re: Is McCarthy the most conservative speaker since Gingrish?

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Do you really think he’d be doing everything he’s done if he didn’t at the very least have some conservative leanings? Why would he allow himself to be held hostage to 10% of the republicans if he was so against them? What’s the standard to be held to (and never broken from) for a conservative lest they be labeled a turncoat RINO that cannot ever be trusted? Maybe he’s been misread to some degree by the board.

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Before reading this, you should know that at the RNC election meetings, their general counsel just got up and talked about how Google has been sabotaging their fundraising efforts and they are in litigation over that right now. And yet, McCarthy is the top advocate for Big Tech. Oh yeah, he helped sabotage the midterms for the Republicans as well. And you're like, "aw poor Kevin is just misunderstood."



For Big Tech, McCarthy is “their top advocate among congressional Republicans.”…

It’s “all part of the political game of Washington.”


…McCarthy’s antagonism toward the Big Tech companies is nothing more than political messaging. “McCarthy is reflecting what his caucus does to fundraise and motivate base voters,”…

Frederic Barnes is a lobbyist at TikTok who worked for McCarthy. George Caram…senior legislative assistant…now represents Apple. Brian Worth, former director of coalitions for McCarthy, lobbies for Amazon and Wing... Jeff Miller, a political adviser to McCarthy, also represents Apple and Amazon….

When POLITICO asked Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), the Republican leading that bipartisan antitrust push, about his thoughts on McCarthy’s anti-Big Tech rhetoric, Buck replied with a question of his own: “He’s anti-Big Tech?”….

And Jeff Miller, if not others, were spotted in McCarthy’s office even before the Speaker fight. From https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/19/kevin-mccarthy-tech-silicon-valley-527292