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When Republicans make choices to vote for a candidate based on their stances, credentials, personality, or any other valid criteria, I never hold it against them. We may disagree, but one of the beauties of our constitutional republic lies in the way individual voters judge candidates. It’s the job of candidates, their campaigns, and their supporters to make cases for them and against their opponents. Whoever does the best at this generally wins.
There is only one criteria that chaps my khakis when cited by conservatives as their reasoning for voting for or against someone: Electability. While I completely understand the surface-level logic behind it, the Republican Establishment uses this as their primary angle of attack against America First patriots they don’t like. That’s why when I hear people say U.S. Senate candidate Kathy Barnette from Pennsylvania is unelectable, I shake my head.
Let’s look at reality. Those in corporate “conservative” media at Fox News, Newsmax, Breitbart, and others are playing the “baggage” card against her. They are playing on the gullibility of Republican voters who fall for the Republican Establishment’s scam over and over again. If it were true that “baggage” based on past remarks or controversial opinions were disqualifying, then Donald J. Trump would never have won the primaries, let alone the 2016 and 2020 elections (the latter of which was stolen, of course).
By the Republican Establishment’s standards, Ron DeSantis and Greg Gianforte should never have won their gubernatorial elections. Like Trump, DeSantis and Gianforte had major baggage attached to them, FAR more than what’s being attached to Barnette. By the Republican Establishment’s standards, Mitt Romney and John McCain should have won their presidential elections while Jeb Bush should have been the 2016 presidential nominee.
Their standards are dead wrong. It’s a con. It has been proven time and again that their semi-logical but mostly flawed approach to primary candidate selection is the antithesis of how elections actually play out. We need bold candidates who paint with bright colors, not people like Dr. Mehmet Oz whose policy stances are bland pastels. He likes to stay on the fence on nearly every issue because he fears controversy. He wants to seem electable.
McCormick and Barnette both unequivocally said NO to the $40 Billion in new spending
Oz was just asked on Fox and he dodged the question
Why won't Oz answer basic questions?
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) May 13, 2022
Those who don’t want to vote for Kathy Barnette because they don’t like the things she’s said in the past or they believe her resume is questionable are absolutely fine in my book. You’ve done your research and you chose a different candidate, which I absolutely respect and even admire. I disagree, but we don’t have to agree on the right path for every issue. We love America and we want to make things better, so I have no ill will to those who make that choice. We will still fight side-by-side against the radical leftists regardless of how the primary on Tuesday turns out.
However, those who think they’re doing the right thing to beat the Democrats by picking the “strategic” choice of someone with less baggage do not earn my respect. They are the gullible people who allow the Republican Establishment to stay in power. They are the people who encouraged Donald Trump to surround himself with “strategic” choices like H.R. McMaster, Rex Tillerson, John Kelly, Mike Pence, Omarosa, Anthony Scaramucci, Mark Esper, Jim Mattis, John Bolton, Jeff Sessions, and Reince Priebus.
Anyone who thinks Kathy Barnette has too much baggage to win in the general election denies what Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Greg Gianforte, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, and Lauren Boebert taught us in recent years.
As I noted in a previous article, the rumor spread by Sean Hannity and others that she had an “embarrassing” loss to a “weak” Democrat in the 2020 congressional race is absolutely false:
What Hannity doesn’t mention is that the “weak” Democrat was Madeleine Dean, a Democrat incumbent in a very blue district. Compared to Dan David who ran against Dean in 2018, Barnette dramatically outperformed him, getting 48% more votes than David got in his race against Dean two years earlier.
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Hannity and others are hoping that voters will equate losing in 2020 in a congressional race to a loss in 2022 in a senate race. This is unambiguously false and extremely disingenuous for them to rely on the ignorance of many voters. Her very strong performance in a very blue district is why she would almost certainly win in a statewide senate race.
Kathy Barnette is a fighter. She is a passionate Christian and a staunch America First patriot. If you disagree with her stances or qualification, I accept that. If you’re trying to strategize to get another RINO to DC, I stand athwart.
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Well, consider that every non-Establishment candidate will always have Dominion against their “electability,” as per the aforementioned Trump in 2020. Since Pennsylvania has not been able to effectively stop the 3 AM steal, it looks as if THAT is far more of a scientific factor than your article.
The good ol’ “they’re going to cheat so we should go with the RINO” argument.
HOW DID SHE DO IN HER LAST ELECTION?
Did you even read the article? She outperformed Trump by 7% in her district (-19% vs -26%) in 2020, and outperformed the 2018 Republican candidate for her district (-19% vs -27%). The attack that she couldn’t outright win a deep-blue district is absolutely stupid and means nothing at the state level.
Thank you for your sensible articles about this topic. I can’t wait to cast my ballot for Kathy on Tuesday.
I would like to see someone of note, like yourself, make the point about this angle of electability:
If Oz, with all the advantages he has in this race, name recognition, money plus the coveted Trump endorsement AND he struggles to or can’t beat Kathy Barnette, then how is HE the candidate to beat Fetterman?
That sounds like a perfect argument that I’ll be making over the weekend. Thanks for the tip!
The long knives are out for Kathy Barnette for one reason and one reason alone. She tells the truth.
Sean Hannity took exception last night and spent most of his hour, paltering towards worn out, hoped for consensus from his worn out disillusioned, long suffering audience.
Hannity’s enfilade last night, directed at Barnette, was also directed at those Americans who might at first, seeing Barnette’s video, would see her comments as common sense. THAT type of thought must be corrected and redirected towards the parameters of what is expected, as assessed as acceptable through the the ever moving Overton Window, that is again, measured by our cable news cognoscenti.
Barnette called out the Muslim “mindset” in no uncertain terms.
Hannity and others, are pillorying Barnette’s comments on Islam, which they say, are outside of what is now acceptable in the new woke American zeitgeist.
What is real and what is not?
There are no Baptist churches in Riyadh.
There are no Catholic cathedrals in Iran.
We live our lives, “in general”. In general, we wear heavy clothing in the winter when it is cold. Sure, there are days when we can picnic in January, but, “in general” you had better have your winter coat on when you go outside. Every now and then, it snows in late May.
Barnette thinks the Muslim “mind set” in general, is different, the culture is different and their view on the world is seen through the prism of the Koran. She is absolutely, categorically, metaphysically correct. Muslims in the Middle East are tossing gay people off of buildings as I type. Christians are persecuted, enslaved and murdered there everyday.
We Americans are incessantly and constantly under attack from irredentist cultural imperialists/immigrants from countries that hate our guts and upon arrival here, in the U.S. expect us to conform to (Especially when it comes to Islam.) anachronistic cultural norms that are antithetical to our culture, our Judeo/Christian ethos and the Constitution.
Barnette, no doubt, sees the disaster in Sweden and all over Europe where beach heads/”No Go Zones” no different than the ones established June 6th 1944 in Europe, are now in place where the rule of law, is no longer Occidental, but in fact, Sharia.
The short term benefit from the lies, legerdemain, deception and calumny directed at Barnette, will result in the election of Dr. Oz. This will not only not change a thing, it will give impetus to the RINO Uni-Party snakes that, supported by shills like Hannity which elevate liars and phonies like Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney to high station, where, you will meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Vote for Kathy Barnette!
SHE LOST HER LAST ELECTION – MASSIVELY
She lost to an incumbent in a very blue district. But what Hannity and others didn’t tell you is that compared to the GOP candidate in 2018 running against Dean in the same district, Barnette received 48% more votes. She outperformed the previous candidate by a mile and showed widespread appeal in a district that was considered +16 for Democrats.
Although I am not a Pennsylvania resident, I just made a contribution to Kathy’s campaign and I hope that others will consider doing so as well. I just finished listening to an interview she gave to Steve Turley which you can find on Rumble and I was struck by her comment that “we should never vote for candidates who don’t need us, the people.”. Let that sink in for a moment. Oz was imported into PA, is wealthy and doesn’t need your money or your opinion. Yes, he wants your vote but if he wins, will he actually represent your needs and viewpoints ? Doubtful. Kathy appears to be the real deal and as she states, she can’t accomplish anything without the support of the people. Without our money she doesn’t stand a chance. If she wins, she knows it wasn’t the RNC that put her there. If you are a PA resident I hope you will take a very close look at her and consider supporting her with some cash and your vote. Establishment candidates don’t care what we the people want. If we do not send patriots to congress our nation is lost.
No, she cannot win the general, and it is ridiculous to claim that she could. Politics is messy, complicated, and like it or not, involves making compromises in order to carry the ball forward. Barnette seems like a wonderful patriot and a sound Christian. She gets many things 100% right. But she cannot win given her past comments. Statements that we all think. Things that are true. But things that a person with political aspirations should never ever say in public or write on social media sites. Statements that the media and the left, will eat her alive for having said. It’s a real shame, but given these truths, Kathy needs to drop out and support a conservative who CAN win. If she truly loved conservatism, her state, her party, and her country, she’d sacrifice her immediate political future for America. There are a dozen places she could better serve to MAGA.