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.
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.
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.
I don’t think the GOP is stupid, I think they are bought off and like the money. So all the reasoning and pointing out mistakes in the world isn’t going to do anything. They are purchased, bribed, bought off. You will get stupid stares. The GOP entity you speak to will nod and nod and nod and think “This fool appears to believe I will give up all my nice bribe money ha ha.”
I looked up all the head people in the AZ GOP -— first on their website to get the names and then Wikipedia and their Facebook pages. They seem to me to be totally hopeless -— John McCain’s people. They babble all the right conservative babble and do nothing. The only conclusion is that they like the bribes. I don’t see any way to get rid of all of them and put fighters in there. When Cindy McCain defended absentee ballots, against what McSally said, I really lost hope. I feel really really discouraged this morning. All the logical good advice here is spot on but I have been thinking that since 2001 and nothing has changed.
Trump said “I will teach them how to win” but they don’t want to win. The bribe money is too good. The GOP is a criminal enterprise.
Lesson Six: Quit playing it safe. Prevent Defense always loses. I don’t know how this has failed to register.
The problem is the Republican party is made up of a nationalist majority and a powerful small minority globalist faction. Globalists and Nationalists should never be in the same party but here we are. It’s like mixing vinegar and water, you can shake it all you want but it always separates out.
I know most on here probably already have but a good step forward is quit giving money to the RNC.
They take OUR (Conservative leaning) money and back RINOs and GOPes, while ignoring the Conservatives and in the past basically openly campaigning against them....
We got Blumenthal, and a few other clowns because the RNC would not support the R candidate - including sticking Virginia with McAuliffe.
At least now the President doesn’t have to ‘suck up’ to Congress because ‘HE’ held it by party even though a lot of inner backstabbing was going on, as well as a couple of slugs in the Senate.
I realize things ‘take time’ but it does appear that Rs and RNC sat back and let AZ walk away, FL is slipping and sliding and a ‘controversy’ is being raised in GA...
WHERE is the RNC?
That's why as Democrats continue to steal elections and the Media insists there is no evidence of election fraud, the Republicans were all celebrating that Mitch McConnell will remain as Senate Majority Leader.
Will read later
It might help if we stop pretending that there is such a thing as a GOP that wanted to win. If there had been a somewhat unified Republican party backing President Trump these past two years the Democrat party would barely exist at this point. Such a party would never stand for the blatant election theft now taking place throughout the nation.
Instead we had 40 Rino Congressmen retire all at once just to give the Democrats a chance to take the House and limit Trump’s power. We had lots of dull establishment candidates like McSally and we didn’t even bother campaigning effectively for them.
It was Trump’s hard work that at least saved the Senate, but he was fighting an uphill battle against his own party. I don’t know why he even bothers at this point.