Someone passed me an article from the American Thinker, written by Geoffrey Hunt. Let’s just say I’m non-plussed.
Stubborn Trump supporters, especially the most fervent, seem unwilling to challenge the deedless covenant, ask the hard questions that if answered truthfully would confirm that Donald Trump has been a supreme letdown, and his failures — including the re-election debacle — self-inflicted.
Promises made, promises kept? Not when it mattered.
Hunt then goes on the list what he calls a number of Trump failures, inconvenient truths.
Hunt has some inconvenient truths that he needs to face, himself.. I’ve noted his establishment GOP tendencies in the past and they’re showing themselves again in this piece.
The problems we face today are not going to be solved by another establishment critter in the mold of a McCain, a Romney, a Bush, or a McConnel. The real inconvenient truth for Hunt and the anti-Trump establishment types is that they are as responsible as the moronic Democrats are for the problems we face today, and have a history of being the biggest roadblock to the Trump agenda, and are in fact a large part of the reason behind a lot of the failures Hunt lists.
Take Hunt’s comments about “easily overturned executive orders’. That those orders were exactly correct, is proven by their effectiveness while in place. But now, think; Does anyone truly believe that a legislative version of those orders would have made it past both houses of a Democrat run Congress? Or, for that matter, a Congress run by McConnell and Bohner?
I wrote this back in 2014 it still holds true today…
Some advise to the GOP leadership.
If you want to win elections, your strategy should not include what the Karl Roves of the world are telling you. I like Karl and respect him. But facts are facts. Such advice has lost you the last two elections, both of which should have been cake walks.
To win, ponder these points.
1. The number of people not voting is going up year over year. Its to the point now where the vast majority of Americans simply do not vote at all. Polling data tell us that the majority of Americans come down to the right of anything that either party has puked up since Reagan. That situation has become more pronounced over the last 6 years or so. So….Forget chasing the mythical political center. It doesn’t exist. Instead, go after those not voting. Give them someone to vote for.
2. Don’t let your opponents pick your candidate. Democrats, every year, give advice on who they would like to see running for President from the GOP. Such advice invariably gets played loud and often on the lapdog media. But I wonder a bit… Has it occurred to anyone in our erstwhile GOP leadership that they’re picking people that will be the easiest to beat, or at least, cause the least damage to the leftist mantra should such candidate by some miracle actually win? We let them pick the top of our ticket with Dole, McCain, Romney. The last time we didn’t take the left’s advice was in 1979/80. Do the math.
(Consider, too, that the GOP leadership of the time wasn’t too happy about Reagan running. I know. I was there in 1976. I saw it. How’d their pick work out that year?)
3. You have to nominate a TRUE conservative to win the Presidential election. If you are going to claim being the small governmentt party, you’d better actually BE that party. IE.. if you’re going to castigate the Democrat for his big government healthcare fiasco, you might want to make sure the guy at the top of your ticket didn’t write the majority of the bloody thing. Democrat lite ain’t gonna cut it, gang.
4. Don’t listen to the lamestream media lapdogs when the try to tell you why you lost. Same reasoning as number one. A look at our elections history, who has lost and who has won big, exposes their lies as such.
5. The conservative agenda needs to be properly explained and sold to minorities and single women. It does not need to be altered to make it valid to such people. It already IS valid. It needs to be pointed up what a disaster the left and its policies has been to minorities… what moving away from small government conservatism has done to them, and is still doing to them. As Charles Barclay says, poor people and minorities have been voting Democrat for generations… they’re still poor.
The way things stack up at the moment, we have two possible contenders for the GOP nomination. Trump, and DeSantis. To my mind, DeSantis has yet to demonstrate that he is not a establishment critter. We aren’t going to get the country back, by going with Democrat lite.
Regardless of the approval of Mr Hunt, that leaves us but one choice.
