Keri Lake and JD Vance get it (clips below)
Seems so obvious but instead way too many Republican candidates can’t find their tongue; hope that simply being a Republican can carry the day (it might if they would bother to point out that their opponent is a Democrat and that they are a Republican) or are so afraid that saying something other than their bland pro-forma stuff will get them in trouble. In the meantime they get pummeled with avoidable inroads made.
For many candidates the Republican Party or interest groups need to step in and make the necessary points in global fashion, helping the entire field of Republican candidates. What I am seeing and hearing though (from candidates) is that pro forma stuff and no real gut punches to specific matters that Democrats can be shown to be extremist on — but which they emphasize in attacking Repubs – – Dems support legal abortion on demand at any time for any reason funded by taxpayers, their support for student loan debt cancellation (not a favorite matter for blue collar Dems), they support more and more inflationary spending, their environmental extremism helping to drive inflation and make America poorer, their fealty to Biden and all his disastrous policies including the border. — and much more.
Keri Lake is one Republican candidate (Arizona Governor) who gets it and this is a clip of her madsterful way of , well, mastering the media (below it a sample of a different sort).
Kerri Lake is no slouch at returning fire directly to her opponent either and neither is J.D. Vance who in this clip takes it to his opponent Democrat Tim Ryan and pretty much B**ch slaps him as it were:
If Republican candidates are categorically incapable of firing back, anticipating his or her opponents attack lines and aggressiveness, and responding in kind with compelling accuracy, that is bad enough. When the party fails to do so seeing the various races that become closer than they need to be (and not in a good way) seeing what should be a wave election, defining for the country, into just another midterm ripple that portends no great consequence beyond maybe inhibiting Biden, that is pathetic.
