- They once understood the problem . . . did they forget?
- Not turning out is being stupid and or irresponsibly lazy. There is no excuse
- Democrats will cheat to win*
- Low energy and hand wringing Republican apparat can’t be blamed for everything
- Don’t like the Republican candidates – so prove your smarts by allowing the Democrats to win and devastate the Trump agenda
- Time to be choosy is in the primary
Excerpts from a RedState article by DavenJ1
Forgetting the True Enemies
The Democratic Party is bound to win this special election by whatever means necessary just as they are determined to return the House to Democratic control come January, 2019. They will use whatever means necessary. In essence, they are nothing more than a very adept criminal enterprise when it comes to voting.
Any Republican who opts to sit this one out will be complicit in that criminality. This is not over-the-top rhetoric from your’s truly; it is fact! The closeness of the vote in Ohio’s 12th District is due to the laziness and misplaced principle of suburban voters. Yet, think of the consequences. It does not take a blue wave to win the House for the Democrats- just lazy or “principled” voters in 24 districts for the Democrats to take the House.
And what will that laziness and/or “principle” get anyone? For starters, at least two years of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House, or someone potentially worse, if such is possible. Adam Schiff is the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee who would become its Chairman. We hear from the “principled” Republicans their disdain of Clinton and that she and the Clinton Foundation are corrupt. Kiss that good-bye with Schiff as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee . ..
And all this would be accomplished because Republicans and conservatives lost sight of who the real bad guys are. Instead, some point the finger at Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell and there is enough blame there to go around. There are legitimate reasons to dislike or criticize the GOP leadership in Congress. Their failure to kill Obamacare and their profligate spending are legitimate gripes. But as bad as they are and no matter one’s view on Trump, a Democratic majority would be worse. Regardless, Ryan will be gone in January and if Republicans and conservatives truly have a problem with McConnell, then he should be voted out.
Compare the Democratic agenda with that of the accomplishments of the Trump administration thus far. They use the fuzzy arithmetic of socialism to justify spending for “Medicare for all.” They are demanding open borders. They want to take back the recently passed tax cuts that benefit 80% of Americans. Compare that with economic growth twice that experienced under Obama and record low unemployment, a revamped military, ISIS decimated and probably two conservatives confirmed to the Supreme Court.
The special election in Ohio’s 12th should not have been that close. This district is the suburbs of Columbus and reaches into rural Ohio. Romney won the district by 10 points, Trump by 11. It is not considered a swing district. One Republican PAC put $3 million into this race to barely win it. In this race, Danny O’Connor, the Democratic challenger, used the same strategy that Conor Lamb used in Pennsylvania to win: they ran on social security and Medicare using scare tactics with voters. The Republican Party has a bigger scare tactic in their arsenal: the faces of Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff because that will be the leadership in the House if Republican voters have a hissy fit over Donald Trump and either stay at home in November, or cross party lines.
As the refusal to concede in this race as new votes for O’Connor mysteriously appear among the 100+ year-old crowd in Ohio, it shows that the Democrats will stop at nothing including fraud to win the House in 2018. And to those espousing and invoking those amorphous “principles,” consider the alternative. All those principles mean squat when you are on the outside looking in.
*graphic not in original article, forwarded by HP
