Posted on 02/20/2022 10:23:26 PM PST by george76
‘How do you explain me?’..
s Republicans consider who ought to be tasked with responding to President Biden’s State of the Union address on March 1, they have the luxury of an obvious, unobjectionable choice whose message speaks to the moment, and to their priorities in 2022: Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor, Winsome Sears.
The San Francisco school board recalls are just the latest sign that American voters are fed up with the state of things in almost every arena, but particularly when it comes to school closures, mask and vaccine mandates, and the racial politicization of education.
They are tired of a White House and Democratic leadership in Washington which has spent the past year squabbling with its own flanks, left and center, and pretending despite all evidence that it is intolerant intransigent insurgency-minded Republicans who are the problem — not inflation.
The White House’s massive miscalculations over the past year are obvious. Instead of taking the win with Operation Warp Speed’s vaccines and using their wide availability as a path to get life, schools, and government policy back to normal as soon as possible, they doubled down on performative emergencies as a justification for insane policy packages no one understood. They doubled down on the Sunday show musings of Anthony Fauci, the arbitrary guidance of Rochelle Walensky, and the whiplash recommendations of their supposed experts at an alphabet soup of agencies. They doubled down on bureaucratic mandates and pressure campaigns that ran into the harsh reality of the Constitution.
No one of prominence to this point has been fired, not Fauci, not Walensky, not even the political hack they have running the Department of Health and Human Services. Even as retirements mount and the internal polling indicates Democrats have dramatically undermined their hopes for November, the Ron Klain White House just keeps on chugging toward that iceberg. They can’t walk it back, you see — they’re too invested in the permanent pandemic now.
The thing about the political sunk cost fallacy is that eventually, it sinks.
And that’s exactly what is happening, most prominently in the Commonwealth of Virginia, where Glenn Youngkin, Winsome Sears, and Jason Miyares were swept into office as Terry McAuliffe danced onstage with Randi Weingarten. Republicans won on the basis of all of the above — but particularly, they won by prioritizing what the Democrats and their collaborators in teachers’ unions, school administrators, and corrupt media did and continue to do to America’s children as an issue. It was a multiethnic slate elected by a multiethnic electorate, with a particular outpouring of support from Asian and immigrant communities who reject the left’s woke agenda and want to get their kids learning again.
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Sears is an exceptional voice on these issues. She also is a model for a movement, not just confined to Republican circles, that will stand up directly against false accusations of racism and bigotry in American life. Instead of cowering and begging forgiveness, we ought to reject the false premise of racism, and have the courage to stand up against it, even when it is relentlessly repeated by the likes of CNN, MSNBC, and The Washington Post.
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(They’ll even do it with progressives in San Francisco — just look at those evil Asian immigrants who don’t care about racial injustice!)
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In advancing this argument courageously, despite all the additional viciousness of the attacks one must face as a woman who is strongly conservative, Sears serves as a model of fortitude others should follow. Plus, she does it with style.
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Responses to the State of the Union address are typically forgettable, and occasionally only remembered for infamous reasons. But one exception is that of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell in 2010. He spoke to the chamber of the Virginia House of Delegates, benefitting from an active audience and a clear contrast to President Obama’s agenda, representing a precursor to the Tea Party wave that came to Washington in 2010.
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There’s one more reason that this year’s response should be Sears: it would serve as an implicit acknowledgment that Republicans aren’t going to take their eye off the ball for the 2022 midterms by getting sucked into 2024 too early. Much as Ron DeSantis is the belle of the ball at the moment, there are more of State of the Unions (probably from Joe Biden) that he’ll have the opportunity to respond to in due course.
The Democrat-complicit media acknowledges his existence, and works on a daily basis to tear him down. But when it comes to Winsome Sears? They’d rather pretend she, and Americans like her, don’t exist at all.
Don’t let them.
The general peak of viewers to the SOTU episode was around 1993 with 70-million. The Obama years started off high at 52-million...dropping a few million each year and ending with 31-million on his last speech.
Trump bumped up in the mid-40s for his four. Joe Biden for last year? 27-million, lowest viewer audience for past 30 years.
People might watch the highlights the next day, but the vast number of Americans just don’t care about this anymore. Wouldn’t shock me if Joe even dropped below the 20-million mark by 2023’s SOTU.
They just better not ask somebody like Liz Cheney or her leashed Pup Adam Kinzinger.
They’re putting the fence back around the White House before the speech. My guess is that Biden will declare Martial Law, or something else that we really, really won’t like.
Brillant choice.
While Winsome Sears seems to be a very qualified LG. I so disagree with this notion that whites somehow need black benediction.
You and me and Pelham in a sea of virtue signaling addicted sheep here
She was called a white supremacist by idiots on lefty tv. Almost a no brainer.
I would like to see Winsome Sears give the Republican response to the SOTU for the simple reason I like her and enjoy listening to what she has to say.
"Winsome Sears, the black race traitor, now responds to President Biden's beautiful and inspiring State of the Union address."
"The Republican counterpoint will be delivered by Little Black Sambo Winsome Sears, their trained monkey and house slave, as soon as she finishes her bananas."
You know things like this are exactly what the MSM wants to say.
Yeah, it is pathetic and shows just how manipulated most on the right are.
The left continues to move their agenda forward and with help from people like this writer.
As much as I’d love to see Ms Sears giving the GOP response, yet I’m not sure if she should do it
You mean like “nobody watches Tucker Carlson or Trump's rallies”?
Nobody is going to watch the sotu live
True but how many people ever attend/watch Buden’s rallies? Close to zero.
and the pinkos in the so-called “news” media definitely won't replay what the GOP has to say.
Oh you mean the “pinkos” in the media like CNN who's ratings are down a staggering 90% since last year, who cant even average a measly 500,000 viewers a day?
Joe Biden couldn’t attract a crowd if he were giving out free hot fried chicken in a black neighborhood.
Chuckle.
And why not?
They said all that and worse about her in Virginia last year and still lost to her.
And she still won anyway. Despite that.
Me too. Someone hid the Virginia Senate gavel, so she took off her shoe and used it to open the session without whining or complaining.
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