The Runback: The Obvious Problem
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The Runback: The Obvious Problem
Want to know why Republicans can't win? The answer is obvious
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News and Politics
F***ing Madness: What Florida's CFO proposes is a dangerous legal precedent lacking in logic, facts, and reasoning.
Higher Tolls Are Coming: Democrats have made it clear that they are going to go through herculean efforts to raise taxes, fees, and tolls in the 2024 Legislative Session.
Kirwan Commission May Require Defunding Schools in the Name of "Equity": In testimony before the Anne Arundel County Board of Education last week, an Anne Arundel County Public Schools official acknowledged that some schools may be required to lose funding to meet Kirwan Commission goals.
The Dog That Caught The Car: The Pro-Life movement was never ready for Roe to be overturned and it shows
The Running Man: Joe Manchin is not running for re-election But he's running for something....
The Monday Thought
There has been much sturm und drang recently about the issue of abortion as it relates to the future of the Republican Party.
"Surrender to the left to defeat the left" is the galaxy brained thinking that got this country in this mess to start with. It also relates back what I wrote back in August about the bleak future of the GOP.
The reason why so many “National Conservatives” are so ambivalant to the issue of abortion has everything to do with Donald Trump, a pro-abortion liberal who absconded with the Republican Party. And voters, who see Trump as the kind of “do as I say, not as I do” libertine that everybody loves to hate, are tired of the charade.
The issue killing Republicans isn’t abortion. It’s Trump.
How bad are things for the Republican Party right now? This bad.
Trump can only eek out 35% of the vote in a hypothetical three-way race involving himself, a liberal Democratic incumbent, and a cuckoo-for-Cocoa Puffs leftist who happens to be a conspiracy theorist.
The election is ripe for the taking for a sane Republican, and yet Donald Trump remains the Republican frontrunner.
As I wrote in August:
This is what the future of the Republican Party looks like unless something changes quickly. It’s more memes, more pussyfooting with fascism, and more party leaders who eschew conservative values for Trump’s big-government, statist “National Conservative.” And more election losses will follow.
