Hold Your Head Up! Tuesday was a Bigger Victory for America than We Realize

Flopping Aces ^ | 11-10-22 | Brother Bob

[Starman417]

So there's no misunderstanding, I realize that there is a lot of bad with what happened on Tuesday. I could probably add a few thousand words on top of the excellent piece that Dr. John offered, and I was among the many who stayed up late on Tuesday looking forward to a tsunami of MS-13NBC tears. Obviously, I was disappointed like the rest of us Normals, but a piece by Ace, The Other Side Gets the Ball Too, put things in perspective for me. (emphasis mine)

We got a little self-deluded about abortion having all but vanished as a factor in the race. It didn't.

Abortion was a costly victory. That doesn't mean you don't take the victory; only a GOPe Grifter would say that you perpetually run on an issue and never actually try to win that issue on a policy level.

But winning the issue of abortion, finally, did provoke a powerful backlash from the 40% of the country that considers abortion to be an unholy sacrament.

Just as Obamacare was a costly victory that, from the Democrats' perspective, they absolutely needed to seize and accept the fallout as unavoidable consequences, so too does the GOP have to take the win on abortion, but with the unavoidable consequence of a riled-up leftwing progressive base.

And on that, even though abortion faded as an issue as we got close to election day, millions and millions of votes were cast weeks and even a month before election day. I checked the Pennsylvania mail-in voting rules; the website didn't give a firm date, but it said early voting usually takes place "4-6 weeks" before election day.

So people were casting votes for Fetterneck in the last week of September. When the July-August passions over Dobbs were still hot.

The emphasized part is what changed my thinking. What's the point in legislative victories if they don't lead to significant policy changes? Granted, the overturn of Roe v. Wade came from the Judiciary, but do you think that outcome had a snowball's chance in Hell if Hillary's coronation had been completed? One of my many frustrations about the Trump presidency was how with control of The White House and Congress how little was done in terms of substantial change. Yes, those tax cuts were nice until they got wiped away with the stroke of a pen after the Dems stole a few elections to "fortify" their power back in 2020. McCain's torpedoing of the Obamacare repeal had me cursing at my vote for him in 2008 and the small contributions I sent his campaign back in 2000. But I digress...

So yes, when you get a game changer pushed through there will be a backlash from those who were happy with the previous game. Do you think that the Dems would trade the electoral bloodbath that surrounded it for the passage of Obamacare? Wasn't that supposed to wipe them out for a generation up and down the ticket until... (checks calendar) 2018? So this time we had the unique circumstance of an invalid in the White House whose handlers aren't even trying to hide the fact that they want to destroy America, and on the opposition side a major victory just prior to the election. And even if the red wave wound up as a red trickle, The Radical Left would happily trade results with what we Normals achieved.

[Persevero]

You got John James :)

[ExTxMarine]

I’m not sure, but I don’t think Trump went to Dr. Oz and asked him to move to Pennsylvania and run for Senate. Oz did that on his own. The same thing for Walker; he said he decided to run for the US Senate before Trump’s endorsement. All Trump did was endorse these candidates.

Now, because YOU don’t like Trump and YOU believe our enemedia, it is all Trump’s fault these candidates didn’t put forth a message good enough to get elected?!?

[Poison Pill]

shortsighted

Huh? Are you telling me Trump was trying to lose? Please tell me how by losing today, we are better off in the long run.

[madison10]

That was a pleasant surprise!

[Wpin]

Repubs WON More SUPERMAJORITIES Than EVER / Dr. Steve Turley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsAXNmJrRMo

Pro life women carried the day.

<><>2022 Repub wave is bigger (more votes) than tea party 2014…
<><>Republicans outvoted democrats 52-46 nationwide…
<><>6 million vote advantage for republicans…
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44 million total Dem votes reported. Where did Biden’s 37.5 million voters go?
(FREEPER PETE DOVGAN)

Dems wasted $200 million just on serial losers Stacey and Beto…

[Jonny7797]

Not helpful is missing the point. He was doing it to sabotage the election.

[Poison Pill]

Trump went out of his way to endorse Oz over far more conservative candidates. I’m willing to overlook Trump’s many flaws while he is winning. But at this point he is putting his own self interest and ego over winning elections. There is no reason to tolerate that.

[Jim Noble]

“Damn straight it was. Not the blockbuster we were led to believe, but a substantial victory in every sense”

It was a massive ass kicking. Change or die.

[dforest]

blah blah blah same post repeated over and over for two days now. Get over Oz. The RATs stole PA. A vegetable won.

[Poison Pill]

The RATs stole PA.

No. Democrats voted for a Democrat. And conservatives didn't vote for a carpetbagging Harvard educated Muslim with Turkish citizenship.

[Engedi]

Yes. Lost the House and Senate to Dems. First time since 1982 when Dems last controlled the Legislature.

[Engedi]

I knew Michigan would fall big time. One or two counties control the entire state and that is where the massive absentee ballot cheating and counting occurs.

Lost House and Senate first time since 1982.

[Varsity Flight]

ALL 6 public school levies and county levies PASSED in this GOP Dewine vote territory.

GOP or DEM makes no diff here any longer at all with baby murder off the table.

Until the Presidents Working Group on Financial Markets (1998) is struck down, and President Trump resumes office, there IS no Republic as designed. None.