How the GOP lost control of Washington,
and what comes next
Just the News,
by
John Solomon
Original Article
Posted By: Garnet,
1/8/2021 12:32:55 PM
Now that Democrats are poised to control the White House, Senate and House, the traditional game of finger-pointing and recrimination will begin inside the GOP.
The first instinct for politicians will be to assign blame, call names and jockey for position. But the 2020 election wasn't just an election, it was a political watershed in which the rules and strategy for winning were rewritten.
The November election (and Tuesday’s Georgia curtain call) wasn't won and lost by the tactics, spending, individual players and messaging in the weeks before Nov. 3, according to interviews conducted with more than three dozen frontline players.
Rather, its outcome was cemented long before Labor Day 2020
Reply 1 - Posted by:
hershey 1/8/2021 12:43:32 PM (No. 653259)
'Political watershed' my barmy buttocks...more like a total crap storm...we might as well trade in all our cars for Jeep 4x4's cause it's gonna be a rocky road...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 1/8/2021 12:57:08 PM (No. 653272)
I cannot begin to count the number of people I know who are committed to never voting again, for anything
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Muguy 1/8/2021 1:02:14 PM (No. 653282)
John Soloman nails it--
This article explains it all, and we didn't seem to see it coming RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR FACES.
You simply MUST read this one!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chance_232 1/8/2021 1:02:23 PM (No. 653283)
He's not wrong. Democrats rewrote the rules. Republicans were playing by the old rules. By the old rules, they cheated and stole the election.
Republicans were asleep at the wheel assuming that we were still playing by the rules.
Look folks..... we aren't going to win elections by relying on peoples faith and belief in the constitution, founding principles. Capitalism etc. Most people either don't know what any of that is, don't care or dont believe in any of it. Republicans have to figure out what the people really want, educate the electorate and convince them that our ideas are better. Pointing out the socialism or fascism doesn't work anymore because we no longer have the same reference points
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Nimby 1/8/2021 1:02:29 PM (No. 653285)
I will tell you what comes next - All these RINOs will be primaried out
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Great article by a real patriot journalist. Thank You, John Solomon for following the truth. Hope and pray you don't get shut down.
Things are looking challenging at best, scary at worst. We need new platforms; we need a backbone of solid steel courage. We need to fight this behemoth by every legal means; for the sake of our children and grandchildren.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ByteGuru 1/8/2021 1:07:35 PM (No. 653297)
The GOPe (Romney, Cornyn, Lee, etc) WANTED to lose control of Washington. They WANT to be the 'loyal opposition, whining about everything but able to accomplish nothing. They would rather serve in He!! than rule in heaven.
As long as the left keeps filling the GOPe rice bowl as often as needed, these twits have no reason to change anything. Quaint ideas like patriotism and loyalty to their constituents mean nothing.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
aasilver 1/8/2021 1:24:13 PM (No. 653321)
The perfect storm for the Democraps.
Trump will be impeached next week or sooner and immediately convicted by the Senate and removed from office.
There is not one Republican that will stand up for Trump. The Republicans are cowards and will abandon ship.
We must face the fact that the media and the Dems are in full control. The Democrat voter fraud machine will defeat the 22 Republicans up in 2022 and will sweep the house.
A bumper sticker I saw says it all:
Surrender and subjugation or revolution. The choice is yours.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/8/2021 1:54:52 PM (No. 653377)
Funny thing but Trump told everyone what was going to happen long before the election and the Republicans had every chance to go to court before the election and demand that the State election laws and procedures passed by the State legislatures not be bypassed by partisan lower court judges, individual politicians, and bureaucrats. but the Republicans never did that and waited until after the election when it was too late.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Luandir 1/8/2021 1:58:27 PM (No. 653384)
Even this model would not have worked for the Dems without massive ballot-box stuffing in the wee hours of November 4.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/8/2021 2:04:14 PM (No. 653393)
The GOP never had control of Washington. The best President in history did and almost all of them abandoned him. They can find new jobs.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/8/2021 2:18:52 PM (No. 653416)
It's clear that President Trump literally needed to do everything himself. The traitor pubs never had any intention of allowing him back in the WH; they rode his coattails to win their seats, period. The two Georgians thought they could do it too, but we said no. They needed conservatives to come out en masse to vote for them, and the patriots said no, you fools; we see you for who you are. What was the choice? Pubs with control of the senate was only advantageous if PDT were President. I believe Kelly would have betrayed PDT even if she had won. She waited until the last possible moment to take a stand, and it backfired on her behind. Now, she's all salty, because she lost her seat to a real marxist.
FTA - "First and foremost, they usurped the powers of GOP-controlled state legislatures in the five battleground states and rewrote the rules of how votes would be cast and counted, using the pandemic as an excuse."
And the usurpation continues.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 1/8/2021 2:24:58 PM (No. 653424)
The Republican Party delivers nothing. The Republican Party protects the ruling class oligarchy and enables totalitarian socialism in exchange for warmongering. I will never vote for another Republican. It's the only way to get rid of them.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 1/8/2021 2:27:11 PM (No. 653428)
Solomon says a lot of true things in this article. The actual fraud inside the election machines (both electronic machines and political machines) is ignored, or only left for the reader to surmise from vague truths like "...Mail ballots could be sent to everyone, even if they didn't ask for one, and wide swaths of Americans could vote by mail. Voter ID requirements could be suspended for those who felt homebound by COVID's wrath. Mobile ballot boxes could be deployed. Spoiled ballots that legally were supposed to be discarded could be "cured" by election clerks. Legally required voter roll purges could be skipped. "
All the fraud was there, much of it in "relaxed rules" and much the old fashioned ways of intentionally wrong counting, shipping in boxes of fake ballots, and the new way of literally reassigning votes inside the computerized voting machines, under external controls via wifi.
Yes, Repubs were stupid and lazy as hell. But ask yourself why. Because they are stupid and lazy? Perhaps, or is it because they are RINOs, hired to play a role, and behind closed doors, buddies with the leftists, and perfectly happy to get paid, have a cushy job, nice clothes and do whatever the paymasters tell them to do?
It is looking more and more like the old "not a dime's worth of difference" problem. Uniparty problem. Corruptocrats, 90-95% of them, looking for money and power, not to support the Constitution, or "right" over wrong or over "left".
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/8/2021 2:28:01 PM (No. 653431)
What's missing in the left's so-called strategy is they didn't win the hearts and minds of the people. They can't. Their strategy was simply to cheat with all their might. It was clumsy, messy, but as long as the pubs did nothing about it, they would succeed. I swear elected pubs are the dumbest politicians on the planet, and it's not that they are decent yokes, they're weak, dumb idiots. They stood down and let this happen. I don't credit the left, I blame the so-called right.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 1/8/2021 2:28:09 PM (No. 653433)
#5, not likely. Not many who register Repub will be voting next election.
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The UNIPARTY, GOPe Division, threw the '18 Congressional elections and their majority to the Democrats. The suckers in red uniforms did the predictable. So, after the fools couldn't impeach PDT, they upped the ante, fixing the Presidential election. Let's stop pretending otherwise. The Big Boys are miles ahead when it comes to political chicanery. As Solomon points out, they even published a book explaining the process. And when the stuff hit the fan, after various state legislatures modified rules in compassionate response to the "pandemic", these same legilatures, dominated by Republicans, did nothing...NOTHING. It's all coincidental, isn't it?
The simple fact is the Republicans are in league with their Democrat UNIPARTY partners, and the goal was to Dump Trump. They screwed up, revealing the fraud, and then went into "No Evidence!" mode, refusing to allow anyone to see the evidence. And the suckers and fools will continue to support liars and scoundrels because they prefer betrayal to opposition. The cognitive dissonance notwithstanding.
No new party. Take over the old! Really, it's there for the taking. Grab yourself a precinct captaincy or seat on the local party council, maybe chair. As they say, don't get mad, get even.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
john56 1/8/2021 2:44:20 PM (No. 653462)
The lesson of my high school history teacher back in the early 1970s was "Never underestimate the stupidity of the national Republican party" (this was before the term "Republican Establishment" was known.
Again, the lessons are proven correct. Thanks, Turtle, Romney, Ryan, and a host of Swamp Creatures.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
SavageRider 1/8/2021 3:30:27 PM (No. 653536)
Now that the Dims own DC, it will be fun to watch them eat their own. With few Pubs to turn on, they will have to start picking off Dims who not sufficiently anti-American to suit them.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 1/8/2021 3:36:16 PM (No. 653549)
If we're going to play by their rules what we need is our own George Soros.
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What comes next is Civil War. Our elected officials have lost the Consent of more than 50% of the governed.
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