Alabama Runoff: Trump-Endorsed Katie Britt Beats Back Mo Brooks for Republican Senate Nod

Red State ^ | 06/22/2022 | Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

[jmaroneps37]

“The voters of Alabama can decide which category Britt fell into.”

I guess they did. Brooks got his ash kicked so of course the whiners here cry rino rino rino!

Brooks was not the guy he wanted voters to believe he is. He gave aid and comfort to the Democrat/communists on the every issue that we absolutely have to stand together on.

Words have meaning. Actions have consequences.

[Erik Latranyi]

We need to be honest. Trump was a great President, helped make America great again, stopped Hillary, and lots of other magnificent things. But seriously, Trump's Achilles is his personnel instincts. They're a virtual dumpster fire.

I could not agree more.

Trump seems to only care about his "endorsement score" in 2022 instead of only backing those who backed him and backing the opponents of those who opposed him.

I have very little faith that Trump will drain the swamp given his first term and now his endorsements in 2022.

[Maris Crane]

I think Senator Oz will surprise us. In a good way.

[BlackbirdSST]

They aren’t going to cross the man who endorsed them and will be reliable conservative votes.

It's almost like you have never met a Republican.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Yeah the absolute betrayal by republicans for decades now SPIT/ GEEZE remember the Tea Party we sent hundreds to DC only to watch them give us the middle finger LYIN RYAN was part of that gang SPIT!!!

[kosciusko51]

A more accurate headline would read:

Alabama Runoff: Trump-Endorsed, Mitch McConnell-Funded, Katie Britt Beats Back Mo Brooks for Republican Senate Nod

Now, will she vote based on the endorsement or the funding?

[SharpRightTurn]

“Alabama Runoff: Trump-Endorsed, Mitch McConnell-Funded, Katie Britt Beats Back Mo Brooks for Republican Senate Nod

“Now, will she vote based on the endorsement or the funding?”

Excellent question.

[DoodleBob]

Well, swamp draining requires people willing to work hard on things that matter, AND staying focused. Trump was great, early on, at creating distractions that drew the MSM's attention while he (for example) got tons of judicial appointments behind their backs. He was able to do that, early on, because he had a few really good tacticians (Bannon is an idea guy but he was helpful early on) AND was ultra focused on Tweetstorming false flags. Covfefe had them confused for two weeks.

But after a while, the dumpster fire slowed down actual, tactical implementation of MAGA. Yes, I get it...he had the world against him. It was hard. But the quantum of unforced errors grew over time.

Of course he gets the MAGA vote in 2024 against Bidet or virtually any other loser the DNC puts up there. He probably wins a fair election. But if he keeps hiring the likes of Oz and McCarthy, it'll be a disheartening second term.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

“Barnette was a clear MAGA candidate.”
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Kathy Barnette could have won. I liked her & voted for her. Black people in Philadelphia would have voted for her too in the November election, IMO. The Hannity lies against her were a dirty trick.

[Erik Latranyi]

The Hannity lies against her were a dirty trick.

Hannity is dead in my eyes after his LIES about Barnette in favor of his friend Dr. Azz

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I agree.

[poconopundit]

When your goal is to destroy the Uniparty and Deep State cartel, personnel choices are an exercise is stretching your political power as far as you are can at any particular moment.

Personnel decisions are mere stepping stones to gaining more power.  Better to look at the actual RESULTS Trump achieved with his great reforms, tax cuts, tariffs, and foreign affairs breakthroughs.

Pence, the traitor, was probably the best RINO concession Trump could make to drive forward his agenda.

Emerson said something about this philosophy of driving your ambition forward:

Commerce is a game of skill, which every man cannot play, which few men can play well.  The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity to facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen.  He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic.

There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune, and so, in making money.  Men talk as if there were some magic about this, and believe in magic, in all parts of life.  He knows, that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent, -- for every effect a perfect cause, -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

He insures himself in every transaction, and likes small and sure gains. Probity and closeness to the facts are the basis, but the masters of the art add a certain long arithmetic.  The problem is, to combine many and remote operations, with the accuracy and adherence to the facts, which is easy in near and small transactions; so to arrive at gigantic results, without any compromise of safety.

Wealth from The Conduct of Life (1860, rev. 1876)

BTW, the Deep State knows how to put certain people (like JFK) in danger who cause a "compromise of safety" to the tyrannical powers that run our federal government.

[DoodleBob]

...exceeeeept that those bad personnel choices slowed the tactical implementation of MAGA down to a crawl by mid-2019. Then in 2020, they utterly failed him.

Here's a simple yet big example. Everyone saw the 2020 mail-in ballot fraud likelihood. There is NO WAY Trump or his Re-Election team could NOT have seen it. Where were the armies of volunteers - he got 80MM+ votes, they could get a few thousand poll watchers - to stop the shenanigans at the source? If this alleged account is believed, we got rooked by the an apparatus that, despite Trump being THE MAN, remained crooked.

The claim was that the Republican Party had raised $207 million to “stop the steal”. In one version it grew past $300 million. In one version of the staff rumor, the finger on the button for those millions was a high-level woman at the Republican National Committee. In another version, it was being jointly managed by that RNC woman and the Commish, and they were surely keeping an eye to the future. In everyone’s version of the story, $100 million had been set aside for future legal defense. But whoever was in charge, they were sitting on the money... So to whatever Republican loyalists around the country coughed up those hundreds of million, in donations of $10 and $20…. You were fleeced. It was a big joke: rank-and-file Republicans gave a pot of hundreds of millions of dollars to Republican Bigshots to unscramble what had happened on November 3... It was all being held by people at the top licking their chops.

I don't expect Rome to change over night. But I'd like to see some new paint and Sheetrock from a successful real estate guy who dealt with the Mafia in NYC.

That resulted in a hastily-assembled defense, best exemplified by Rudy holding THE most bush league press conference associated with the Leader of the Free World.

Forget about the optics...it failed. I mean, maybe the most competent legal and tactical team would have failed anyway since the state legislatures failed in their Constitutional duty. But Trump hand-picked this guy to lead the charge...

Let me be clear....I was in NYC on 9/11 and Rudy rose to the occasion. He WAS America for a number of months.

But just like the skipper needs to know when his ace doesn't have the fastball anymore, Trump should have given the ball to someone younger and hungrier. Instead, Grandpa got shellacked.

I don't deny the importance of results, and what Trump achieved given the forces stacked against him. Trump is a force of nature unto himself. But these gut-wrenching pictures are the embodiment of how achievements from a force can grind to a halt via bad HR moves.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Britt is pretty good at filling a pair of jeans. Other than that she is an unknown. Brooks at least had a record of conservative votes.

[poconopundit]

Some good points there, DoodleBob.

You're right.  Rudy was a lackluster leader in the fight to expose the fraud.

I don't have an excuse for why Trump put Rudy in charge. Yes, the state legislatures failed.  And the Supreme Court failed to hear anything to do with the case.  Pence, the turncoat, played his role in the Pelosi conspiracy.  Barr, the Deep State's sinkin'-sack-of-wind south of 2,000 Mules, keeps saying the election was the cleanest in history.

A guy like Trump is a superb strategist. I agree he had to have known ahead of time that the steal was on.

As events played out, he called out the National Guard to protect the Capitol building.  Pelosi rejected the National Guard being used. Trump told the crowd to protest peacefully, so Pelosi plotted to OPEN THE DOOR for protesters to enter the building - -and that set the stage for the Deep State to kill an innocent woman and fabricate the "insurrection" plot, throw innocent people in jail, and conduct a kangaroo kourt.

Yet despite the lackluster effort to overturn the fake Bidung landslide, Trump in an excellent position to argue he was robbed.  Combine that with the utter failure of Brandon's policies and a November 2022 red wave is looking probable.

So IF Trump figured he could make a comeback in 2024 in spite of the 2020 fraud, then his thinking was right on the mark.

What's more, MAGA people learned a very important lesson in 2020: you can't truly have America back if your election system is corrupt.

[rlmorel]

Trump put Giuliani in charge, because he picked him over the dozens-no-HUNDREDS of accomplished Republicans or Conservatives who LINED UP TO PUT THEIR SKIN IN THE GAME and stand up to be counted.

Only kidding.

There weren’t dozens or hundreds.

I don’t even know if there were five, or even a single one of consequence.

All the cowardly Republicans kept their heads down and decided to let clocks run out, not call anyone out, or even make their voices heard, and meekly consent to this bastardly lawlessness.

When the lights came on in the room after the election, Republicans scattered onto the back of milk cartons and into dark corners like so many cockroaches.

Trump was President and picked anyone he could from a shrinking circle (that shrank each day) post election.

Damn right Trump knew ahead of time the fix was going to be in for the 2020 election. And he said so. Publicly. Accurately. And far in advance of the election, months in advance.

And people, even many on this site, denigrated him for speaking the factual truth, while the Leftists, with pious smirks, intone “Oh, he is just setting everything up for when he loses” while knowing full well what was going to go down. Dinesh D’Souza’s “2000 Mules” doesn’t portray groups of individuals taking things into their own hands. It exposes the reality that it was a multi-state targeted and coordinated affair by the Left.

That’s why I want him back.

I hope he is pissed. I hope he is angry. I hope he is vengeful. I hope he says “Screw it” because he won’t be running again. And I hope to God he salts BOTH sides of the political landscape where these scummy traitors reside in their stinking holes. And I hope he surrounds himself with people who don’t give a crap either, and are dedicated to making them pay.

I hear people on this very site who say that isn’t the way to do things going forward, and I fully reject it.

We went through a four year cycle where one side of the political spectrum, with help from components on the other side, using the full weight and organs of the government and bureaucracy including the intelligence services, in close coordination and full cooperation of a hostile media to promote complete fabrications resulting in two fraudulent impeachments in addition to a plethora of frivolous lawsuits against Trump and those associated with them, not to mention the outright slander.

So yes. That is damn well the way we should do things going forward, because if someone-SOMEONE-does not step up to the plate and demolish this cabal-and it IS a cabal-we are finished-FINISHED-as a nation. It may already be too late.

I like DeSantis, but he will constantly be calibrating and posturing for a second term should he get elected. I want someone who is angry, vengeful, and motivated to marshal scorched earth tactics within the rule of law (NOT what TRUMP went through in his term) to root these people out and get them out of the public sphere.

And that person to take on that role should be Trump. He not only deserves it, he is MADE for it. And he needs influential people around him who will assist him on this. We only get one chance to start the process. If it fails, we are done.

It may be a pipe dream to think it could even happen, but if anyone is suited by temperament and motivation, that person would be Trump. And DeSantis should help him in this.

We aren’t in a normal political system, and haven’t been for years now. We need to get it right or throw in the towel and plan to disintegrate as a country, because if this isn’t addressed, that is exactly where we are going, and anyone who doesn’t think so has their bloody head in the sand.

[GOPJ]

As events played out, he called out the National Guard to protect the Capitol building. Pelosi rejected the National Guard being used. Trump told the crowd to protest peacefully, so Pelosi plotted to OPEN THE DOOR for protesters to enter the building - -and that set the stage for the Deep State to kill an innocent woman and fabricate the "insurrection" plot, throw innocent people in jail, and conduct a kangaroo Court.

If the right had wanted to do 'an insurrection' they would NOT have chosen 'flagpoles' as their weapon of choice.

The fact white liberal elites have been able to convince bimbos in the suburbs that that's the case is amazing. Lucky for us all the people who have lived under communism or in left wing hellholes are moving to the Republican party. This wasn't anticipated by democrats. Once again, they've overplayed their hand by attempting to lie and cheat.

[rlmorel]

"...The fact white liberal elites have been able to convince bimbos in the suburbs that that's the case is amazing..."

I am certainly not amazed. I went to a annual town meeting where I live, and those people turned out in overwhelming numbers because a measure to require "Climate Change" to be included in ALL discussions of town business was up for a vote.

I said my piece, but it was a spit in the wind. The people you describe got up en masse and spit out variations that people like me were selfish, and that we had to do this "for the children".

Not kidding. Overwhelmingly. There were perhaps two or three others with my view that I want the town to focus on fixing the roads, keeping the water supply in shape and administering to the schools appropriately, and that decisions on buying new squad cars is based on reliability, cost, and performance, not deciding to buy it because it is electric.

The vast majority of them who got up to support the Climate Change BS were women, with a few cuckolded men thrown in.

So, no. I am not surprised. Disheartened, disillusioned, discouraged, and angry, but not surprised.

[GOPJ]

I said my piece, but it was a spit in the wind. The people you describe got up en masse and spit out variations that people like me were selfish, and that we had to do this "for the children".

We're winning the battle of ideas - and you're a part of that process, but it takes time at the local level. Sorry about your experience.

If I were an organizer I'd suggest you get together with the other two or three people and form a triangle within the audience - then when one of you speaks the other two call out agreement. It'll give the impression your idea is more popular than it is and the bimbos (who want to 'stand' with the majority in the room - no matter how stupid the 'majority opinion' is) - will back off.

But since we're winning on the level where is matters - you could also just keep on contributing ideas here... we're wagging the dog.

[rlmorel]

Yeah. You can tell it had a deep effect on me. This is such a lost state anyway. There is nothing I can do to change it. This just passed yesterday:

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"...A voting rights bill designed to ensure that mail-in ballots and early voting become permanent fixtures in future Massachusetts elections was signed into law Wednesday by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker.

The new law, which had passed the Democrat-controlled Massachusetts House and Senate by wide margins, would also increase ballot access for voters with disabilities and service members overseas. It would make sure eligible voters who are incarcerated can request a mail-in ballot and take steps to modernize the state’s election administration process...

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I am at the point where I want citizens of this state to feel the impact of the laws they pass, so if the economy of this entire state crashes and burns economically with me in it along with all of the Leftist moonbats who inhabit it, I have to accept that.

I hate living here, but...I cannot move due to personal reasons. So I have to accept that I will go down with this economic ship and be destitute. That has become preferable to me to sitting by and seeing this state pollute other states and leech off of their taxpayers.

This place just sucks, politically speaking.