GOP senator: Greene 'dragging our brand down'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

04/24/24 8:01 AM ET


Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) took a shot at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Tuesday, saying she is “dragging our brand down.”

“She is a horrible leader,” Tillis said of Greene, according to audio played on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.” “She is dragging our brand down. She — not the Democrats — are the biggest risk to us getting back to a majority.” He added that the Georgia Republican is “uninformed” and “a total waste of time,” per the clip, highlighted my Mediaite.

His criticism comes as Greene has been in the spotlight over her motion to vacate threat against Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and her outspoken opposition to providing more aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia.

A package of foreign aid bills — including Ukraine and Israel aid — easily passed the House over the weekend, and after debate, advanced through the Senate earlier Tuesday. President Biden is expected to sign the bills Wednesday. Following the House vote, Greene lashed out at Johnson and her GOP colleagues who helped push the additional aid through. She specifically called out the Speaker as a “traitor,” in a post on social media platform X.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4617334-gop-senator-thom-tillis-says-greene-dragging-our-brand-down/

[Gore1FL]

1. Dear Senator Tillis,

Maybe you and your ilk shouldn't have spent 60 years making her.

[PatSeg]

11. Exactly

Greene is not the cause of the GOP's problem, she is the effect, as is the rabid MAGA base. This is the monster the republican party has created, decades in the making.

Maybe Senator Tillis is in the wrong party, though more likely, he is in the wrong profession.

[Beartracks]

19. Spot on: Greene and MAGA are quite "on brand" for the GOP. n/t

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[PatSeg]

24. For years, the republican party

made promises to their base just to get their votes. As the years passed and those promises repeatedly went unfulfilled, their poorly educated voters lost patience and started sending their own candidates to DC. That is how we ended up with people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tommy Tuberville, Lauren Boebert, George Santos, etc.

I remember a time when republican politicians tended to be a bit more upper crust and often Ivy League educated and the Democratic politicians were more likely to be blue collar and down to earth. Now Republicans frequently accuse Democrats as being the "elite", but there was a time when that tag applied more to them.

[LuvLoogie]

2. Bullshit. Greene is everything the GOPs stand for.

Fresh from the distillery. She is the everclear of their MO.

[durablend]

3. He's just mad because

She can't keep her mouth shut, otherwise he's a-ok with it.

[LuvLoogie]

13. absolutely that

[Raven123]

4. Gee. I didn't know MTG put 3 justices on SCOTUS who overturned Roe

What news have I been following?

[Autumn]

5. Nah, she is your brand. Everything she is is what you republicans are.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

6. I love the smell of repukes attacking other repukes in the morning,

it smells like....................VICTORY!!!

[JT45242]

7. Thom Tillis thinks your bad for the brand...the irony hurts

This is not a Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, or anyone with a spine.

[EYESORE 9001]

8. She's your albatross

Wear her around your neck proudly.

[trusty elf]

9. ...

[unblock]

10. Actually, tillis, it's your brand that's dragging down your brand.

Your brand is being unpopular on virtually every issue, then lying and cheating and distracting in order to impose your horrible agenda on America.

Imagine selling poop, hiring a spokesperson, telling them to hawk it and tell people it's candy, then blaming the spokesperson when the poop doesn't sell.

The problem is not the spokesperson.

[Comfortably_Numb]

12. Nope Tom, the problem is she doesn't sugarcoat the horrible things that repugnant Rs stand for. She IS the brand.

[IronLionZion]

14. I would say she is a symptom of the major problems within her party

Somebody voted for her and then reelected her. Because GOP voters like it.

[Magoo48]

15. Your brand? The Republican brand is as popular as cyanide tea. Your brand died.

[intheflow]

16. Riiiiight. The white woman lunatic is your party's problem.

It has nothing to do with the white men who spout the same bullshit as she does.

[ZonkerHarris]

17. MTG is the GOP

[Butterflylady]

18. I didn't know ⅚that repugs had a brand.

Well I am going with another brand because I just don't care for the ingredients in their brand.

[louis-t]

20. You mean your already tainted brand?

The one tsf tainted the second he started campaigning? Tommy boy, you can't polish a turd.

[Javaman]

21. No, she's just exposing the repukes for what they are

Racist bigoted assholes

That’s your brand and has been so for over a century

[Traurigkeit]

22. How csn one drag down something already on the ground in the gutter ?

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

23. Something odd here...

at the end of the third paragraph - "more aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia"

Does this strike anyone else as backwards?

It is not "Ukraine's war against Russia". It is Ukraine's defense of its nation from Russian invasion. Or Ukraine's struggle against Russia's unprovoked invasion of a democratic nation. Or something.

It is not Ukraine's war, at least not in terms of who started it and who is prolonging it.

Very tangential to the OP's point. But it still bothers me.

[Skittles]

25. oh, FUCK YOU

your "brand" had been in the gutter LONG before that additional traitor came along. FUCK YOU

[Traildogbob]

26. OK Tommy

Get ready for her Neanderthal Roid Rage coming at you from the Bannon and Alex bunkers. “People say” they have three ways, after roid cocktails.
Three of America’s finest patriots. Oh shit…….is she still a viable breeder? Now there is an augment for free abortions. Imagine that baby as a GQP God in 35 years.

[myohmy2]

27. awww...

...she's not that bad for your party...

...after all, you are republicans with low expectations...

...let's not disappoint...

[hadEnuf]

28. Hey Tillis, your brand has sucked for decades.

MTG is exactly what you and yours have carefully bred and raised. She is an exact copy of what the GOP really is.

[BlueKota]

29. As much as I loathe Marge

In my opinion their brand died when they tied their brand to the religious right long before Marge came along. Plus their reverse Robin Hood economic policies, Rob from the poor, to give to the rich hurts the economy, it does not help it.

[Mz Pip]

30. She's the poster child

for today’s GOP - mean and stupid.

[truthisfreedom]

31. Wow, it's almost enough for me to kinda like her...

Not. She should be rotting somewhere else.

[Aussie105]

32. The problem is:

Green, Boebert and Santos spout the GOP brand proudly and loudly.

A bit too loudly - they aren't being subtle enough. It embarrasses some on the GOP team.

No deniable culpability in the joy and blatant dumbness those three spout. (Past tense for George.)

May the 'gurls' go the same way as George - exit stage right, don't come back.