Be Glad About Pompeo’s Doomed Primary Challenge To Trump

Townhall.com ^ | October 14, 2021 | Kurt Schlichter

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Rand Paul?

[mewzilla]

So is Pompeo really Deep State...

Or is he running interference for Trump...?

[Guenevere]

Is this true?

[Gene Eric]

Very disappointed with Pompeo.

[suekas]

It isn’t that he is bland….but his smirk.

[BobL]

“The best argument for Pompeo is that, unlike Trump, he doesn’t scare the unsatisfied suburban wine women who make up the Democrat base like Trump does, but don’t worry – he’ll be literally Hitler when the time comes.”

Just Pompeo’s history with women will sink him, not to mention what he’s done to blacks and gays.

(like everyone else here, I have no clue regarding women, blacks, and gays...we’ll have to wait and see what the DNC and the media invent)

[Sacajaweau]

Right now, it looks like President Trump is running "guard" for Pompeo. Trump might not even show for the LAST of the primary debates. He will set forth what the goals should be.

One thing in particular that I remember that no energy source should EVER be eliminated.

Biden somehow thinks that all fossil fuels can be shoved aside and that natural gas is some obnoxious pollutant of the atmosphere.

Mother Nature has provided and Biden taketh away. Just plain stupid.

[WinstonSmith1984]

Any primary challenger to Trump with a brain is running to be VP. Trump will likely pick the strongest of them or at least the one who offends him the least in adds and the debates.

Trump is the only candidate that can win...again..again....

They all know this. The ground game in 2022 will set the stage. Also, we have got to get Paul Ryan off the board at Fox News...He is the one poisoning the well there. Not that I listen to Fox any more...

[Williams]

Excellent article, although the main premise about a primary fight being good is balderdash.

Trump doesn’t know how to be subtle with opponents. A knife fight with Pompeo is a tragedy. The author ignores the question of why Pompeo believes Trump should be primaried.

[Recompennation]

You’re correct, and free air time to agree on real issues facing this country. It would be refreshing to see a cadre of politicians on stage positiveing our interests. Now if we can force FAKE News to air it in order to force feed it to the brainwashed in this country.

[Psalm 73]

Schlichter needs a new copy editor. His writing has been getting real sloppy - takes away from his credibility.

Some say: "Who cares"?, but an essay, even a short one isn't an IM between buds.

I see the same thing in business emails - pathetic.

[Jim Noble]

good sources are saying Pompeo is telling his donors he is

He has DONORS? Mike Pompeo, late of the CIA, has DONORS?

Lemme guess: They are all enrolled members of the "donor community".

Is that about right?

So, we have in this country a self-identified "donor community", and they are opposed to Trump returning?

I wish I was confident that eradication of the donor community, confiscation of their assets, and revocation of their citizenship would be job #1 of Trump were re-elected, but I'm not.

[Socon-Econ]

The cause of saving America from the left cannot depend on any one man, be it a a Donald Trump, a Ronald Reagan, or anyone like them. This was made clear yesterday, when Trump foolishly proposed that Republicans abandon the next election to the left if he lost a few battles over the 2020 election.

[cba123]

Trump is far and away, my first choice.

DeSantis was looking (very) strong, but I think he needs to take care of his wife right now...

I believe Pompeo is following Trump’s lead at the moment.

[Bigg Red]

Why believe this writer?

[flatpickingflyer]

With Trump, you always take the good with the bad, meaning, he’s not going to stop talking about the 2020 election shenanigans. Personally, I feel that’s the good with the good.

[RitaOK]

There will be no free and fair elections going forward until the people are interested in getting to the bottom of November 3, 2020.

The Judicial Branch, serving in state district and supreme courts are invested in Not hearing one word from the people, their state representatives nor the election workers, about The Steal that has not been stopped.

[Bratch]

Your Vote Won’t Count

There is no point in hoping the next election will be magically less fraudulent than the last one. Hope gives you an excuse not to act.

By Dan Gelernter 
October 12, 2021

We’re coming up on another election of national importance—the Virginia governor’s race is November 2. My friends are hopefully suggesting on social media that this will be the election that turns things around, where the full anger of the common folk at being bossed around by autocratic overlords finally manifests itself and we throw the bums out.

Mind you, they were saying the same thing with the same hope about the California recall election. And I said at the time, weeks before the vote was tallied, there was no point in hoping that patriotic anger would outbalance the massive machinery at work behind the scenes: Your votes didn’t matter in the 2020 presidential election, they didn’t matter in the California recall, they won’t matter in the Virginia gubernatorial election, and they won’t matter next year.

In case you’ve forgotten the high-level overview of the situation, let’s have Time Magazine remind us:

‘Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated,’ says Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan rule-of-law advocacy group. ‘But it’s massively important for the country to understand that it didn’t happen accidentally. The system didn’t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.’

That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream—a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.

According to Time, this was a huge triumph, since the “conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes” (again, their words) was designed to protect “democracy” from being undermined by stupid people like you who believe the wrong things and want to elect the wrong people. You were against the “proper” outcome!

So what’s the situation now? Vastly worse. This huge Time-documented conspiracy only half-expected to get away with stealing the election from Donald Trump. They discovered unexpected allies in three vital places: First, the courts, including the Supreme Court, refused to hear a single case of election fraud on the merits. They dismissed all the cases for lack of evidence or standing, which was much safer than letting the plaintiffs present their evidence in court.

Second, the Department of Justice was happy to say they’d found no evidence of election fraud, without drawing attention to the fact they hadn’t been looking. They had to be dragged kicking and screaming to any investigation at all: How many of you are aware that it was the relentless pressure of private citizens in Yuma, Arizona, who provided photographic evidence that the Justice Department couldn’t ignore, which led to indictments (so far two public) for vote fraud in the 2020 election? But even as the government was forced to charge the little people who were getting paid to collect ballots and cast them illegally, they assiduously refused to investigate where that money came from. Perhaps it came from a well-funded cabal of powerful people?

But third, and most important by far, the thing that ultimately renders our elections meaningless is people like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Republican National Committee Chairman Ronna McDaniel and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp. They are the most important allies in the conspiracy to steal our elections, precisely because we expect them to be fighting on our side. Fraudulent elections cost Republicans seats—cost Republicans the presidency—so why wouldn’t the most powerful people in the Republican Party be fighting just as hard as they could to expose fraud and pass laws requiring in-person voting with ID?

Here’s the secret answer: These people hate you. Sure, they’re willing to pay lip service to America as a great nation, to churchgoing values, and so forth. But they’re really just Democrats with different special interests: They want to funnel all your money to military contractors instead of environmentalists. People like Donald Trump interfere with that. People like you interfere with that. Because you want the government to mind its own [*expletive deleted*] business. And, on that issue, Mitch McConnell is united with Senator Chuck Shumer (D-N.Y.) against you. 

These people live for power. They exist for the pleasure of spending your money to retain that power. And, now that they’ve managed to separate that power from public accountability by legalizing mail-in, no-ID, drop-box, multiple-ballot, and similar voting practices, you think they’re going to give all that up?

There is no solution to this problem short of a Constitutional Convention that restores our elections to their original format: Voting on election day, and in-person. Until we make that happen, there is no point in hoping the next election will be magically less fraudulent than the last one. That is precisely what the Mitch McShumer crowd wants you to do: hope. Hope is an excuse not to act. Don’t take it.

[metesky]

Will Pompeo really run?

No. Rat/MSM disinfo.