Posts Made By: Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by James Brown

I understand you and James' points.  As James and you both note implicitly, a large chunk of the Republican coalition longs for leadership like Reagan/Dole.  Obviously another large chunk loves the swagger and machismo of Trumpism.  "Own the libs, nothing else matters."  Who will win out this battle for the soul of the party?  The party leadership is malleable.  They will ultimately reflect what the people want.  This is not new.  I like some of the current trends, but Rome was not re-built in a day.   Give it a couple years and we will see.  This election cycle will be informative.  As will '24.

It goes without saying that the left has its own "win at all costs" factions, and it distressed me mightily that so many on the left nowadays try to stifle dissent by any means possible.  (See my thread about Berkeley Law) The current left wing affinity for casting differences of opinion in terms of good v. evil keeps me from even considering joining the Democrats, even though I was happy to vote for Biden.  I feel strongly that the Democratic elites and the mainstream press created Trump by "othering" the gun and bible toting deplorables in flyover country.  The resentment hard-core maga types feel may not be justified, but it is not entirely without basis.  I myself am prohibited from discussing the legal nuances of the Dobbs opinion around my wife's advanced degree family because they would be triggered.  In their view, the only reason to support the justices' reasoning is an evil and mysogynistic soul.  Appreciation of Constitutional law has nothing to do with it.   

I think the process of philosophical reversion to the mean is underway in the Democratic Party too.  I hope so.  Jim

Originally Posted by James Brown

You live in California though.  Doesn't that make slash and burn easy?  What are the odds of an R winning a national office, even if you voted for her or him?   (Maybe you live in one of CA's few R house districts?)   Also, when will you be satisfied with the real change?  Will Trump losing the primary in '24 be enough?  

Also, supporting new-wave Republicans does not support the status quo!!!  There is nothing toxic about my R Senate candidate Joe O'Dea.  He beat the Trump (and DNC) supported Maga candidate.  (I feel like his Astromart campaign manager by the way, but O'Dea has already secured both available Colorado AM votes).  

If I took your slash and burn theory to heart, I would, in a few short weeks be voting against a pro-choice, reach across the aisle, anti-Maga, fresh face Republican and instead voting for a stale Democratic do-nothing bureaucrat from the Clinton era who has about as much in common with Colorado as Nancy Pelosi.   I am voting for change, not the status quo!  Especially when there is an outside chance that O'Dea wins, thereby moving the Senate in a direction I like.  How is voting against O'Dea going to help reformulate the party?  I am not naïve, I know that if/when O'Dea loses, the MAGA crowd will say "see, these Romney-like moderates never win!."  So it goes, that is a risk I must take, because if O'Dea wins he can be a catalyst for national change and it will be good for the country! 

Bottom line, I think your slash and burn idea is a horrible idea in states where new-wave Republicans are running and have a chance of winning.   

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

From what I hear Trump will only agree to "testify" for the Jan 6th roasting committee if they agree to make it a live show. I have a feeling that isnt going to be acceptable to them......

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

A primary reason I'm less active is I just can't watch this stuff unfold anymore. I don't see the conservative movement recovering in my lifetime, and my only choices are between a party whose policies I despise or a party who's people I despise. I think I'll just stick to the sports section of the newspaper for now.

Seriously, this looks like sunset in America to me, which I pray is not the case.

Exhibit 1:

Donald Trump Tried to Destroy the Constitution

What will it take for millions of Americans to care?

By Tom Nichols


https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/donald-trump-january-7-constitution/671749/?utm_medium=social&utm_term=2022-10-14T21%3A39%3A57&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=the-atlantic

Originally Posted by James Brown

A large chunk of the political press has been focused recently on the incredible polling numbers from the NYT/Sienna poll released about three days ago.  If this poll is even remotely accurate it signals a bad election day for the Democratic Party.  Abortion has lost its legs as an issue in the swing states for sure.  The economy continues to be terrible.  Biden is transparently and openly desperate to buy votes (hey, lets deplete the strategic oil reserve entirely!). 

I like you guys a lot, but you are monolithically focused on a person who does not matter to most voters.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Not to live in the past too much, but for at least 4 years HRC was the face of the Democratic party:

https://grabien.com/getmedia.php?id=1552161&key=56814ccf861ba4e9e474ddf3ba913336&userid=17087

I doubt that you were a big Clinton fan, but still, "denying or questioning the outcome of the last election" seems to me to be a thin reason for voting them all out...

Jim

Originally Posted by James Brown

Respectfully, I think that is silly.  I'd bet the WaPO is spinning it such that anyone who ever questions anything about a possible election irregularity., asks for voter ID or anything along those lines is a full blown election denier.  Their editorial board is shameless.  

I guarantee that Kemp from GA is on that list.   In his debate with Abrams she accused him of being a full time vote suppressor.  Yet this is the woman who loudly claimed that she was robbed four years ago!  Who are you going to vote for then?  Is Newsome without any baggage?  I'm not sure if Feinstein is running, but are you going to vote for her, she is an election result denier:


https://grabien.com/getmedia.php?id=1554291&key=c8c9ac6063f079a9581c5e6f9239eccc&userid=17087

Originally Posted by James Brown

Way too premature to stick a fork in Nikki!  

Originally Posted by James Brown

Different issues?  Big deal.  You are playing semantic games Rod.  The end result is that Abrams denied the legitimacy of the Kemp governorship, and to this day HRC and her minions deny the legitimacy of the Trump presidency.  Same insult to the Constitution and same damage to people's faith in the electoral process.  Maybe slightly different words.  

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Oh Wow, isn't that tragic.  Virtually every top Democrat in Politics has questioned every major election that Republicans have won since the year 2000.  Your 9/11 commission members are all frauds since they questioned the last election in 2016, and tried to challenge the electors in the House of Representatives, including that jackass Jamie Raskin, who I believe is one of the heads of that fraudulent commission, so  please don't make us all puke with your hypocrisy. 

Your Democrat Stacy Abrams still runs around saying the Brian Kemp election  in GA, was stolen from her.  Hilary Clinton wrote an entire book about it.  Al Gore and every other Democrat questioned the GWB win in 2000. 

Do you have anything else except your tired worn out excuses about Trump?

BTW, you guys are going your asses handed to you on a plate in about 20 days.  Deal with it, and when you lose in historic numbers, maybe you'll get a clue then just how fringe and how unpopular that you and the rest of the ULTRA Left Socialist Democrats are in this country.