Highland Deac
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The NY Times has an article out about the GA Senate races. It's nothing new for those who have followed GOP politics for at least the past decade, but it does confirm and provide more evidence for how the GOP now wins elections. Instead of campaigning on their own proposals and ideas, Loeffler and Perdue are focused almost entirely on fear of electing Democrats.
"The biggest applause lines in Senator Kelly Loeffler’s stump speech are not about Ms. Loeffler at all. When the crowd is most engaged, including Thursday morning at a community pavilion in suburban Atlanta, Ms. Loeffler invokes President Trump or attacks her Democratic opponents as socialists and Marxists. Her own policy platforms are rarely mentioned.
“Are you ready to keep fighting for President Trump and show America that Georgia is a red state?” Ms. Loeffler said when she took the microphone. “We are the firewall to stopping socialism and we have to hold the line.”
"But the race is also emblematic of each party’s current political messages. Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the Democratic Senate candidates, have put forth an array of policy proposals that blend the shared priorities of the moderate center and the progressive left: passing a new Voting Rights Act, expanding Medicaid without backing a single payer system, investment in clean energy while stopping short of the Green New Deal, and criminal justice reform that does not include defunding the police."
"Mr. Perdue...[and] Ms. Loeffler are banking that their loyalists are motivated more by what their candidates stand against than by what they stand for. There are signs that this approach has resonated with many Republican voters. [GOP] voters said their top priorities were supporting Mr. Trump and his allegations of voter fraud and beating back the perceived excesses of liberals and their candidates."
“The biggest factor for me is stopping socialism,” said Melinda Weeks, a 62-year-old voter who lives in Gwinnett County. “I don’t want to see our country become the Chinese Communist Party.”
And then there's this gem from Lindsey Graham while campaigning for Loeffler: “If Republicans win, I'm the budget chairman. If we lose Georgia, Bernie Sanders is the budget chairman.”
He left no room for subtext. A vote for Republicans in Georgia, Mr. Graham said, was a vote to ensure Democrats can get little of their agenda enacted in Washington.
“Anything that comes out of Pelosi's House, it’ll come to the Senate and we’ll kill it dead,” he said, as the crowd roared with approval.
“If you’re a conservative and that doesn’t motivate you to vote, then you’re legally dead.”
So much for working with Democrats to compromise. Nice of Graham to illustrate to what the GOP really wants - to simply block anything Biden or other Democrats want to do for at least the next two years. They have no intention of working with Biden or the Democrats. Just troll and hate liberals, 24/7.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/us/politics/georgia-senate-election.html
"The biggest applause lines in Senator Kelly Loeffler’s stump speech are not about Ms. Loeffler at all. When the crowd is most engaged, including Thursday morning at a community pavilion in suburban Atlanta, Ms. Loeffler invokes President Trump or attacks her Democratic opponents as socialists and Marxists. Her own policy platforms are rarely mentioned.
“Are you ready to keep fighting for President Trump and show America that Georgia is a red state?” Ms. Loeffler said when she took the microphone. “We are the firewall to stopping socialism and we have to hold the line.”
"But the race is also emblematic of each party’s current political messages. Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the Democratic Senate candidates, have put forth an array of policy proposals that blend the shared priorities of the moderate center and the progressive left: passing a new Voting Rights Act, expanding Medicaid without backing a single payer system, investment in clean energy while stopping short of the Green New Deal, and criminal justice reform that does not include defunding the police."
"Mr. Perdue...[and] Ms. Loeffler are banking that their loyalists are motivated more by what their candidates stand against than by what they stand for. There are signs that this approach has resonated with many Republican voters. [GOP] voters said their top priorities were supporting Mr. Trump and his allegations of voter fraud and beating back the perceived excesses of liberals and their candidates."
“The biggest factor for me is stopping socialism,” said Melinda Weeks, a 62-year-old voter who lives in Gwinnett County. “I don’t want to see our country become the Chinese Communist Party.”
And then there's this gem from Lindsey Graham while campaigning for Loeffler: “If Republicans win, I'm the budget chairman. If we lose Georgia, Bernie Sanders is the budget chairman.”
He left no room for subtext. A vote for Republicans in Georgia, Mr. Graham said, was a vote to ensure Democrats can get little of their agenda enacted in Washington.
“Anything that comes out of Pelosi's House, it’ll come to the Senate and we’ll kill it dead,” he said, as the crowd roared with approval.
“If you’re a conservative and that doesn’t motivate you to vote, then you’re legally dead.”
So much for working with Democrats to compromise. Nice of Graham to illustrate to what the GOP really wants - to simply block anything Biden or other Democrats want to do for at least the next two years. They have no intention of working with Biden or the Democrats. Just troll and hate liberals, 24/7.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/us/politics/georgia-senate-election.html
