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2022-04-24 Home Front: Politix
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Republicans are more than capable of blowing the 2022 midterms
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[THEHILL] If you don’t believe the Republicans can blow their chances of winning majorities in the House and Senate midterms this year, then you have not paid attention to the past five years of U.S. politics.
At least three factors could reverse the predicted fortune for the GOP. The first would be voter apathy by traditional Republicans, conservatives and people of faith. The second would be — drum roll, please — potential fallout from anything Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
says, does or hints. And the third would be a full-court press by Democrats, aided by some in the mainstream media, to come across as suddenly moderate while metaphorically throwing Joe The Big Guy Biden
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...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier . Of course Corn Pop is a real person....
and Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism or misogyny or something like that. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge
as far overboard as possible.
All three factors will happen to some extent. The question is, will some combination of them be enough to hold the Democratic majority in Congress after November?
Apparently Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
 ...Senate minority leader from Kentucky. A politician's politician, Mitch is smarter than he's given credit for, not as smart as he thinks he is. He is married to former education secretary Elaine Chao, whose father has extensive shipping interests, including a company in China, which makes sense since he's Chinese. He is sometimes maligned as Cocaine Mitch because a few million bucks' worth of the drug was once found on one of his father-in-law's ships in Colombia, which is kind of a tenuous assertion, to say the least...
’s (R-Ky.) main strategy for winning is to avoid mentioning anything that Republicans would do if they regained majority control.
The quote sometimes attributed to Napoleon — "Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself" — makes sense if one believes the Democrats are failing across the board, but many Republican voters who have been burned before by the GOP leadership still want to hear a plan.
Polls indicate a red wave in November. Maybe so, but what if a substantial number of Republican voters adopt the unyielding position of "Fool me 10 times, shame on you. Try to fool me again and I’m not going to vote."
Impossible? Trump’s election to the White House in 2016 should remind us all to expect the unexpected. McConnell and other entrenched elites of the Republican Party may think the party’s more traditional voting bloc will never desert them, but they rarely walk in the shoes of working-class Republicans who, like everyone else, are feeling the brutal effects of the pandemic topped by skyrocketing inflation.
Just like the entrenched Democratic Party elites, these Republicans live in a bubble of favors, luxury, security, wealth and gold-plated health care plans. They’re used to extravagant fundraisers, five-star resorts and the vacation homes of billionaire donors.
As the election draws nearer, we can assume that many of these voters who have been taken for granted by party leaders will have reached their saturation point regarding empty promises. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), spoke directly to the frustration of conservative voters when he released his "11-Point Plan to Rescue America."
Some believe the plan needed more editing and was released too soon, but its "rally around conservative principles" theme, much of it echoed by Trump, managed to elicit the wrath of McConnell and the small army of consultants who are loyal to him. In response to that noise, NRSC communications director and Scott campaign aide Chris Hartline said: "We don’t spend much time worrying about criticisms from anonymous Republican consultants who lost the Senate last cycle and who have gotten rich off maintaining the status quo."
Indeed, the "McConnell wing" of the GOP might be shocked by how many "traditional" voters stay home in November if they don’t start seeing conservative planks actually nailed into the foundation of the party.
Next, regarding Trump, as Republicans have witnessed the past few years: "The Don giveth, but the Don also taketh away — big time." Will Trump’s cult of personality bring more Republicans and independents into the voting booth, or will it drive them away (as he did in the 2020 Georgia runoff election and Arizona’s general election by bashing Georgia Republicans, the voting process and the memory of the late  John Maverick McCain
... late Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution . As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump...
)?
And then we come to what the Democrats can do to try to salvage victory. Some candidates, of course, will try to put as much distance as possible between them and the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra)
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us...
’s failing policies. Biden is flirting with the lowest approval ratings in history, and some see Harris as more out of touch with each passing day.
If calling out Biden and Harris, or making fun of them — as we saw with the viral video in which Biden turned to shake hands with an invisible person and with "Saturday Night Live" mocking Harris — can save the Democrats’ majority in Congress, you can bet that more liberal pundits and others will be willing to do so as the midterms approach.
Will the Democrats defy the odds and pull off an upset this fall? With 28 weeks to go, it would be delusional to think that a Republican victory is fait accompli.
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