Not. This. Year.
American Thinker,
by
Robin M. Itzler
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/15/2022 7:35:45 AM
Starting with the organic rise of the Tea Party in 2008, a slate of enthusiastic patriots announced their candidacy for public office. The goal was to stop President Barack Obama’s leftward tilt while also changing the elitist GOP agenda, which too often seemed “uni-party.”
Fast forward to Donald Trump’s historic 2016 White House win. “America First” MAGA candidates threw their hats into various campaign rings—city councils, state legislatures, and Congress. Yet, no matter how hard many Tea Party and MAGA candidates worked, most could not compete with GOP coffers that easily paid for radio spots, television ads, colorful billboards, and glossy flyers that promoted the same Establishment candidates
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 7/15/2022 8:13:46 AM (No. 1216900)
We seated the 'repeal and replace' traitors in the seats of power and they immediately turned their backs on their constituents and commenced money grubbing at the trough. The disgust by the voters gave us what we have now.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 7/15/2022 8:40:38 AM (No. 1216927)
No. Not. This. Year. Great, great headline. Until the democrats, deep state and Chinese steal this election as well.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/15/2022 8:41:09 AM (No. 1216928)
The article contains reasonable tactical advice, but it triggered me onto a tangential path.
In 2008 they called us the “Tea party.” In 2016 we became MAGA. Both labels contain a level of accuracy, but both are deflections from what’s really going on. We are the Americans who continue to reflect the values of our founding and we dominated the political landscape ever since, until recently. We had our differences and worked them out as both Democrats and Republicans. They try to define us as though we are some new emergent political entity when in fact we are and have always been the backbone of the nation that advanced the human condition for all, well beyond any other place in any other time. And despite doing some of the same bad things every nation to ever exist on earth have done, we did far less and were also far more benevolent to others despite unprecedented power.
The Tea party didn’t spring up out of nowhere and fade away; the only thing that faded away was their labeling of us. MAGA didn’t spring from Donald Trump, just the new label did. They’d love nothing better than to think of us as some fad that will go away as soon as Trump goes away. The democrats and most republicans have been completely corrupted and lost their way, not us.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Fitzroy 7/15/2022 8:49:13 AM (No. 1216933)
This is the strategy that lost us two senate seats in Georgia and handed the senate to the dems, resulting in a destroyed economy and a radical Supreme Court justice. Refusing to vote is a vote for the other side.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 7/15/2022 9:08:30 AM (No. 1216955)
I'm guessing that a write-in campaign would not be successful for Rath, but electing Young Kim and immediately recalling her would be ideal and send a strong message to these power-loving, money-grubbing politicians.
5 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
red1066 7/15/2022 9:09:00 AM (No. 1216956)
Trump didn't have nearly as much money to spend as Hitlery, and that didn't seem to make a difference in the 2016 election. Why now? A lousy candidate can have all the money they want to spend on a campaign, but they are still a lousy candidate. Cheney is getting all kinds of money from leftists to spend in Wyoming, but that money isn't going to buy enough votes for her to win.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
downnout 7/15/2022 9:59:48 AM (No. 1217010)
I made it very clear to the the NRSC and their brethren that I would only donate to individuals. Thankfully, someone took my name off the “Help! We need your …..” mailing list. Now if I could just stop the incessant phone calls…
6 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 7/15/2022 10:31:00 AM (No. 1217031)
#7: This is what we do in our home. We do not answer the phone unless the caller ID is something or someone we know. Let it ring until the answering machine picks up. If someone starts to leave a message and you want the call then answer it. If you have the ability to recognize spam block the number. Most of my neighbors do the same. Also if your cell phone has the ability to send anyone calling that is not on your contact list straight to voice mail then turn it on.
Even after doing all that I still can’t take a nice little nap because of the phone ringing. Geese, I am now getting political texts. How the -ell did they even get my number unless my provider is selling lists to them.
One last point: we are older and more conservative than most others. We and others in our age group are doing the same thing. So, when you see the polls we are not counted because we don’t answer the phone. One reason the polls aren’t worth squat. If they are showing the Pubbies in the lead, the lead is much larger than what they say. The scary part of this is we know there are more of us and a much higher percentage of us will go to the pole and vote. The only way they can win is to cheat. And trust this, they are very good at cheating. They have been doing it since the beginning of time. Amen
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MDConservative 7/15/2022 11:00:28 AM (No. 1217071)
Not. Any. Year.
Democrat, Republican...it's UNIPARTY. if you aren't clearly part of the cabal, able to be "bought" and become a made soldier, you're toast. Rush said it best. Politics is indeed show business for ugly people. It brings celebrity and can bring riches. And like show biz, people fall in love with "stars". Nothing can shake their attachment, not scandal or even betrayal. There must always be a "reason" for this, one rationalizes. Blackmail, coercion, threats against family members...
The sad fact is the game is rigged, and I'm not talking about the '20 election. Until you've run for office, you don't know what goes on. There are advantages to being an incumbent with a record of followership, no matter anything else. Politics don't work as your civics book says. Folks need to wise up.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Italiano 7/15/2022 11:33:37 AM (No. 1217106)
Ditto, #9. You may not like it, but there it is.
They erased Trump’s accomplishments in one year, and proceeded to destroy America without opposition. If he runs again in 2024 and wins, they’ll just have to wait him out a little longer.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
FJB 7/15/2022 12:52:22 PM (No. 1217194)
Forget the year. Dems see what Biden has done, but they do not care. Our republic's economic, social, and moral collapse has nothing to do with Biden's dotage, his many perversions, or his family's traitorous financial dealings with the Chinese. It's a self-inflicted wound that began on Day One of his stolen presidency. It has been deliberate, purposeful, and intentional, managed by the America-hating Barry Butt-Boy Obama and other Godless Marxists masquerading as a political party with no intention of ever ceding power.
Nope. Taking back America will require a revolution waged by armed patriots.
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