Posted on 11/04/2020 7:15:18 AM PST by Kaslin
As I write this, millions of Americans are still voting. There is no way to predict what the outcome will be election eve, or if Americans will know the outcome of the election days or even weeks from now. It did not have to be this way. The GOP should have won in a blowout, and that they are almost certain not to is a clear sign the Grand Old Party is in desperate need of a Grand Old Rebuild.
The lack of leadership and coordination by the Republican Party’s leadership on Capitol Hill and in “red” States across the country has placed the burden of party messaging squarely on Trump’s shoulders; it is both a benefit and a burden he has borne.
Trump’s strength as President, and indeed what has made him so effective in his first term, is getting things done. Trump is a businessman and political outsider, not a philosopher or erudite pundit; so, expecting that he, and he alone, should be responsible for the incredibly important task of articulating clear and consistent messaging to voters was at best shortsighted. It also explains why the GOP turned what should have been a blowout victory against a weak and extremist candidate into a down-to-the-wire nail-biter.
GOP leaders did a far better job heading into 2020 with messaging about Democrats than about Republicans. Whether voters agreed with Democrats’ radicalism or not, there was no question as to where they stood on the environment, healthcare, gun control, illegal immigration, criminal justice, and more. These positions were repeatedly reinforced not just from the Biden campaign, but with symbolic legislation passed in the House over the last biennium. Democrats knew the bills had no chance in the Senate, but each failed attempt, like their Green New Deal, became a rallying cry for voters and donors alike about the need to retake control in November. No such concerted or articulated effort was taken by Republicans in either the House or Senate (with the important exception of supporting the need for conservative federal judicial nominees submitted by Trump).
Regardless of the election’s outcome, the GOP must come to grips with these deep deficiencies, if it expects to remain a viable national party in a post-Trump world, whether that comes in a few months or a few years. The philosophical underpinning that once clearly defined the Republican Party – individual and economic freedom – still is an easy sell to the American public if they undertake the effort. Over the next four years, Republicans must do the following:
Restore Fiscal Discipline: Rather than offsetting the soaring costs of the President’s key initiatives (like the border wall) with spending cuts elsewhere, congressional Republicans now do just as Democrats have always done -- “spend now, pay later.” On a fiscal record, Republicans are now virtually indistinguishable from Democrats.
Reaffirm Gun Rights: Republicans have all but forgotten the true essence of the Second Amendment as a natural right. As a result, they have left it vulnerable to being chipped away, even from within their own party. They must learn again how to properly defend the Second Amendment and do so with more gusto than their limp-wristed approach of late.
Reduce Government Size & Power: Remember when eliminating needless federal departments like the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency were once mainstays of the GOP? Now, Republicans are just as much inclined to increase the size and power of government as Democrats, just for different reasons and different agencies. Trump’s leadership on deregulation – a true mainstay of his first term – is rarely touted by GOP leaders as a leading issue.
Talk Traditional Values: Now more than ever in this soulless environment where social media has replaced true human relationships and where the value of life is marginalized, Republicans must speak to our innate human instinct for family and social bonds. They must remind us of the value of the nuclear family, faith, and human decency with policies and personal conduct that exemplifies these concepts.
If Republicans truly focus on these key areas consistently and uniformly, 2024 may turn into the landslide victory this year should have been. History tells us, however, that is a big “if.
It is a sure sign that the corruption in American government has reached critical mass. How sad, that freedom has died in America not by an invasion, but by treason.
What is fiscal responsibility, or any of the other nonsense in this article, without accountability for crimes?
It may be too late to save the patient. The GOP needs to understand the meaning of the term “Quisling” and to stop tolerating them within its ranks. cf Willard Romney.
Decapitated from Trump, it will revert to the old globalist GOPe....and the grass roots will abandon it in droves. Congrats Never Trumpers. You win. Who is John Gault?
I'm out, after Trump.
I will persuade my fellow conservatives to sit out elections in the future.
Let the Democrats win, so we can start the reaction.
I don’t think patriots will give up without a fight.
I don’t think their fight will be gentle or mild.
The GOP is useless...game over
They did nothing to help elect Trump..
The GOP is done. If it didn’t get a spine this time, it never will. Trump needs to start a new party. There is no other answer.
So if Biden wins, then we have President Kamala Harris, who is also a joke. So she appoints Adam Sciff or Bill DeBlasio as vice-president. Then, for personal reasons, resigns (and if she is offered enough money and/or her life is threatened, she will). Then we have President Sciff, or President DeBlasio or even President Hunter Biden, and they’ll do it. They will. This is why we need a new party. We are up against some very hard facts here.
Sciff=Schiff
We need fighters, not quitters.
Like maybe being the nation's chief LE officer? You know, like investigating crimes and locking up criminals, regardless of their party or ideology?
OTOH it's good of you to come out and confess where your brain really is.
This idea of winning an election and then losing the next 729 days is clearly a failed model.
Even if you win the election, but then if you lose the culture you have still lost. All this silence is killing us.
That’s the problem. The communist play games. They don’t understand.
Now they’re going to get a taste of reality.
I agree. I am tired of these emotional people that go from one extreme to the other.
We knew the fraud would be rampant, and we are working on that. We need to stop the apathy and get in the game.
Doesn’t look good. Just look at Az. Then there’s Col., NM,Nv,. 31 Electoral votes lost over the years. Won’t get better.
Like maybe being the nation's chief LE officer? You know, like investigating crimes and locking up criminals, regardless of their party or ideology?
This was written by Bob Barr - former GA congressman, not Bill Barr, the AG.
With Kamals pledging to humt down every Trump supporter, I doubt there will be freedom ever again in the world till Christ returns.
If this vote fraud is allowed to stand, and if our Government corruption is not cleaned out, America is done.
Freedom isn’t free, and morality is the price.
Seen it all. You've been here, what - almost three years?
"Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia" - this is what you're looking at.
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