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Are you retarded or something?🤨 I don’t know quite how to explain my thoughts, but I’ll try...so, please bear with me.🤔 I once watched a documentary about loony bins (set in the 40s or 50s). There was one unfortunate soul (I think his name was Carl) who’d been given an ice pick lobotomy & was standing in a corridor dribbling on his shoes.🤤 I’m not saying he was in league with the unfortunate soul smearing fecal matter on the walls.💩 However, let’s just say he wasn’t living his best life: he was basically incoherent & I’m really not sure how many brain cells survived.😳 Anywho, i’ve often wondered what became of Carl... Reading you reminds me of him!😳🤓🤠😵‍💫🤡

It doesn’t mean that he is good at divining who will make the best candidates. He is a good man who deserves to be reelected President & has earned our love & honor. He has proven that he is good at getting himself elected; his track record with picking other candidates or Cabinet appointees is pretty bad. There is a wholly different skill in understanding the political realities of knowing which candidate will run best in a district & how to craft a winning message.

I’m just not sure how many elections with lousy candidates yall need us to lose before we stop blindly following his c choices off a cliff. I’m so tired of listening to folks on our side blindly say “but I trust Trump”. Well yeah, I do too, where he is concerned. Given the godawful record of the last thee elections, we shouldn’t be taking his advice on other candidates.

I’m loyal- but I’m not blind. In case anyone takes issue with me making a criticism. It’s literally my job- I’m a conservative political consultant & I’m good at my job. My track record on picking candidates & honing messages has kept me busy & employed. I’m also quite sure that that wouldn’t necessarily help me win a race in which I were the candidate. They are 2 different things. Trump has a skill at knowing how to command a crowd, keep everyone interested in hearing more & deliver a winning message for himself & should focus on that! 😉

Agreed! We do have to stand on our soapboxes & be advocates for a better & conservative view. I just really want to drive home: for anyone who wants him to succeed, please make sure you vote for every other office on your ballot. Hopefully all candidates on the ballot are rabid right-wing conservatives like us, but even if they are not please vote for the most conservative candidate offered. Please consider delaying boycotts on squishy or establishment Republican until a future election where we have organized, have or ducks in a row & have made provisions to prevent handing individual political offices or entire branches of government to the left.

Obviously, I exempt from voting someone as ridiculous as a Liz Cheney. What im warning against is the virulent strain of thought on our side that has taken their irritation with establishment types & now argues that there’s a bigger war against them than the left & have taken to essentially boycotting other Republicans. I can’t think of anything less helpful or more counterproductive to Trumps Presidency & our movement than that. As I said, the Liz Cheneys have made clear their contempt & officially joined voting for Democrats. They obviously don’t deserve our votes. However most moderately conservative types that may make a criticism or disagree on an issue should not be boycotted.

Should they eventually be replaced- undoubtedly! But we need to get candidates in the primaries & winnable in the general (which takes effort & some solidarity to accomplish). Boycotting someone a little squishy & handing that office to a Democrat (who will have incumbency & financial advantages) will make the prospect of getting a true blue MAGA conservative elected far less likely. It would also hand over the enactment of voting & immigration laws that would pretty much bring about apocalypse & kill Trumps chance at succeeding 😉

It’s so annoying reading comments like this. Too many of us are talking like if we just elect Trump, he can do this all by himself. Too many of us are only interested in electing Trump. Too many of us have convinced ourselves that showing up & voting for other political offices aren’t as important & might as well be held by a Democrat because the Reublican candidate isn’t our ideal conservative. Way too many of us are reveling in our cynicism & negativity.

What’s sad is that by doing all of those things we are inasvertently hamstringing Trump (if we manage to get him elected. There are a bunch of people on our side that seem convinced that Trump can just snap his fingers & make stuff happen. He’s a good man, but he can’t perform magic. He’s going to need Republicans in Congress- House & Senate. He’s going to need State Governors & Legislators. He’s going to need Local Mayors & Councils & School Boards. The only way he can accomplish anything is with the help of other elected officials.

We are going to have to realize that he will need a coalition & they aren’t always going to agree with us on everything or be our ideal conservative. Some of them may be establishment types. We need the most right leaning people that are electable in jurisdictions across the land. We need judges appointed to Courts across the land. We need Attorney Generals. We need a lot of things. But right now, I’d settle for our side waking up & realizing the folly of only being interested in electing Trump & assuming that he can get us headed in a better direction all by himself.

We need more than just Trump! We need effective control of our Government. That necessitates enthusiasm in electing more than one man! It also means we need to be less negative& defeatist,stop making excuses & get out there & change things 😉🤔

Look you can watch a video & think you’ve figured out why women vote for a candidate, but instead of listening to a theory on why women vote the way they do- try listening to one with a response. Conservative women vote their values more than their economic views. Libertaria dismissed & free markets are mainly am appeal to men. That isn’t to say we don’t take economics into consideration, it just takes a back seat to moral values. Leftist women vote the way they do bc they see themselves as paragon of tolerance & social justice.

Moderate women are essentially like moderate men- wishy washy, unmoored to firm principles & much easier target vote getting appeals at. I would also say that moderate women are likely the ones represented in your theory & the video. When you don’t have well formed, principled views & are in need of having moronic politicians craft lame appeals toword you just to win your votes. They would most likely be the ones who are prone to deciding a vote on something so superficial. They’re likely also the ones who vote based we d on personality or likeableness. Those aren’t representative of anything approaching a majority.

They are the equivalent of the men who think Kristy Noem or Lauren Boebert would make a great VP because they like her rack. Men are more visual creatures than women. As far as Bill Clinton 🤮🤢 or Obama 🤮🤮. Gross! Men on here need to stop commenting on banning women’s votes bc yall aren’t doing conservatives any favor. By the way, not sure you’d notice but Trump is winning 45% of women, barely under half & nearly even. Trump is winning 52% of men. Barely above half. That means 48% of males are potentially voting for a leftist moron. If men were all that different than chick’s politically, I’d expect more of a difference between the two. Nearly half of your own gender votes the wrong way too 🤔😉

😳🤫Be careful how you respond to Jim W N. He’s apparently the grandpa of Free Republic & thinks he’s qualified to lecture us what the facts are & whether they’re allowed. For those that disagree with him, he let’s them know they’ve entered his “no fly zone” & dismisses them by recommending they “crawl back under a rock”. There’s some other Boomer language scattered in there by a guy who watched Terminator in 1984 and apparently thought trying to speak in a cadence similar to his would come of super trendy & cool! 👍👌🫡😎🤣

Are you a woman, because I am quite sure that isn’t how we choose or candidates. We aren’t men. It would be nice to see my fellow conservatives pay attention to conservative women & the candidates they think might be good too! 😉

Tulsa Gabbard! She’s a former Democrat like Trump that believes the party hS gone nuts, she sounds right on issues, she’s an outsider & she would likely be incredibly helpful with the demographics we need! 😉

Who comes up with these choices??????? “Let’s pick the most lackluster, unimaginative people that will bore everybody to death. He’d be smart to pick a choice that has a chance to appeal to the voters he might need to get 50+%.Suburban women would definitely respond well to a woman. Independents would truly appreciate Tulsi Gabbard. I think she would be the smartest choice. Be strategic. Blunt the possibility of losses. Pick someone that would be your advocate, is attractive, smart & could bring in some voters. Don’t do what we always do. For God’s sake, do something interesting!! 😉

Screw em! Glad you weren’t there to raise the white flag during independence. Defeatist conservatives are making me ill lately 🙄

That was also a different age in America. No Republican OR DEMOCRAT can win 49 states. That will likely never happen again. I concede- Mississippi was 16.5, not 20.0. Of course strong majorities of Republicans want reduced legal ilmmigration levels. No that doesn’t immediately follow with “well, majorities of Republican voters want it reduced, therefore Republican officials feel the same....... Umm no, the whole reason for Trump & Republican voters protest vote for him was because the officials we elected sold out what a majority of our voters wanted on immigration because big business donors made huge contributions to their campaigns & got them to change their stance. Trump came in & said “I’m going to come in & build a big, beautiful wall. It’s going to be fabulous!” That’s part of why we began calling so many elected Republicans “establishment” & “Rhino”. They screwed their own voters, we got ticked & Trump became a voice for that anger.

As far as immigration- I agree! It’s been an unmitigated disaster overall. However, hispanic voters have moved 20points rightward since Trump. It’s been at 55/45 for the last 4 years. The Democrat plan on immigration is coming back to bite them. You are crazy if you think that bad statistics from 15 years ago are going to stay that way indefinitely! Stop thinking so negatively! The biggest problem I think Democrats didn’t count on was that when they made big promises about improvement in minority communities & it never materialized or actually made the situation worse, would eventually create a problem come election day. They believed the “demographics is destiny” thing. Nope! It’s way more complicated than that. Hispanics are on the verge of voting identical to white folks. Whites were in favor of mass deportations at 50+% & Hispanics were supporting it at 45%. They elected DeSantis & Florida & Texas. The only group that has moved in Democrats direction in the last 6 years are women with 4+ years of college & chances are in 10 years that won’t stick either 🤔

My God, some of yall have the worst political instincts I have ever seen! Anybody on our side arguing that allowing a Democrat (other than Tulsi Gabbard) to control a House of Congree or branch of Government should be as far as possible away from plotting election strategy 🙄. For as much as I love the issues championed by MAGA, I’m afraid guys like you are temporarily the majority deciding our fate. How naive some of yall sound & so seriously misguided when it comes to thinking things through. I don’t think that’s your strong suit.

What’s terrible is we went from the establishment right controlling election strategy & being barely mediocre- plus not supporting our stances enough & selling us out. 2016 was an amazing year & a necessary change in the GOP! Trump caught lightning & made history. I’m voting for him a 3rd time this year. However, I don’t know what made rank & file MAGA think they’d be great at campaigns & elections. To date, we have lost 3 consecutive elections (& it wasn’t all because of election cheating).

I knew as soon as I heard some of yall opining about how a Republican that goes squishy on an issue is just as bad or worse than a leftist Democrat- that we were doomed come election day. Yall have also convinced(with your wise words) many of our countryman not to bother showing up to vote for anyone besides President Trump as they are all establishment stooges. I am thankful for any new voters Trump brings in, but I don’t support justifiably taking control of a party & movement from a snobby elite (rightly so), only to hand our fate & future over to the kids in Special Ed.

If you were even a tiny bit wiser, you’d realize that in controlling all branches they could abolish the filibuster with a simple majority rule change, things could pass both houses with simple majorities (which they would have), the President could sign them into law with no real debate & they could expand the Supreme Court & all other courts to however many justice they need to interpret the Costitution to mean anything they want it to. They take over voting rules & oversight from each of the states, put you on a list for a dubious reason & bar you from your Constitutional right to vote They could also pass actual law legalizing flooding every single red state with enough foreigners that it’ll never vote conservative again & we wouldn’t have the numbers to mount much of a resistance.

I swear to God himself, yall have got to stop being morons & act like grownups. You vote out your own Speaker when you have the numbers to get rid of him & retain control of office. You never willingly hand over an office to a Democrat- not even when the Republican is a squish or a disappointment or tou want to choke him for being a sellout. It’s not about your anger at all times! When you are ultimately in a tough spot like this, you decide which one, would be a bigger disaster to the Republic. I’d say if your instinct is to conflate the two or say the squishy Republican is worse, you have horrible political instincts, belong to a different philosophical movement than us conservatives or are a Democrat plant sent here to give terrible advice 🙄💯

My God, some of yall have the worst political instincts I have ever seen! Anybody on our side arguing that allowing a Democrat (other than Tulsi Gabbard) to control a House of Congree or branch of Government should be as far as possible away from plotting election strategy 🙄. For as much as I love the issues championed by MAGA, I’m afraid guys like you are temporarily the majority deciding our fate. How naive some of yall sound & so seriously misguided when it comes to thinking things through. I don’t think that’s your strong suit.

What’s terrible is we went from the establishment right controlling election strategy & being barely mediocre- plus not supporting our stances enough & selling us out. 2016 was an amazing year & a necessary change in the GOP! Trump caught lightning & made history. I’m voting for him a 3rd time this year. However, I don’t know what made rank & file MAGA think they’d be great at campaigns & elections. To date, we have lost 3 consecutive elections (& it wasn’t all because of election cheating).

I knew as soon as I heard some of yall opining about how a Republican that goes squishy on an issue is just as bad or worse than a leftist Democrat- that we were doomed come election day. Yall have also convinced(with your wise words) many of our countryman not to bother showing up to vote for anyone besides President Trump as they are all establishment stooges. I am thankful for any new voters Trump brings in, but I don’t support justifiably taking control of a party & movement from a snobby elite (rightly so), only to hand our fate & future over to the kids in Special Ed.

If you were even a tiny bit wiser, you’d realize that in controlling all branches they could abolish the filibuster with a simple majority rule change, things could pass both houses with simple majorities (which they would have), the President could sign them into law with no real debate & they could expand the Supreme Court & all other courts to however many justice they need to interpret the Costitution to mean anything they want it to. They take over voting rules & oversight from each of the states, put you on a list for a dubious reason & bar you from your Constitutional right to vote They could also pass actual law legalizing flooding every single red state with enough foreigners that it’ll never vote conservative again & we wouldn’t have the numbers to mount much of a resistance.

I swear to God himself, yall have got to stop being morons & act like grownups. You vote out your own Speaker when you have the numbers to get rid of him & retain control of office. You never willingly hand over an office to a Democrat- not even when the Republican is a squish or a disappointment or tou want to choke him for being a sellout. It’s not about your anger at all times! When you are ultimately in a tough spot like this, you decide which one, would be a bigger disaster to the Republic. I’d say if your instinct is to conflate the two or say the squishy Republican is worse, you have horrible political instincts, belong to a different philosophical movement than us conservatives or are a Democrat plant sent here to give terrible advice 🙄💯

Yet again your statistics. Trump won Mississippi 4 years ago by nearly 20 points Trump 58%/ Biden 40%. Find another hobby 😬😉

No. You aren’t good with numbers or comprehending statistics. A SOLID majority of republican voters support large decreases in legal immigration levels & putting a stop to illegal immigration altogether. Sizable majorities of Republican voters have favored decreasing legal immigration since the early 90s. Republican politicians, on the other hand, have long favored high legal immigration levels (because big business bankrolls Republican bureaucrats reelection campaigns- in return for voting for to import high levels of the cheapest possible labor . You mistakenly assume Republcan politicians bear any resemblance to their voters. They don! 🙄

That’s because half of our voters talk a lot but do little. In order to light a fire under our voters to turn out & affect change, you have to have a positive attitude & believe in yourself & see winning as inevitable. You also have to be willing to join a coalition with people that won’t always agree with you, that you don’t always like so much & that aren’t ideal. As much as anything, you need to be able to hone your message for election time. I’m happily voting for Trump a 3rd time, but any critique of that’s made in regards to the campaign is met with an army of insults & suspicion 🤔

Doesn’t the author not know that half of our voters don’t care about anything else but Trump. Every other officeholder (that isnt Trump himself) is apparently establishment & deep state. Trump won’t need any other elected officials (because apparently he’s magically going to snap his fingers & pass legislation & get officials appointed & run agencies & have funds provided all by himself. Besides, none of them are worth voting for & the office might as well be held by a Democrat, it wouldn’t make a difference (because a Republican that votes conservative 80% of the time is just as bad as a Communist Democrat that votes conservative 0% of the time). And anyways, it won’t make any difference because Democrats chest & there are too many idiot voters & we won’t win, so let’s just stay home and whine while thumping our chests about how much we love & care for the USA 🙄

Honey Biden isn’t winning West Virginia, Nevada doesn’t look likely either & no way he’s getting Arizona this go around given changes on the ground. I agree Trump definitely gets Georgia, he will likely get Michigan. He’s also likely to get Wisconsin & Pennsylvania. New Hampshird & Minnesota are toss ups 😉

Seriously at the point I can’t stand yall anymore! All that’s being contributed is negativity! 🙄

Yes! Florida, Texas, the south, the midwest, the interior west, the rural northeast, the Supreme Court,swing states, minority communities, opposition to the trans agenda, anger towards college campus insanity & inflation, crappy wages, an out of touch government, rampant crime & more than anything- rage about illegals & the purposeful effort by our government to bring them here. So yes- many places! I’m not being a pollyanna- I see the same headlines that you do & of course I get dispirited.

In reality though, the thing scaring me the most is my fear that many on our side are trapped in a self-defeating frame of mind & have been since 2020. I feel like allof t he stuff that our side has been worrying & being negative could be overcome in fairly short order, with some faith, discipline, skill, effort & energy. We have been holding ourselves back, wasting time with infighting & petty stuff. I’m a 2 time Trump voter & I want to see him elected in November. I’ll be there to vote for him again this fall. However, I think we’d be stupid not to acknowledge that while MAGA showed up for Trump in droves, they haven’t proven to be good at running electoral campaigns or strategic planning. It seems like our strategy was: let’s put all our eggs in one basket (Trump) & he will save us & the natiom all by himself. Of course, it’s never worked that way. In order to reverse course, save the country & ourselves, we need to be more active than ever. We need to strategize & turn out in force to elect our officials to every office, branch & level of government, to reinforce voting security & standards & to try & remember that in order to achieve our goals & be successful- we are going to have to court & win over the votes of groups that don’t always agree with us on every issue.

I see people on here daily that are completely clueless about the nuts & bolts of how to win. Our side used to be governed by the establishment right. We figured out that they didn’t really represent our values , but they were ok at campaigning. With MAGA, they represent our values, but do not now how to campaign or work together with others very well. I guarantee you there will be 10 people on here that will read this, blame others & come up with a million different excuses for why the losses occured.

That’s the worrying situation: we have an establishment that became corrupt but was better at campaigning & a MAGA movement that speaks our language but is inept in campaigns. I really hope for a 3rd way 🙄