Posted on 09/03/2020 4:29:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
No one wants to be the skunk at the garden party, but sometimes a garden party needs a skunk to remind everyone about the reality of the world around them. Today, I’m going to be that skunk, at least a little.
I’ve been seeing a bunch of columns recently about how President Donald Trump has the election in the bag, how it’s over and there’s no way a senile sock puppet like Joe Biden can possibly win in November. That’s simply not true.
There’s a saying I like and use often: never spike the football on the 5-yard-line. It’s obviously true in football, but it’s also true in life. It’s especially true in politics.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton not only had measured the drapes for the Oval Office, she’d ordered them. She lost.
Hillary lost largely because she was an awful candidate and not a very good person, but she also lost in part because she assumed she had already won and took her foot off the gas early, and so did her supporters. They played it safe in the final stretch of the campaign, likely thinking that putting her out there more was only going to risk hurting her chances, not increasing them. That doesn’t work in any part of life – as Yogi Berra put it, “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
The only way to campaign is to run like you’re behind by 10 points, no matter how far ahead your internal polls and conventional wisdom say you are.
I’m not suggesting that the Trump campaign is taking anything for granted, they don’t seem to be. But a campaign is only as successful as its supporters are, and I’m concerned there could be some complacency among Republican voters.
Yes, the Republican Party and the president just had a great convention and the Democrats had an awful one, despite the media’s push to pretend otherwise. But it’s a long way to Election Day, and if you don’t think every dirty trick, every lie, every cheat anyone has ever thought of isn’t going to be deployed by the left between now and then, you’re crazy.
The columns about how “it’s over” and “Trump can’t lose” are wildly popular, which is why they’re written, but they’re wrong. Everyone wants to be popular, everyone wants their pieces widely read and shared, but giving people a false sense of confidence is not serving anyone but the author’s ego.
The election is two months away, or 5 million news cycles in 2020-speak. The issues upon which the votes that will make the difference in the election are likely not yet known because they haven’t happened yet.
Add to that the fact that every resource available to the left will be deployed and no expense will be spared to defeat the president, and you start to realize anything can happen.
In 2016, Donald Trump benefitted immeasurably from free media. All the cable networks carried his rallies live because they were great TV and a ratings bonanza. That gave the Trump campaign unfiltered access to a huge audience. Those rallies are going to be scaled down this year and less frequent. There’s also no way they will be shown by a media that doesn’t even show more than a few select seconds of his White House press conferences.
The media helped Donald Trump four years ago, unwillingly, because they didn’t think he stood a chance. Now that he’s the incumbent, they aren’t going to underestimate him again.
You can think that doesn’t matter all you want, but when you couple it with their active campaign of lies and glowing coverage of every Biden event, sweeping his obvious deterioration under the rug, and you begin to see how the hill is much higher and steeper this year.
It’s not that Trump can’t win, he certainly can and I hope he does. But everyone, and I mean everyone, has to fight till the very end. The “he’s got this thing sewn up” pieces can breed contentment, which only leads to failure.
This election isn’t in the bag; no president has ever faced as much opposition as Donald Trump finds himself up against. The good thing is this: there has never been a Republican better suited to beating them back, so we’ve got that going for us. But the truth is we all have to work like we’re on the verge of losing.
Democrats will do anything to win – no law or normal practice is safe. That means we can’t take our foot off the gas; we can’t let up. Do not take anything for granted. Read those pieces with a skeptical eye and remember how they have the same tone Democrats had four years ago. Work, talk to your friends, family, and like-minded acquaintances. They have to vote too, and make sure others they know who think the same way do as well, even if they never vote or haven’t voted before.
Maybe I’ll end up being wrong and Trump wins in a walk, but it’s not like vigilance will be wasted. Wouldn’t you rather win by a margin so big the left can’t steal it?
I was one of those people shocked by the results four years ago. I want that feeling again, if only to fully enjoy the hopeful faces of these leftists on cable news being washed-over by the realization that the country rejected them in real time rather than watching them tear up later in YouTube reminiscing.
So don’t spike the football on the 5-yard-line, fight like you’re behind. Make sure everyone you know who will vote Republican votes. There will be plenty of red meat to eat along the way, just don’t get stuffed at the buffet during the pre-game. There will be plenty of food and drinks at the after party, which is the only party that really matters in the end.
I think it’s in the bag on election night. Mail in voting is where it gets, um, complicated - and why people are buying so many guns and ammo.
A great article. The President isn’t acting like it’s in the bag and neither should we.
Well, watching Fox and Friends this morning, it seems like they got a memo telling them to push their “Fox News Poll” showing Biden ahead just about everywhere ... every 15 minutes.
How will the MSM report the various time zone results?
No one at the local Trump headquarters where I volunteer are acting like it’s in the bag!!!!!
They are working their hearts out to deliver him.
We are one of the ‘battleground’ states and we understand the war we are fighting.
Folks are continuously coming in.......waiting at the door.
We have former democrats ‘walking away’....
....new volunteers who probably haven’t done this before
....lots of donations
..The energy level is through the roof!
Most Republicans and conservatives vote once in an election, Democrats are not bound by that limitation ...
Under NO circumstances should in-person votes be officially reported until AFTER mailed-in ballots are tallied.
Barr needs to start throwing the book at vote fraudsters
and let everyone know its not a prank. If Russia hoax was
about election stealing and that was so bad we had years of
investigations, then domestic vote stealing is even worse
its treason.
Start warning them and arresting them.
Personally, I think Trump has an big up hill climb. I don’t think he got much of a bounce from the convention and he still has a lot of work to do to convince women to vote for him.
I also think Trump has difficulties speaking at times and makes stupid gaffes just like Biden. So those who think the debates will be a walk in the park for Trump are not thinking clearly.
What has me hopeful is the economy is coming back and we are getting closer to a vaccine to end this virus nightmare. What also has me hopeful is Trump is on offence with this law and order issue.
“The columns about how “it’s over” and “Trump can’t lose” are wildly popular”
What is this guy reading? I can’t even find them here.
The lying, murdering, traitorous Demonicrats have failed in all their previous attempts to get rid of President Trump.
The Demonicrats are now down to their next-to-last plan of treason - overturning the presidential election with a massive post-Election Day mail-in ballot fraud, assisted by the Deep Staters in the USPS.
If the Demonicrats fail at this attempt, and are not arrested and their Party outlawed, President Trump’s second term will be very dangerous for both him and Mike Pence.
Pres. Dewey told me not to brag too much and underestimate the enemy.
IMHO, the Dems and their media jackals have not yet fired their most powerful ammunition. I fully expect them to roll out something totally fake designed to tank the economy and the markets again, shortly before Nov 3. The only real question is will the middle-of-the-road low information voters who decide close elections fall for it.
Watch, polling places on election eve will be attacked by these mobs to keep voters away
Tara Reade should be on every conservative show telling
her story. This election is about Trump bad. I say Biden worse.
Rape
China Joe making money off Commies
Jill Bidens previous husband has stories of Joe and Jill going up the hill to shagg behind her then husbands back.
Also, he always had nice things to say about George Wallace
an Bob KKK Klegle Byrd. Joe was a segregationist.
He authored that “lock up all the Blacks” crime bill
I think the conservative media has not done what it could
to get all these facts out to Women.
Trump is an angel next to Biden.
Tara Reads is a Democrat first and foremost. She places that above her status as a Joe Biden rape victim. At this point, she’s not going to do anything that might hurt Biden’s chances. Last I heard, several months ago, she was still planning on voting for Biden. To the hard core Leftists, politics is their religion and is central to their existence.
bump
...to end this virus nightmare...
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The progs are already pivoting to ‘rushed vaccine bad’.
End the nightmare by refusing to comply with ALL the edicts. If you are arrested, have legal support on standby. If you are fined, take it to court. Your employer fires you for resistance? Sue for wrongful termination. You live in the belly of the beast? Take your losses and leave or prepare to fight in the streets.
The lockdowns and the lies are now so obviously destructive, progs everywhere are relaxing the edicts. Help that along. Where the few are doubling down: REFUSE.
There are now examples everywhere. Freedom isn’t free and they want a fight. Find your level of refusal and stick to it. None of us are alone and we still have our own media. Reject theirs. Reject the narrative.
When all else is not possible for you, see my tagline.
Agreed, there is a lot of hate for DJT, the RATS will do anything to win. The only way to win is to cheat and the RATS do it all the time.
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