OPINION: Political Changes in the Air

Sub­mit­ted by George McClel­lan

The fear of hoards of MAGA folk sweep­ing out of the dark­ness to pre­vent Democ­rats from retain­ing their right­ful place in charge of our gov­ern­ment, the vaunt­ed Red Tide, did­nt hap­pen. Even the Democ­rats feared with absolute cer­tain­ty, that they would be swept off the play­ing field. The GOP approach to this elec­tion was on the basis of how awful Biden was with­out telling us what the GOP would do to reverse Joes destruc­tive poli­cies and stop Amer­i­c­as slide into Social­ism. We have a lead­er­ship prob­lem up there.

The blame game has start­ed. Every­body is at fault but nobody will take respon­si­bil­i­ty for the dis­ap­point­ing elec­tion results that saw the GOP just bare­ly hang­ing on as a polit­i­cal par­ty let alone take the House. The knives are already out for Kevin McCarthy as the new speak­er of the House. The Free­dom Cau­cus har­bors deep sus­pi­cions about McCarthy, fold­ing like the dis­ap­point­ing Paul Ryan did in Trump’s first two years, and who will do any­thing he can to blunt Trump’s efforts at a sec­ond term. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Andy Big­gs of Ari­zona has decid­ed to chal­lenge McCarthy. Win or lose, there will be hell to pay. Sen­a­tor Ted Cruz (R‑Tx) like­wise fired his can­nons across Mitch McConnells bow that will leave sen­a­to­r­i­al Repub­li­cans in a state of shock won­der­ing if they should con­tin­ue with McConnells lead­er­ship or look to some­one else. Deci­sions, deci­sions. The day of the RiNOs may be com­ing to an end.

Trump is expect­ed to declare his pres­i­den­tial can­di­da­cy for 2024 stir­ring up the hor­nets nest of Nev­er Trumpers in the Deep State GOP estab­lish­ment who yearn hope­ful­ly for a return of the once accept­able nor­mal­i­ty of the mod­er­ate Bush­es. Repub­li­can media pun­dits like Karl Rove, push hard to main­tain the illu­sion that the GOP can only advance by not aban­don­ing the polit­i­cal phi­los­o­phy that once kept gov­ern­ment run­ning, ie: go along to get along with the polit­i­cal par­ty of the Marx­ists.

Despite the absolute incom­pe­tence of Demo­c­rat gov­er­nance, mean­ing Bidens for­eign and domes­tic pol­i­cy mess­es leav­ing us on the brink of a nuclear con­fla­gra­tion, unable to heat our homes this win­ter or dri­ve to work even if we had a job to go to, the pur­pose­ful­ly open bor­der allow­ing mil­lions of ille­gal poten­tial vot­ers into our midst, fail­ing to address the grow­ing dead­ly crime men­ace on our streets, includ­ing the ear­ly release of felons and offer­ing up their weird can­di­dates like Fet­ter­man and Biden him­self for that mat­ter, as just two exam­ples of Demo­c­rat nut­ti­ness, and we still did­nt beat em, sug­gests two pos­si­bil­i­ties, the GOP lead­er­ship was delib­er­ate­ly shun­ning all MAGA can­di­dates and/or, the pur­suit of the New World Order ranks so high on the list of future needs as to direct­ly keep the Trump out of a future gov­ern­ment if even for four more years.

There are solu­tions that the GOP Con­gress can pur­sue even if Biden vetos them: End ger­ry­man­der­ing allow­ing com­mu­ni­ties to avoid being labeled forc­ing can­di­dates to address the com­mu­ni­ty more as hope­ful vot­ers than ene­mies because of par­ty affil­i­a­tions. On that point I encour­age elim­i­nat­ing open pri­maries that allow cross over Democ­rats to select weak Repub­li­can can­di­dates of their choos­ing who can be eas­i­ly beat­en in Gen­er­al elec­tions. Too, Gen­er­al Elec­tion bal­lots should no longer list can­di­dates par­ty affil­i­a­tion requir­ing can­di­date to run their cam­paigns not as pro par­ty but as pro cit­i­zen with the best needs of Amer­i­ca in mind. Except for Absen­tee Bal­lots request­ed not sent, bal­lot box­es should be pro­hib­it­ed save with­in the con­fines of a coun­ty court house where obser­vant Court Deputies could pre­vent bal­lot stuff­ing. A Con­ven­tion of States is in the off­ing to amend the Con­sti­tu­tion to pro­vide term lim­its, bal­anced bud­gets, line item vetoes, and pro­hib­it unfet­tered inter­fer­ence by lob­by­ist, etc. The dan­ger there lies in the Democ­rats skill­ful abil­i­ty to seize the pro­ceed­ings and elim­i­nate the first and sec­ond Amend­ments that allow Amer­i­cans to defend their lib­er­ty and the safe­ty of their fam­i­lies. How about defend­ing our Amer­i­ca too? Amer­i­ca can­not be allowed to become a social­ist state sim­ply because Democ­rats think its best for us. Its time for a change again.

Remem­ber, free­dom is the goal, the Con­sti­tu­tion is the way. Now, go get em! (15Nov22)