Posted on 11/15/2018 5:35:02 AM PST by Kaslin
Stop the other side from stuffing the ballot box.
We’ve lost over a dozen House seats and likely two senators because of this, and the Obama-appointed judges aren’t going to do anything about it.
Do you think another issue is Trump himself especially when he goes off message?
I think he is getting better at it but do you think some of his reactions actually turn off a lot of voters? For example calling someone “horseface” (while popular in this db and giving me a good laugh) would turn off a lot of suburban voters.
A good example of Trump getting better at this is with Alex Baldwin. Trump could have really let him have it after the arrest but he took the high road and wished him luck. I think that scored him points and he let Alex sink himself.
I know it’s really tough but it seems to me the more he sticks to his policies the more popular he is becoming.
Believe one thing that the retirements did was get rid of a fair bit of anti Trump dead wood. I suspect many of them were acting a lot like Dems anyway to begin with.
One mistake only. Stop electing RINOs.
Purging the voter rolls and re-registering every voter. With two forms of picture Id for the registration and one form of ID to vote.
Using voting methods that are unable to be tampered with.
Voting only in one 24 hour period.
No voting by proxy for disabled people or anyone who cannot vote.
No felon voting
These will need to go in place now.
Really, a couple of these boil down to what I’ve said for a week now:
MESSAGING AND MARKETING
We need candidates who are sincere about themselves. I’m convinced John Tester and Joe Manchin survive because, regardless of their policies, they connect with their constituents. I’m guessing they perform all sorts of LOCAL favors, know half their voters by name, visit cattle ranches and coal mines, and schmooze endlessly either “caring” about people or APPEARING to care (as Bill Clinton used to).
Cruz survived only on his conservatism in a conservative state, but he is not likeable, does not connect with people, and is a total policy wonk. Abbott? He ran 10 points better because he is real. He is genuine. Pretty much the same for Ducey vs. McSally.
I’ve had lots of conversations with people who couldn’t tell you WHO McSally was. I don’t mean a resume. I mean, who she really was. “Old Joe, yeah, I know him. DOn’t agree with his policies, but I know him.” (Even when they don’t).
The GOP got into a box-checking game. John James (black military guy), Lea Marquez Peterson (Hispanic businessowman), McSally, Mia Love (Who may survive but is total cardboard).
I’m told-—just hearsay from a Michigan Tea Party activist-—that James was 100% scripted, rehearsed, canned. That one on one he treated you like you were only valuable if it advanced his campaign. Could be sour grapes, I don’t know. But we cannot afford any more canned, scripted GOP campaigns.
They must be sincere, authentic. People are not buying policies or issues nearly as much as they are buying people. Whatever you say about that goofball Cortez, she lets it hang out. She is who she is-—a crazy Marxist who is ignorant.
Many of our “box checkers” were beaten by white women, including McSally, Marquez Peterson, James. Exit polls show we are doing BETTER with blacks and Hispanics in many races, and own the immigration issue. But this becomes a messaging problem and I’ve discussed that before.
Get back to GOD!
...or these chastisements will continue to get worse!
1) Run ads online!
Every time I watched a YouTube video I got an ad for Gretchen Whitless here in Michigan.
Over and over and over! I didnt see one ad from the GOP.
I dont have regular TV, because I’m not 65. So what did they think people in their 20s were looking at?
2) There should never be a race where there is no candidate.
3) Fund the Green Party and the Progressive party candidate.
4) Ballot proposals need to be keyed up to encourage our side to the polls.
All she can do is claim that she was the token first woman pilot. That fact doesn't create jobs or stop illegals from entering the country. She has no substance.
I hope she gives up politics.
Trump can help (or hurt), but I'd say the vast majority of the races the GOP lost in 2018 were lost on merit at the local level.
The 2018 shift was mainly in suburban areas -- and quite frankly, it's important to recognize that Trump's MAGA agenda is a solution to problems that most of these voters don't have. I used to have at least four "Big Three" auto manufacturing plants within 40 miles of the suburban town where I live. There is absolutely NO political pressure to bring those jobs back here. Heck -- you'd be hard-pressed to find any local residents who even remember where they were located.
The GOP got into a box-checking game. John James (black military guy)
He was not a “box check”, dude.
He just didnt have the budget to run ads 24/7.
This advice is useless because the elections were fraudulent and nobody is doing anything about it. Unless the GOP is going to stuff ballot boxes too they’re going to continue to be graceful losers until the demographics shift too far and it becomes irrelevant.
Kevin McCarthy has a lifetime conservative rating of "F"; he has voted liberal 2/3 of the time. In fact McCarthy's rating is even lower than Jeff Flake's whose lifetime rating is a "D". Jim Jordan has a lifetime conservative rating of "A". Who did the Republicans in the House vote for their leader? McCarthy. Sheesh.
How about getting a tough taskmaster to oversee the RNC. For the last two years we were saddled with Rona Romney, Romney’s niece,who did a lousy job. No matter what the pubbie pundits say, we took a bad hit in the house. To add to the incompetence we have been unable to deal with the RATS fraudulent voting, to which we should have been prepared.
First article from Schlicter I’ve seen that was actually useful and constructive.
The GOP held 247 House seats in 2014. That was their largest House majority since the 1940s -- and yes, that includes the historic 1994 "Gingrich revolution" sweep.
Almost every immigrant group in this country turns progressively more CONSERVATIVE with each succeeding generation. This is the lesson for Republicans to learn. They already did, in fact. That's why you had George W. Bush running around speaking Spanish on the campaign trail.
Let alone the less obvious voter fraud.
But we had some random letter of the alphabet who told us not to worry up front, in advance of the election, and has implied since that we should just sit tight while it is all somehow under control.
No they don’t this is a flat out lie used to promote endless immigration. Hispanics aren’t “natural conservatives”. They continue to vote for freebies and Democrats. In fact I’ve seen so called rock-ribbed conservative Hispanic communities like Cubans drift to the Democrats as the Cuban exiles grandchildren turn into leftists once they hit college and don’t care about Castro anymore.
If Hispanics were “natural conservatives” the border would have been sealed off by the Democrats decades ago. The Republicans electoral success recently is only because elderly baby Boomers saved the GOP’s bacon and they will be dying off soon. Which is why the media encourages elderly Boomers to “hurry up and die already”.
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