We Can Whine and Moan About the State
of the National GOP, but What About Your State?
Red State,
by
Joe Cunningham
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
11/14/2022 11:30:16 AM
At this point, we at RedState (and many, many other outlets) have spilled all sorts of digital ink on the state of the national GOP leadership and all the faults and flaws they have. Mitch McConnell’s lack of agenda and the way his Senate Leadership Fund spent money. Rick Scott’s NRSC and their money and strategy problems. Trump’s involvement, choice of candidates, and lack of spending.
The quality of candidates overall.
It’s all a series of negatives that have absolutely hurt the Republican Party’s chances of taking the Senate and will make their possible majority in the House way more narrow than originally hoped for. And
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 11/14/2022 11:32:15 AM (No. 1332991)
I dunno, let's check the Hearst Corporation a few hours ago and see how's it going...
"What's next for Beto O'Rourke? Despite three defeats, he's likely not done in Texas politics." (That’s a 5XL for the GOP!)
Business columnist: "Tomlinson: Texans returned Republicans to power, they must now give us the money they promised us"
Letter to the editor: "Thank the GOP Texas Legislature for Harris County election headaches" (Lina's disaster.)
Things seem to be OK.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
plaids 11/14/2022 11:36:09 AM (No. 1332994)
I'm in Boca Raton, FL, our voting went smoothly. We have Desantis, woo hoo. There's going to be a surge exiting New Yawk!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 11/14/2022 11:44:07 AM (No. 1333000)
Mitch "MultiUseless" McConnell and his money.....
June, 2019
"In 2008, James Chao gave the couple a gift of as much as $25 million, vaulting Mr. McConnell into the ranks of the richest senators."
Now he wants to maintain power over the plebeians as quickly as possible.
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I live in New Mexico. I'm not sure there's even a Republican party in the state. I get ballots with only Democrat candidates running for an office unopposed. If you have an Hispanic surname and are Democrat = automatic win.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 11/14/2022 11:57:25 AM (No. 1333006)
Wisconsin legislature is under the grip of Robin Vos, who dutifully does what Karl Rove advises through the group of state legislators. A Paul Ryan never Trumper. His endorsement turned off voters from Rebecca Kleefisch in the gubanotorial primary. State legislators fear him and he probably won't be challenged in any meaningful way.
And because he is a never Trumper, no action will be taken on voter fraud. No reform. Expect more of the same, And he's ok with that.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 11/14/2022 12:02:36 PM (No. 1333011)
Most of my state, Alabama, is so red my ballot in Cherokee County had every single local republican candidate running unopposed, and Governor Memaw easily defeated her opponent as did Katie Britt although I am not too sure of Britt's politics.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 11/14/2022 12:08:25 PM (No. 1333015)
Kentucky is a Conservative state with a diddly-squat, Democrat governor who I hope is deleted in 2023. Baby Bashear followed Fauci's guidelines to the last letter. Talk about a horse-apple. We all hope Baby is gone soonest.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 11/14/2022 12:16:19 PM (No. 1333019)
Here's West Virginia:
The Republicans supermajorities in the Legislature have grown.
88-12 in the House of Delegates and 30-4 in the Senate.
The problem now is that the leadership of both are a bunch of centrist squishes and nothing of any substance gets done.
We have a nominally Republican governor who is a deadbeat hillbilly buffoon.
The Rs hold every elected position in the statehouse including the Secretary of State, Attorney General, Treasurer, Auditor, and Agriculture commissioner.
They've held power since 2014. It's time to get something done.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 11/14/2022 12:19:31 PM (No. 1333022)
Live in Minnesota! You can imagine our GOP! We can’t beat the Governor who let Minneapolis burn! We suck!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MaMe2 11/14/2022 12:26:44 PM (No. 1333028)
Everyrhing is fine in TN except for some reps who live in glass houses with their pet unicorns in parts of Memphis. Thanks for asking
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
weirdone 11/14/2022 12:41:41 PM (No. 1333035)
Here in Wyoming, we got rid of the little blue lizard, but we still have a couple of possible swamp rats to go.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
felixcat 11/14/2022 12:47:41 PM (No. 1333040)
I live in Virginia. Well, Gov Youngkin isn't that far away from the country club Republican - red vest or no red vest. He got lucky winning as McAuliffe gave him a great opportunity when he said (and I paraphrase), the kids belong to the state. Yes, he got the voters of many an upset parent but that is not he only issue facing this state. He doesn't control the upper house in the General Assembly, so legislatively, he can't do much. Taxes here are still high and won't be going down anytime soon. No idea his views or policies on illegal migrants being sent to this state. We did have a lot of the Afghans stained on military bases but crickets from Youngkin. We're an all of the above state when it comes to energy so that means the largest off-shore wind turbine farm will be built starting in the next several years - what a shame. But hey, he and his wife are pushing Virginia wines....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 11/14/2022 1:20:45 PM (No. 1333056)
We're good here in KY. The KY House grew to an 80 GOP - 20 DemoRAT supermajority. In the KY Senate it grew by one vote (31 GOP to 7 DemoRAT senators.) Got the best Congressman (Thomas Massie) and a pretty good Senator (Rand Paul.)
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/14/2022 1:28:30 PM (No. 1333064)
#13, we could sure use your republican leadership out here in the Peoples' Republic of Colorado. Our state Republican Committee consists of a gentlemans' club of political imbeciles and our legislature is loaded with a minority of republicans who are afraid of their own shadow. And you want to hear a good joke? Our governor and his husband refuse to live in the governor's mansion preferring their prIvacy in Boulder. And one of our doofus senators, Bennet, just got re-elected.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Luke21 11/14/2022 1:43:00 PM (No. 1333071)
Arizona. I'm going back to raking leaves.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
obdurate 11/14/2022 1:58:35 PM (No. 1333080)
In Louisiana we have Kennedy:-) and Rino Cassidy( he is toast), All congressmen won re-election, one being a libtard (represents New Orleans of course) My rep ran unopposed . All in all in pretty good shape
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Gina 11/14/2022 2:06:08 PM (No. 1333084)
In Indiana both of the Senators are Republican and my representaitve is Republican. I think the Senators are establishment types and would like to see them primaried.
We also have voter ID as the law. We have early voting which I do not like. The Dems really pushed for mail in ballots during the pandemic but our Republican Governor would not allow it. I wish he were more conservative but he usually comes through on the important things having to do with voting.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 11/14/2022 2:18:25 PM (No. 1333093)
I live in Assachusetts, that says it all.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 11/14/2022 2:51:36 PM (No. 1333113)
Dodge Boy: Unfortunately we also have Mitch.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
hershey 11/14/2022 2:57:09 PM (No. 1333124)
You know, obviously, that it's not who votes for who, it's who counts the votes, or manufactures them before voting....was that a Marx or Stalin quote??? I forget...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
smokincol 11/14/2022 3:58:12 PM (No. 1333162)
Massachusetts here ... there is no Republican Party in this state and some of us just elected a lesbian Governor, Boston has a lesbian Mayor and the whole state infrastructure, politically, is replete with other gender types - the state is a disaster, politically
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Sameo-sameo in Louisiana. Of course Louisiana has a sticking political system. Eee-ons of corruption. Legislation brought to the pubbies correcting various problems, girls vs boy sports. They chucked the legislation. Gov. axed it. Many more times the pubblies have assumed dem characteristics. Always voting against the "good." And "we" continue to vote for pubbies, never knowing or investigation the voting in our House and Senate. The pubbies schmooze the electorate. They are otherwise not and never voting for what WE want.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
wildcat1 11/14/2022 10:40:16 PM (No. 1333478)
Kansas here. Our red state re-elected a poor democrat governor, Laura Kelly. She got millions of campaign dollars from outside the state to beat a milk toast Derrick Schmidt. A independent who was a Republican got more than enough votes to get Schmidt elected. Kelly shut down the state almost entirely during the covid scam. Not one word of that during the political ads.
On the bright side, the Kansas Legislature still has a super R majority in the house and senate. Kris Kibach was elected to be the AG and a Democrat was replaced at state treasurer. Gov. Kelly is pretty much neutered from now on. The mediots howled when Kobach was elected, I would rather have him as AG and Kelly ad governor then have him lose and Schmidt as Governor.
In Wichita the voters un-elected Lacey Cruse, a one term left wing county commissioner. The sedwick county commission is now firmly Republican. Wichita has a left wing mayor in Brandon Whipple, but his act has grown thin, I think he will be put out next year.
The state board of education is now 7-2 republican. The voters have had it with some of their woke decisions. On the other hand, the KSHSAA is now recommending that all schools git rid of their Indian mascots. AG Kobach will probably say they they have no authority to force that issue.
Kansas still has one left wing Democrat representative from the KC area. She is a homosexual and an Indian. Johnson (KC area) county used to be reliably Red, now it's gone to the dark side.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
NYbob 11/14/2022 11:52:44 PM (No. 1333524)
The Empire state is under control. Vertical dive, impact any second now.
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