Smart Move, GOP

[NanceGreggs]

The Republicans continue to support Trump’s lies and mindless ramblings about a ‘stolen election’ – stolen by the corrupt Democrats counting ‘illegal’ ballots, installing computer systems that change votes, and via a ‘vast international conspiracy’ that wields power beyond all imagination.

In supporting the notion that those evil libruls have the ability to manipulate election results – to the point where Trump’s alleged landslide win was easily turned into a landslide Biden win – they are telling anyone who is listening that our elections cannot be trusted.

The problem here should be obvious. The only people who are listening to Republican politicians right now are Republican voters, many of whom are Trump supporters who need to believe that the only way their Dear Leader could possibly have lost this election is due to a massive effort to steal it from him by manipulating the vote counts of millions of people across the board.

What is truly stunning about the GOP’s short-sightedness (okay, their abject stupidity) is the fact that two run-off elections scheduled for early January will determine control of the Senate – and telling their own supporters that their votes can easily be flipped, ignored, thrown out, dumped in garbage bins – and all of the other means the Democrats used to steal a presidential election.

So you have to wonder how many Republicans won’t bother to vote in those January run-offs, simply because they’ve been convinced – by their own party – that their votes for the GOP candidates won’t count anyway, thanks to the same nefarious machinations the Democrats employed to fraudulently elect Joe Biden.

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see Republican voters in Georgia rushing out to cast their ballots after being told – repeatedly, and in no uncertain terms – that their votes don’t matter, because the fix is already in.

I also don’t see any ‘alternative facts’ that the GOP can offer to undo the damage they’re doing to their own ‘base’. How do you convince Republican voters to vote for any GOP candidate in future – after you’ve been so vociferous about how Democrats obviously have the means to “steal” elections, and therefore your vote is meaningless.

‘Tis a puzzlement.

[Arne]

1. Don't forget projection

If they say the fix is in, it's their fix.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Increasing cynicism leads to decreased voting. Smart move. . . . nt

[Renew Deal]

3. The thing is that republican voters know it's BS

They’re just going with it.

[Solomon]

11. Yep. Precisely.

[Shermann]

12. That's mostly the college educated part of his base

Then there's his non-college educated demographic that tend to be more gullible.

Trump "loves the poorly educated" (actual quote).

[Maeve]

4. I disagree on one point--Putin is listening, too

As are other enemies of democracy. And they are smiling.

[Resistance1]

5. Sshhhhhhh!

Let the GOP suppress their own GA voters

[NurseJackie]

13. You beat me to it... that was going to be my reply too.

[JHB]

6. I wonder if we could spread a "Don't Legitimize the Fake Runoff, Stay Home Jan. 5"...

..."movement" among the GA sTrumpets? Or would that backfire somehow?

[marble falls]

7. That's my thought. They mixed the kool-aid, lets get them to drink it.

[Danascot]

8. Pretty sure I heard that Q said something along those lines.

snort!

[BSdetect]

9. Is it really a problem if stoopids don't vote because they believe crap like this?

[Illumination]

10. Hope that soon these wackadoodles will somehow see the real truth & that THEY"VE BEEN

SCAMMED!

[thesquanderer]

14. Lots of things have artificially skewed results toward Republicans, but we still vote.

As Mayor Pete used to say, we need to get out enough vote to win "beyond cheating distance." That same argument could work here to appeal to the other side as well.

[Hortensis]

15. The worst of GA Republicans are terrified and/or enraged to

discover they can't count on our elections being stolen for them. And neither is too strong a word at all as they see it as more proof that the greatness that was America, and for some the world, is at an end.

Then there are the rest who voted for Trump. They're not crazy, but they're all worked up too and really do believe they need Republican control of the senate more than ever. It's going to be all about turnout, of course.

To the phones!

[Marcuse]

16. Republicans should boycott the runoffs and deny legitimacy to the Libs.

[flying_wahini]

17. The words 'Stolen Election' is ALL they have. No need to manipulate anything.

All MAGA’s need to hear are those words. No excuses or evidence necessary.

[lame54]

18. They'll vote...

Pence had a big rally
They are in full campaign mode
They may think their vote will be flipped but they will still vote

Just like they believe there is no pandemic and Trump is doing a great job dealing with the pandemic

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. GOTV because they damn sure will!

[NEOBuckeye]

20. If the GOP were a person, they'd be psychotic.

Oh, wait...

[Bob_in_VA]

21. I'm curious

This is probably too complex a thought for the average Republican voter but why, if the Dems could rig the Presidential election, wouldn't they have also rigged every competitive Senatorial election as well? If Thom Tillis, Joni Ernst and Susan Collins had lost, the outcome of the races in Georgia would be moot. (Yeah, I know. Most Repubs wouldn't know what "moot" means.)