Prediction: Eight years from now Ann will explain to us why DeSantis is responsible for Republican losses at the polls in the midterms following his single-term presidency. Of course that assumes Ds are charitable enough to let the GOP hold the office.
It still won't have anything to do with the way elections are run, i.e. fraud.
You retards really need to stop with the "every election we lose is rigged" crap. Evidently Democrats "let" every other Republican win Georgia statewide. They "let" multiple non Trump-endorsed Republicans win statewide in Arizona. They "let" Ron DeSantis win by 20 points and flip Miami-Dade. They also "let" Republicans hold onto every house seat in 2020 and pick up 14 more. But you probably think that's 5D chess something.
There's a difference between moron Always-Trumpers and people with principles like Ann: If Ron DeSantis betrays his base, doesn't build a wall, releases thousands of criminals, and lets celebrities and his family run the White House for four years, then yes Ann actually will call him out for screwing his voters and other Republican candidates. Only idiots and grifters would continue to defend politicians that prove to be complete failures like Trump.
"They "let" multiple non Trump-endorsed Republicans win statewide in Arizona"
This is a question, not a criticism or snotty reply. What good are those State wide wins if the Governor race was lost, whether you believe honestly lost or lost because of chicanery?
"They "let" Ron DeSantis win by 20 points and flip Miami-Dade. "
As I understand it, Florida did much to clean up its voter rolls, so much so that the results were known the night of the election.
"Only idiots and grifters would continue to defend politicians that prove to be complete failures like Trump."
Who among the current GOP -- or who might come out of the blue like Trump did -- has a chance to win the Presidency in 2024?
Ann used to argue -- credibly, given the information available at the time -- that illegal third world (65 Kennedy Act) immigration was the biggest issue facing the nation; change the electorate, change the nation.
It can be argued that at present, electoral reform is the biggest issue facing the nation. As near as this Canadian can tell, the Presidency comes down to a few districts within a few States, and all that is necessary to win is to have ballots that can't be scanned, pens that can't be read by scanners, water main breaks, early voting, ballot harvesting, late voting, and even a SoS to warn the people in charge of certifying HER election will result in them going to jail.
I don't know how ANY Republican candidate can overcome that.
You can, as Hillary argued, have the best candidate with the best policies and still have the election stolen from you (though in her case it was stolen because they didn't cheat enough, they didn't think Trump would actually get enough votes).
I agree with Ann on every one of her criticisms of Trump failed term, no action on the wall, or remittances, or carried interest, as well as handing the reins to Jared. But at the same time, something smells fishy when he gets 11 million more votes the second time around and still loses to someone who couldn't fill a high school gym (in the same way Minnesota congressman Jason Lewis got more votes than any GOP candidate in Minnesota and just managed to squeak in a loss, just like Norm Coleman).
Maybe, hopefully, Twitter will in fact be opened up to the extent that conservative ideas are not black-holed, and maybe there will be electoral reform so that people can at the very least trust that elections are honest.
I want DeSantis to win because like Trump he will do a left turn once in office and spend all his time pandering to racial minorities and Democrats. We'll all be asking what happened to the DeSantis who governed Florida so well. So Ann can promote DeSantis all she wants but we get screwed EVERY SINGLE TIME no matter who we elect.
Thank you for your perspective Ann as well as your astute observations of celebrity, career politicians and “politicking”. Message received. In the spirit of debate only, one of the reasons Mr. Trump did get some important things done while in office was because he did not waste time. Instead of the long and drawn out “affairs” imposed upon all of us now and prior to his holding office, we are now back to being drawn into these lack-of-solid-reasoning-for-these-never-ending-affairs matters. Cannot/will not accept this path and will go “kicking and screaming” away from the madness. Thank you again for providing this important forum where a person(s) can be allowed to think for self/selves!
Ann, I agree but Hershel Walker easily won the Georgia primary against five legitimate candidates. Walker may have been endorsed by former President Trump but that doesn't mean that Georgian Republicans had to vote for him.
I think it's safe to say that had Trump stayed out of Georgia's Senate race entirely a "normal" Republican probably would have unseated Warnock. That Walker underperformed both Kemp and Raffensberger by several hundred thousand votes was not good. Trump's name does not confer any advantages in the state of Georgia.
But Ann puts too much blame on Trump. The Democrats have gotten more radical and organized since 2016 and as he was leaving office Obama, with the help of others, vowed to put a lot of effort into Congressional races. So with pro-Democrat/anti-Republican algorithms of Big Tech, massive sums of money from Soros and other far left wing billionaires, suing to have early voting and mail in voting and fighting and reversing Republican redistricting the Democrats are now winning more than losing.
If the Republicans don't adapt and come up with a plan they will lose in 2024 and eventually lose control of Congress forever with the rapid demographic changes.
Georgia's GOP shares blame for Walker's loss as well. If they bothered to repeal early voting by mail and returned to the old fashioned same day paper ballot voting, Hershel Walker would be senator today.
The Dems keep stirring the "Trump pot" for the sole purpose of angering and ginning-up his base...they (the Dems) know that Trump is a dead horse and yesterday's news but they need him as their foil. At least DeSantis is intelligent enough not to be distracted by such obvious bait.
What would Trump do to an executive that repeatedly failed at their responsibilities..."You're Fired".
Let's wish Trump well; move forward and focus on: the very important battle for the House leadership; finding and thoroughly vetting a 2024 ticket that will only surpass their promises and not forget the very important local elections in 2023...the stupidity that creates useful idiots starts at the elementary school level as a result of wild-eyed liberal ideologues on local boards of education.
Prediction: Eight years from now Ann will explain to us why DeSantis is responsible for Republican losses at the polls in the midterms following his single-term presidency. Of course that assumes Ds are charitable enough to let the GOP hold the office.
It still won't have anything to do with the way elections are run, i.e. fraud.
You retards really need to stop with the "every election we lose is rigged" crap. Evidently Democrats "let" every other Republican win Georgia statewide. They "let" multiple non Trump-endorsed Republicans win statewide in Arizona. They "let" Ron DeSantis win by 20 points and flip Miami-Dade. They also "let" Republicans hold onto every house seat in 2020 and pick up 14 more. But you probably think that's 5D chess something.
There's a difference between moron Always-Trumpers and people with principles like Ann: If Ron DeSantis betrays his base, doesn't build a wall, releases thousands of criminals, and lets celebrities and his family run the White House for four years, then yes Ann actually will call him out for screwing his voters and other Republican candidates. Only idiots and grifters would continue to defend politicians that prove to be complete failures like Trump.
"They "let" multiple non Trump-endorsed Republicans win statewide in Arizona"
This is a question, not a criticism or snotty reply. What good are those State wide wins if the Governor race was lost, whether you believe honestly lost or lost because of chicanery?
"They "let" Ron DeSantis win by 20 points and flip Miami-Dade. "
As I understand it, Florida did much to clean up its voter rolls, so much so that the results were known the night of the election.
"Only idiots and grifters would continue to defend politicians that prove to be complete failures like Trump."
Who among the current GOP -- or who might come out of the blue like Trump did -- has a chance to win the Presidency in 2024?
Ann used to argue -- credibly, given the information available at the time -- that illegal third world (65 Kennedy Act) immigration was the biggest issue facing the nation; change the electorate, change the nation.
It can be argued that at present, electoral reform is the biggest issue facing the nation. As near as this Canadian can tell, the Presidency comes down to a few districts within a few States, and all that is necessary to win is to have ballots that can't be scanned, pens that can't be read by scanners, water main breaks, early voting, ballot harvesting, late voting, and even a SoS to warn the people in charge of certifying HER election will result in them going to jail.
I don't know how ANY Republican candidate can overcome that.
You can, as Hillary argued, have the best candidate with the best policies and still have the election stolen from you (though in her case it was stolen because they didn't cheat enough, they didn't think Trump would actually get enough votes).
I agree with Ann on every one of her criticisms of Trump failed term, no action on the wall, or remittances, or carried interest, as well as handing the reins to Jared. But at the same time, something smells fishy when he gets 11 million more votes the second time around and still loses to someone who couldn't fill a high school gym (in the same way Minnesota congressman Jason Lewis got more votes than any GOP candidate in Minnesota and just managed to squeak in a loss, just like Norm Coleman).
Maybe, hopefully, Twitter will in fact be opened up to the extent that conservative ideas are not black-holed, and maybe there will be electoral reform so that people can at the very least trust that elections are honest.
I want DeSantis to win because like Trump he will do a left turn once in office and spend all his time pandering to racial minorities and Democrats. We'll all be asking what happened to the DeSantis who governed Florida so well. So Ann can promote DeSantis all she wants but we get screwed EVERY SINGLE TIME no matter who we elect.
Yes yes yes
Perfectly said.
Thank you for your perspective Ann as well as your astute observations of celebrity, career politicians and “politicking”. Message received. In the spirit of debate only, one of the reasons Mr. Trump did get some important things done while in office was because he did not waste time. Instead of the long and drawn out “affairs” imposed upon all of us now and prior to his holding office, we are now back to being drawn into these lack-of-solid-reasoning-for-these-never-ending-affairs matters. Cannot/will not accept this path and will go “kicking and screaming” away from the madness. Thank you again for providing this important forum where a person(s) can be allowed to think for self/selves!
For a more persuasive analysis, see: https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/07/3-unsexy-reasons-warnock-beat-walker-in-the-georgia-runoff/
It was stupid to nominate Hershel Walker in deep southern state where thousands of elderly white voters would never vote for a Black guy.
Ann, I agree but Hershel Walker easily won the Georgia primary against five legitimate candidates. Walker may have been endorsed by former President Trump but that doesn't mean that Georgian Republicans had to vote for him.
I think it's safe to say that had Trump stayed out of Georgia's Senate race entirely a "normal" Republican probably would have unseated Warnock. That Walker underperformed both Kemp and Raffensberger by several hundred thousand votes was not good. Trump's name does not confer any advantages in the state of Georgia.
But Ann puts too much blame on Trump. The Democrats have gotten more radical and organized since 2016 and as he was leaving office Obama, with the help of others, vowed to put a lot of effort into Congressional races. So with pro-Democrat/anti-Republican algorithms of Big Tech, massive sums of money from Soros and other far left wing billionaires, suing to have early voting and mail in voting and fighting and reversing Republican redistricting the Democrats are now winning more than losing.
If the Republicans don't adapt and come up with a plan they will lose in 2024 and eventually lose control of Congress forever with the rapid demographic changes.
Given that the current lame duck Senate is giving away the store via amnesty does it really matter?
Georgia's GOP shares blame for Walker's loss as well. If they bothered to repeal early voting by mail and returned to the old fashioned same day paper ballot voting, Hershel Walker would be senator today.
When the Right as a whole come to the conclusion that the GOP are worthless, that will be a great day.
The Dems keep stirring the "Trump pot" for the sole purpose of angering and ginning-up his base...they (the Dems) know that Trump is a dead horse and yesterday's news but they need him as their foil. At least DeSantis is intelligent enough not to be distracted by such obvious bait.
What would Trump do to an executive that repeatedly failed at their responsibilities..."You're Fired".
Let's wish Trump well; move forward and focus on: the very important battle for the House leadership; finding and thoroughly vetting a 2024 ticket that will only surpass their promises and not forget the very important local elections in 2023...the stupidity that creates useful idiots starts at the elementary school level as a result of wild-eyed liberal ideologues on local boards of education.
I hope this leads to another GOP leadership fight. I never get tired of those.