Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) speaking at the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas on Sept. 10, 2026. Ron Sachs - CNP for NY Post See more of our coverage in your search results.
Add The New York Post on Google Democrats spent Monday gnashing their teeth in between sips of their tear-stained coffee after Rep. Jared Golden, a retiring member of their caucus from Maine, endorsed Republican Rep. Mike Lawler’s re-election campaign in a stunning op-ed.
Arguing that the House “needs fewer members who treat the job as a stage and more who treat it as work,” Golden deemed Lawler a “true partner” before imploring voters to “find the members who pass laws with the other party, and keep them.”
If you listen closely, you can hear the echoes of the resulting howls even now.
“Mike Lawler is a partisan hack and Trump sycophant,” declared Hakeem Jeffries, the hapless House minority leader.
“In desperation, he is peddling an 11th hour endorsement from a retiring Congressmember who represents an out of town district more than 400 miles away . . . Mike Lawler can try to run from his extremist record. We will never let him hide.”
And what must Lawler have called Jeffries’ mother?
The Bulwark’s Tim Miller struck a similarly — and characteristically — shrill note.
“Lawler has been a complete Trump shill who has done nothing meaningful to slow his agenda and Cait Conley is a mainstream Democrat what the f–k are you doing?” he asked while presumably shaking his fist at the sky.
A dutiful Rep. Gregory Meeks lifted his talking points directly from Jeffries’ scornful word-salad statement (“Look, if Mike Lawler wants to tout an endorsement from a Democratic member from hundreds of miles away, he can do that . . .”)
And Hasan Piker, in a bit of mental gymnastics for which he is woefully unequipped, chimed in to try to channel the anger at Golden back toward a Jew: New Jersey Democrat Rep. Josh Gottheimer.
It’s been an undignified, if representative, 24 hours for Team Donkey.
Jeffries, Miller & Co. hope you won’t notice that they’re outright lying about Lawler’s record.
The Hudson Valley congressman was ranked the fourth most bipartisan member of Congress by the Lugar Center and Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy back in 2024.
Golden wasn’t far behind at 30th; Meeks finished 275th.
Not much has changed since Donald Trump moved back into the White House, either.
The Mediators Foundation named Lawler the sixth most bipartisan member in its own rankings earlier this year, in which he earned a score of 99.2 out of 100.
And rather inconveniently, Jeffries’ own caucus has already admitted to his fib.
“If you’re going to have a Republican,” one Democrat told Axios last month, Lawler is “the kind of Republican we want in the Congress.”
Facts can be pesky things, especially for an emotionally unregulated man-child in politics.
This deceitful meltdown, though, points to a larger, eternal truth.
To leftists, the only good Republican is one who loses — and they hate the “reasonable” ones who pose a threat to their grip on power most of all.
John McCain drew spurious accusations of racism and preposterous comparisons to George Wallace on the campaign trail in 2008 before he was hailed as a hero for opposing an Obamacare repeal bill a decade later.
Mitt Romney was a dog-abusing, tax-evading, cancer-patient-spiting monster who would put blacks “back in chains” before he became a lonely island of Republican reason in the Senate.
And as for George Bush and Dick Cheney, they were all but made out to be Satan and his top lieutenant before Trump took his first oath of office, when they suddenly transformed into reminders of the good ol’ days.
In evaluating the worth of a Republican, the left and its mouthpieces in the press disregard character, knowledge, experience and even their willingness to reach across the aisle.
In fact, to the extent any of those attributes help them or anyone else with an R next to their name get elected, they’re all the more reason to sling mud.
Perhaps that’s why Golden’s endorsement has wounded these snowflakes so deeply.
Not just because of the implications at the ballot box, but because it’s an implicit indictment of the shallow, dishonorable public lives they lead.
