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It’s “Tell me a Dem in a Red State is up for Re-Election without Telling me” or It’s “Token Vote” Time

Posted: May 18, 2023 by datechguy in election 2024, Uncategorized
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It’s that time of year again when Democrats in the Senate who live in Red states decide to give a vote or two to try to convince red state votes to forget the other five years of voting for and with radical leftists.

The best part of votes like this for Manchin and Tester is that since this bill will never be signed by the president they can give these votes and act all solemn about standing up to the White House without actually doing anything to change the law.

Th e left will frown publicly while giving these guys those votes every single day and twice on Sundays, because they know when the chips are down and the votes actually make a difference in passing laws, they’ll be there every single time.

The wonder isn’t that they do this, the wonder is the votes of West Virginia and Montana keep falling for it.

Durham and Rubbing Your Face in it

Posted: May 16, 2023 by datechguy in elections

When I came home from work I saw all kinds of headlines concerning the Durham report saying what anyone with half a brain who doesn’t consider the left a religion knew, that the Russian collusion business was BS, that agencies of the government of Barack Hussain Obama actively pushed this BS in order to achieve a political goal and that the media played along.

None of this is a surprise, none of this is a shock, at least it’s not a shock anymore.

What’s really nasty is the fact that nobody is going to be punished for it, in fact I suspect our friends on the left don’t mind this info being officially out there because the lack of consequences means they can rub out faces in it and proclaim: “What are you going to do about it?”

That’s really the bottom line, with no consequences there is no incentive for these people to act any differently then they have been acting. With the rule of law becoming an optional extra only to be applied to the left if someone steps out of line the recourses to apply justice nonviolently are shrinking.

It amazes me that people don’t realize how dangerous this is but I guess that’s what becomes of living in a county with 150 of never being touched by war.

Closing thought: Can anyone explain why these agencies who had no trouble interfering with the election of 2016 would not have done the same and worse in 2020 or plan to do even more in 2024?

The Three Questions I Would Like Answered by a Potential DeSantis Campaign

Posted: May 13, 2023 by datechguy in election 2024, elections, politics
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As I have said before in this space I would happily vote for either Donald Trump OR Ron DeSantis if either wins the GOP nomination for president in 2024 (although the other than a Ted Cruz presidency the ideal would be Trump for 4 more followed by 8 years of DeSantis) and the country would be well served by either.

Frankly DeSantis has been doing an excellent job of wooing me and I’ve not been big on the Trump attacks on him, but there is a question that I think those pushing his candidacy need to answer..

One of the arguments that we hear from the shadow DeSantis crowd is that Trump is “unelectable” (or more properly “un re-electable” ) They may or may not have a point as Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing and the left has demonstrated that disaster is better than , but I would like to ask those who would push DeSantis on those grounds these questions:

  1. What makes you think that the same democrat counties in critical states that played with the vote count in 2020 would not do so again in 2024 if DeSantis is the nominee?
  2. Donald Trump has already stated publicly that the GOP needs to ballot harvest in the Democrat fashion, What tactics will a DeSantis campaign do to counter Democrats in states that haven’t pushed the excellent election reforms that he put in place in Florida to counter Democrat dirty tricks?
  3. We already know that Trump will fight back on any attempt to steal an election from him in 2024. As there is no reason to believe Democrats would not use the same tactics against DeSantis, what steps will he take to prevent and/or counter any Democrat attempt to steal the 2024 election from him?

Oh and any person who claims: “Democrats won’t try to steal the election if Trump isn’t on the ballot” is too stupid to work on any campaign.

The Key Question Concerning that Baker +15 over Warren Pol for MA Senate

Posted: May 12, 2023 by datechguy in election 2024, politics
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Breitbart reports a poll that might cause the left some grief in the quest to keep an evenly divided Senate:

This is not a surprise for several reasons:

  1. Charlie Baker was an incredibly popular governor
  2. Charlie Baker was an incredibly competent governor
  3. On Social issues you would be hard pressed to fit a playing card between Baker & Warren

And as Breitbart notes Baker is a lot more popular than Warren:

Senator Warren has significantly higher unfavorable numbers than her fellow Democrats statewide and that seems to be creating an opening for Baker, who always enjoyed large amounts of cross-party appeal. Looking at the cross tabs, Republicans seem to coalesce behind Baker (79%) in a way that Democrats do not around Warren (56%), and Baker leads with independent/unenrolled voters 2-1 at 57-26%.

Warren’s favorability rating is 5 points above water, with 49 percent finding her favorable  and 44 percent saying she is unfavorable, including 35 percent who find her “very unfavorable.” As Craney pointed out, her favorability rating indicates she is far less secure than some of her fellow prominent elected Democrat officials in the Bay State.

Now while it would be nice to have a Ted Cruz or a John Kennedy (of LA) win a US senate race in Massachusetts, with the current state of our state voting population there would be a better chance of the Red Sox signing me as a 60 year old pinch runner off the bench next week than an actual full blown conservative winning a statewide election for US Senate. Until and unless we educate and persuade the electorate Baker is likely the best we can realistically get and in terms of competence he would be a giant step forward for Massachusetts, plus it’s always useful to have a person with executive experience in the Senate.

This should send the fear of God into the left although there would be several bright sides for the left:

  • Baker would almost certainly be voting with Democrats 10-20% of the time
  • He would be the MSM’s “goto” republican on any social issues we attempt to advance
  • He could reliably be expected to attack a President Trump and make any opposition to him be by definition “bipartisan”

But that extra vote to give the gavel to McConnell and stop Biden judges in their tracks would outweigh those disadvantages.

However there is one question that needs to be asked before we break out the bubbly.

Has anyone asked Charlie Baker if he wants the job?

Right now Charlie Baker is president of the NCAA. I’m sure like all jobs it has ups and downs but I suspect it’s a job he enjoys and I don’t doubt for one moment that it’s a job he doing well because it rewards competence which Baker has by the bucketful.

So can someone explain to me why Baker would leave that job to enter a race where he’ll be targeted, attacked and get grief from an incredibly polarized electorate and even risk physical attack (and he’s a really big target, seriously that guy is tall).

Why would he abandon the sweet gig he has for all that grief? I don’t see him doing it and until someone convinces me otherwise I’m not going to get my knickers in an uproar.

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