Why Republicans Lose All the Time

You can have all the facts on your side and still lose an argument. How? Because the other side is not bound by facts, they’re arguing emotion, and emotion always overrides facts. It sounds stupid, it is stupid, but it’s also true. Think about the things you’ve apologized for in your life – I’d give you odds it was for things you said in the heat of the moment, not after thinking about the situation in a cool, rational way. That emotion factor is a big part of why Republicans always seem to get rolled when it comes to policy debates, but it’s not the only reason.

When your opponent isn’t bound by any sense of decency or reality, defeating them in debate is like boxing a cloud. That’s what Democrats are – a cloud – big and empty. But all too often Republicans feed them, arm them, seemingly do things someone interested in winning would never do simply because they want to be liked.

No, the purpose should be to weed out the corrupt and, whenever possible, remove them from office and prosecute them. More laws won’t prevent people inclined to break laws from breaking laws, only consequences will. Has Chairman Comer not been paying attention to cities with progressive prosecutors?

When you change the focus of an investigation from exposing the corruption of certain people to “everyone does it, so we have to make it harder to do it in the future” you lose your audience, and Republicans already have a hard enough time gathering an audience.

Otherwise unemployed and unemployable members of the Biden family were paid millions upon millions of dollars by foreign entities (companies and governments) for reasons no one has even bothered to try to explain, that should be Comer’s only focus for every word that comes out of his mouth. All three nightly newscasts, which reach more than 20 million people collectively, did not mention the story at all. Neither did the Washington Post. The New York Times, amazingly, looked at a situation where at least 20 different shell companies were set up to hide those payments and headlined their story, “House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden.”

It shouldn’t have been, but it was a little unbelievable, even for the Times. What they think people who run no company that provides any good or service to anyone could do for foreign nationals that is worth $10 million is a question that remains not only unanswered, but also unasked. That’s a problem for Republicans.

The situation on the southern border is just as bad. Millions of illegal aliens have been welcomed into the country already, with millions more set to invade in the next few weeks, and this administration is lying about it.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is lying when he tells interviewers that illegals will be “removed” if they do not have a legitimate asylum claim. They will be released into the US and given a court date, years from now, that they’ll never show up to because why would they? No interviewer even pressed him on it, leaving viewers to believe the lie that illegals will be immediately deported.

What can you really expect from a media that has swallowed every left-wing talking point offered up on the subject? Even “conservative” television outlets use the term “migrant crisis” rather than the accurate “illegal aliens.” Migrants migrate, they flow with work – in for planting, then out, then back in for the harvest, etc. – the invaders aren’t going anywhere, they have no intention of “migrating” away from their destination.

You can’t win a debate when you can’t even define its terms.

Republicans lose because Republicans refuse to fight. They – the party and candidates – should be on the air right now with 30 second spots designed to educate the public, giving them “What the Democrats don’t want you to know” ads that inform the public and shame journalists. The second part may be impossible but it will serve a purpose, and the first point is not.

Someone has to inform the public of what Democrats are doing, be it at the border, in corruption, in health care, in advocating for the mutilation and sterilization of kids, and it sure as hell isn’t going to be their cheerleaders in journalism. It falls to Republicans, or conservatives (to be more specific). Unless losing is the plan. Because that seems to be what they’re all working toward right now.

Who in the hell are going to run these ads on democrat corruption, the MSM??? LOL, LOL, LOL!! What we have going for us right now is less, and less people are even watching the MSM, MOST people are getting their information from the internet!! I am not so worried about ads being put out, I am VERY WORRIED about our election systems being corrupted and NOTHING being done about it by our side!! Our side of the isle have their heads in the sand, there is NO REASON in hell why it should take 2-3 weeks for our votes to be counted especially since voting goes on for a damn month in advance!! If voting goes on for a damn month the votes NEED to be counted immediately and registered immediately, PERIOD!! If votes CAN NOT be registered as they come in THEN voting NEEDS to be ONE DAY PERIOD!! Make voting day a damn holiday what the hell is so hard about that??? Voter ID mandatory, this BS about minorities not having ID in 2023 is utter BS and EVERYONE knows it!!

A case in point:

I was watching Fox News this morning when Arthel Neville had on Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn from the House Oversight Committee.

When discussing the Biden family's mysterious cash flows, one question that Neville asked Burchett was "what about the money that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner received when they were advisors in the White House?"

All that Burchett had to say was "Ivanka and Jared had actual businesses that sold actual products and services, what products and services are the Bidens providing for all that money? We want to find out what they did for all that money."

But instead, Burchett blurted out "We should look at all of it..." He meekly added "If the Democrats had anything on them, why didn't they bring it up back then?"

Republicans always knee-jerk to the defensive position. It's taken people like Jim Jordan, Elise Stefanik, and now Byron Donalds to show the rest how to push back and not accept the left's setting up of the issues.

-PJ

I personally think the idea that democrats are driven by emotion is totally erroneous and gives them much more credit than they deserve. They aren’t driven by ‘concern’, or ‘caring’, or a deeper love for and compassion for people or the planet.

Most of them are driven by other things, like resentment and a desire to ‘stick it to’ people and groups they dislike, and their delusions of having superior world views and knowledge. These are not the kind of people who have tears in their eyes frequently because they are hurting for others. These are the kind of people who have no problem dismissing and invalidating the existence of those they have disdain for. I give them zero credit for being empathetic emotional people.

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