Trump In, Ronna Out, Win Baby Win

Sifting Through Last Week's Election Day Carnage

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Trump In, Ronna Out, Win Baby Win

The Republican Party must immediately unite around Donald J. Trump as its presidential candidate.  Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel must voluntarily pass the torch of leadership to a new RNC Chair capable of running a competent campaign in 2024.  Absent these two mid-course corrections, the Republican Party will squander a platinum opportunity to take back both the White House and Congress from a Democrat Party destroying everything Main Street America holds dear.

Trump has an insurmountable lead in the polls and a rock-solid base no other candidate can shake.  He WILL be the nominee.

As we saw last week, there is no one left on the debate stage either capable of being president or likely to be Trump’s VP choice.  The Pillsbury Doughboy of Venom Chris Christie has self-immolated as spoiler hit man.  Loudmouth Ramaswamy is, at best, a Deputy Cabinet appointee. 

The treacherous leader of the “Trump Without Trumpism” movement Nikki Haley has bitten the Trump hand that fed her so many times that she will have NO place in a Trump administration (other than perhaps as ambassador to Botswana).  Of course, Ron DeSanctimonious blew his VP chance not just when he swung for the head of the Old Testament Trump king.  Shrinking Ron has proven to have little national appeal.

What, then, is the purpose of continuing with a contested primary season that serves only to drain political funds from the General Election?  Why have a debate schedule that allows the Keebler Elf candidates to take pot shots at Trump as they make fools of themselves? 

In fact, we saw a similar movie in 2020 with all of the usual suspects now hanging around the 2024 fringes.  These suspects range from the Koch network’s dark money and Rupert Murdoch’s propagandist Fox to the Romney-McConnell-Ryan-Noonan RINO sappers and nasty PAC men like George Conway and John Bolton.  In 2020, their dark money and stilettos most certainly shaved points off the final Trump tally in what was a highly contested race.  

And let’s not forget the 2020 pot shots at Trump from the likes of endless warmongers like George W. Bush, Mad Dog Mattis, and the late Colin Powell, and the passive-aggressive shots at Trump by Mitch McConnell in a Senate that has become nothing short of a Uniparty RINO embarrassment. 

As splintered as the Democrat Party is supposed to be, their leaders and donors wouldn’t be doing anything like why the Republican Party is.  Now, it’s either “here we go again” and the Republican Party hands over an eminently winnable election to the Party of economic mayhem, open borders, and foreign policy chaos.  Alternatively, it can unite around “The Donald” as the only clear path to victory in 2024.

Even if Trump quickly becomes the presumptive nominee, there still is the matter of an RNC which, as last week’s election has once again demonstrated, knows far better how to hold plush fundraisers at posh resorts than win down and often dirty elections against a brass-knuckled Democrat Party willing to lie and cheat its way to victory.

Here’s several obvious post-election takeaways.  First, the RNC must develop a far better ground game behind them.  It’s not just about getting folks to vote early.  It’s also about getting more folks to the polls. 

Second, if the RNC allows the Democrat Party to turn the 2024 presidential and congressional races into a referendum on social issues, particularly abortion, Republicans will lose in RECORD numbers.

How many times do Republican strategists and leadership have to make this same stupid mistake?  Obama did it to the feckless Mitt Romney in 2008 when Romney was an all but lock to win on economic issues.  Obama did it again to the clueless and ever-cranky John McCain in 2012. 

And what about that 2022 Republican tsunami that was supposed to result in a record House victory?  It never materialized for all manner of RNC-induced reasons, not the least of which was a failure to properly message on the abortion issue.

Dukakis had it right with his Greek proverb that the fish rots from the head down.  The RNC is a rotten political machine sputtering on every single cylinder, and its head, Ronna McDaniel, must hold herself accountable for last week’s carnage.  So, Ronna, end the debates, endorse Trump, and then step aside so we can, in the words of the immortal Al Davis, “win, baby, win.”