After the panic settles down

What are Democrats going to do now that they have exposed what they have been saddled with in Let's Go Brandon as candidate? Dump him or stick with him? 

When they first announced that the first presidential debate would happen in June (JUNE!), I immediately wondered why the Let's Go Brandon campaign team, with their list of debate demands, wanted the first debate so early in the election cycle.  This right after Let's Go Brandon himself was basically saying any time, any place. My mind immediately went to "there's a plan behind this". With the scheming Democrats, that's what you have to assume. It's not conspiracy thinking to ask the question "Why?"

The logical conclusion (and there were other possibilities, but less likely) was that they wanted time to be able to dislodge Let's Go Brandon as the nominee if he tanked in the debate.  I think they probably knew he would - at least the insiders knew. And they needed to debate Trump because they are down in most swing state polls, consistently. They are playing catch up because the leftist policies are ruining the country, and more and more people know for themselves what the policies are doing, especially in contrast to how well things were going under president Trump. 

But with Let's Go Brandon it's a roll of the dice for Democrats; you either get the stumbling and mumbling version or the hopped up on goofballs, cracked-out Biden.  They got the former when they needed the latter.  But the planning behind the timing was certainly deliberate. What Democrats got was a disaster that most every Republican voter was expecting to see, but that Democrat voters were in many cases, shocked to see after the mainstream media has been running defense for Let's Go Brandon since 2020.

So all that was before the immediate panic set in (to be honest for both Democrats and myself). Democrat elites and operatives are reaping what they have sewn.  Did they honestly think they could make it through a second election cycle hiding Let's Go Brandon in a basement?

The immediate panic was along the lines of we have to get Let's Go Brandon to bow out of the race, and Kamala Harris too. We need to parachute in a winner. A bright, younger, shiny and slick snake oil salesman like Gavin Newsome who couldn't govern his way out of a paper bag but talks well. Someone like that can win the logic would go.

But after the panic settles down, there are some startling realities for Democrats to face. It's not so easy to just drop the top of the ticket this late in the game.  As has been mentioned in a few places, he's on the ballot in some states at this point unless he dies.  Wisconsin has been brought up as an example of that. If you hand Wisconsin to Trump, along with the other swing states that are probably unreachable for Democrats (Arizona and Georgia alone), Trump has won. You're a Democrat and you're going to do that? I don't think so.

Not to mention, can you imagine the chaos of a brokered convention, the nominee decided behind closed doors after a full slate of Democrat primaries where Biden was chosen? How many disaffected Democrat voters does that create - and not just for this cycle, but perhaps permanently. Danger to democracy is their current mantra, how does that scenario fit their narrative?

It's likely that Democrats are stuck with Let's Go Brandon. What that means in the bigger picture:

1. They need a strong second debate on September 10th
2. Gavin Newsome is probably positioning himself for 2028.  
3. Democrats may have to discourage early/mail-in voting
4. After the realization sets in, an avalanche of mainstream media support for Brandon

The first point is inarguable.  The taste left in voters mouths is going to linger for the summer. Unless every rally is great (or the media goes back into full cover mode to portray it as such) for Let's Go Brandon, he has to perform amazingly at the second debate. I don't think that's likely but they don't have much choice other than to try to make that happen.  Maybe a month of debate prep for the next one, Democrats?

The reason the first point is true is because of the third point, which I will get to shortly.  The second point, Gavin Newsome needs to say the right things now, because while I believe he wants to be president, I think this cycle is so tarnished for Democrats that he would probably prefer to run in 2028 and not have so many Democrat self-imposed hurdles to overcome.

With Democrats needing a Let's Go Brandon recovery, they face some additional obstacles. Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon, Vermont and most notably Pennsylvania all have some form of early/mail-in voting that could run up against the debate date. Oregon is all mail-in voting. Pennsylvania "does not offer early voting, but counties may make absentee and mail-in ballot applications available to voters in person up to 50 days before Election Day."  That 50 days is September 16th. They are going to need Democrat voters to see a second debate win for Let's Go Brandon before casting a mail-in or absentee vote. 

Here's the problem; the second debate will most likely be a replay of the first debate.  While the hopped up on goofballs Let's Go Brandon is more likely to be the one that shows up next time (he has to be), no matter what the stimulants they fill him up with, he doesn't seem capable of what he was capable of doing at the State of the Union a mere few months ago. 

I'm not saying this race is over, dirty tricks from the Democrats are inevitable, cheating is inevitable, a miracle performance is possible too (however unlikely). We are seeing that with this half-thought out plan to have an early debate in case Let's Go Brandon failed miserably and they could replace him. What I'm saying is that Democrats have screwed themselves with their insatiable lust for power to the point it has become untenable.  It's not about Trump Derangement Syndrome - they hated Bush, they hated Reagan,  heck they even hated RINOs McCain and Romney when they ran for president. There is no Republican they will ever paint as human, let alone respectable in an election scenario. It's about retaining power and drifting the country evermore leftward through lies, deceit, manipulation and whatever else it takes. That is a house of cards that eventually HAS to collapse in on itself. I think we are seeing the beginning of that now.

The Democrat Insiders plan

I think a faltering Let's Go Brandon is exactly what insider Democrats wanted all along, and they wanted it this early. Barring a remarkable performance, they wanted him to fail. Voters on the right expected this. We knew he was an often incoherent, often rambling mess.  We knew he was a train wreck. We expected a weak or else coked-out Let's Go Brandon. As far as I can tell, he did better than I expected. He didn't win, he was awful, but he did better than I thought he would.

Make no mistake, Let's Go Brandon was weak. But normally in that situation, Democrats rally around their candidate.  In this case though, they immediately dumped him like they were sneaking out of a bad date during dinner.

It's like this was pre-planned to have this notion be the message: "[Let's Go Brandon] needs to step aside." They want another candidate. And they don't want it to be Kamala Harris.  They are going to pressure him to leave.

President Trump talks education in America

I will leave this to president Trump himself.

Planned vs. Actual

The midterm elections are at this point as important to conservatives, Republicans, president Trump and his supporters as was the 2016 election was. I had plans to blitz my blog with posts supporting candidates and expounding on the reasons why it is so important.

Unfortunately my life has gotten very busy of late and not allowed me to provide commentary even as much as was normal in previous years.  I am hopeful that prior to November I will be able to ramp up my efforts supporting America first, Constitutional conservatism (which are not mutually exclusive by the way).

Please bear with me as posts come in more slowly than normal for the time being.

The Devil He Has A Plan

Paul Harvey muses as to what he would do if he were the devil, in order to achieve his goals.  This was back in 1965, but it's chilling in its accuracy regarding what has been, and is happening.

It's not fashionable to talk about the devil.  Just ask Rick Santorum.  But believe or not, certainly there is a stunning correlation to events of the day between Paul Harvey's best guess at what the devil would do if he could.  The election may be about fiscal issues primarily, but the moral fabric of the nation is always important.  Without it, a sense of fiscal responsibility is not even possible.

Paul Harvey was right - the devil he has a plan.

Obama's fiscal car wreck.

Have you ever watched on the news one of those car pile-ups where car after car crashes into the flaming wreckage that was once a 2 car fender bender and has no become a 75 car collision and is still growing? That's what I was reminded of after Geithner's pronouncement today. The flaming wreckage associated with his addition to the calamity? The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 381 points (4.6%), the NASDAQ down 4.2% and the S&P 500 was down 4.9%.




Even as a conservative, at some point you have to stop laughing at the spectacle and start thinking 'Geez, this could get far uglier than it already is.' But I'm not sure I've reached that point yet. I'm not laughing at those who've lost jobs but rather those driving the various cars who have no clue how to operate in the environment.

But there is a silver lining as far as America and the rest of the world is concerned. Mr. Geithner said that he would not outline specifics until they had the details worked. The silver lining - maybe they never will. Once there's some specifics we can critique it. Maybe they've decided to take the Bush approach to the dialogue - don't. Shut up, hide and maybe the problems will just go away.

Even the Huffington Post is talking about how the Administration was greeted with sarcasm and laughter over the Geithner plan.

Way to go, Team O.

Obama's popular infrastructure plan

This is disheartening.

From Rasmussen;

This past weekend, President-elect Barack Obama revealed his plan to create 2.5
million jobs in America through massive infrastructure projects including rebuilding roads and bridges, modernizing schools and developing alternative energy sources. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that Americans overall think the plan will be a good thing for the struggling economy.

Sixty percent (60%) of adults favor the mega-infrastructure plan, while 24% are opposed. Another 16% are undecided. Even a third of Republicans (34%) are in favor of the plan, along with 83% of Democrats and 61% of unaffiliated voters.

Women are more undecided than men. While 57% of women favor the plan, 19% oppose it, and another 25% are not sure. Meanwhile, 64% of men are in favor of the plan, with 29% opposed and just seven percent (7%) unsure.

At least it appears women are a bit sceptical. But every threat is an opportunity in disguise. Some Republicans have been out there explaining the fallacy of the infrastructure solution. It's been argued, quite convincingly that the efforts in the 1930's prolonged and deepened the recession. Of course there were tax components to that situation that are unlikely to be repeated here. But the infrastructure dollars have a lagged overall effect as the money cannot all be spent in the first year. The opportunity that needs to be seen here is to educate people about the fallacies inherent in the plan.

The challenge for Republicans is how to get that message out with a hostile MSM. There are other ways.