“Sorry. I have never, ever bought into the notion that elections are “stolen.””
I’m with you...they likely steal a ‘few’ votes, but the reason we lose is that us, WE THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS cannot seem to STAND UP to the Karl Rove and media types (same people) and wind up with Bush Sr. (’read my lips’), Bush Jr. (taking a victory lap 4 days before the 2000 election), Dole, McCain and Romney.
I’d JUST LOVE to believe that the Dems are stealing elections from us...but given the samples that we run, they don’t need to bother.
We lost elections because we thought that the Republican party was OUR PARTY, now we know better. We were BETRAYED by our own party that gave a half-hearted effort and had no heart or true beliefs. As Rush Limbaugh said a few years ago—The Republican Party has no ideology.
They played the game of calling themselves conservatives because they knew that they needed that brand to win elections, but their hearts were not in it. They just wanted to line their own pockets and be lobbyists for the cronies that made up the donor class.