What really happened in the midterms, and Why: This midterm election was intended to turn out pretty much the way it did...and not just by Democrats

American Thinker ^ | 11/12/2022 | Richard Moss

[SeekAndFind]

By every account, this was a strange election. Having had some time to think about it, I have determined the best explanation for November 8 is that this midterm election was intended to turn out pretty much the way it did.

Who intended it? The Republican establishment. Why? To get rid of Trump.

How did they do this, and where’s the proof? It wasn't too hard, and the proof is all around us.

This was a midterm election, so there are no real consequences beyond the control of Congress. This means that if you can control one house, even by a slim margin, you can stall the agenda of the other side. How large a majority you have is secondary and, in the long view, not that meaningful.

The establishment Republicans were willing to settle for less than expected numbers in the House to eradicate what they see as by far their biggest problem. This was their chance to bury Trump and avoid a great deal of damaging unpleasantness at very low to no real cost.

It makes sense. The Democrats funded the Trump senatorial candidates in the primaries because they thought they could make them lose. The Republicans seemed to think that might be a good idea. If necessary, they could help those candidates lose, which could seriously weaken Trump but still leave them with sufficient winners.

The Dem-supported Trump candidates lost, as per their plan. I have heard some pundits say that this was a clever move on the part of the Democrats. Maybe so, but they had a lot of help. Those candidates lost because if they had won, Trump would be almost assured of the presidency in 2024. Look at the contortions Mitch McConnell went through to keep Murkowski and deny the Trump candidate in Alaska.

[SeekAndFind]

Check out where the Republican House money went when the chips were down. New Hampshire was denied funding just as Bolduc was surging.

[stanne]

Election? What election?

These people are wasting their time. What happens next is bad.

[House Atreides]

Lindsey Graham was the instrument used to needlessly change focus from the economy and the open borders to abortion. There was no way a FEDERAL abortion law was going to pass this year so WHY did Graham HYPERACTIVELY run out raising it over and over? Mission accomplished, Linda.

[Alberta's Child]

I have a completely different perspective on this. As I see it, the GOP establishment is more concerned about politics as a business than as a mechanism for pursuing a political agenda. Everyone in D.C. knows what the corporate/globalist agenda is going to be … it’s just a matter of which party gets the corporate money to implement it.

Nowhere was this more apparent than the Senate vote on the $40 billion Ukraine aid welfare appropriation last spring. When you have Lindsey Graham (R-Boeing), Comrade Bernie Sanders (I-Cuba), and Monsignor Ralph Warnock (D-Ghetto) all voting the same way on a massive spending bill like this, you can be sure that the party affiliations of these three tools mean absolutely nothing.

The GOP establishment isn’t looking to win elections because they are interested in promoting an agenda that’s different than what the Democrats are doing. They just want to be the ones who get paid to do it.

[William of Barsoom]

If true — and we’ll all have to ponder that question — then, Things are actually worse than they appear, and there truly is only one Uniparty with aleft-ish and a right-ish wing, and they ALL are simple but very crafty parasites.

A simple fix — “reform” — is not likely possible under that flag, because the same people (parasites) that profit and gain power under the system as it is, are the ones who would have to do the business of reform — and they won’t.

[kenmcg]

Apparently half of the country is brain dead, if they see a “D” next to a candidate’s name, they vote for it, without any knowledge of the issues. How else can one explain Fetterman or Biden?

[Bratch]

The McFailure Plan to Kneecap Trump [Dave in Fla]

Last Saturday, Rich Baris put out the following tweet, when the DeSanctimonius controversy started:

Last night, he further expanded on what is going on, while waiting for Arizona results that never came.

The "Plan" that was hatched by the McFailure wing of the GOP was to offer the nomination to DeSantis. The GOP would provide funding, support, and a clear path to the nomination. If DeSantis declined the offer, the second choice is Glenn Youngkin.

By not fighting for seats in the House and Senate, they wanted to reduce the number of MAGA Trump supporters in their chambers, and they assumed that the political environment of the moment would allow them to still gain both chambers, but blame the "disappointing" results on Trump.

What Trump has been doing with the personal insults to DeSantis and Youngkin, is to let them know that he will go after them personally if they accept the offer from Team McFailure. He wants them to remember what happened to "Low T", "Lying Ted", and "Little Marco".

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[TTFlyer]

Result of Mid-Term: “The Vote” and the GOP are still dead.

[FamiliarFace]

What we have to come to terms with, for those who haven’t already, is that we elect Republicans to the House and Senate over and over who do not care about representing US. They just don’t. They don’t have our values in mind. They don’t live among us, they don’t work among us. They live and work in DC. That’s what’s most important to them, their new country club. It doesn’t seem to matter much who we elect. They represent us in name only. They really represent themselves.

[38special]

Mail in ballot harvesting explains it

[FamiliarFace]

Great post!

[rrrod]

A major factor.

[Alberta's Child]

Thanks! And I mistakenly posted that again on this same thread. LOL.

[AuntB]

Thank you

[old curmudgeon]

A year or two ago there was an article posted on FR explaining McConnell’s politics.

The writer pointed out that McConnell had more power and more opportunity to profit as minority leader than he does as majority leader.

The theory was that as minority leader, when the dims are trying to pass a law that has weak support in the congress, the dim leadership can horsetrade with McConnell to get the support of a few rinos and weak repubs to get the bill passed. Thus McConnell, as a horse trader, is more powerful than when he is the majority leader.

In short, as majority leader the dims hate him. As minority leader the dims make love and share with him.

I wish I had kept the link, but I did not. I hope a Freeper has the link and will share it.

[Joann37]

This author makes many valid points. Thanks for posting.

[marktwain]

This was a midterm election, so there are no real consequences beyond the control of Congress.

Wow! The author lost me completely there.

If the Democrats had kept control of the house, and gained one Senate seat, elections as we know them would be gone forever.

Republicans would never gain power again.

We would likely get two new states, tending to be Democrat Senators.

The Supreme Court would likely be packed with Progressive judges.

And the author thinks that is no real consequences...

[Alberta's Child]

If the Democrats had kept control of the house, and gained one Senate seat, elections as we know them would be gone forever.

The Democrats already controlled the House, Senate and the White House BEFORE these 2022 midterms. There isn’t a single thing they could accomplish in the scenario you presented that they can’t already do TODAY.

[marktwain]

The Democrats already controlled the House, Senate and the White House BEFORE these 2022 midterms. There isn’t a single thing they could accomplish in the scenario you presented that they can’t already do TODAY.

I disagree

The only thing that stopped those things from happening for the last two years were two Democrat Senator defectors, Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema and West Virginia's Joe Manchin.

Both of them were under intense pressure.

Both of them showed signs of faltering.

Their defection, and only their defection saved the Republic for the last two year.

Add one more Democrat senator, and it is unlikely they would hold.