I had the honor of speaking at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Restoration Weekend in Pheonix. The city is beautiful and everywhere I went, I saw signs for local Republicans running for office, along with some Kari Lake and anti-Mark Kelly signs. I saw a lot of Finchem signs and few Fontes “Protect Democracy” signs in the Secretary of State race.
Unfortunately, the news is bad.
And it’s bad for some of the same reasons we’ve been talking about for quite a while now.
One of these things is that Republicans don’t make a serious bid to fight for election rules before an election. There’s a lot of outrage and “how could this happen” afterward and then nothing changes.
The Left has a pretty clear plan.
One of these is to make it Election Month and then write the new election rules into state constitutions and court rulings, eventually at the federal level backed by the DOJ, so that they can’t be overturned.
And a basic element of that plan is electing Democrats as either governors or secretaries of state. This dates back to Soros’ Secretary of State project. Republicans are not even remotely keeping up even though the key to winning the Senate becomes election rule changes in states.
Even after 2020, Republicans still put far less effort into secretary of state races. And this happens.
Adrian Fontes, Maricopa County Recorder from 2016 to 2020, has beat out Mark Finchem in the race for Secretary of State, the Associated Press reports.
Fontes served as County Recorder amid claims of fraud in the 2020 election. He ran for re-election but loss to Republican Stephen Richer. In addition the 2020 controversy, Fontes also faced a lawsuit over signature verification in 2018 when he had to open emergency voting centers after a contractor delayed the opening of some polling places.
You know what’s going to happen next time around. Now you don’t need to wonder. And this will keep happening until national Republicans make winning SOS races a top priority.
Or until the GOP disappears.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Similar to the Soros plan to elect radical leftist DAs and such.
Ugly Sid says
Cloward-Piven.
With billionaire bucks, powerful as steroids.
RAM says
What is this GOP I hear so much about?
RAM says
Either (1) bought and paid for, or (2) widely shunned for being too pro-American
The first group is still basically in charge in most states.
Pip McGuigin says
Nowadays elections are like scripted “Real life TV”…Fake for everyone to see. A sham. And our Justice department pretends not to notice.
Ugly Sid says
Sort of reminds me of prowrestling.
But how could it be fixed? There’s a referee and everything. I mean, complete transparency.
Anybody claiming otherwise is an Athletic Victory Denier!
Algorithmic Analyst says
Yeah, good analogy. I compared it to a fixed basketball game, a fixed horse race, or a fixed prize fight. If one is familiar with those, the cheating on the election is much more blatant. made me realize that people don’t realize how much cheating goes on, otherwise they would see that the elections were fixed.
number8 Noodle says
Republicans not taking Sec. of State races seriously? They’r not taking offering any opposition to the progressives or the globalists seriously either. We have to wonder, at this point, about the credibility of anyone who still pretends that the GOP is a legitimate opposition party and not a bunch of craven sellouts.
Una Salus says
Yes the news is not exactly quite good is it? But the only real news is whether the GOP is going to double down on what doesn’t work like it has been forever or try something that works. Actually, we already know the answer to that question don’t we?
Una Salus says
Because if we didn’t know the answer to it the GOP has been drumming it into our heads since forever.
Una Salus says
I’m sure the city is beautiful and otherwise absolutely wonderful.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Phoenix? The last time I was in that area, I remember we were outside for some reason, in nearby Tempe, at 2am, and it was 102 degrees Fahrenheit (39 Celsius 🙂
Una Salus says
And this bring us the Daniel Horrowitz moon landing conspiracy Ross Perot moron who thinks this is some sort of gestalt moment for the GOP. Yes, Daniel it might be but not quite in the way you imagined.
Una Salus says
Yea, let’s find out where the gay GOP goes next. Nowhere good by definition almost. Unless like Daniel you think you are going to mount so some sort opposition in conservative reservation sanctuaries. How’s it going in the reservation red skin?
Una Salus says
FatherGuido says
Every time the dems get the power they take our country 3 steps towards thier agenda, when the rpubs get power they only take us back 1 step. Thus leaving a net 2 steps of advancement for the dems. In other words there is no opposition party. The only thing they allow is the repubs to take that step to appease the conservative half of the country. Do not believe for one second that TPTB did not allow the repubs to take the house for anything other than appeasement of their opponents.
The repubs in power at the fed level will do nothing to clean up our elections, not that they can do much anyway. But as voters it is up to us to quit worrying about fed elections, it will be a long time before the will of the people will prevail there, and start working at local and state level. I would bet a dollar to a doughnut that the majority of those reading this article cannot even name their state congressman, senator nor the SoS. Much less what party they belong to.
Want to know what happens when the state has a solid conservative legislature and governor? Ones that limits mail in voting, pass voter ID laws, restricts early voting, and tells the feds to take a hike? You end up with Desantis winning by 20 points.
Una Salus says
Republicans might not win this on Biden being a disaster. This is untraveled territory. Existing on no map.
112 says
The new civil war is fought on only one side.
Kynarion Hellenis says
Election month emphasizes ballots. Election day emphasizes votes. Big difference.
Emphasizing ballots is a very powerful and successful strategy. It will be employed until it is neutralized.
yoda_pranadipa says
For many Indonesian people, USA has been for long deemed as paragon of excellence in democracy. But for the last 2 or 3 elections, this renowned reputation has been tarnished with accusation of rigged elections. This issue will remain unresolved until American people admit that frauds in election are natural and challenges to the results are also normal as parts of democracy itself. Indonesia has successfully organized massive presidential and legislature general elections in terms of participants (hundreds millions of voters) and vast areas (until remote and underdeveloped regions). In Indonesia, democracy feast is always noisy with vibrant campaigns, countless hoaxes, black campaigns, money politics, demagogy in various forms, and, frequently groundless protests to the results. We have an institution specifically tasked to cope with these outcries (e.g. Bawaslu or Supervisory Body for General Election). Any decision rendered by this supervisory body is usually obeyed and thereafter the situation will calm down again for preparation to the coming uproar in the next democracy party. If in the past Western Nations are skeptical to any general elections held by other countries and always demand the formation of independent monitoring body, now why don’t Americans consult to Indonesia of how to manage a fair, energetic, exuberant, just and trustworthy election? Indeed, the world need “healthy” America. Best regards from Indonesia