I’m not suggesting anything nefarious in Arizona, but I am wondering this: Why is it that nearly every time—if not ALL of the time— “found” votes are counted in a close election, it’s the Democrat who emerges the “victor?”

Well, it happened again last evening in Arizona (twice, in fact, and trending toward a third: the crucial secretary of state’s office currently held by a Republican) where soon-to-be former Congresswoman Martha McSally was trying to fill the seat being vacated by Jeff Flake. She failed. The race was called last night for the woman who referred to our activity-duty military as “terrorists,” thinks joining the Taliban is just fine, and believes stay-at-home moms are leaches.

Yes, the Stepford Wife who parades herself around the state pretending she’s a moderate will become Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) next year. And she’s the first Democrat to be elected in a statewide race in Arizona since 1988. Cue the frothing liberal media:

Kyrsten Sinema :

1-First Dem to win in #AZSen since 1988
2-Youngest Woman Senator
3-Second LGBT Senator
4-Completed Ironman Triathlon, climbed Kilimanjaro
5-Was Green Party turned to Democrat
6-Humble roots: Family lived in remodeled gas station when her father lost his job

— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) November 13, 2018

Pardon me while I gag. This is her resume? Over that of a woman who served her country as the first female combat fighter pilot? Oh, and number six is likely bunk, lady. But if we repeat it enough times…

In a red state Democrat Kyrsten Sinema has defeated Republican Martha McSally? I demand a recount. Then a hand recount. Then find ballots in basements. Then provisional ballots. Then recount again until we win. Thems the rules correct?

— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) November 13, 2018

Maybe McSally could unearth some votes over in Broward County, Florida…

The good news—if there is any—is that she’ll be in the minority in the U.S. Senate. Yes, she’ll be a good little “resister,” and likely do whatever Chuck Schumer tells her to do (and, I suspect, willingly), lest she be relegated to the proverbial back of the bus. But she’ll be in the minority nonetheless—as will half the voters in Arizona now—where she can’t do too much damage, other than to continue the Democrats’ obstruction on quelling the utter invasion occurring at our southern border. Heck, maybe she’ll head on down there in her feather boa and pink kitty hat pearls and lace and hand out pre-filled voter registration cards.

https://twitter.com/SamGrady3000/status/1062163394818699264

She’s a class act. And the superior candidate. But…

…really? So our military are no longer “terrorists,” Kyrsten?

Sigh.

It’s poetic justice, perhaps, that Jeff Flake, who’s been a thorn in the side of this president since before the 2016 election, will be replaced by a pink-tutued version of himself. Where a Senator McSally would have been an ally to President Trump and his America-first agenda, I predict Senator Sinema will continue Flake’s pain-in-the-assery for the foreseeable future.

And it makes me sad.

I lived in Arizona for years, about 90 miles from Phoenix. It was a respite from California, the state of my birth, which I fled in my late twenties. But its demographics look to be changing; I saw it happening way back before 2000 when my family left for employment near the People’s Republic of Portland, Oregon. So it’s no surprise to me, really, that Arizona’s congressional map now looks like this:

Arizona congressional map post-2018 midterms (Photo Credit: Screenshot New York Times)

Yet how do changing demographics explain the wide disparity between the Arizona governor’s race and the senate race? How does the state overwhelmingly re-elect its Republican governor, yet replace its Republican (sort of) senator with this trainwreck?

It breaks my heart. The West, once wild and free and inviting to those of us who value freedom, is quickly being consumed by liberalism (aka: totalitarianism these days), whether by transplant, or by the liberalism that dominates education just about everywhere, or by the influx of brand new Undocumented Democrats who have no allegiance to our country.

And it could happen again. And soon. Why? Because Republican Jon Kyl, appointed by Governor Doug Ducey to fill the seat left vacant by John McCain’s death, may only serve until the end of the 115th Congress, which ends on January 3, 2019. The question is: should he decide to retire before the special election to replace John McCain, who would fill the seat now held by Kyle? While the seat is safe until then, the possibilities are disconcerting for the eventual special election. And something tells me the Democrats will find themselves another Kyrsten Sinema-slash-Beto O’Rourke of the West, a shiny, grinning, skateboarding progressive (that’s a fancy word for “communist”) who’ll say all the right things to all the right people. So the Republicans had best recruit themselves someone who can compete with that, because another loss could spell disaster for Arizona. And for the country at large.

So you’d best get your house in order, GOP, because while I hate to admit it, Karl Rove is right.

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