Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $2,910
3%  
Woo hoo!! 3rd Qtr 2025 FReepathon is now underway!!

Keyword: qanoncandidateslost

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Republicans should have won the Senate easily, but they nominated really bad candidates

    11/09/2022 8:19:17 AM PST · by karpov · 161 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | November 9, 2022 | Timothy P. Carney
    There’s a lot of noise as these midterm results flow in, and a few unsettled races at the moment, but this much is clear: Republicans would control the Senate next year had they stuck to nominating good candidates. Instead, typical of the Tea Party-to-Trump Era, Republicans in many key states nominated people who were patently unfit for office. It goes back to the Massie Theorem. Rep. Thomas Massie explained the Tea Party after the 2016 election. "All this time," Massie said, "I thought they were voting for libertarian Republicans. But after some soul-searching, I realized when they voted for Rand...
  • My takeaways from last night.

    11/09/2022 6:39:09 AM PST · by 2nd Amendment · 167 replies
    A few takeaways form last night. We did not have a "Red Wave" We barely managed to hang on to what we have Trump needs to retire. The defacto leader of the conservative movement is DeSantis Abortion and late term baby killing is more important to 50% of Americans than crime, inflation and energy independence. Republicans need to field candidates with competence and governance. Either we get rid of mail in voting or republicans learn to cheat like the democrats. We must expand our influence among Hispanic voters. With their family values they are extremely important. I am thankful if...