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[Hoot Gibson]

I fear that the millions of Americans who are fed up with the fascists running this country may have waited too late to take any effective action. Calling the jack-booted thugs who are propping up the Biden administration and taking political prisoners to intimidate opposing politicians and private citizens fascists is no longer hyperbole. This country has never been closer to becoming a dictatorship. The public faces of the federal government may change but the same dark forces continue to call the shots from the shadows.

Americans are running out of time to return this country to a constitutional republic. Even if a Republican wins the presidency in 2024, he or she will face an executive branch that will be loaded with armed thugs loyal to the far left wing fascists of the Democrat Party. Thanks to the inept, disjointed "leadership" of the GOP, Joe Biden's job approval ratings has steadily improved over the past couple weeks.

[LOOKAYANNER]

Hoot, you posted this comment in August. Now that it’s October and a few weeks away from the election, do you think the Republicans have picked up more steam moving forward?

[The Outsider]

The GOP should regain control of the Senate even with some of the extremely weak candidates they have running. The only chance the Dems have to win the White House in 24 is if Trump somehow gets the nomination, which I can't see happening.

[Old School Hound]

The GOP should regain control of the Senate even with some of the extremely weak candidates they have running.  The only chance the Dems have to win the White House in 24 is if Trump somehow gets the nomination, which I can't see happening.

Dems are  3:2 favorites to keep the Senate.  It certainly could go the other way but if I had to wager I would place my money on the donkeys maintaining control of the upper house of Congress.

I do think Trump offers the Dems the best shot at keeping the WH. But will he be the GOP nominee?

[Hoot Gibson]

Hoot, you posted this comment in August. Now that it’s October and a few weeks away from the election, do you think the Republicans have picked up more steam moving forward?

I don't think steam is the issue. I believe that Trump made a good faith effort to "drain the swamp," but the Executive Branch is so full of "public servants" who would be happy to see socialists running this country, that the job is too big for one man or one woman. Republicans need to retake the White House with a real team of people who believe in our republican form of government. Whoever Republicans nominate need to have a long, prioritized list of people who need to be cut loose from their cushy federal jobs. That list should include a large number of Democrats and Republicans. This is an area in which Trump failed miserably, IMO. Aside from pushing some good Supreme Court nominees through, Trump did not leave much of a legacy. If a Republican president cannot rid the federal government of Faucci, then something is wrong.

Governors who have been elected president in the past have tended to bring a loyal team from their home states to Washington. If Trump would step aside and stop trying to discourage qualified Republicans from running in 2024, he would be doing a great public service, IMO. Whoever is nominated needs to promise pardons to the political prisoners taken by the Biden administration. They also need to appoint a highly qualified, non-political Attorney General to clean out the Justice Department and the FBI. Justice should never be a political tool used to punish enemies.

[Hound05]

I fear that the millions of Americans who are fed up with the fascists running this country may have waited too late to take any effective action. Calling the jack-booted thugs who are propping up the Biden administration and taking political prisoners to intimidate opposing politicians and private citizens fascists is no longer hyperbole. This country has never been closer to becoming a dictatorship. The public faces of the federal government may change but the same dark forces continue to call the shots from the shadows.

Americans are running out of time to return this country to a constitutional republic. Even if a Republican wins the presidency in 2024, he or she will face an executive branch that will be loaded with armed thugs loyal to the far left wing fascists of the Democrat Party. Thanks to the inept, disjointed "leadership" of the GOP, Joe Biden's job approval ratings has steadily improved over the past couple weeks.

But people are either brainwashed and can’t see it, or they don’t want a constitutional republic. They people they vote for trample over it, and they cheer.  Honestly I don’t get it. I think it goes back to indoctrination, they think everyone getting a piece of the pie is a good thing and that social welfare money just pops up out of nowhere. Then they call everyone else fascist that don’t believe the same?? I really just don’t get it.

[Old School Hound]

The GOP should regain control of the Senate even with some of the extremely weak candidates they have running.  The only chance the Dems have to win the White House in 24 is if Trump somehow gets the nomination, which I can't see happening.

NOT!!!!  I was pretty sure you were off base with that prediction. 

GOP insiders are blaming Trump for the missed opportunity to take the Senate.  Certainly, he didn't help. His candidates did very poorly in this election. Party operatives would love to move on from this guy but he seems bound and determined to cost them another election.

[Hoot Gibson]

It's not just GOP insiders who have had enough of Trump, there are many of us who voted for Trump twice and believe that the election was stolen from him in 2020, who do not want to see another octogenarian president. Democrats are making a huge mistake continuing to engage in witch hunts against Trump. He may be the only Republican who could possibly lose to a candidate as bad as Joe Biden or Kamala Harris in 2024. They should be trying to make it easier for him to win the Republican nomination. A debate between Ron DeSantis and Joe Biden would be borderline elder abuse.

[TheRealThing]

I don't think steam is the issue. I believe that Trump made a good faith effort to "drain the swamp," but the Executive Branch is so full of "public servants" who would be happy to see socialists running this country, that the job is too big for one man or one woman. Republicans need to retake the White House with a real team of people who believe in our republican form of government. Whoever Republicans nominate need to have a long, prioritized list of people who need to be cut loose from their cushy federal jobs. That list should include a large number of Democrats and Republicans. This is an area in which Trump failed miserably, IMO. Aside from pushing some good Supreme Court nominees through, Trump did not leave much of a legacy. If a Republican president cannot rid the federal government of Faucci, then something is wrong.

Governors who have been elected president in the past have tended to bring a loyal team from their home states to Washington. If Trump would step aside and stop trying to discourage qualified Republicans from running in 2024, he would be doing a great public service, IMO. Whoever is nominated needs to promise pardons to the political prisoners taken by the Biden administration. They also need to appoint a highly qualified, non-political Attorney General to clean out the Justice Department and the FBI. Justice should never be a political tool used to punish enemies.

Trump IMHO, also failed miserably where it came to his nominees/appointees. Examples include Dan Coats and General Milley, both miserable picks, as were both his attorneys general. Whoever advised Trump to that end must still be laughing.

[Hoot Gibson]

I don't think steam is the issue. I believe that Trump made a good faith effort to "drain the swamp," but the Executive Branch is so full of "public servants" who would be happy to see socialists running this country, that the job is too big for one man or one woman. Republicans need to retake the White House with a real team of people who believe in our republican form of government. Whoever Republicans nominate need to have a long, prioritized list of people who need to be cut loose from their cushy federal jobs. That list should include a large number of Democrats and Republicans. This is an area in which Trump failed miserably, IMO. Aside from pushing some good Supreme Court nominees through, Trump did not leave much of a legacy. If a Republican president cannot rid the federal government of Faucci, then something is wrong.

Governors who have been elected president in the past have tended to bring a loyal team from their home states to Washington. If Trump would step aside and stop trying to discourage qualified Republicans from running in 2024, he would be doing a great public service, IMO. Whoever is nominated needs to promise pardons to the political prisoners taken by the Biden administration. They also need to appoint a highly qualified, non-political Attorney General to clean out the Justice Department and the FBI. Justice should never be a political tool used to punish enemies.

Trump IMHO, also failed miserably where it came to his nominees/appointees. Examples include Dan Coats and General Milley, both miserable picks, as were both his attorneys general. Whoever advised Trump to that end must still be laughing.

I agree, TRT. He also had a few great Secretaries in his Cabinet, such as Pompeo, Carson, and Richard Grenell, but he nominated too many political hacks who were never really on his "team." I supported a lot of what did and attempted to get done, but I have a real problem with him running a third time and trying to intimate other Republicans from running. I will vote for him if he gets the nomination because the alternative will be unbelievably awful, but I won't have much good to say about Trump until and if the day that he clinches the nomination. Even then, I will probably just vote and keep my mouth shut.

At this point, he has become a corrosive figure in the Republican Party. He still has enough zealots supporting him to deny any other Republican the general election. I still cannot believe the fools that refer to Cruz and "Lyin' Ted," and Cruz was probably the most honest candidate who ran in 2016. I do not believe that running for president again is going to keep Democrats from indicting him and retaining documents, which were allegedly stamped "Classified," has got to be the most stupid thing that he could have done. I do not understand why Democrats are so afraid that Trump might run again because I think that he would have a difficult time defeating any Democrat nominee, including Biden - and that is a sad thing to imagine.

[Old School Hound]

It's not just GOP insiders who have had enough of Trump, there are many of us who voted for Trump twice and believe that the election was stolen from him in 2020, who do not want to see another octogenarian president. Democrats are making a huge mistake continuing to engage in witch hunts against Trump. He may be the only Republican who could possibly lose to a candidate as bad as Joe Biden or Kamala Harris in 2024. They should be trying to make it easier for him to win the Republican nomination. A debate between Ron DeSantis and Joe Biden would be borderline elder abuse.

Democrats haven't exactly been known for being very smart when it comes to things like winning elections. I hope Trump is the GOP nominee but I'm doubting that he will be. What will be interesting is what Trump will do if he loses. He has no loyalty to any party and he won't accept losing gracefully. He seems to despise Desantis' encroaching on his own popularity with GOP voters.  I could see him running  an Independent if he loses to Desantis in order to foil the GOP victory. 

Also, if it looks like Trump is on the path to victory in the GOP primary, it will be interesting to see if Liz Cheney enters the race as an Independent to foil Trump. I saw an interview where she was asked about this scenario and all she would say is that she will do whatever she has to do to see that he will never become President again.

[Hoot Gibson]

It's not just GOP insiders who have had enough of Trump, there are many of us who voted for Trump twice and believe that the election was stolen from him in 2020, who do not want to see another octogenarian president. Democrats are making a huge mistake continuing to engage in witch hunts against Trump. He may be the only Republican who could possibly lose to a candidate as bad as Joe Biden or Kamala Harris in 2024. They should be trying to make it easier for him to win the Republican nomination. A debate between Ron DeSantis and Joe Biden would be borderline elder abuse.

Democrats haven't exactly been known for being very smart when it comes to things like winning elections. I hope Trump is the GOP nominee but I'm doubting that he will be. What will be interesting is what Trump will do if he loses. He has no loyalty to any party and he won't accept losing gracefully. He seems to despise Desantis' encroaching on his own popularity with GOP voters.  I could see him running  an Independent if he loses to Desantis in order to foil the GOP victory. 

Also, if it looks like Trump is on the path to victory in the GOP primary, it will be interesting to see if Liz Cheney enters the race as an Independent to foil Trump. I saw an interview where she was asked about this scenario and all she would say is that she will do whatever she has to do to see that he will never become President again.

I doubt that Liz Cheney will ever be a factor in Republican national politics again. She has more support among Democrats than Republicans and her assistance to Democrats taking political prisoners will follow her in any future campaign if she runs as a Republican. Trump's viability as a candidate is totally unrelated to anything that Cheney might do. The Cheneys despise Trump because of the slimy 2016 primary campaign that he ran against Jeb Bush. She is not the paragon of virtue that Democrats try to portray, but is, instead, what little is left of the Bush political dynasty.

[Old School Hound]

It's not just GOP insiders who have had enough of Trump, there are many of us who voted for Trump twice and believe that the election was stolen from him in 2020, who do not want to see another octogenarian president. Democrats are making a huge mistake continuing to engage in witch hunts against Trump. He may be the only Republican who could possibly lose to a candidate as bad as Joe Biden or Kamala Harris in 2024. They should be trying to make it easier for him to win the Republican nomination. A debate between Ron DeSantis and Joe Biden would be borderline elder abuse.

Democrats haven't exactly been known for being very smart when it comes to things like winning elections. I hope Trump is the GOP nominee but I'm doubting that he will be. What will be interesting is what Trump will do if he loses. He has no loyalty to any party and he won't accept losing gracefully. He seems to despise Desantis' encroaching on his own popularity with GOP voters.  I could see him running  an Independent if he loses to Desantis in order to foil the GOP victory. 

Also, if it looks like Trump is on the path to victory in the GOP primary, it will be interesting to see if Liz Cheney enters the race as an Independent to foil Trump. I saw an interview where she was asked about this scenario and all she would say is that she will do whatever she has to do to see that he will never become President again.

I doubt that Liz Cheney will ever be a factor in Republican national politics again. She has more support among Democrats than Republicans and her assistance to Democrats taking political prisoners will follow her in any future campaign if she runs as a Republican. Trump's viability as a candidate is totally unrelated to anything that Cheney might do. The Cheneys despise Trump because of the slimy 2016 primary campaign that he ran against Jeb Bush. She is not the paragon of virtue that Democrats try to portray, but is, instead, what little is left of the Bush political dynasty.

I think its Desantis' race to lose on the Republican side. However, the Trump card is gonna keep things interesting. Does Trump have enough support in the GOP to run over Desantis like he ran over all of the competition in '16?  It feels like he has lost some energy and momentum from that initial run and seems like a  lot of GOP voters have kinda tired of him .  Trump, though, will make things interesting and difficult for those who oppose him. I agree with you about Liz's popularity on the Republican side. She barely registers in the polls. She would garner much more support from Democrats, I believe, that she would from Republicans.