OPINION: Candidate Quality Counts

Sub­mit­ted by George McClel­lan

Its all over but the shout­ing. At first glance the pre­dict­ed Red Tidal Wave has become a trick­le, a trump dream (pun intend­ed) about return­ing Amer­i­ca to its Con­sti­tu­tion­al roots. Indeed Don­ald Trump’s pub­lic hes­i­ta­tion about his own future elec­tion prospects and his anoint­ed can­di­dates not shin­ing as expect­ed, sug­gests a GOP pres­i­den­tial pri­ma­ry fight in 2024 of epic pro­por­tions. The next Pres­i­dent will be a Repub­li­can but who? Flori­da Gov­er­nor Ron DeSan­tis swept his chal­lenger, for­mer Repub­li­can, turned Inde­pen­dent, turned Demo­c­rat Char­lie Crist, away. Crist, a Con­gress­man, even lost his House seat to a Repub­li­can.

Con­ser­v­a­tive vic­to­ries come in small, often painful dabs but the big les­son here is that qual­i­ty can­di­dates count refer­ring to can­di­dates put forth by the GOP for these impor­tant seats. Geor­gia’s sen­a­to­r­i­al race is a case in point. We all love Her­shel Walk­er but would we have put him up against a white pro­gres­sive incum­bent, instead of the Rev. Warnock? Prob­a­bly not! Heis­man tro­phies are not indica­tive of pos­sess­ing the polit­i­cal skills need­ed to rep­re­sent Geor­gia’s elec­torate. Gov­er­nor DeSan­tis how­ev­er, has unequiv­o­cal­ly shown us how to gov­ern suc­cess­ful­ly. He has set the para­me­ters for bull­dog con­ser­v­a­tive polit­i­cal lead­er­ship. Future GOP con­tenders take note. RiNOs take note. The GOP does­nt always have to be losers.

Remain­ing incom­ing elec­tion results might sug­gest enough Amer­i­cans would embrace social­ism as Amer­i­ca’s future so as to ensure diver­si­ty, equi­ty and inclu­sive­ness for all, but maybe it real­ly sug­gest peo­ple are get­ting sick and tired of politi­cians of both par­ties. Elec­tion vic­to­ries at the grass­roots lev­el may be just slim enough for the GOP to bare­ly switch the House Red dis­pos­ing of the odi­ous Nan­cy Pelosi. Even the Sen­ate, at days end, might become GOPs by a seat or two but its not a man­date by any means. A con­tin­ued Demo­c­rat major­i­ty in Con­gress will insure con­tin­ued polit­i­cal con­fu­sion, attacks against con­ser­v­a­tives and equal pover­ty for all. We dis­cern a des­per­ate need for restruc­tur­ing our sys­tem of high­er edu­ca­tion remov­ing it from Fed­er­al influ­ences. Uni­ver­si­ties are turn­ing out dimwit vot­ers for Pro­gres­sives vot­er suc­cess. Anoth­er pos­si­ble rea­son for our dis­mal show­ing is that many of these 2022 elec­tions dis­ap­point­ments is because con­ser­v­a­tive vot­ers have fled Blue states to Red ones.

This 2022 elec­tion will be scru­ti­nized in detail because Democ­rats, whose past suc­cess­ful record of manip­u­lat­ing vot­ing polls, bal­lot stuff­ing and can­vass­ing grave­yards for vot­ers, hav­ing proved them right, see no rea­son to stop. East­ern polls closed first and the report that an incom­pe­tent nean­derthal look­ing tat­tooed Demo­c­rat sen­a­to­r­i­al can­di­date who recent­ly suf­fered a stroke, win­ning over a suc­cess­ful Repub­li­can TV per­son­al­i­ty and med­ical doc­tor, stag­gers the imag­i­na­tion. It also sug­gests Democ­rats still con­trol the machin­ery of elec­tions in Penn­syl­va­nia but, they have to, its in their nature to lie, cheat and steal to retain pow­er ignor­ing qual­i­ty. But, vot­ers when inter­viewed exit­ing the polls about vot­ing their pref­er­ences indi­cat­ed that abor­tion was their main dri­ving issue for elect­ing Fet­ter­man. Can we believe them? Actu­al­ly, abor­tion ranks very low on all oth­er lists of whats impor­tant.

Unde­cid­ed races like Ari­zon­a’s, espe­cial­ly the over pop­u­lat­ed Mari­co­pa Coun­ty where the Democ­rats old trick of inci­den­tal machine fail­ures has delayed the vote count, giv­ing time for Democ­rats to find oth­er uncount­ed bal­lots in some poll work­ers car trunk and claim­ing racism if they are not count­ed, is a stan­dard ploy. Some­thing is wrong when Ari­zonas Sec­re­tary of State who con­trols elec­tions, is the Demo­c­rat Can­di­date for Gov­er­nor, and a hope­less can­di­date to boot, may actu­al­ly win. Thats pend­ing get­ting the machines fixed.

Incum­bent gov­er­nors kept their seats. Against all com­mon sense it appears Gretchen Whit­mer eas­i­ly kept her gov­er­nor­ship and vot­ers polled after they cast their votes also cit­ed abor­tion as the rea­son she remains in office. New York Demo­c­rat gov­er­nor Hochul inex­plic­a­bly, eas­i­ly defeat­ed the Repub­li­can chal­lenger while oth­er NY state office hold­er con­tests turned Red. Can­di­date Qual­i­ty mat­ters. The bright spot remains Flori­da.

How has for­mer Pres­i­dent Trump’s delayed announce­ment about his future can­di­da­cy affect the elec­tion? Prob­a­bly adverse­ly. He has amassed a $122million dol­lar war chest and did­nt use it. He did insult Gov­er­nor DeSan­tis off hand­ed­ly, and his can­di­date rec­om­men­da­tions did­nt sweep the goals as expect­ed. Has The Don­ald lost his lus­ter and, will he now in fact, recon­sid­er a third run for Pres­i­dent? He should if only to keep the Democ­rats in con­stant agi­ta­tion and work to destroy the Social­ists in our gov­ern­ment. Stand By!

Repub­li­cans, hav­ing failed to sweep the nation­al elec­tions, reveals two pos­si­ble future out­comes. Peo­ple are get­ting sick and tired of both lack­lus­ter par­ties. Inevitably, a future social­ist Amer­i­ca will be head­ed for a per­ma­nent rearrange­ment of polit­i­cal pri­or­i­ties that ignore the Con­sti­tu­tion. Deep Staters, includ­ing RiNOs, will con­tin­ue work­ing hard to main­tain the odi­ous appa­ra­tus of cor­rup­tion so care­ful­ly con­struct­ed over the decades. Elec­tion deniers will become ene­mies of the state, face arrests, tri­al and impris­on­ment and the FBI will not be cleansed. Instead, its mis­sion will be solid­i­fied as the Democ­rats office of polit­i­cal com­pli­ance. The sec­ond out­come is the con­tin­u­ance of polit­i­cal vio­lence from the Lefts sup­port­ers. The Democ­rats want it so they can push con­ser­v­a­tives to the point that just to sur­vive they will have to fight back. In short, a civ­il war of sorts.

If the GOP does bare­ly end up con­trol­ling the House under Speak­er McCarthy, under the cir­cum­stances, dont expect a quick purge of crim­i­nals in the deep state, nor a rearrange­ment of the FBIs mis­sion or a reduc­tion in the size of a bur­geon­ing Fed­er­al Bureau­cra­cy. Too, if the House does become the GOPs on that very slim mar­gin we might expect some seri­ous chal­lenges to Speak­er McCarthys lead­er­ship. Its qual­i­ty that counts.

Remem­ber, free­dom is the goal, the Con­sti­tu­tion is the way. Now, go get em! (09Nov22)