Flew back from Spain via London on Thursday. Uneventful flight, although I did find security at Heathrow chaotic and seriously understaffed. Currently in Wilmington where my now politically active Diplowife has been invited to a GOP event tonight to meet our local Republican officials. I will go along. Chance to fire up the Vette which has sat in the garage for nearly four weeks--hope the battery is not dead. If it is, well, then it's time for the nearly 200,000 mile 2005 Chevy Trailblazer, aka, the car that will not die. Indestructible.
I am curious to hear our local GOP poobahs' take on the recent midterms and the state of play for 2024. The Republicans did relatively well in North Carolina.
I, for one, refuse to get drawn into the Trump vs DeSantis debate which is being fed by the pro-Democrat media, and by some surprisingly tone deaf comments from President Trump. Now is not the time for a GOP civil war. If we don't address the serious structural issues in our election system--polite way of saying "fraud"--it makes no difference whom the GOP nominates: he/she cannot win.
Either the GOP tackles the issues of mass mail-in ballots, no voter ids, ballot harvesting, non-citizen voting, and corrupt voting machines, or it just cedes the field to the Democrats.
As one wise man said, can't remember who, "The Republicans chase after voters; the Democrats chase after votes." An unfortunate but accurate depiction of the state of play, kind of along the lines of the apocryphal statement attributed (False? True?) to Stalin, "It's not who casts the votes that matters; it's who counts the votes."
OK. Got to go pay the gardener and figure out why the house won't heat up. Then, I will resume my battle to save Western civilization.
You are absolutely correct about the way currently elections are conducted. Republicans could run Abraham Lincoln against Charles Manson and still lose. In a very close contest that took several days to tally, of course.
ReplyDeleteLet's face it: the Dems ran a human cucumber for Senate and he won. I don't want to hear about candidate quality . . .
DeleteThe Democrats have put a man with severe brain damage in the Senate, a senile fool in the White House, a woman in deeply in over her head in the VP slot, have a weasel as Senate Majority Leader, and a nasty drunk as house speaker. How can anyone object to the Democrats way if getting the Best People elected?
DeleteSimple. Keep counting votes until the Democrat wins.
DeleteIt may also be the case that the American people themselves have undergone a profound cultural shift. Kepha
DeleteKepha, I hope you're wrong, but . . .
Deleteimo, kepha is correct... and there's going to be serious short-to-medium term repercussions, but those predominantly affected are as neutered as if the eugenicists of Planned Parenthood-styling were ultimately successful and are not going to be influential in the *next* generation. Millennials and some of gen Z, unfortunately, are going to be ground zero for this brain damage.
DeleteNice thing about covid, it showed everybody how destroyed and locked-into-destruction our system of education is.
Also, birth-rates in blue-areas were falling below 1/female *before* covid. I'm pretty certain it'll hit < 0.5/female now or within a couple years.
Red-areas birth-rates are mostly unabated... the democrats don't want to talk about it because the numbers look so bad for the progressive 'cause' known as Demographic Suicide.
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There is an alternative. The GOP can use mail-in ballots, no voter IDs, ballot harvesting, non-citizen voting and corrupt voting machines just like the Democrats do. There are certainly enough examples to teach the techniques.
ReplyDeleteI agree. One way or the other.
DeleteWith our present justice system, what the Dems do is fine, Reps doing the same thing would face serious charges with the MSM applauding.
DeleteWelcome home. Sounds like your heat pump is broken by the sudden weather change.
ReplyDeleteI think that might be it. Got to call the home warranty people.
DeleteGlad your safely back on Terra firma. Been passing around side bar No Pasaran! Link, I also think we have been had again. Conservatives can't out mail vote the Marxists, they can't be verified.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was young I said to an American student I'd met "You're a Democrat. Its it true that your lot cheat with voting?"
ReplyDelete"Yes" said he "we are proud of it". "Why don't the Republicans stop you, or at least do the same as you?" "That's the Republicans for you" he said, and grinned.
Yep, I can confirm that
DeleteThe statement "It's not who casts the votes that matters; it's who counts the votes." is attributed to Stalin by his secretary after the secretary fled to France and published his memoirs. By then only Stalin and the secretary were left alive. Stalin having shot all the other witnesses.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteBoris Bazhanov - Avec Stalin dans le Kremlin, 1930
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"If we don't address the serious structural issues in our election system--polite way of saying "fraud"--it makes no difference whom the GOP nominates: he/she cannot win."
ReplyDeleteThe situation is actually worse than that -- much worse!
Recall when President Trump won and his coattails gave the Institutional Republicans control of House & Senate. Do you remember the Institutional Republicans bringing the budget into balance? Paying down the National Debt? Closing down FedGov departments which are not in the Constitution, such as Education and Energy? Cutting the number of Federal employees? Reforming civil service rules to make it possible to fire incompetents? Rolling back excessive counter-productive regulations? Stopping the pointless war in Afghanistan? Bringing the Military-Industrial Complex to heel?
No, we don't remember any of those necessary actions because the Institutional Republicans are absolutely worthless. And President Trump's very limited accomplishments demonstrated the whole bureaucracy works against the elected Executive and needs to be replaced. Now Resident Biden* demonstrates that the Deep State does not need an Executive at all.
Unless the Republican Party can (1) restore election integrity, and (2) clean out the bureaucracy, it will make no difference who gets elected to any position. First, the Republican Party needs to rip off its own head and start afresh.
DeSantis seems to have some sanity on issues where the rest of the country has lost it. For everything that California chooses wrongly right now, apparently Florida cuts the same choice the other way. Ted Cruz should also be flying high after Abbott re-trounced the subadolescent 'Beto' (no wonder the dems refer to him with a diminutive name?). Hopefully two smackdowns will keep that sack of poop from anywhere again. (He only scares me because there are so many stupid people in the country..)
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I know 20-somethings who have said they want to vote for 'beto' for no other reason than that he 'f-bombed his political opponent on national television'. That's the level of inanity going on right now, it's like Beavis and Butthead actually were *typical* for a generation.
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