Cheaters Gonna Cheat Redux

 It has been a while since I have seen an Andrea Widburg post at the American Thinker, but she came out swinging today with a piece entitled We're getting played when it comes to the real 2022 winner. Widburg, as usual, is spot on. She starts by laying out the case as seen in various press reports and pundit blatherings. Keep in mind that these people are no smarter than the rest of us, but they must fill their space with something. As a result, we get a lot of half baked nonsense:

Following the dismal midterm showing, there’s a lot of blame to go around. While I can and will sum up the issue, I want to focus more narrowly on the way in which the entire Republican machine is turning from Trump, who is now anathema, to Ron DeSantis, who is the new god. Considering that we still have a long time before the primaries and then the 2024 election, this kind of decision-making is premature and dangerous—and that’s why we’re being forced into it.

Here's a short list of leading blame topics: (1) The GOP was useless; (2) American voters (especially the young ones), after 60 years of non-stop propaganda in the media, entertainment, and schools, no longer value freedom and the Constitution; (3) brainwashed women voters believe that fulfillment lies in a career and an appointment with the abortionist; and (4) Trump anointed weak candidates in pivotal elections.

The idea that candidates were of insufficient quality is pure humbug. Blake Masters is a superior candidate period. Compared to Fetterman, Oz is stands as a giant of a candidate. And Kari Lake is another Ron DeSantis. You could not ask for better. That they lost is do to...well, let Ms. Widburg tell you:

Oh, and here’s what I believe is the most significant factor: mail-in ballots. In states with mail-in ballots, the Secretary of State mails ballots to every person on the registrar’s list. It’s irrelevant that many have moved, are dead, or are manifestly fraudulent (see all of Jay Valentine’s articles on the subject). At apartment buildings, you may see dozens of ballots sitting in piles in the lobby, addressed to people who long since moved away.

The ballots then get mailed back in again. The Secretary of State has no idea who filled out the ballots or popped them in the mailbox. He or she doesn’t care that 1,000 are returned from the same 30-unit apartment building or temporary homeless shelter. The ballots are then taken from their envelopes, effectively removing all identification, and “counted.”

This is a process without any brakes on fraud. And if the current crop of ballots doesn’t provide a victory for the Democrats, it’s perfectly easy to slip in a few more ballots that are untethered to a real person to tip the “correct” candidate into the winning pile.

But at the moment, as Widburg says, the issue of election integrity is less important than the immediate drum beat to run Donald Trump out of the party. By blaming the woes of the party on Trump, and attempting to make DeSantis the new "leader," the establishment, deep state, and Never Trump have combined to take Trump out. Believe her when she says that at the appropriate moment, they will take out DeSantis too. Remember how John McCain was lionized as a "maverick" Republican by the press until he secured the nomination? Then they turned on him too. It is the same old same old. The whole idea is to retain power, money, and status...in other words corruption.

Which brings us to another piece, this time at Townhall.com by John Nantz, entitled Christians Are Responsible for the State of American Politics. But, how, you may ask, are Christians responsible. Many, especially evangelicals, shy away from politics, precisely because everyone involved seems to be corrupted. And Nantz would it seems agree:

McConnell is a statist dinosaur who only cares about the maintenance of his power, and, like so many other politicians, about filling his treasure chest by making merchandise of his fiduciary office. He’s a disgusting political creature whose corruption of soul is reflected in his pallor and weak, watery eyes. How this calcified bureaucrat continues to maintain his hold over the good citizens of Kentucky can only be explained in terms of pork-barrel spending, earmarked for key districts. His is an all too common story of corruption, greed, and compromise with China.

Republicans seem poised to wrest power from the totalitarian Democrats in the House. This victory should not be discounted, despite the thinner than hoped for margin. No thanks to Kevin McCarthy, who has carried forward the establishment Republican strategy — accomplish nothing, defame the conservative Republican base, and hope that independents will vote merely in opposition to Democrat policies.

But it’s not enough to simply mimic Karl Rove’s blank whiteboard. Rove can posture with his silly board on Fox News until doomsday, but that won’t convince conservative constitutionalists that he’s anything more than a big state, crony-capitalist Republican like George W. Bush — what a profound disappointment he has become in his dotage.

Incidentally, W was profoundly disappointing during his presidency. But I digress.

Lest we forget, it was primarily Christians who worked, prayed, and worked some more to finally get the Dobbs decision, and some of that work involved getting into politics. There are faithful Christians on the Supreme Court, for instance, Clarence Thomas. And the moral clarity and power of his decisions shows it. There are other faithful Christians like Mike Pompeo and former Vice President Pence. But you can also get involved by being a election official, or becoming involved in your local voter integrity group. We need these in every county in every state as described in yesterday's post.  If Christianity is failing in America, it may be because we are not leading by example. 

Perhaps it would work better if we let our light shine, by which I mean the Light of Christ within us.