Posted on 11/15/2022 3:48:09 AM PST by MtnClimber
Don’t let the finger-pointing confuse you: on issue after issue, the GOP has failed the party and the people.
What was supposed to be a red tsunami last week turned out to be a ripple. It didn’t take long for the GOP establishment to place the blame: Donald Trump! It couldn’t be because Mitch McConnell decided to spend $10 million supporting the treacherous Lisa Murkowski against the state’s GOP nominee, rather than in Arizona, Georgia, or Michigan. No, it was Trump. It wasn’t Kevin McCarthy’s embarrassing attempt to recreate Newt Gingrich’s successful “Contract with America”—which galvanized America and brought the GOP 54 seats in a year with 2.99% inflation—with his facile “Commitment to America.” No, it was Donald Trump. It wasn’t McConnell’s August derision of MAGA candidates, claiming the party lacked “candidate quality,” while his handpicked Colorado senatorial candidate Joe O’Dea went on to lose by 13 points, 3 times as much as Oz lost by in Pennsylvania. No, it was Trump.
Despite the GOP establishment’s desire to pin their failure on 45 and his supporters, the truth is, this failure has numerous causes.
Needless to say, the GOP establishment is at the top of the list. Its members failed to embrace their own party’s candidates or execute a compelling national campaign that focused on the kitchen-table issues of inflation, crime, immigration, and parental rights. In reality, 2022 was the single best landscape for a GOP wave in modern times, but rather than focusing America’s attention on those issues, we had Lindsey Graham threatening Vladimir Putin and sending $50 billion to Ukraine while McConnell and John Cornyn were busy selling out the 2nd Amendment. The leaders of the GOP are grifters more interested in the perks of leadership than winning, and it showed on November 8.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The GOP establishment is the problem. They act just like a wing of the democRAT party.
Blaming Trump is easy.
Admitting that our elections are fake and that you are OK with that, is hard.
GOP takes the easy way.
I honestly wonder if any of this would have mattered.
I’ve been saying for several years now that the GOP seriously damaged its credibility — perhaps irreparably — when it spent the period from 2010 to 2016 raising money and running campaigns on the promise to repeal ObamaCare … only to fail spectacularly when they had their first real opportunity to get the job done in 2017-18.
There has to be an honest after action report, and honest assessment, if corrections are to be made. Certainly swing states that have loose voting laws like PA and AZ have integrity issues. But that does not explain the lackluster performance in other states. Of course there is FTX, Mitch, and a handful of other things.
Whether Trump was particularly helpful is open to question, but to lay blame solely at his feet is simply wrong. It wasn’t Trump who pushed for a horribly boneheaded nationwide abortion ban just as early voting got underway while the rest of the GOP fought to convince the country the Dobbs decision would simply transfer that responsibility to the states. It wasn’t Trump who misjudged the composition of the electorate (D+6, not D+3). It wasn’t Trump who completely ignored the introduction of millions of new, hardcore leftist Gen-Z voters who tipped many races to the dems.
Trump’s post-midterm rants and namecalling are sophomoric stuff, but the reasons the GOP came up short are far more complex than Trump’s presence on the campaigns.
Open Secrets shows the Republican Senate Fund got millions from FTX. Thanks, Mitch.
This was to damage Trump. Use DeSantis to split MAGA. Demoralizing voters from even participating by stealing it in their faces.
After the steal the court system will do nothing to help. Candidates that complain are called sore losers and election deniers.
Young voters supported Dems enough to cancel out those over 65. Gen Z may be the most America-hating communist programmed gender confused morons in our history.
Tough times ahead.
i believe it was six days ago when Trump said
““I think if they win, I should get all of the credit, and if they lose, I should not be blamed at all,” Trump told NewsNation, adding: “But it will probably be just the opposite.””
The GOP will not dismantle the FBI and the DOJ. The GOP will not decapitate the Administrative State. The GOP will not save the Republic.
Donald Trump will.
THAT is the best analysis I have seen on the Republican evolution into the junior member of the UniParty.
The MAGA candidates even in polls never got above the Margin of Cheat and the GOPeRepublicans decided that the MAGA candidates were ‘just too too extreme’.
Maybe the GOPe is right, people like me may be too extreme for The Party.
It’s Your Party
Cry if you want to
Welcome to FR!
The Woke Cult honestly believed that if they lost their fabricated, custom-created identities, perverted practices and beliefs, their sacred victimhood, and desperately-required safe spaces would be destroyed.
And they turned out and voted (and lied, cheated, and stole) accordingly.
This is why one voting bloc of approximately 30% of the total voting population can overwhelm another of approximately 70%.
Voting like your life depends on it is more important than issues or candidates.
The GOP establishment is the problem. They act just like a
wing of the democRAT party.
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May well be true to a large extent but what the resolutions
are is going to take a lot cooperation among all the GOP to
change the POLITICAL direction of the USA. Place blame
on the PARTY and not really working within the PARTY
to find all solutions to resolve the issues won’t work,IMO.
Ideas will vary but we’ve got to come together to make
any national changes. States can come together within
their boundaries to work on their problems and as they
resolve their issues it will help the national problem as
a whole. Have a nice day, JMO
FTA-—the GOP establishment placed the midterm blame on Donald Trump
<><>not b/c Mitch McConnell’s $10m to the treacherous Murkowski, rather than in Az, Ga, or Mi.
<><>Not Kevin McCarthy’s embarrassing “Commitment to America” attempt to recreate the 54 “Contract with America” win,
<><>Not McConnell’s Aug derision of MAGA candidates,
<><>Not mcConnell’s claiming the party lacked “candidate quality,”
<><>Not McConnell’s handpicked Co candidate losing by 13 points, 3 times as much as Oz lost.
No, it was Trump.
Schumer: I’m Meeting with McConnell to Push for Ditching ‘MAGA Republicans’
Breitbart ^ | 11/14/2022 | Pam Key
Posted on 11/14/2022, 1:44:16 PM by ChicagoConservative27
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Monday on CNN’s “This Morning” that he was meeting with Senat Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the wake of midterm election results to convince Republican senators to ditch so-called “MAGA Republicans.”
Co-host Kaitlan Collins said, “Are you going to talk to Mitch McConnell? What does that look like?”
Schumer said, “I’m going to say to the Republicans in the Senate who are not the MAGA Republicans, stop letting them lead your party. Work with us to get things done. I intend to sit down with Mitch McConnell and express that.”
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Republicans got nobody but themselves to blame - they each have their own set of “ideals” and continually throw away elections because of their inability to see the big picture...
GOP’s under-performance in the midterms is “100%” Trump’s fault the say.
Of course, there’s no stink on D.C. Republicans —
<><> not Kevin McCarthy, not Mitch McConnell, not Ronna McDaniel,
<><>not Tom Emmer (chairman, RNCC),
<><>not GOP consultants and pollsters…
<><>Nor on any Republican who hangs out at the Capitol Hill Club.
(American Thinker)
Complex systems fail completely for complex reasons, or at least for subtle ones.
Sometimes complex systems fail for one, or a very few simple reasons, but the rule
is the more complex set of effects.
Some complex systems have internal error-trapping, or sensitive fault
countermeasures, and can easily shed minor attacks and failures, Well-
engineered systems are stable and self-repairing — unless overwhelmed.
James Burke’s genius TV series, “Connections,” beautifully illustrates how
unusual and unexpected cause and effect chains happen. (Though quite a few
years old now, “Connections,” is still top-drawer thinking and presentation —
well worth your time.)
“America,” as a system, is failing in slow-motion right before your eyes. The
reasons are many and complex; and some are subtle and some are simple but very
large and powerful. Many of these interact and interlock and “chain-down” in a
dependent serial cascade manner. Some of your pet bitches are probably on that
long list — no matter what “side” you’re on. (The fact that there ARE such
clearly and deeply bifurcated and zealous “sides” IS one of those many reasons.)
Ben Franklin wisely said about the creation of the Constitution, “It’s a Republic
— if you can keep it.”
We are now exploring the dimensions of that “IF.”
If America, as an enterprise and great political experiment fails, that Powerful
and, yes, “Good,” force for order in the world and the broad-spectrum defense of
Liberty also fails, and dozens of localized Hells will take its place — Hells like Iran
and Venezuela.
America has its many and recent as well as historic sins, true enough; but the
baby is valuable, and it is the bath water that needs to be dumped.
Restoration of a “middle” in the bell-curve of political polarization is needed.
Such will take honest work and compromise. “Compromise” is not a dirty word.
It’s a workable solution.
The only questions are, “Can it be done?” and “Who will lead it?”
Continued and growing failure will birth a New Dark Age of indeterminate
length.
Or, is that what you want?
The GOP is as DEAD to me as Free, Fair and Honest Elections.
It's not an act.
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