{"id":12974,"date":"2023-07-18T20:03:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T00:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=12974"},"modified":"2023-07-18T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T00:04:08","slug":"asking-the-big-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/asking-the-big-question\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest question"},"content":{"rendered":"

To ask is to answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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There is one fundamental question that any candidate vying for the Republican nomination for president of the United States in 2024 must answer \u2014 but that as of yet has gone largely unaddressed, at least publicly, as the field spars over significant but ultimately subordinate issues.<\/p>\n

The question is this: How will you win the general election under the present voting system?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A:<\/strong> Unless he’s a Deep State-approved Vichy GOPe collaborator\/co-conspirator, he won\u2019t<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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As Americans well know, we are lightyears removed from the election days of old \u2014 singular days when people voted in person, on paper ballots, after presenting identification. Now, we have mass mail-in elections, conducted over weeks, where those voting in person often do so on electronic machines, and with lax identification standards.<\/p>\n

Democrats largely developed and long fought for this system, willing it into existence under the cover of Covid-19. Naturally, they have successfully manipulated and exploited the voting regime they made.<\/p>\n

Ballot harvesting is becoming an accepted norm. Candidates not only have to earn votes but figure out how to collect<\/em> as many votes as they possibly can. Are Republicans overnight going to out-harvest their opponents, or figure out some new means to identify and turn out voters otherwise sitting on the sidelines in sufficient numbers to overcome Democrats\u2019 ballot-harvesting superiority?<\/p>\n

The Biden administration is working to leverage federal agencies to mobilize presumed Democrat voters as well \u2014 also potentially in conjunction with the same NGOs \u2014 under a March 2021 executive order, \u201cPromoting Access to Voting,\u201d that has remained shrouded in mystery as the bureaucracy stonewalls over inquiries about its implementation. Republicans have started to engage in election administration, but largely in the context of monitoring over execution. What is the plan to combat Democrat control over election machinery?<\/p>\n

Lawfare is also now an integral part of our election system. Republicans have started to devote significantly greater attention and resources to the litigation game, but to catch up to Democrats will require a long-term, sustained effort, backed with real money. And filing suit over election policies and practices after votes have already been cast of course has proven a losing proposition, as demonstrated by courts\u2019 unwillingness to grapple with fundamental issues around the 2020 election largely on technical grounds.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Democrats have engaged in efforts to ruin the lives of Republican election lawyers \u2014 in their own words to \u201cmake them toxic in their communities and in their firms\u201d \u2014 seeking to kneecap their competition before it ever reaches the courtroom.<\/p>\n

Are Republican candidates devising comprehensive election lawfare strategies right now to both aggressively target existing election chicanery and stave off that which is to come \u2014 with the courage and intellectual heft behind it needed to win in the face of an unrelenting and calculating opposition?<\/p>\n

These in-built challenges exist before even discussing election fraud, and the imperative for a Republican candidate to exhaust every available means to prevent it, and in the absolute worst case to detect and mitigate it \u2014 this at a time when voting happens at further remove from the election booth than ever before, making finding and proving fraud all the more difficult.<\/p>\n

Layer on top of these issues the broader forces any such candidate will be up against, and the prospect of winning becomes even more daunting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Aw, even with all that, you ain\u2019t seen nothing<\/em> yet. Wait til they\u2019ve finally achieved their longstanding dream of eliminating the Electoral College once and for all, that\u2019s when the REAL fun starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To ask is to answer. There is one fundamental question that any candidate vying for the Republican nomination for president of the United States in 2024 must answer \u2014 but that as of yet has gone largely unaddressed, at least publicly, as the field spars…<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more? The biggest question<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22,33,45,61,68,89,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bah","category-business-as-usual","category-culture-of-corruption","category-domestic-disputes","category-hmmm","category-leftward-ho","category-read-and-heed","category-where-do-we-go-from-here","wpcat-11-id","wpcat-22-id","wpcat-33-id","wpcat-45-id","wpcat-61-id","wpcat-68-id","wpcat-89-id","wpcat-122-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12976,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974\/revisions\/12976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}