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Republican Ineptitude and Democratic
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Posted By: markantony, 2/9/2021 11:12:01 AM

Let’s start with this: the disturbance at the Capitol on January 6, as Donald Trump and his supporters made a last-ditch attempt to somehow overturn the results of the 2020 election, was neither an “insurrection” nor a “siege,” nor was it conducted by “seditionists.” At best, it was an ill-advised, unsupervised, possibly provoked demonstration in a lost cause that could have no good effect other than the venting of personal pique and MAGA fury. The fact is, the election was lost back in the summer, and even White House veterans knew it—out of money and essentially rudderless

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Safari Man 2/9/2021 11:28:28 AM (No. 689960)
Election was stolen, not lost.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: columba 2/9/2021 11:29:57 AM (No. 689963)
Dems or Republicas? Why should God help a nation that tolerates and promotes the slaughter of children and perverted sex? The answer to the problem is in the bedroom.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: MDConservative 2/9/2021 11:34:07 AM (No. 689968)
Republican ineptitude? No, it was collusion. Starting from the back end of the heist, why did SIX REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURES fail to act in any meaningful way when their election results were called into question? Now, let's go back to the '16 elections...Why did Speaker Paul Ryan "resign" but not vacate his chair? Why did no Republican challenge him? Why did the GOP and its Congressional election committee virtually write off districts that were competitive and likely could have been held with proper financial and political support? I would suggest that the reason was because the UNIPARTY/GOPe couldn't impeach PDT, which appeared the last resort for destroying his '20 re-election, after surviving everything else thrown his way. The GOPe took one for the UNIPARTY team. They're not inept. The American electorate is "inept." With half the nation still believing this election was a fraud, who's demanding honest investigation? Not even the public these days. And what of those six legislatures? Recalls? Oh, no...
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Quigley 2/9/2021 11:40:02 AM (No. 689976)
“Out of money and rudderless”? And got more votes than any sitting president ever got ? 5 million [?] more than in 2016 ? Incoherent thinking like this puts me off reading it. Who benefited greatly from the riot? Who instantly was prepared to start using the occurrence to destroy and silence their enemies? Who denied adequate security for the event? Who was videotaped in 2016 describing a strategy to foment violence at Trump rallies to discredit him? Who is preventing an audit of what happened in the election? Who fostered violence all summer long? Who advocated that the violence continue until and beyond the election?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: stablemoney 2/9/2021 11:45:48 AM (No. 689987)
Walsh provides us with his conclusions without any investigation or evidence. The article is an opinion piece, and provides no information. A waste of time.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 2/9/2021 12:20:08 PM (No. 690044)
I agree that the Republicans are inept. They seem to have this certainty that they'll retake Congress in 2022. What it is based on is a mystery, given that they've crapped on the conservative base. Hard to believe, but Liz Cheney did more damage in her Chris Wallace interview on Fox News than her vote for impeachment without benefit of due process or facts. As long as she's in a power position in Congress, the Republican party is dead to me.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: WhamDBambam 2/9/2021 12:41:54 PM (No. 690056)
"The fact is, the election was lost back in the summer, and even White House veterans knew it—out of money and essentially rudderless" Funny, I don't remember reading articles on this at the time outside the NYTwits and the Beezos Post.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Tallgrass Palms 2/9/2021 1:42:58 PM (No. 690104)
Especially the Republican ineptitude!
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 2/9/2021 2:20:18 PM (No. 690119)
I would re-word Walsh's story title to read as - "Republican and Democratic Ruthlessness and Ineptitude Put Liberties in Danger"
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Reply 10 - Posted by: red1066 2/9/2021 3:13:37 PM (No. 690175)
This clown has been listening to too much MSM. The election was not lost last summer. No one in their right mind believes that. The election was stolen using fraud. The only people who believed Trump would lose last summer, were the ones who organized the fraud. Also, It wasn't just Trump supporters going into the Capitol. The leading group that went into the Capitol were out to discredit Trump and his supporters, and it wasn't an insurrection.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: JackBurton 2/9/2021 4:49:58 PM (No. 690252)
As one poster on Lucianne who lives in DC commented, ALL previous Trump rallies had counter protesters causing problems and assaulting Trump supporters.... EXCEPT the Jan 6th rally. WHERE were they? Obvious answer, they were wearing Trump hats and waving Trump flags and were breaking down the barriers, putting on riot hats and shields and breaking into the Capitol. It was planned. And those people who were offered National Guard troops or could have had additional Capitol cops on duty were in on it. The 'riot' was as fraudulent as the 'election.'
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Hugh Akston 2/9/2021 5:00:45 PM (No. 690258)
Lost in the summer? Really? Trump got 14 MILLION more votes (and maybe more) in 2020 than 2016 and his approval ratings were underwater his entire presidency? Author lost me at that point. This election was never lost. It was never even close. As one of Trump's election investigation attorneys testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee - Our evidence has never been refuted, only ignored.
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