Will Republicans Make Education a Campaign Issue?

American Greatness ^ | 5 Aug, 2022 | Larry Sand

[MtnClimber]

Democrats are quickly losing their grip on the question.

It just doesn’t stop. In Portland, Oregon, the kindergarten curriculum includes an anatomy lesson featuring “graphic drawings of children’s genitalia.” The words “Boy” and “Girl” are eschewed in favor of “person with a penis” and “person with a vulva,” because, according to the curriculum, girls can have penises and boys can have vulvas.

In a West Chester, Pennsylvania middle school, boys were encouraged to wear dresses at the school’s Gay Pride Month celebrations. And in a New York City middle school, students are encouraged to keep a list of all the “microaggressions” they witnessed—both at school and at home.

And while kids are getting indoctrinated into the gender and critical race theory cults, their traditional learning has become an afterthought.

According to the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the “Nation’s Report Card,” only 37 percent of U.S. public high school seniors are proficient in reading and 24 percent have reached proficiency in math. Additionally, proficiency is at just 22 percent in science and a pathetic 12 percent in U.S. history. This is pre-COVID data, and we can only guess how horrific the scores will be after the prolonged union-orchestrated school shutdowns.

The good news is that Americans have finally awakened to the abuse. A May poll by the American Federation of Teachers revealed that 39 percent of voters reported that they have more confidence in Republicans on education matters, compared with 38 percent for Democrats. While the Republican edge is not exactly overwhelming, it is still important, as Democrats have always prevailed in public opinion because of the perception that they were the party of education.

As the American Enterprise Institute’s Rick Hess notes, the Democrats’ “broad support for more education spending, outspoken embrace of public education,

[MtnClimber]

Republicans should go on offense with an anti-grooming campaign against the democRATs.

[JonPreston]

Will Republicans Make Education a Campaign Issue?

Nope. We're 90 days out and McCarthy $ McConnell believe the war in Ukraine and NATO expansion are the winning issues.

[CatOwner]

The only game plan the GOP has nationally is finding a way to finish a close second. Sadly, they may well be very successful at this.

[CFW]

Actually, the established republicans will not make anything an issue, other than Trump. Many are joining with the left to spend most of the campaign season vilifying Trump and his supporters.

Conservative candidates may make education a campaign issue, and they should.

[central_va]

The GOPe never goes on the offensive. They are just offensive.

[Bob434]

Pretty soon they won’t even be able to come in 2nd place in a 2 party contest

[lurk]

They should. Close the dept of Ed. Follow AZ who have just gone 100% school choice. Rewrite the schools’ mission. Maybe close all public schools.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I am hoping they make impeachment and criminal conviction for those who persecuted the Jan 6 defendants a priority.

Seriously, torturing prisoners under the color of authority is intolerable in the United States. And when those prisoners are tortured even though they haven’t even been tried by a jury, is clearly felony crime.

[Jane Long]

RINO Republicans? Or, America First Republicans?

Pres Trump covers this topic…of what our public schools are doing to our kids, with CRT and other sickening programs, in depth, at his rallies.

So, I’d say that America First Republicans are definitely making Efucation a campaign issue.

[cp124]

Doesn’t look like the majority of them are for anything but the Democrats agenda.

[Rich21IE]

I have to wonder why the Republicans (RINOS or otherwise) would touch the education issue.
From what I read, these public school systems are seeing a huge loss of students to alternative education providers. NYC schools will see 20,000 fewer students this fall.

As far as the Cities and the school systems on the Coasts, the only kids in the public school systems are the kids of Democrats. Who cares what they do in those school systems? It’s the Democrats and the Democrat parents problems, not anyone elses.

[Paal Gulli]

They have Trump45/47, they don’t need “issues.”

[whitney69]

“Many are joining with the left to spend most of the campaign season vilifying Trump and his supporters.”

I believe they used to call this killing the goose that lays the golden eggs...just not their eggs.

wy69

[dfwgator]

The GOPe protects the right flank of the Deep State.

[desertfreedom765]

Instead of running a campaign theme, I.E. this is what were going to do, their entire campaign is to basically say were not Democrats.

Oh and ask for endless contributions. Which is why I haven’t given them a dime.

[1Old Pro]

Will Republicans Make Education a Campaign Issue?

Will Republicans even campaign on ANY issues? Haven't seen anything resembling a campaign yet. I wonder if they'll even bother, they seem sleepier than Joe.

[JonPreston]

their entire campaign is to basically say were not Democrats

Can you see McCarthy $ McConnell calling a press conference with a new Contract for America?

Me neither.

[Bratch]

Sneaky Mitch Strikes Again

August 6, 2022 | Sundance | 181 Comments

Most casual political observers have absolutely no idea how McConnell works.  However, for over a decade CTH has been trying –mostly failing– to awaken the base of common-sense voters.  In 2010, 2011 and 2012 the #1 priority for McConnell was to destroy the threat represented by the Tea Party.  In 2022 we are seeing an exact replay of the same intents and purposes, only this time the target is President Trump’s MAGA movement.

During a recent interview on Fox News, Mitch McConnell was asked about the future perspectives of the Senate against the backdrop of the midterm election.  Mitch McConnell’s team literally scrubbed his response from their own segment of this interview [SEE HERE]. This is a familiar tactic from the DeceptiCon group who always cover their tracks. However, the segment lasts on the internet [06:45 prompted] WATCH:

Mitch McConnell Discusses Inflation Reduction Act, Midterms On Fox News’ Special Report(FULL)

Mitch McConnell essentially says the Senate is too close to call and the democrats may be “up slightly” because the wrong kind of republican candidates have been nominated in the GOP primary process in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Arizona. 

Once again, the elitist UniParty view of DC Mitch McConnell shines through.

Keep in mind this is the same Mitch McConnell who was challenged by the audience during a 2017 Rotary Club meeting in Kentucky, about why he refused to support the election priorities of President Trump.  McConnell responded,

“I’d ask for a show of hands, but I know everybody’s saying, ‘been there, haven’t done anything,’ which I find extremely irritating — and I’m going to tell you why.”

McConnell continued, 

“a Congress goes on for two years. Part of the reason I think that the storyline is that we haven’t done much is because, in part, the president and others have set these early timelines about things need to be done by a certain point,” he said. 

Then came the kicker, 

“our new president, of course, has not been in this line of work before, and I think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the Democratic process.”

Ah, the customs, traditions and parliamentary norms of the Senate were to blame for republican intransigence on the Trump agenda.  President Trump held “excessive expectations” as to what could be done to support the America-First agenda in the senate.

According to Mitch McConnell, it was Trump’s fault for thinking a republican majority Senate would work to support the American middle-class.

Comments like that reveal for most what the true motive of Senator McConnell is all about.  It is a motive and agenda all wrapped up in the senate power structure.

McConnell does not fear being in the minority; the color of the flag atop the spire of the UniParty senate does not matter to those underneath it.  McConnell maneuvers with just as much power in the minority as he does in the majority.

In fact, McConnell makes more money selling his DeceptiCon caucus votes to Chuck Schumer (on behalf of Wall Street) than he does in the majority where he is forced to purchase them.

Indeed, the entire scheme is a rigged game, as Christopher Bedford realized last year and wrote in The Federalist [SEE HERE] after Mitch McConnell delivered his post-election impeachment floor speech.  A ploy to destroy the MAGA movement with Trump removed:

THE FEDERALIST – […] “So what’s all behind this? After four years of yelling “MAGA!” while pushing his own classic, corporate Republican policies, McConnell had hoped to rid himself and his conference of the conservative populist nationalism the former president had championed and go back to the way things were.

He wants a return to promising to tackle illegal immigration before winking at corporate America that nothing will change. He wants to raise money on fighting the abortion of our infants while comfortably lifting nary a finger. He wants to shrug and change the subject when asked about men dominating women’s sports and using women’s bathrooms. He wants fewer taxes and more wars. Hell, he wants someone to blame for the Republican losses in the Georgia special election, and with them the loss of his seat at the head of the Senate.

Instead, his push to impeach ended with rebuke from his own conference. Angry and embarrassed, he blamed his own colleagues as well as the former president, performing a 20-minute attack ad for the left to use on Republicans for the next election cycle and beyond.” (read more)

Through his power structure, McConnell directly controls about 8 to 15 republican senators; we have called them “The Decepticons” for years. [Cornyn, Thune, Porter, Blunt, Portman, Burr, Barasso, Crapo, Murkowski, Gardner, Roberts, Sasse, Tillis, Rubio, Graham, Romney, and now, Tim Scott]

McConnell has a well-used playbook he deploys to retain power at all costs and select candidates that will be indebted to his Senate schemes. The 2022 senate candidates have been up against the same Mitch McConnell club machine that readers here are very familiar with.

To remind ourselves how Minority and Majority Senator McConnell took down the threat of the Tea Party revisit these old articles:  

• CNN Part I and CNN Part II  both showcase how McConnell works.  

• Then do some research on how McConnell worked with Haley Barbour in Mississippi [SEE HERE].

For those who follow the deep weeds of politics, McConnell’s schemes are brutally transparent. For the remaining 97% of the voting electorate, they still don’t understand how the UniParty works. Decepticon leader McConnell doesn’t want the American electorate to see purchased senate republicans voting NO on border security.

McConnell must preserve the trough – Corporations (special interest groups) write the legislation. Lobbyists take the law and go find politician(s) to support it. Politicians get support from their peers using tenure and status etc. Eventually, if things go according to norm, the legislation gets a vote.

Within every step of the process there are expense account lunches, dinners, trips, venue tickets and a host of other customary financial waypoints to generate/leverage a successful outcome. The amount of money spent is proportional to the benefit derived from the legislative outcome.

When a House or Senate member becomes educated on the intent of the legislation, they have attended the sales pitch; and when they find out the likelihood of support for that legislation; they can then position their own (or their families) financial interests to benefit from the consequence of passage. It is a process similar to insider trading on Wall Street, except the trading is based on knowing who will benefit from a legislative passage.

Yes, Democrats are the opponents; they are ideological enemies to freedom and a constitutional republic. However, just as dangerous an enemy is Mitch McConnell; the man who builds and fills the Trojan Horses that are presented to the voters every two years.

[JonPreston]

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