A Wisconsin Reminder: Candidate Quality Still Matters
I went to breakfast with Herschel Walker last year after he secured the GOP nomination but before the general election. I knew after leaving that Herschel had no chance of beating Warnock. In his defense, Walker surrounded himself with some of the best people in politics and improved as a candidate as the campaign progressed. However, Herschel Walker was a deeply flawed candidate on a myriad of fronts and Republican primary voters didn’t seem to care. Similarly flawed candidates like Kari Lake in Arizona or just this week, Dan Kelly in Wisconsin, flushed away winnable seats by singularly focusing on the purity of winning the primary without the hassle of broadening the base in the general.
While it falls on the candidate and the campaign to define a message that wins more than just hardcore primary Republicans, voters must also support candidates who have a history of appealing to more than just the hardcore partisans. If we don’t, Democrats will continue to dominate swing-state politics.
We get it. Thanks appreciate it. Move on.
Why aren't we focusing on the storming of the Tennessee Capital. Why aren't we showing how the administration lied about... everything.
It is TIRING at this point to keep rehashing this point.
The point is that candidates matter but it also matters that Soros contributed to the campaigns of those "Trump endorsed" candidates. And many, as much as 200k dem voters crossed the aisle on primary day to vote for the radical candidate.
But ok, lets talk about that. If candidates REALLY matters then why did the dem candidates win? Because Warnock and the wackjob in Wisconsin were also election deniers in 2016 and a million times more radical and crazy than Walker or the other trump candidates. What about them? They get a pass? Right of course they do because the media has you believe that no matter the candidate the dem is always best.
Your blaming trump for the media blaming trump. Every candidate is going to have some measure of trump hanging around their neck.
Our job is not ONLY to pick a good candidate but one not endorsed by Trump. While the dems just pick anyone and throw them up there even if they were a drug dealer or danced around in a dress on stage screaming how they will take your kids away. Sounds like an unattainable standard to me.
Not choosing a candidate solely based on a trump endorsement without realizing the absolute mortal danger of voting for a democrat is like choosing between a terrible tasting onion sandwich or a bottle of cyanide. Obviously the poison being the democrat.
So please explain this logic. Two candidates one a dem the other a trump endorsed republican.
Someone stands there and says. "I can't stand mean tweets, loud mouthed bullyish rhetoric. Im just going to vote for the democrat who supports drag queens at my kids school and boys competing against my daughter in her sports. Yeah that's what I'll do."
( blank stare)
The logic in that is maddening. Sure candidates matter but so do educated and smart voters and so does the MEDIA.
The solution is NOT to go out and pick moderate middle of the road Rhino's.
When the electorate realizes that even a candidate who was a former football player who made mistakes 20 years ago is better than any democrat any day, and twice on Sunday. Maybe we have hope. But realize that until that happens what happened in WI and other states will continue to happen. Until Dem candidates are treated with the same harsh scrutiny and past transgressions exposed that any republican is. We will continue to lose.
Trump is not the problem nor is he a solution.
Agree with you on Herschel Walker. 10000% disagree with you on Kari Lake. Really, you say that Lake is a low-quality candidate? She wipes the floor with Kati Homes... who frankly hid in her home the entire campaign. Of course you are on that establishment Republican track noting that Kari is an "election denier" and that is why she lost... ignoring the abortion issue and the massive enraged female vote that came out.
This Wisconsin failure of the GOP again has the chronic losing GOP establishment blaming it on election denying... ignoring the abortion issue... ignoring the giant Democrat-government-media and big tech collusion thumb on scale... ignoring that they, the establishment GOP, must not have an appealing platform or candidates.
Democrats must just be giddy with their ability to get the GOP to keep fighting over Trump while they take complete power.