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Let me name some feelings for you. Angry. Sad. Frustrated. Suspicious. Anxious. Afraid. Confused. Miserable. There are so many more, but that’s a start. As we wake up after Election 2023, and contemplate the carnage, it’s important to ask “What happened?”.
First of all, the Republican Party hates us. That’s an easy one. Before they picked Kevin McCarthy for Speaker in January, the rank and file were not pleased. He immediately folded like a cheap accordion. Then Matt Gaetz blew it all up, and admitted he had no plan for what came next. They really want us to vote for them. Hale no.
Next, just like President Donald Trump isn’t going to save us, neither is Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin. Oh, we had high hopes. We had imperious School Boards and ignored parents. Magic would happen if only Youngkin had a Republican State Legislature. Alas and alackaday, ’twas not to be. No. Democrats were enthusiastic to come out and vote for Abortion Rights. Even when abortion is not on the ballot, abortion is on the ballot. It’s called fear-mongering.
The American Civil Liberties Union is pumping a last-minute $1 million into Virginia’s legislative elections to push messaging on abortion.
Abortion has become the primary topic for Democrats this election, as Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) seeks a governing trifecta to put in place a 15-week abortion restriction.
Virginia is the last state in the South without at least a 15-week restriction, and the ACLU, which supports abortion, is spending about $1.25 million through Election Day on advertising such as mailers, volunteer outreach, and digital ads.
You won’t be surprised to learn this media buy was not answered by the GOP. Paging Ronna Romney McDaniel? Additionally, Virginia redistricting made a real uphill battle for Republicans.
Abortion WAS on the ballot in Ohio. And the babies lost. Abortion won overwhelmingly. Victory Girls’ own Carol wrote up this issue today. I encourage you to read her post here. Yes, it is messaging. We also have to be agile and ready to pivot. What do I mean? When the Trump ad came out during the Ohio State-Notre Dame game, the Republicans were caught flat-footed without ANY response. The GOP needs a Rapid Response Team. Paging Ronna Romney McDaniel?
Writing for Fox New, Liz Peek almost gets it perfect when it comes to the Kerfuffle in Kentucky:
Though abortion was not on the ballot in Kentucky, it was one of the themes that dominated the contest for the governor’s mansion, one of this year’s few marquee races. Incumbent Democrat Andy Beshear easily beat Republican Daniel Cameron, the state’s attorney general, campaigning on his handling of the state’s economy and various natural disasters. Beshear also bashed his rival for supporting the state’s harsh abortion ban, which makes no exceptions for victims of rape or incest.
Beshear is a popular centrist governor, whose family is Kentucky political royalty; Beshear’s father was also governor of the state. Cameron would have been the state’s first black governor; he tried – unsuccessfully – to tie Beshear to President Joe Biden.
Beshear was a fund-raising machine, raking in $18.8 million through 115 campaign events, more than three times the amount raised by Cameron; in addition, the incumbent and his challenger attracted substantial outside money. All in, through late October, Beshear won the money race $35 million to $30 million.
Clay Travis had some thoughts on Beshear and Covid:
.@ClayTravis tries to make sense of Kentucky reelecting Andy Beshear — who did everything wrong on covid.
More in the podcast: https://t.co/WvNDsUybBx pic.twitter.com/zg112BDJPm
— The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show (@clayandbuck) November 8, 2023
I traveled through Kentucky a lot during Covid. I had family in Fort Knox at the time. Beshear kept kids out of school. I went to the Kentucky Horse Park and the playgrounds were surrounded by yellow Crime Scene tape. Forget about the restaurants. Beshear was awful. But Covid is way in the rearview mirror. Tornados and several floods, Beshear did very well. That’s what people remember most. Those are immediate and personal. Abortion was not on the ballot, that did not stop the fearmongering about it.
Here is just one of the pro-abortion ads against AG Cameron:
Republicans are bad at fundraising, are not nimble at responses, hate their constituents and don’t support their candidates. That’s why Election 2023 is a flustercuck. We are paging Ronna Romney McDaniel, but before she quits, she needs to call Scott Presler:
Dear @GOPChairwoman,
I know that President Biden has an “army of influencers,” who are dedicated to reaching the youth.
Is there any plan to have an alternative team for the GOP?
I’d also like to make the humble suggestion that you do a Twitter space.
Thank you for listening.
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) April 15, 2023
I don’t want to write this again in 2024.
Featured Image: Hector Alejandro/flickr.com/cropped/Creative Commons
Oh, yes, Ronna needs to be shown the door.
But – as is whined about so MUCH here, in reference to Matt Gaetz – WHAT IS THE PLAN AFTER THAT?!
Unless and until the fraud machine is trimmed back to acceptable levels, NO amount of “outreach” to citizens with a pulse will do one bit of good. WHO do you have in mind that will work to tackle that? Or is the “plan” to put yet another GOPe stalwart in place to clap their hands over their ears and walk through the hallways chanting “La! La! La!”?
John Shepherd says: Rona is Trump’s girl and he backed McCarthy. Trump supporters are clueless about where he stands in part because they like his rhetoric which is not always in sync with his actions. When I pointed out that Maggie Haberman reported that Trump backed Chief Justice Roberts’ abortion compromise I got shouted down by Trump loyalists. It turned out to be right. The alwaystrumpers didn’t know that Trump and Haberman are friends and he often uses her to put out information. Trump wasn’t the specific cause of yesterday’s losses in Ohio and Virginia but the ability to tie his name to the abortion issue even though he far from a radical anti-abortion activists is just another warning that nominating him in 2024 will be be another Republican electoral disaster.
Fraud had nothing to do with yesterday’s outcome. If you keep thinking like Stacy Abrams Republicans will keep losing. It is so much easier to scream fraud when you lose instead of adapting to new circumstances.
Santa’s List says: Suuuuckers !
Dont eat the pablum.
Kevin says: The republican “red waves” of 2022 and 2023 were barely ripples. I have no more of a crystal ball to predict the future or the ability to determine why people voted they way they did without interviewing and collecting data on a large number of voters. Polls are crap. They were crap in 2016 when Hillary was supposed to OVERWHELMINGLY beat the 280 pound Malignant Tumor and they were crap when Biden’s poll numbers are/were in the toilet in 2022 for control of US House of Representatives or in 2023 for a few regional races.
I look at myself as a reason why the polls are crap. I am, according to the poll demographics, an ultra conservative republican. I am offended by being called asking who I’m going to vote for; it’s invasive and none of their business. So, when asked, and I have been in phone polls my view, instead of hanging up, I respond as a MAGA republican.
But, when has not having data and facts ever stopped someone from bloviating their opinion (like Vicious Gals) so here goes … Here are my reasons why republicans have done so poorly when they should have excelled:
1. Given the chaos in the republican party, independents view them as the bat shit crazy party and want a check on their devious plans
2. Religious, conservative, republican voters (aside from the rabid, foam at the mouth, anti-abortion radicals) support a woman’s right to choose because they know women are not going into their OBGYN asking to get an abortion at 260 days into their pregnancy (8 1/2 months) like the radicals are screaming at the top of their lungs
3. The republican party as the United States has known it is dead. It’s been taken over by people who believe lies or who know the lies are lies but just spread them in order to create chaos. Recent day republicans are proven liars and it all emanates from the 280 pound Malignant Tumor and his humiliation and shame of losing an election. So, to overcome his shame and humiliation he threw the entire national in the quagmire of self destruction … Americans attacking, hurting, disregarding, ignoring, disrespecting other Americans because that’s how their leader, the 280 pound Malignant Tumor, treats others. People at their core don’t like conflict. The 280 Malignant Tumor becomes bigger, uglier, crueler because of conflict. He relishes in it.
That’s my assessment. Oh, yeah, and … you’re in a cult; get help before it’s too late (I think it’s already too late).
John Shepherd says: Don’t you have a kill the Jews rally to go to?
Liz says: “Religious, conservative, republican voters (aside from the rabid, foam at the mouth, anti-abortion radicals) support a woman’s right to choose because they know women are not going into their OBGYN asking to get an abortion at 260 days into their pregnancy (8 1/2 months) like the radicals are screaming at the top of their lungs”
That is why legislation just passed to allow abortion at 8 1/2 months. Because it doesn’t happen.
Years ago I would have agreed that doctors should have near carte blanche on medical issues at their discretion.
Then social media happened and we’ve all seen what doctors are willing to do in what they deem to be the best interest of the patient’s “mental health”. It started with plastic surgery, then gender dysphoria…why believe that late term abortion is different when legislation has now been passed that specifically allows it? Yes, no sane person would ask for an elective abortion at 8 1/2 weeks. Need I bring up the percentage of women with diagnosed mental illness today?
Liz says: 8 1/2 months, meant to write up there.
Just to drive the point home, Doctors did this:
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/07/13/11/27469270-8517265-Past_life_Roddy_shot_to_fame_due_to_her_multiple_plastic_surgeri-a-109_1594636236992.jpg
(it’s much worse now, this is an “old” image before gender transition surgery)
370H55V I/me/mine says: Um, did everyone forget already that the GOP won the Louisiana governor race just a few weeks ago? And outright, without a runoff.
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