Several recent articles I wrote must have touched a raw nerve with State Senator Robert Meyers. He wrote an opinion piece in rebuttal. You can read it here. He is evidently upset about my criticism of the defection of seven Republican legislators who joined with Democrats forming governing caucuses in Juneau, and the Alaska GOP’s inability to do anything about it. I could address Senator Meyers’s issues one by one, but I don’t want to get into a childish back-and-forth online argument with the good senator, and I don’t have to.
The two most significant points he makes in his article are defending the defections of the seven Republicans, saying this has been a common practice in Alaska since the 1960s. Then he says that Alaska isn’t a conservative state anyway, so we need to understand how conservatism faces defeat most of the time in Juneau and learn to work from within the system
I say this is a bunch of crap! These two points capture the essence of the current problem with the Alaska GOP and their reluctance to fight against the left.
They fail to realize that the Republican Party in this country got their marching orders on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. After Donald Trump got shot in the face, he stood up – covered in blood – raised his fist, and said “FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!” He didn’t say Republicans should try to be squishy and get along with the leftist elites to take small victories when they can; he said to “FIGHT!”
The time for Republicans to walk hand in hand down the Primrose Path with the left-wing Democrat party is over.
Despite what Senator Meyers says, Alaska is a conservative state. We voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump all three times he ran for president. A liberal state does not elect a person like Donald Trump.
The real problem with Alaska’s elected Republicans is that many are from the Lisa Murkowski branch of the Republican party. They are Democrats at heart and know that by changing their party affiliation to Republican and pretending to be conservative, they might sneak an election victory past the voters. The Alaska GOP has been infiltrated with unserious liberals and has done nothing to prevent it.
The good news is that things are starting to change at the grassroots level in our state. The era of the big-spending RINOs is over, and a new era of Republicanism is sweeping this state.
You don’t have to look very far to find it. You can see the MAGA attitude personified in the Alaska Grand Jury Association in Kenai. It wasn’t the Republican party that stood up to challenge Alaska’s corrupt judiciary, but a few brave conservatives in Kenai who recognized the challenge and organized a grassroots movement to fight against it. They have petitioned Alaska’s Dept. Attorney General to open an investigation into judicial corruption.
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Whether they are ultimately successful, they have at least shown the courage to take up the fight and refuse to give in. That attitude is contagious and will spread to other conservative groups around the state. While there are a few solid conservative Republicans in Alaska who are fighting the good fight, we need many more. I wish elected Republicans in Juneau had demonstrated the same level of courage as the citizens in Kenai.
By waving the white flag of surrender as Meyers just did in his rebuttal, voters can only conclude that Senator Meyers is from the cuckold branch of the Republican party, which just wants to stand around and watch while others engage the hard fight.
The time for Republicans to walk hand in hand down the Primrose Path with the left-wing Democrat party is over. A new day is dawning, one with strong, decisive Republicans who fight hard for what they believe in. The RINOs in Juneau need to realize that – metaphorically speaking – the peasants are at the gates with pitchforks and torches. Brave citizens are fighting to claw back the American dream from those who stole it from us. The era of the RINOs is ending; the era of MAGA is ascendant.
The views expressed here are those of Greg Sarber. Read more Sarber posts at his Seward’s Folly substack.
8 Comments
Thank you good sir,
You have explained well the weak, corrupt, and feckless AK GOP. It is not just in the legislator, but the executive branch also has a very weak person the helm.
When combined with Murkowski and Sullivan and a corrupted judiciary, we have our work cut out for us.
We will keep up the FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
Spot on Mr . Sarber! Another sensible and clearly defined article from you. I wonder – how many conservatives have become ‘faux’ democrats in order to get elected? Why is it always dems who masquerade as republicans? Because too many voters don’t bother to pay attention and just vote for an R, thinking they are voting for a conservative. Add also our elections in the state are a mess. The cheat by mail system that ramped up during Covid needs to end now as we are no longer in lock down. Why is it democrats fighting to keep that travesty? Who pushed RCV upon us? Any conservatives? Of course not! Dems have to rig and even cheat to get elected. Meyers appears to be another imposter Republican and I pray conservatives in his district rise up and bring forth a worth conservative Republican to run against him.
Thank you Mr. Sarber and Homeschoolers. What doesn’t help is plenty of Alaskans are either sitting on their hands or to busy ensuring they provide for their families. We must give Joel big kuddo’s for shining the light. People are slowly waking but as human nature, until fearful or have no money will they really open the eyes and get involved. The liberals know this. I can say I thank the lord for not having Mr. (term used loosely) Meyers live in my neighborhood. He is just throwing up what he knows are lame excuses, like his character in my opinion. Pretty sad state of affairs. Dunleavy acts as a Dem in sheeps clothing also. Really, what are his actual accomplishments?
REAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS? NONE!
“By waving the white flag of surrender as Meyers just did in his rebuttal, voters can only conclude that Senator Meyers is from the cuckold branch of the Republican party, which just wants to stand around and watch while others engage the hard fight.“
Right on target! Such politicians are cucks. The sooner we are shed of such as Ruffridge, Bjorkman, and the like, the better.
Senator Myers needs to research those coalitions. No one has a problem with coalitions, but in the past most coalitions
Republicans were involved in, were Republican led coalitions. When Republicans join a Democratic led coalition, that is something totally different. When you elect more Republicans than Democrats but join a Democratic led coalition you put the democrats in charge. Big difference Senator Myers and why you are in the Senate Minority, not the majority. The same thing happened in the house this year when two “R’s” joined the democrats in the house in order to put the democrat agenda in place.
Most of the time a governor has to work with the legislature to either get things done and red line the over expenditures. Looking at the legislature, one sees so many House and Senate members with a lot of seniority, like Bryce Edgemon and Cathy Giessel. The Alaska legislature is rated as the worst in the country. They don’t pass out of committee any bill they don’t like and that includes bills put in by the governor. The three attempts to constitutionally ensure that Alaskans would have the means to vote on any taxes, along with getting the distribution of the PFD into the Alaska constitution. The bills were filed into the black hole (disappeared – not even assigned to a committee} administered by one legislator committee chairman. This is just one example of how corrupt and power mad the people who actually run the legislature are. Every time the governor called for action – simple phone calls – Alaskans sat on their hands. Instead of just complaining, get involved and put the legislators’ feet to the fire. The democrats support their people. Until republicans do the same when called on to do so, nothing will change. In the end, democracy is a participation sport, definitely not for couch potatoes who holler that those on the fire line don’t do anything. Get out there and join the fight!
RINOs, as you call them, are the real Republicans, the rest are worshippers of the felon.