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No Republican Can Be Elected President. Ever Again.
I enjoy the political back-and-forth in the primaries, but after the last Presidential election, and last year, I consider almost all of it unimportant. The only issue that matters is election integrity. The fact is, the way things are now, no Republican can possibly be elected President.
Here are the numbers. Savor Trump’s Electoral Landslide — Until the Phantoms Vote – American Thinker
The Democrat far left used COVID to greatly expand their usual methods of stealing an election: universal mail-in ballots, extended counting periods, you name it. Molly Hemingway’s excellent book Rigged spells it out in detail. If you don’t want to bother with the deep dive, consider one simple fact: Joe Biden couldn’t raise a crowd of more than “dozens” of supporters, yet got more votes than Obama did either time he ran.
Once they got in power, they did their best to make all those lovely techniques legal. They came up with new ones, like ranked-choice voting, which elected a Democrat in Alaska although Republicans got far more votes. They did it systematically, state by swing state, with Democrat prosecutors and state Supreme Courts to back it up. Georgia, Florida and Texas are the only states a Republican can win in the Presidential election.
Unless we change this before November 2024, it doesn’t matter who is running, we’re getting the Democrat.
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Even if that’s true, the stakes or potential outcomes were not that similar. No actual office is taken simply according to the outcome of any primary. The primary results aren’t even really binding on the parties, are they?
In any event, it would have to have been someone else to challenge the primary, someone other than Trump, if they thought it was “rigged” against them. Someone like Ted Cruz, for example. How is it valid to block Trump from action in the general election because Ted Cruz or some other candidate didn’t dispute the primary?
Also, I would be surprised if all of the drop-box shenanigans etc were already in place for the primaries. Seems like some of the chicanery was in motion right up to and even on Election Day, at least in some states.
Isn’t that really a question that should be put before the RNC?
Or, perhaps a better question would be:
1. Will the GOP be doing anything effective to counter Democrat ballot harvesting, particularly in the must-win states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
2. Will the RNC, RNSC, and RNCC support the winners of senate and house primaries even if the voters choose someone other than the establishment’s preferred choice?
3. Will Republicans run on something other than “slightly less worse than Joe Biden,” or are they going to repeat McConnell’s 2022 strategy of refusing to give the voters any reason to support them.
To formally state “F – Them”. So it doesn’t look like a North Korean election outcome. To be a turd in the Leftist Punchbowl.
Of those you listed only DeSantis would get my vote, and I’m not certain of that yet even though I’ve sent money to support him. So, yeah, go ahead and nominate one of those and we’ll see what happens.
I used to think your cynicism and negativity was just an act and, honestly, it ticked me off at times. Today, I’m not sure you’re cynical and negative enough.
Hope springs eternal . . . and all that rot.
I’m not voting Republican. I’m voting for the person who will help preserve liberty and freedom and work to destroy the Uniparty. Will that person have an “R” next to his name?
History shows us the answer to that is a resounding NO.
“Who else are you going to vote for?” is their usual response.
And if we all decide to just stay home, they won’t blame themselves. But they should.
That sphinctered caudal orifice McConnell is already talking about “candidate quality” being the determining factor in whether the repubs can recapture the Senate. Now that I reside in the Bluegrass, I can vote against the bastard if he runs again and if I survive until he does.
And “No one” is an acceptable response. In the most recent election I did not vote for my Republican governor or congressman because they did not meet my standard. However, I also did not vote for their Democrat opponents because I’m not a spiteful troll.
Do you believe that there were hoaxes, almost-soft-coup, weaponized insitutions and government, 99% hysterically negative coverage, fake impeachments, captured media, captured academia, captured big tech, cancel culture, Kavanaugh travesty, Covington travesty, rigged election, that we’re now experiencing unprecedentedly radical and authoritarian identitarian progressivism, open borders, dangerous foreign policy, reckless fiscal situation, and the kind of corruption that everyone can only dream applied to President Trump?
If not, then there’s really nothing to say.
If so, though, it’s difficult for me to believe that you sincerely think that a younger less polarizing candidate is weightier on the scales than all of the above. It’s also difficult for me to believe that you sincerely think that Trump himself was polarizing as opposed to all of the above doing the polarizing to him.
Either way, the next guy will be painted as polarizing and evil too. It’s what Democrats do now. It’s what is being taught in schools. It’s embedded in entertainment. Conservative or even simply normie views from 10 years ago are now racist, homophobic, transphobic, hateful, violent, anti-science, etc. By default.
If the next guy isn’t portrayed that way then beware – it’s the empire striking back.
Why vote if the system is rigged? I don’t believe it’s necessarily rigged beyond reach or beyond fixing. Anyway, I’m going to vote because that’s what I can do short of violence. Even if there’s cheating, a robust vote forces them to try instead of taking what they want for free, kind of like the way all negotiations seem to go in Washington: The Republicans start with half a loaf and end up with none.
Also, as WI Con said: “To formally state “F – Them”. So it doesn’t look like a North Korean election outcome. To be a turd in the Leftist Punchbowl.” I like that very much.
Welcome to Joe Biden’s Amerikka.
I think what it’s going to take for the BoomerCons to wake up to the realities of election fraud is when Basement Joe runs against the “quality candidate” everyone assumes is running: Ron DeSantis — and DeSantis loses bigly.
The usual excuse about “surgical voting” to get rid of Trump always gets hauled out. The Nevers need this excuse to justify their hatred of Trump. But maybe what’ll wake them up is when they see their perfect ideal candidate lose to the brain-dead puppet President.
Then they’ll be forced to stare the fraud right in the face.
Or they’ll just claim that WE didn’t support THEIR candidate enough.
I don’t see any summaries at those links. I see Cheney quoted heavily and I see Soros, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford Foundation among the donors though. Along with Chicago Community Foundation and Chicago Community Trust. In the CLC link under the “Decided on the Merits” section, they list 10 out of the claimed 60 that were filed, and the descriptions for each provided do not prove they “lacked merit”. We’d have to examine each in detail to really decide whether it was ruled correctly or incorrectly, if dismissed whether it was on merits/judicial error or on technicality or nothing at all. I certainly have my skepticism levels raised based on where this is coming from and based on that site referring to “The Big Lie”.
Here’s a different description from The Federalist. I know I’ve seen other summaries and lists and I wish I would have bookmarked them, perhaps someone else has seen the ones I’ve seen and can link.
See Comment #1
You can say that, but it won’t even be acknowledged by some. WI comes to mind.
The Wisconsin Election Commission doesn’t even follow Wisconsin election laws. Even when ordered to by a judge.
Speaking of lawsuits being decided on the “merits”: Trump loses defamation and civil battery suit. Based on? The merits, obviously. The merits.
Al Gore summed up the Democrat philosophy when he said, “There is no controlling authority.” They will do what whatever they feel the need to do, unless some army stops them.
Then I suggest Republicans start getting good at ballot harvesting, like they did in California.
^This^
The hysterical overreaction to Trump’s 2016 win and subsequent presidency should have made it plainly obvious that Democrats would do whatever they had to ensure that nothing like Hillary’s humiliation would ever be allowed to happen again.
Lefties are notorious ends-justify-the-means operators. Every Republican candidate will get the Trump treatment.
Perfect. Brilliant summation.
Good question. Maybe hope. But it is getting harder to see hope with the reality of the situation. Many of my friends already do not. The figure it really does not matter who wins anyway since the powers are going to do what they will. They may be right.
It has never been an act. And you are probably right that I am not cynical enough. I have too much optimism in me to be cynical enough. But I was raised by a Grandfather and Father that were very realist about things and showed me things. They also got us involved in local politics that let me see too much of how that world work. I usually feel that many on Ricochet live life with rose colors glasses. But that side of the world is showing people enough that the color is fading from the eyes. My greatest fear is that I am not realistic enough for what is coming.
Maybe so, but I figure the Dimocrat voters are in for an even bigger shock.
What shock? They will keep not getting what they are promised or actually just a bit of it and be told the GOP are the reason why they are not getting what they deserve because it was promised.