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In the smoking debris of the Republican Red Wave the pundits are weighing in on what went wrong.\u00a0 No doubt a few die hard MAGA\u2019s will assume that the election was rigged, probably Venezuelan software in the Dominion voting machines, but most of the autopsies seem to be looking for a villain among their own.\u00a0 Trump.\u00a0 The candidates he backed, ranging from the football hero to the quack TV doctor, just weren\u2019t of a high enough quality, they say.<\/p>\n
Ya think?\u00a0 C\u2019mon, folks, take a stroll through the past few years and tell me the GOP candidates were top drawer.\u00a0 Consider just the folks who won, mostly old white angry men, guys like McCarthy who on Jan. 6th<\/sup> said his president was unfit for office — ya think, again?— but was on a plane to Mar-a-Lago 22 days later to kiss the ring.\u00a0 How many of these quality Republicans holding office refused to confirm Biden as the legitimate winner of the 2020 race?<\/p>\n To quote the bard, referring as easily to Donald Trump as Julius Caesar:<\/p>\n \u2018Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world<\/p>\n Like a Colossus, and we petty men<\/p>\n Walk under his huge legs and peep about<\/p>\n To find ourselves dishonorable graves.<\/p>\n Men at some time are masters of their fates.<\/p>\n The fault, dear Brutus<\/strong>, is not in our stars,<\/p>\n But in ourselves, that we are underlings.\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let\u2019s be honest here.\u00a0 You proved you can fool some of the people all of the time.\u00a0 The real truth is you fooled yourselves.\u00a0 If you\u2019re looking for a scapegoat, try a mirror.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the smoking debris of the Republican Red Wave the pundits are weighing in on what went wrong.\u00a0 No doubt a few die hard MAGA\u2019s will assume that the election was rigged, probably Venezuelan software in the Dominion voting machines, but most of the autopsies seem to be looking for a villain among their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[5144,5145,5143],"class_list":["post-16079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-and-ravings","tag-gop-candidates","tag-maga-on-the-skids","tag-woke-electorate"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16080,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16079\/revisions\/16080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}