,217 posts)
3. And yet he has not left the Party...
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 04:20 PM
Aug 2022

QUIT Mr. Bowers!

Big and publicly and say why!

I don’t know how many voted for you in the primary, but a bunch would follow you and also quit, maybe enough to swing the election to someone who won’t “surrender the constitution in order to win an election.”

Whatdaya say, “Patriot?”

FreeState

(10,572 posts)
5. Why would he leave?
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 04:32 PM
Aug 2022

He’s spreading LDS coded verbiage - it has nothing to do with reality and everything to do with his belief the LDS church will save the world.

FreeState

(10,572 posts)
4. Mormon? That's the white horse verbiage
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 04:31 PM
Aug 2022

Yep - he’s spreading cult beliefs.

Bowers, who is a fourth-generation Arizonan,[11] grew up on a sheep ranch in Chino Valley.[12] He attended Mesa Community College, Arizona State University, and Brigham Young University. A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he spent two years as a Mormon missionary in Mexico.[13]

White horse prophesy:


Smith's supposed original statement predicts that the US Constitution will one day "hang like a thread" but be saved by Latter-day Saints. The embellished version portrays it to be "by the efforts of the White Horse."



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Horse_Prophecy



The Unmitigated Gall

(3,819 posts)
6. Repugs....
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 07:11 PM
Aug 2022

Enjoying 40-hour workweeks, workplace safety laws, Social Security, Medicare, clean air and water, safe food and drugs and ALL THE THOUSANDS OF THINGS democrats have done to make this country great while pukes fought against them at every step and this guy thinks WE were going to be the ones to wreck it???

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