Candidate Quality Still Matters
Multiple news headlines today suggest that Republicans are learning the wrong lesson from the midterm elections. The headlines point to Republicans accepting that telling their voters to not vote yearly cost them votes and possibly the Senate. While early voting is important for any party that wants to win, Republicans did not suffer from an early voting or election day turnout shortage in the midterm or the subsequent Georgia Senate runoff. In fact, newly released voter data shows that more Republicans turned out than Democrats. The problem was a significant portion of swing state Republicans voted for the Democrat when facing a Trump-affiliated Republican. The lesson learned is candidate quality matters. Take a moment and listen.
You can beat this drum till the cows come home and it isn't going to make a dang bit of difference. If republican voters voted for democrats who were demonstrably worse than any Trump endorsed candidate, then voters themselves are the problem. Let me make myself very clear. I. do. not. want. Trump. to. be. the. candidate. But I am not stupid enough to vote against a candidate he endorses just because he endorsed them. That is a stupidity that coming up with different candidates is not going to fix. And chosing republican candidates who are McCarthy clones because they are more palatable to these apparently not too bright people is not going to get the job done either. And who exactly gets to decide that a candidate is bad? Other than saying Walker had too much "baggage", I haven't seen a description of exactly what you perceive is wrong with most of the others being bashed. This is not your old political game and the idea that you can play it like you used to is going to keep costing the country.
Data is right and yes we need better candidates doesn’t distract from the issue of voters. To say that trump endorsed republicans who lost were terrible candidates insinuates that the other candidate was a good candidate. False. Warnock was a terrible candidate. As was Fetterman. Yet because the edit got the press produced lies about both of those candidates it convinced those republicans to vote for a poo sandwich as opposed to a PB&J because the news convinced them so. “Don’t eat that PB&J it was made by trump” were not trump so vote for us.
Wel that’s a terrible way of thinking and makes me believe those who did that are stupid because now look what’s going to happen.
Inflation won’t be fixed. Supreme Court. Stacked. Filibuster gone.
All that so those voters could virtue signal and say they didn’t vote for trumps guy or gal “hurray for us”
The key is that is a slippery slope and unless that is addressed and we take on the media whoever gets put up will get the blasting of the media. The problem is the media. Not the candidates that everyone was convinced were terrible yet the other were worse.
Way to go. Your plan to fix it? Send in the RHINOS. Yeah that’s why we still have Obamacare in place. Good luck with that. The answer to socialism I not to go socialism light or appear to be a moderate and then rush to the right after elections are over.
This is why I said this election proved this nation is done as a democratic republic. We are now a constitutional theocracy and the media is the ruler along with a few super elite rich who control all the money. We the people have failed. Blame trump all you want. Blame him when your taxes go up all your freedoms are taken away and your cancelled at your job because you said something “offensive.”