Posted on 02/05/2021 8:32:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
As I wrote in Thursday’s installment of my Morning Briefing, conservative Republicans are dreaming a lot about 2024 because it’s a coping mechanism that helps to ameliorate the pain of the daily slaps upside the head we’re getting from the new puppet president.
There is also still a lot of justifiable anger over last November and the rather fantastical processes that followed.
All of the above is understandable but potentially dangerous because attention is being diverted from the most important and attainable goal for the GOP: winning the House back in 2022.
This column is going to be another tough love affair that will no doubt leave plenty of people annoyed with me. As you are all very well aware by now, I don’t care. This isn’t a drum circle bonding retreat, this is politics and we don’t need to be here for the hugs.
Let me be very clear about this before everyone rushes to the comments to stomp their feet and “Harumph!” all about the place: the anger over 2020 is righteous and understandable but it needs to be turned into fuel for the future rather than remaining an anchor in the past.
The way that it remains the heaviest of anchors is for conservatives to use what happened in the 2020 election as justification for resignation about the future. I’ve heard a lot of variations on “The GOP didn’t fight hard enough, I’m done with them!” lately.
No, you’re not. When Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are the 2024 ticket for the Democrats, you’re not going to be wasting a protest vote. You’re going to get a Republican elephant tramp stamp and knock on doors until your knuckles bleed for DeSantis/Noem or Noem/DeSantis.
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The only firewall free citizens have against complete domestic annihilation is a Republican takeover of the House in 2022.
Along the way, we most definitely need to address the “irregularities” that plagued the 2020 election. The GOP also needs to make sure that it hustles like it never has before to get out the vote (GOTV) and counter any Democratic chicanery. Unfortunately, GOTV efforts now have to factor in the mail-in balloting process. Even if Republican state legislatures can rein in the amount of time people are allowed to vote by mail, they’re not going to be able to get rid of it completely. The GOP needs a nationwide effort to make sure that every elderly Republican’s ballot is filled out and mailed in on time.
Conservative Republicans owe it to themselves, the country, and — yes — President Trump to try and get election reform done and then win in 2022. If Republican legislatures fail to achieve any meaningful election reform then — and only then — will it be time to throw our hands in the air and say that we’re done with them.
There won’t BE a 2022 if the Dimmocommie election fraud tactics are simply put into place again.
Republicans have been in the majority before, and they don’t do squat. We are Charlie Brown, and they are Lucy holding the football.
If we can’t retake congress in ‘22, at least one chamber, we’re screwed. We need to use redistricting to our advantage and use conservatives’ ability to turn out at a higher rate than leftists during off-cycle elections.
This reminds me of Dagney Taggart arguing that they just need to “try to work with the new rules”.
Nope. The system is dead to me.
The GOP has been colluding with the Democrats on the illegal alien inundation, the Kenyanesian Usurpation and now the stealing of our nation through election fraud.
Unless ALL of the Bush League Republicans are primaried out, there is no point in voting GOP.
Why.. is something specialhappening in 2022?
The Tea party focused the GOP on representing conservatives and conservatism W/O something similar the GOPe will have a hard time gaining trust in order to GOTV.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Hopefully the Patriot Party will be up and running by then.
Why should we trust the Republicans with power again? What did they do when we had the House, the Senate, and the Presidency?
Stabbed us in the back, kicked us in the nuts, and then laughed in our faces.
Yea. Gimme more of that.
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This author, like so many Republican politicians think that it is business as usual, that the base is just going to fall in line like they have in the past. I think they are wrong.
Yea, vote for Republicans, that’ll fix it.
Probably right.
But the author should keep in mind that I wouldn't walk across the street -- or even sit at my desk and spend five minutes filling out a mail-in ballot -- to vote for some dope like a Nikki Haley or a Mitt Romney.
I'm not a Republican. I'm a conservative nationalist. The minute the GOP runs some A-hole who has sold out to foreign governments and international corporate interests, I'm gone.
Republican politicians have made it clear that they don’t represent me. I will vote for the rare one that does but my days of believing there’s such a thing as “the lessor of two evils” is over.
If Trump is planning a second go at it, he needs to replace 2/3 of all fed employees with new people.
Where’s the help wanted ads for all the people he is going to need?
“When Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are the 2024 ticket”
Will elections even matter by then?
Republicans Justified anger that Republican leaders stabbing them in the back in 2020, can’t make Republican voters lose their focus to vote for the same backstabbing Republican leaders in 2022?
That about it?
Unless and until the fraud is investigated and rooted out, not a chance. Nothing else matters.
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