The Red Ripple
If anyone was expecting that the Democrats’ chickens were coming home to roost in the mid-terms, they did. But only a few of them. This old expression means that the results of one's nasty actions will catch up to them in a negative way. Simply stated, what goes around comes around. The midterm election results were evidence that the American electorate doesn’t like one party rule. They have had quite enough of Joe and his progressive, socialistic woke baloney. Some chickens came home and there was no need for a bigger coop.
The usual “in-the-tank” media pundits ginned up the progressive democratic base. Their reportage constantly referenced that Republicans would deny abortion rights, end Social Security and Medicare as we know it, and extolled Joe’s ludicrous mantra that democracy was at stake. Scare tactics - demonization works. It affected enough voters to make a difference. No red wave/tsunami, just a red ripple. Then there were Congressional idiots who likened a Republican Red Wave victory to Germany in the 1930s (Rep. James Clyburn (D) South Carolina). Disgraceful that the “Nazi” inference is so casually throw around. Democracy didn’t die, the Nation isn’t Nazi Germany and the clowns who spouted this bilge about the end of democracy, including two former Presidents, owe the country an apology.
The Democrats will lose the House, thanks in part, to some nonsensical rhetoric from the “Big Guy”, Joseph Robinette Biden. When he drifted off his ever-present teleprompter, he made some classic and outrageous riffs regarding energy. “We’re going to be shutting down these plants across America.” The numbskull was talking about coal fired generating plants that produce half the power in the US. “No more drilling, there is no more drilling...I haven’t formed any new drilling.” Awful syntax but the message on future oil exploration was clear. Brilliant. Folks paying record gas prices and he lays those eggs. Last time anyone looked, windmills and solar panels don’t haul food supplies to the grocery stores. Diesel trucks do. Meanwhile, Republican control of the Senate is still a work in progress.
Monday night at an Ohio rally, Trump announced that he would reveal his 2024 plans November 15th. Most expect him to announce a run for President. Before he does, he might consider working on a Presidential Library and his golf game. Here’s why. Three Republican Governors won decisive victories…without Trump rallies or direct support. He did endorse them but as Republicans not as his acolytes. If Trump does declare, you can bet your sweet bippy that the mainstream media will resurrect all their great hits on him and play them endlessly like oldies radio. They did a damn good job of demonizing Republicans in the midterms, and they’ll barbeque Trump with gusto.
DeSantis won his election by nearly a 1.6 million vote margin. He won his first election in 2018 by 30,000 votes. In four years he has proved that solid conservative governance without a bombastic attitude works. Same held true for Brian Kemp in Georgia who beat Stacy Abrams by even a bigger number than he did before. Texas Governor Greg Abbot permanently retired Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke, who will now have time to pose for more Vanity Fair covers. All three accomplished their wins without paying fealty to Trump.
It's time for the Republican Party to look at their bench for a Presidential candidate other than Trump, unless they want to participate in a 2024 Blue Ripple. No doubt this will upset the MAGA Republicans, but the facts are clear. Governor Ron DeSantis, Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, or Nikki Haley of South Carolina, who served as UN Ambassador are viable candidates for President. In 2024 the Democrats are not going to run a then 82-year-old Joe Biden for a second term, who even now, appears to have cognitive “issues”. They will also look to their bench for a younger more alert candidate.
In the meantime, you can marvel at the ignorance of Pennsylvania voters who are sending a man who looks like refugee from the Hell’s Angels to the Senate. Currently, due to his stroke last May, he needs a court reporter to transcribe conversations so he can respond. Will that individual follow him around on the Senate floor so he can deliberate with fellow Senators? New Yorkers apparently don’t care about their high taxes and crime rate as they returned the disingenuous Kathy Hochul to the statehouse. Michigan kept Gretchen Whitmer as Governor despite her heinous lockdown actions during the pandemic.
It’s also a wonder that Florida got all their votes counted, reported, with results known today; while far smaller states like Arizona and Nevada are still trying to figure out who won what. There are absolutely no excuses for this incompetence unless shenanigans are afoot. Seems there was controversy in both states during the 2020 elections and it apparently lingers even now. Ridiculous.
Both sides of the political spectrum have victories they can revel in, but the real victors are the American voters who proved beyond a doubt that democracy isn’t dead, they don’t like one party rule and wokeness, notwithstanding the progressive media. They proved you can operate like Pravda, reporting only one side, scaring the folks and demonizing Republicans to move the needle to the progressive agenda.
The Red Ripple will ensure that the next two years will be filled with investigations (Hunter Biden, FBI, and the DOJ) and nonstop rhetoric about Joe, January 6th and the 2024 Presidential election.
Buckle up.