Posted on 11/11/2022 2:41:28 PM PST by FarCenter
Two days after Republicans dramatically underperformed in the midterms, but even as control of Congress remains too close to call, Sen. Josh Hawley has completed his autopsy and offered it to his party’s leaders for consideration. The topline: The failure is all their fault.
The Missouri populist believes the Republican Party offered voters plenty in the way of generalized gripes about Democrats and President Biden – but no actionable alternative. Hawley blames that on what he calls “Washington Republicanism,” specifically Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. He also thinks it was a bad idea to talk about making changes to Social Security and Medicare.
“Republicans just said, ‘Well, the other side sucks, and Biden sucks.’ Well, no doubt! But it's pretty hard to convince folks, particularly independent-minded ones who don't tend to trust the process much, to vote for you, if you don't have something affirmative to say and offer,” Hawley said in Friday interview.
“I lay that at the feet of the Washington establishment that set the tone for these races,” he added. “They failed to offer that kind of vision.”
Republicans certainly placed their hopes in voter resentment. They banked on the electorate rebuking a less-than-popular president overseeing historic inflation rates and high gasoline and food prices. And a policy prescription-free midterm was what Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wanted. After President Trump ran for reelection in 2020 without so much as releasing a party platform at the convention, McConnell was asked if the GOP would lay out their priorities should they retake the Senate majority.
“That is a very good question. And I’ll let you know when we take it back,” McConnell told NBC News in January. “This midterm election will be a report card on the performance of this entire Democratic government: the president, the House and the Senate.”
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“GOP Leadership” has become the top oxymoron of the century.
And we’ll not mention the slimeball GOP (at least he pretends to be) senator leading this death spiral spin.
Graham’s national abortion ban talk was just what the rats needed he couldn’t have given them a bigger gift.
Graham timed it perfectly. What a slimeball.
Graham's dastardly ploy was so utterly transparent. It fooled no one. It was immediately obvious what Graham was trying to do. He should be kicked out to join the McMuffin Party.
GOP leadership is Uniparty.
Mitch didn’t want repubs to be the majority in the senate
He did it was a gut punch for us.
Step off, Josh and take Mitt with you.
There is no leadership of the Republican Party.
“...but no actionable alternative.”
While the GOP is DEAD to me, there’s really not a whole lot they can do, is there?
If there were some way to reverse all of Brandon’s dumb@ss EO’s, that would go a helluvalong way to putting things back to where they were.
I have no answers, either. But, it wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been!
As of today, it’s not looking bad at all. *SHRUG*
There is no way in hell that the Pennsylvanians voted in a brain dead democrat oaf while ignoring the destruction that has been caused by the democrats in the last two years....
McConnel is not a saint and is worthless as a Senate leader but he did not cause the cheating Josh!
Bkmk
Bkmk
GOP is useless on the federal level….
They never explained to the ill informed people that high oil price caused the inflation….and we needed to drill…and explain that global warming is BS.
They tried to blame spending for high inflation….hell most people are lucky to buy food and gas..
“They never explained to the ill informed people that high oil price caused the inflation….and we needed to drill…and explain that global warming is BS.”
They can’t because that demographic understands racism, sexism, LBGQT, environmental zealotry, abortion & whatever the education & healthcare sectors are “selling.”
I mean how much more pandering do we have to do for the female knucklehead voter.
It doesn’t get us anywhere, they’re too susceptible to liberal causes.
Sorry, they’re the epitomy of a “lost cause.”
Oh yeah, if you try to give them some knowledge on a subject, you’re mansplaining or its cotton in the ears.
bad idea to talk about making changes to Social Security and Medicare.
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Every election, the Democrats always scare people by claiming Reps want to change social security/Medicare. Old canard, but apparently still effective.
Almost all changes came from Democrats.
SS was supposed to be paid by 1%, and be voluntary. Pretty soon it stopped being voluntary and the taxes were raised several times.
The taxes were originally nontaxable. But became taxable by Dems. SS was not supposed to be taxable. Clinton introduced taxes on SS. All these changes were done by Dems!
It should be Reps claiming they will save SS from Dems!
Greg Price
@greg_price11
Blake Masters’ race is probably going to be decided by less than 30,000 votes and Mitch McConnell decided to spend $9M in Alaska to help a pro-abortion Republican beat an America First Republican for no other reason than Blake said he wouldn’t support him for majority leader.
I’ll say it again, the R’s like being the minority party. All you have to do is vote “No” most of the time. If you’re in power, there are expectations for you to get stuff done. Potentially stuff that you don’t REALLY want to do. If you’re in the minority, you can simply write a bill that says what your constituents want, and submit it. It never gets brought to a vote, you say “See! I tried!”, and that’s that.
Mitch has to go.
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