Rob Portman is not running for re-election in the U.S. Senate. Cleveland Tea Party's Ralph King posts:
Let the swamp games will begin!
We need a good guy like Mike Gibbons at the top of the list to run for this seat -- not an establishment swamp retread like Slickster Jim Renacci or Ohio's Happy Hypocrite Jon Husted running for this seat.
More about Mr. Gibbons here.
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Photo credit: CNBC
The headline at Breitbart:
Rep. Jim Jordan
Declines to Run for Senate in 2022
The referenced report at cleveland.com is behind a paywall.
To read the report at Breitbart, click here.
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Yesterday evening, our household was watching “Tipping Point” on One America News. Kara McKinney’s guest was Matt Braynard, who was there to introduce viewers to the organization Look Ahead America (Look Ahead America). From their website:
Our Mission
There are millions of rural and
blue-collar patriotic Americans who are disaffected and disenfranchised from
the nation’s corridors of power. Their fears ignored, their priorities
dismissed, their values ridiculed, they’ve become cynical and pessimistic about
a government that so often does not hear their voices.
Our mission is to register,
educate, and enfranchise these disaffected citizens and ensure that their
voices are not just heard but heeded and that the American Dream becomes their
dream again.
We will also organize and guide
patriotic citizens in lobbying their state legislatures and local governments
on America First initiatives like fighting corporate censorship and ensuring
voter integrity.
You can join our effort by
donating, volunteering, and spreading the word about our daunting but necessary
endeavor.
My initial take: In a sense, this is a natural successor to the 2009 Tea
Party initiative, and it is a potential partner to Cleveland Tea Party.
Mr. Braynard was an articulate guest, and he informed viewers of the upcoming grassroots training session (more links to follow). This organization seeks to influence positive conservative changes at the state and local levels, with election integrity being a major focus. One particular strategy will be to affect change in those states with conservative legislators or leadership. (Ohio has nominally Republican leadership, so there’s a lot of work to be done.)
Please visit their website; there are quite a
few videos of Mr. Braynard’s appearances describing the organization’s upcoming
activities
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Sundance at Conservative Treehouse has an interesting take
on Sen. Rob Portman’s announcement that he will retire when his term is up in
2023:
With four GOP senators having
announced they’re not running (Burr, Johnson, Toomey, Portman) there’s
essentially zero chance of the GOP retaking control of the Senate in
2022. [20 R seats up & only 14 D seats that are in solid D
strongholds] it is far more likely the Democrats will gain seats, so keep this
in mind….
…When we think about forming a
third party, the “you will split the vote” crew always peddles their vote split
narrative. However, the GOP doesn’t have a chance in hell to win 2022
given what the base of the Republicans think about these senate DeceptiCons
now.
There has never been a better time
for a New Party to launch and capture three or four seats from the retiring
GOPe crew. It would be great to see true MAGA representatives that can
caucus with Republicans but hold ground on America First principles.
Sundance’s full report with links and commentary is here.
UPDATE: Don Surber thinks a third party is still a bad idea. See here.
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Over the past couple of months, several contributors to the American Thinker blog reported on probable election fraud, including fraud allegedly related to the Dominion voting machines. Apparently, Dominion threatened to sue the blog out of existence, and as a consequence, the proprietor, Thomas Lifson, published an abject apology for publishing such outright misinformation. His “apology” was so out-of-character, so craven, that I for one did not believe one word. However, some comments turned up at other blogs that linked to the apology, indicating that some readers took Mr. Lifson’s “apology” at face value. (Mr. Lifson also discontinued publishing reader comments. The heavy hand of censorship is silencing so many conservative voices.)
I don’t think Mr. Lifson had a choice. As I read it, had he not issued his “apology,”
his blog – which is a labor of love – would have been crushed. So I continue to
visit the American Thinker blog and frequently share content with Cleveland Tea
Party readers. Today, I’m sharing some
extracts from an article by E.M. Cadwaladr:
I don't think any of us will be
going back to normal anytime soon. Recent events have broken not
buildings and a few thousand lives, but the last weak remnants of the
institutions that our founders left us. We have passed, in the
course of a couple months, from a world in which some grudging impulse toward
fairness usually prevailed into a world in which raw power is being wielded
without the slightest principle. From a world in which legalities
were worth the hope of pursuing into a world in which they are merely the
formal decoration on the underlying blunt trauma of the ruling class's
cudgel. From a fragile but functional republic into a grotesque
parody of one.
. . .
Unless you are willfully blind or
constitutionally numb, there is a pretty good chance you are quietly, or not so
quietly, afraid. You have good cause. If you love the
country that you have rightfully inherited, you now have a target on your
back. Our institutions have completely failed us. We
alone, you and I and the insulted tens of millions, are now the only obstacle
between our descendents and totalitarianism.
In the sobering and dangerous days
to come, let us lose neither our principles nor our humanity. If we
must journey through the darkness, let us walk proudly as freeborn men and
women and not as lawless animals or broken slaves. . . .
Read the rest here.
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Paul Gottfried at American Greatness traces the history of
liberal progress through our bureaucratic and cultural institutions. He goes back decades. And he has a plan for conservatives who are
reeling from the stolen election and the "mock inauguration" two days ago. He
starts off:
The conservative Catholic columnist
John Zmirak ends his inauguration
day column for The Stream with this expression of profound
disgust:
So by all means enjoy the mock-inauguration of a corrupt, senile hack
as the fruit of ballot-box stuffing and fake COVID panic. But remember that now
we all live in a tinpot Bananas
Republic. And a disciplined, fanatically nationalist, resurgent Red China is
smiling. The virus it shipped worldwide succeeded beyond its leaders’
wildest expectations.
I quote Zmirak’s peroration because
of the openness of his loathing for the administration that began its reign on
Wednesday. Pat Buchanan, Roger Simon, Newt Gingrich, Roger Kimball, and Michael
Walsh have all recently produced informative and eloquent columns underscoring
the lies, deceit, and intimidation that they associate with the woke Left.
These columnists have also documented the extent of leftist control and
underlined the need to resist their odious domination.
Here’s Mr. Gottfried’s plan:
Although there are lots of properly
indignant Americans on our side, we should not exaggerate the value of our
hand. The best course for us to pursue given our relative weakness would be to
try to isolate our opposition. Do nothing to cooperate and concede no ground.
There should be no plan for “bipartisanship” or for reaching out. I can’t see
the benefit of either, and as I watched Matt Continetti, Geraldo Rivera, and
then Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) going after Trump for “inciting a riot” during his
last weeks in office, I was struck by the futility of this groveling to the
Left.
Conservatives in Congress should
treat the Biden-Harris Administration exactly the way the Democrats treated
Trump’s presidency, by totally dissociating themselves from any of its actions.
This resistance could have started (and for many did) by ignoring the “mock
inauguration” that John Zmirak so pungently described.
And, oh yes, avoid the word
“president” in designating the implausible new occupant of the White House.
Or put the word “president” in scare quotes. Mr. Gottfried’s full column is here.
Bonus link: Katie Hopkins was in DC for the "inauguration." Her report is here.
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