The real
story of the 2022 elections was not that there wasn’t a red wave, but rather
that the same bad polling and the same election official incompetence (on
purpose in some places) still exists but also the amount of Democrat seats up
for the taking.
In 2024 the
list of incumbent Senators and House Democrats up for re-election is
significantly higher and would propose a real direction shift if we are to
believe the polls that state 70% of the country believes we are heading in the
wrong direction.
Did the
forecasting of the red wave cause people to not vote? Did the messaging of the
conservatives live up to the desire of the public to expect a change?
The GOP
leadership spent more time lamenting the Trump endorsed candidates than they
did laying out policy changes they would push for in both House and Senate if
the public just gave the power to them. Once again the messaging of the GOP
party was underwhelming and therefore the results of this election performance
also underwhelmed.
A win yes,
but not a decisive one, which by the way, is the only way vote counting fraud
(ballot harvesting and mail in ballots) can be manipulated to steal elections.
If elections are not close than Democrats can’t fudge the numbers without their
fraud being uncovered and they know that. However, the GOP seems not to know
that.
With the exception of Florida’s election in
which DeSantis actively set out to restrict mass ballot mailings, harvesting
and control of drop boxes. The results in Florida showed that even the highly
Democrat counties like Dade broke decisively for the Republican Governor.
Moreover DeSantis was not singing a RINO song but campaigning and acting with a
strong conservative message that won a large victory.

I am aware
that the GOP will claim that each state is different and therefore a nuanced
message is needed from different states and districts, but after cleaning up
the ways to cheat and boldly attacking the disinformation media and espousing
conservative kitchen table issues, DeSantis proved even in the Democrat
stronghold counties that the public in Florida wanted DeSantis to stay at the
helm.
The argument
that some of the GOP candidates put up for election were not ready for prime
time, falls flat when you compare OZ and Fetterman race in Pennsylvania. Some
voters may not have like Dr. Oz but the Democrats did you a favor by putting up
a worse candidate and yet the GOP still lost. Why?
Unlike
Florida, Pennsylvania had a Democrat Governor (Tom Wolf) so ballot harvesting,
early mail in ballots and mass mailing and unsecured drop boxes certainly were
and will continue to be problematic for an accurate accounting of the real
vote. However, Dr. Oz was not a candidate that drew a crowd, or fired up the
conservative base, or even had a message that was strong enough to resonate
with Pennsylvanian voters. What was his party going to do about inflation, high
gas prices and explain to them how inflation is a working family’s hidden taxes caused by the
federal government’s run- away spending. He blew it by spending too much time
on Fetterman and being defensive of his own past liberal viewpoints.
When you are
facing an opponent that is clearly inferior, you don’t beat him up; you ignore
him and play your strongest game. Dr. Oz did not have a strong game.
When you
compare the pedigree of both candidates, neither had a “I’m one of you”
connection to the voters, but at least Fetterman pretended to, while Dr.Oz
continued to parade around in his suit and harp on Fetterman’s unwillingness to
debate him. Covid also didn’t help because a lot of voters are still quite
angry and weary of doctors that helped the government jab our arms and lie to
us that it was a vaccine. However, it was still a winnable state if the GOP
helped Dr. Oz lay out policies that would improve Pennsylvania’s kitchen
table woes.
The fact that he was seen as a carpet-bagging
liberal didn’t help either. Again, if it was an issues campaign not a culture
war and Dr.Oz had a “come to Jesus” discussion of how he was once liberal
leaning but now was red-pilled and apologized for his past ignorance, conservative
voters would have forgiven him. Instead, he denied his past and got angry when
called out on his liberal stances, which was a big mistake.
With
election fraud Americans need to know two things: One if the GOP candidate
doesn’t win over the vast majority of voters, they will not win in states
without strong voting laws that stop the Democrat cheating machine. Two, the
GOP needs to capture voter’s attention by actually having an agenda of legislation
rather than a stop the other guy’s approach. People want bold changes, not
reducing taxes window dressing, or they will sit on their hands in 2024.
The GOP
leadership has failed election after election to do anything significant when
they are given the reins of power. Oh yes I know that the president has the
veto power yet, even if we have to wait until 2024 to see legislation pass, the
upside of pushing bold policy reform is when Biden vetoes those popular proposals, they
would then become campaign issues for the 2024 candidates to run on.
In 2022 the
GOP message was the other guy’s policy has failed, but they had little to say
about what they would do, other than the old standby of reducing taxes and regulations.
Americans want systemic policy reforms, such as abolishing the IRS and having a
flat or a VAT tax or radically reducing the budgets of agencies to reduce the
size of government, or requiring the Energy Department to stop over-regulating
oil and gas exploration and return the pipeline, along with legislatively
requiring the DHS to secure the border.
Again it
would highlight Biden and the Democrat’s dictatorial myopic vision on policies
that are hurting the working class and making every citizen see their hard
earned money evaporate in their wallets.
The GOP
needs new leadership, new fearless ideas and the courage to challenge the
status quo of the political inbred Washington crowd that just wants to dress
the window; instead of shake up the swamp we call the Beltway.
So it wasn’t
a red wave, but what really matters is what are Republicans going to do now?
Sit on their hands until 2024? What will be their campaign in 2024?
Maybe the
GOP is afraid to go staunchly right because they see how the Democrats fared
under loony leftism, but this logic is completely wrong. Americans know and
desire systemic change when it comes to restoring the American dream for the
next generation, and only gutsy policy will win the day.