Ronna McDaniel, who chairs the Republican National Committee (RNC), firmly believes 2024 GOP presidential contenders should be required “to sign a pledge to back the party’s ultimate nominee in order to participate in primary debates.” “I think it’s kind of a no-brainer, ri[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2022 Elections’
Racist lunatic to lead Michigan GOP
It feels strange to label a black woman as a racist; but I’ll get to that, and explain it, momentarily. Kristina Karamo (bio here; photo, left) was elected chair of Michigan’s Republican Party on Saturday, February 19, 2023 (see story here). This is the first time she’s been electe[...]
February 17th, 2023 - 11:09 am § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake untethers from truth
And that’s a huge red flag in a candidate for public office. Before the 2022 election, in which Lake ran for Arizona governor, she repeated Trump’s election lies and claimed her own election wouldn’t be fair unless she won. That’s a slap in the face — no, a hard punch &[...]
February 11th, 2023 - 6:22 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake argues elections aren’t fair unless Republicans always win
Kari Lake was a local news anchor before she ran for Arizona governor and lost by 17,117 votes. Lake, who based her campaign on Trump’s election lies, sued to overturn the election, lost in court, and has vowed to take her case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which shows her understanding of how la[...]
February 8th, 2023 - 1:59 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake blames election loss on CIA coup d’etat
It took a little pushing by a rightwing podcaster, but Kari Lake “absolutely” agreed she lost the Arizona governor’s race because of a CIA coup d’etat. Lake conceded “I haven’t looked at all the evidence” (she never does), but that’s immaterial because[...]
February 3rd, 2023 - 2:28 pm § in Politics, Republicans
How to keep losing elections
Think of Arizona Republicans as lab rats. GOP strategists do. What’s going on in Arizona GOP circles illustrates why Republicans are losing elections they should win. But they’re learning nothing from it. A Politico article published on Friday, February 3, 2023, goes into the details (re[...]
January 13th, 2023 - 10:45 pm § in Politics, Republicans
The Kari Lake Comedy Hour
Yes, it’s come to this: Defeated GOP candidate Kari Lake is a comedian. She’s made herself a laughingstock, not by refusing to concede, or her sore-loser attitude, but by the crazy stuff she says. Last week she called herself the “real and duly elected” governor of Arizona, e[...]
A conversation between two election crackpots
Fox talk-show host Maria Bartiromo, who used to be a respected financial journalist before she left CNBC to become a flack for Trumpism, dished up a plate of Kari Lake election denialism on her show on Sunday, January 8, 2023 (see story here). Formatted as an interview, but in actuality a backscratc[...]
January 4th, 2023 - 6:55 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake goes “stolen valor”
Kari Lake, the defeated GOP candidate for Arizona governor who refuses to concede after losing the election, a recount, and a court challenge, is going around calling herself Governor Lake (see story here). Gee, where have we seen this before? Here? In videos like the one below? I remember when to [...]
What’s next for Kari Lake?
Kari Lake’s signal accomplishment in politics is losing to a Democrat in Arizona. That took work, and a reverse sort of genius, but she was up to it. Lake ran for governor on a 3-part platform: (1) Zero experience for the job, (2) insisting Trump was robbed in 2020, and (3) asserting the elect[...]