What do you mean we, Republicans?

I know two Lone Ranger jokes. This is the one that applies to this post. Tonto and the Lone Ranger are surrounded by hostile Indians. The Lone Ranger says, “It looks like we’re in a lot of trouble, old friend!”

Tonto replies, “What do you mean we, Paleface?”

And so it goes with Republicans, whose elected officials keep telling us that if we nominate Donald John Trump for president we will lose because so many people hate him.

Like the RINO cowboy he is, Senator Lindsey Graham told Meet the Press that if Trump is the nominee, “the Republican Party will get killed, we’ll get creamed, we’ll lose, we’ll deserve it.”

He said that in 2016.

As Ray Charles sang, “Here We Go Again.”

Oh, Graham is not saying it this time — out loud that is — but other Listless RINOs adrift along the Tidal Basin of DC and elsewhere are saying it. Oh for the days when the Tidal Basin gave us Fanne Foxe and not these eunuchs.

Chris Sununu, governor of New Hampshire, is reminding everyone of his daddy who also was governor of New Hampshire. John Sununu gave the world Justice David Souter.

This Sununu wrote, “If Mr. Trump is the Republican nominee for president in 2024, Republicans will lose up and down the ballot.”

That is his hope. That is his wish. That always has been the Never Trump dream to destroy the party over Trump in their quest to regain control of their precious — the GOP.

A CBS poll showed 27% of Republicans are Never Trumpers. Their choice, their funeral.

The people who turned the Party of Reagan into the Party of Losers are little Leslie Gores declaring its my party, I’ll lose if I want to.

Let them.

Trump supporters owe the Republican Party nothing. Not one thin dime or fat nickel. The party power brokers hate us, and the feeling now is mutual. The National Review-Weekly Standard crowd pretends its opposition to electing a conservative president is about principle. True conservatives, such as Phyllis Schlafly — who stopped the ERA — backed him.

Never Trumpers are back stabbers. The two previous Republican presidential nominees — McCain and Romney — never attacked Obama personally as they were grateful to lose to the first black president.

But in 2016, these losers openly attacked Trump for more than a year showing absolutely no loyalty to the party or grace in defeat.

On top of that, they were wrong. In Utah, Romney told his gullible (but not listless) supporters in March 2016, “If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished.

“Let me explain why I say that. First on the economy. If Donald Trump’s plans were ever implemented, the country would sink into prolonged recession. A few examples. His proposed 35% tariff-like penalties would instigate a trade war and that would raise prices for consumers, kill our export jobs and lead entrepreneurs and businesses of all stripes to flee America.”

Romney was so wrong, his teeth should have fallen off. Under Trump, the economy blossomed and achieved 50-year lows in unemployment. Workers had not had it so good since Reagan left the White House. Companies re-located their headquarters to the USA.

But Mitten’s running mate — Paul Ryan — is even more loathsome. A month before the 2016 election, the pro-Hillary press decided that Trump using the word pussy in a private conversation 11 years earlier was a scandal.

CBS reported, “Paul Ryan tells Republicans he won’t defend Donald Trump, will focus on keeping majority.”

What a joke. Ryan never defended Trump. And Trump did not need Ryan as despite Ryan’s opposition, Trump became the first Republican to carry Wisconsin in 32 years, Ryan’s home state.

You know, the one he didn’t carry for Romney.

And Ryan — a member of the board of directors for Fox News — is still trying to derail Trump, saying, “If we nominate Trump again, we're going to lose. It’s just that clear. We lost with him in ‘18, ’20 and '22. We know this. He will cost us another election, so I’m just excited about somebody not named Trump. There are great people running. I know them all. They’re all pretty decent friends of mine, and so I think any one of these candidates that are thinking about getting in the race, if they get in the race, would be a great candidate. I think we’re going to beat Joe Biden if we don’t run Donald Trump.”

What do you mean we, Paleface Paul?

Republicans lost in 2018 because Ryan quit Congress and handed the House over to his pal, Nancy Pelosi of whom he has never said an unkind word.

Republicans lost in 2020 because the party failed to stop the mail-in fraud.

Republicans lost in 2022 because the party failed to back Trump supporters in at least three Senate races (Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania).

What does backing Republicans get me, Don Surber? Did I get a wall along the southern border? No. Paul Ryan personally stopped that. He refused to let the House fund it. Now my nation is overrun by invaders from around the world. Things are so bad that Democrat mayors in sanctuary cities across the country are whining about the illegal aliens that Governors Abbott and DeSantis are forwarding to them.

But Ryan got paid well for his work to undermine Trump as Sir Rupert Murdoch gives him $334,986 a year at Fox for a part-time job.

The Ryan-RNC debate was a big fat bomb. Vivek Ramaswamy was the only candidate who stood up against the DOJ’s vendetta against Trump and anyone else who wants to make America great again.

The required promise to support whoever is nominated was a joke. Only people who send money to Nigerian princes believe Christie or Pence will keep his word about supporting the nominee when Trump wins the nomination again.

A vote for Christie or Pence is a vote for Biden. Christie wants to prosecute Trump over and over again. Pence wants to testify against him. What is the penalty for lying on your debate application?

Where is the Republican outrage over the unconstitutional, unprecedented and unwarranted indictments of Trump? Democrats tore up city after city when George Floyd died of a drug overdose while in police custody. While Trump battles these deep state Dumpster fires, RINOs are kicking back and enjoying their Bud Lights.

Republicans never complained about Obama using the FBI to spy on Trump. But man did they ever pat themselves on the back for forcing Nixon to resign over Watergate, a third-rate burglary.

Rank-and-file Republicans in Wyoming ousted Liz “Do You Know Who My Daddy Is?” Cheney after her treachery in setting up a second impeachment — an act Republicans in Congress initially refused to punish her for.

Republicans have 41,000 hours of J6 video that prove Trump supporters were set up by the deep state. The refusal to release the video tells you all you need to know.

One quarter of Republicans will not back Trump? So what? Who cares about them and their pathetic need to suck up to liberals? Trump won without them as 62 million of us voted for him in 2016

He gained a whopping 13 million voters in 2020 — more than any other president — but thanks to Democrat cheating and RINOs looking the other way, his presidency ended.

RINOs plan to do it again next year — and then blame him after sabotaging his election. They do not want to win.

Excuse me, they do not want America to win. They are meat puppets who do whatever their World Economic Forum donor-owners tell them to do.

Where should Republican Party leaders go? Well, as that other Lone Ranger joke went, he takes his trash “to the dump, to the dump, to the dump-dump-dump.”

That’s a good place for them.