I’m Not Surprised Tulsi Gabbard Became A Republican

Posted by Miserable-Bit5939@reddit | tulsi | View on Reddit | 38 comments

I was actually surprised Tulsi became an Independent. I thought she would have never left the Democrats as she served in multiple political offices and ran for president as a Democrat. She seemed to portray herself as one of the lone Democrats to oppose the Biden-Harris administration.

She clearly, but slowly started her shift towards the right months after suspending her presidential campaign. She introduced legislation with a Republican congressman to prevent men from competing in women’s sports, she called out the Biden-Harris administration for supporting open borders, and even changed her position on gun control.

While her announcement of becoming a Republican didn’t shock me at all, I understand why she became an Independent first. Tulsi felt politically homeless for a really long time. She realized she had no place and political future in the Democratic Party during her presidential campaign. In early 2022, Mitt Romney accused her of spewing “treasonous lies” when she raised concerns about the potential breach of biolabs in Ukraine. Both political parties have warmongers from Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden for the Democrats to Liz and Dick Cheney for the Republicans. It seems that Tulsi is more comfortable with holding conservative positions now since she’s no longer a congresswoman, but she has no chance of winning as a Republican in Hawaii. Republicans respect Tulsi, but they still disagreed with and rightfully criticized her for previous policy positions. She didn’t have a place in the GOP either.

This year in 2024, it’s obvious that she’s trying to “play the game” from the outside. She’s been generating headlines from saying she’d be honored to serve as Trump’s VP, giving him advice on foreign policy, endorsing Trump and then joining the Republican Party. I love Tulsi for her foreign policy, her good looks, her military service, her compassion for people and she’s really a smart lady. I think now that she’s in Trump’s inner circle and is now a Republican, she’s setting herself up to run for office again.

She wouldn’t run for Senate or governor in 2026. If she does run for office again, it would have to be for the presidency since she’s become more of a national figure.

I would definitely consider voting for her in the GOP primary, but she has to make that decision for herself to run for president again.

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msmind@reddit

Exactly. The Democrat party is not what they claim to be.

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MaximusGrandimus@reddit

So turning to a party that is actively against everything Tulsi supposedly stands for is the last resort? "Screw women's rights and LGBT concerns I will join the Republicans, that will show the Dems!"

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msmind@reddit

Which Republicsn party policy "screws women's rights" or "LGBT concerns"? I genuinely want to know.

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MaximusGrandimus@reddit

Well we can start with positioning the Supreme Court to hand-deliver a ruling removing Roe v Wade... the defunding of Planned Parenthood... the outcry over books that discuss and inform about the LGBTQ experience... shall I continue?

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msmind@reddit

I'm a woman in the US and I personally don't know of any "health rights" others have that I don't.

Defunding PP is not intruding on my health rights, what the heck is that anyways? From what I know I can go to a doctor as easily as anyone else. I have access to a dentist etc.. the only thing that affects my access to those are economic factors, and still there are options there.

I don't know much about why PP was defunded but I vaguely remember reading that they broke laws. I'll have to look into that. For me, if you break laws you should not have access to my tax $.

Regarding banning of books, I don't think there's a topic that you can't create a book over. A friend is a publisher, and he said you can literally write a book on anythjng and self publish on Amazon.

Yes if there are other policies, lmk.

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MaximusGrandimus@reddit

Planned Parenthood didn't break any laws. A scam company filmed themselves saying things like they wanted to buy fetuses and creatively edited the videos to make it look like the PP personnel agreed with it. Conveniently removing all references the PP made to needing to report their behavior and that they didn't sell fetuses.

This dude was sued and all this came out in a court of law. He also did the same tactic with ACORN, an important financial institution that helped people in impoverished circumstances and got them defended as well.

Because ya see even though these videos were deceptively edited it gave legislators fuel enough to ram through censures removing their funding in the committees they led because the court of public opinion is apparently more powerful than an actual damn court of law.

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Flengrand@reddit

Dems had so many chances to codify r v w, they didn’t. planned parenthood is a scam organization, like me to we, and blm, regardless of what the “grass roots” of those organizations were they’re used to enrich those in charge of them. You mean the books that outright portray porn? The books that were so graphic they weren’t letting parents read them out loud at board meetings? The same parents they called domestic terrorist for daring to question why they have porn available in the library of elementary schools? Get new strawmen.

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MaximusGrandimus@reddit

Ya lost me when you called a legitimate organization that provides reproductive health care far beyond abortion such as cancer screening and treatment for both genders, a scam.

dastink-dontatme@reddit

I don’t hate JD Vance, but Tulsi would be the strongest Republican nominee

wizpiggleton@reddit

If she wants to make a 3rd party from trump's ashes be my guest. We might be able to get rid of the fillibuster.

brainomancer@reddit

Couldn't agree more. She took a tremendous risk by endorsing Bernie Sanders in 2016 and burning bridges with the Democratic Party. More than once she stood up for what she thought was right, and she paid the price. If she wants to continue fighting for us, other than in the National Guard, then her only path forward is in the Republican Party. I have never in my life voted for a Republican or imagined registering as a Republican, but if there was a realistic chance of Tulsi Gabbard becoming the Republican nominee, I would do it for her. I would follow her anywhere.

Yeah, because gods forbid she sticks to her original ideals and tries to change the DNC from within. Jumping ship and going to the side that actively goes against everything she stands for is the perfect way to move forward.

Yeah, because gods forbid she sticks to her original ideals and tries to change the DNC from within

She tried that for like twenty years and all she got were accusations of being a traitor from people who never served their country.

Dbro92@reddit

And she proved them right

You must have her confused with some foreign-funded AIPAC loyalist.

Additional_Ad3573@reddit

What do you mean? Tulsi is quite radically pro-Israel. In fact, she openly criticized Obama for not saying "radical Islam"

dalledayul@reddit

I would follow her anywhere.

This is an insane way to think about a political candidate.

EBW42@reddit

I really would feel honored to vote for her again in my life time. I truly feel that tulsi should be the first woman president.

That would be awesome

Right? I’d love to see a Tulsi RFK ticket or Tulsi Vivek ticket

That would truly be wonderful. I’m here for the unity party

casinocooler@reddit

She will be. She is being groomed for the position. Thus her recent change in party affiliation. She is the future.

I love this. Such a hopeful message

streetwearbonanza@reddit

She'll never be president nor even run again. She's politically toxic. And for good reason

Remy0507@reddit

Oh, she's made herself very popular with Trumpkins. But if Trump loses and the Republican party suffers big losses as a result of their association with Trump, hopefully that will be the end of MAGA's hold on the Republican party, and Tulsi won't have a political home at that point. But she'll be fine, she can go back to grifting on Fox News.

That’s some strong copium you’re huffing.

No need for coping, it's just reality.

TheoSalem@reddit

She has genuine integrity. I am always a fan of hers.

BoniceMarquiFace@reddit

Yea, I myself speculated on this issue a few years ago

https://np.reddit.com/r/WOTBelectionintegrity/s/8pbZlRDRHe

watching_whatever@reddit

Too little too late for Gabbard. After Harris wins the election and Dems pays people five figures from the border to move to certain states the Republicans will be fried for many decades.

Tulsi had a chance but Trump failed her, failed himself and failed his followers by losing the election by a few foolish decisions and comments.

If/when trump wins she will be part of his administration and as long as he doesn’t smear or fire her she will be a front runner in 2028. She is being groomed.

Dream on, it won’t be that close - Harris is not worried at all. Nice dream though.

workitloud@reddit

She resigned as vice-president of the DNC in February of 2016. She felt it was a conflict of interest to endorse Sanders, and she wanted to do so. The complete hijacking of the DNC to favor Clinton came later, but they brought the boot heel down right between her shoulder blades. The DNC could have won in 2016, but Clinton didn’t tap sanders. Many Bernie supporters jumped ship & voted for Trump, a larger factor than one might think.

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

She also mopped the floor with a bunch of people in the debates she was “allowed” to participate in.

So she resigned the position that would have allowed her to keep what happened in the 2016 and 2020 primaries from happening? That seems a bit odd...

Miserable-Bit5939@reddit (OP)

Hehe “allowed”. I remember she made the first two debates, missed the third, barely made the fourth one and then Hillary Clinton’s Russian asset smear helped her get into the fifth debate

Read the link, shill. The whole thing. Educate yourself.

dillasdonuts@reddit

It's impossible to be relevant as an independent politician. She was shunned by the dem establishment and instead of staying independent, she jumped to the other side to climb that ladder and kiss the hand of people that run that party.

Every career politician that wants to climb the ladder must please the establishment over their constituents. No one cares about you after election season.

thetruegambler@reddit

I agree. I adore Tulsi Gabbard. One of my favorite politicians. I find it ironic that the politicians who served in the military are usually more anti-war (Tulsi, Ron Paul, Ron Desantis, I assume JD Vance?)

While the politicians who never served or dodged service tend to defend war (Bush, Gingrich, Santorum).

Of course it’s not always the case like John McCain.