Posted on 04/07/2023 7:34:56 AM PDT by lasereye
tucker carleson reported last night that the democrats one the open state judge seat by making available apps that people could download. the apps provided a maximum of $250 for anyone who took various actions to bring people to the polls.
I thought this was ingenious.
carleson said they did a lot of other things that enabled the win.
this comes on top of the innovative tactics they used in Maricopa county in November 2022.
Both the maricopa county tactics and app tactic will be replicated in 2024 at scale. This is on top of the stuff the dems learned to do in 2020.
The stupidist thing you can think of is that elections are about personality or narratives.
Democrats have show by electing brain dead people that its not about either narrative or personality.
Its about the machine.
dems have a machine.
pubs have no machine.
> As long as we can blame it on ‘fraud’ we don’t have to do any actual thinking or talking about what we need to do differently. <
You make a very good point. To have any chance of winning in 2024 and beyond, the GOP has to fight fraud AND make strategic course-corrections. Just doing one or the other won’t turn the tide.
I know of no major Republican player who talks about doing both. Trump is stuck on the fraud angle. Then you have folks like Mitch McConnell. He’s doing nothing at all.
I was looking for this one but didn't find it until now.
See: The Washington Times (7/17/2013): Former GOP Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell told her tax records were breached
-PJ
On March 9, 2010, the day she revealed her plan to run for the Senate in a press release, a tax lien was placed on a house purported to be hers and publicized. The problem was she no longer owned the house. The IRS eventually blamed the lien on a computer glitch and withdrew it.Now Mr. Martel, a criminal investigator for the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration, was telling her that an official in Delaware state government had improperly accessed her records on that very same day.
Beyond that, Ms. O'Donnell and Senate investigators who have tried to help her have run into a wall of silence, leaving more questions than answers about whether abuses of the IRS system extend to private individuals and not just the tax-exempt groups already identified as victims...
All the IRS will say is that the one person believed to have willfully misused the tax record system worked outside the agency.
Ms. O'Donnell has spent the past six months trying to find out more about what happened to her personally, with little success.
Investigators have told her the probe has been closed, without offering an explanation. Ms. O'Donnell's attempts to get records about the possible misuse of her tax files through Freedom of Information Act requests have been delayed or denied...
Ms. O'Donnell said she has reason to believe her political opponents were behind the scheme.
"An official with this investigation told me that there was evidence linking this inappropriate use of my tax records with the Delaware political leadership, Delaware political leaders on both sides of the aisle," she said, though she declined to identify the official with whom she spoke.
In the midst of the 2010 campaign, long before it was revealed that her tax information had been accessed, Ms. O'Donnell's financial life was a subject of intense media scrutiny and was used repeatedly by her enemies.
Republican Party heavyweight Karl Rove, who was an adviser to President George W. Bush, was among the critics who blasted Ms. O'Donnell for, among other things, falling behind on her mortgage.
This is agitprop filled with falsehoods, lapped up by the usual guys.
Correct.
Trump is a weaker candidate then most want to admit.
If you take his name off his record (infidelity, inflation, lock downs, vax mandates, ect) most would assume he is a dem.
RFK Jr running as a presidential candidate will mean that Trump will lose. He will strip away the moderates and even the old school GOP. As bad as Trump is for the GOP, Cornpop Biden is for the Dems
Now, before the flame wars start, this is how a lot of people view Trump. Including most of the people in the State today.
Of all the things, what hurt Trump the most is his endorsement of Ronna McRomney.
Here he had the perfect opportunity to mold the GOP in his image, and he blew it.
I didn’t know about those things, but the margin of her defeat tells me that she had no realistic chance of beating Coons. If the race had been fairly close, then it could be said that the GOPe’s did her in.
And I’m convinced if we had a RNC Chairman who really wanted to win and was actually competent, we would have been able to win, Trump or no Trump.
All the material the Rats gave them, and they didn’t do Jack with it.
And then Trump turns around and endorses that incompetent loser.
I agree. That's why I loathe the "election fraud" narrative. It strips us of agency and gives us an excuse for the defeats of horrible candidates.
C'mon. Not every midterm loss was election fraud. Yet many here believe nothing more than it was.
And even if fraud happened, complaining about it while doing nothing to fix it is just as emasculating. We're like the guy who leaves his garage door open every night and then cries in the morning when all the power tools are gone.
Glenn Youngkin fought fraud. Ron DeSantis fought fraud. Both men put machinations in place to combat it (and in Youngkin's case, he did so in a solid-blue state).
We can combat fraud. What we can't combat are running lousy candidates on unpopular positions.
Fake news.
Under Obama Dems lost net 1168 elected offices leaving them at their third lowest point of all time.
2010 Red wave
2012 Lerner
2014 Red win
2016 red wave
2018 Russia
2020 covid
all of the above subject to increasing big tech collusion.
GOP is at or near record highs: state legislatures, goveernorships, House seats, SCOTUS-
they’re the ones becoming a boutique party of the coastal elites that cannot win an election on the up and up.
One clean election and it will look like the 1920’s when Dems almost went extinct.
The GOP barely taking control of the House and Trump endorsed candidates losing almost all the Senate races in purple states is cherry picking? Actually, the Trump endorsed candidates lost all the Senate races in purple states, if you don’t count OH, which is arguably not a purple state anymore.
There is no Lee Atwater on the horizon.
The only one who has any of the Atwater skills is Newt Gingrich. Even he has lost much of his connections and touch. It’s not the 1980s or 1990s. He won’t do it anyway.
I am afraid that also the state chairs don’t want a strong RNC chair. If a strong one existed, the state chairs would lose much of their influence with the RNC and power\influence internal to their states. Many are “old bulls” they’re not about to give up their internal patronage without a fight.
Listen, I’m a DeSantis guy, but he will lose by an even bigger margin than Trump would in 2024. He cannot win without Trump voters’ support. I think his chances are better in 2028.
The secret servers in Germany crazies are not going to support DeSantis. Ever. Trump has built a unique coalition due to GOP fecklessness and his charismatic showmanship. This voting block won’t be repeated once Trump leaves the political stage.
We won’t win with Ronna McRomney, period.
C’mom every election since Lois Lerner was tainted-
Trump’s endorsement record is the greatest in US history.
let’s pretend that is not the case and instead blame the candidates-
and this being complete fake news as the balance of power is solidly GOP riggt now besides Biden and the Senate.
GOP is plus 586 elected offices since 2010. Epic losing streak, while Obama broke Bush’ by 500 in elected offices lost by a two termer.
bkmk
Because every election we lose isn't necessarily due to fraud.
I don’t agree.
O’Donnell lost because of a dishonest local media and a dumbed down electorate.
I live just over the border in the People’s Republic of MD. I saw lots of defaced O’Donnell signs along the road. Witch hats pasted on them, etc.
Now we’re stuck with the far-left Coons due to the dishonest media here.
We won’t win with Ronna McRomney, period.
It should be pretty obvious by now that Trump cares little or not at all about conservatives winning. He thinks Ronna is best for him and that’s what we will get. Time to eat our MAGA peas.
Yep, they may very well be what gets me to jump off the Trump Train.
We’ll see, come this time next year, where things stand.
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