Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
If you mixed together Cannae, Agincourt, Normandy (yeah, I went there), and Armageddon, then multiplied that battle by 100, you get some idea of the scale of the upcoming death match to be held just a few miles up the road from me in California’s 25th Congressional District. Katie Hill, she of the bizarrely convoluted relationships and questionable hairbrush perch hygiene, got the ole heave-ho by Nancy Pelosi after Redstate reporter Jennifer Van Laar’s exposé of the up ‘n coming Democrat’s multi-faceted relationship choices, choices so icky that they even freaked out the Cali crowd.
Now that her former congressional seat, snagged from the sleeping GOP in 2018, is going to be the subject of a special election of surpassing specialness. To get the House back, this swing district is a must win for the Republicans; to keep the House, it’s a must win for the Democrats. Every hack reporter yearning for a trip to LA during the winter is going to be out here reporting on the bellwether to ring all bellwethers.
And it’s all going down just up the road from me. It’s gonna be lit, as the hip kids say.
So, is the GOP ready for this fight? Well, it’s the California GOP, so the presumptive answer is “No.” California’s Republicans – all 12 of them – got brutalized in 2018 by a devastating combination of changing Golden State demographics, a flood of Dem dinero, and the legendary incompetence that has made my state’s GOP pretty much the French Army of modern American politics. There are plenty of excuses – oh, the Democrats ballot harvested (It’s legal in this banana republic, so why didn’t we?). Oh, the Democrats were more motivated (Gee, whose fault is that?). Oh, the Democrats had better candidates (How about not nominating losers?). But the time for excuses has passed. It’s do or die, and this election is a Katie Hill to die on.
The libs are not going to let this one go. The tech titans are ready to stroke their checks. The media will run interference for the left. Moreover, the district is in the north Valley, meaning it’s just a quick limo ride for the Hollywood not-so-smart set to cruise on up and do their thing. If you’re a 25th District voter, be prepared to be accosted coming out of Trader Joe’s by the likes of Alyssa Milano begging you to vote for whatever near-commie the Democrats put forward. To the extent that washed up 80s TV stars constitute star-power, be prepared to be wowed.
Now, the national GOP is going to have to step in to help, both with money and infrastructure – a lot of money, and a lot of infrastructure. The former GOP congressman was napping last time and Katie Hill rolled him. She was able to win a seat that had always been ours and should still be ours, and that was on us.
The fact is that this is a GOP-leaning district that should go red in 2020. But why would the voters – as opposed to the ones who checked the box for the polyamorous pinko – support some soft Republican who will go to DC and do nothing? Why should they turn out on election day if they aren’t inspired? We Republicans have been burned again and again by GOP soy puppets who let overpaid campaign consultants who seem to know a lot about draining campaigns coffers but nothing about winning neuter them and turn them into human puffballs.
Who needs a Jeb! clone who wants to “reach out” and “solve problems” and never, ever take a stand? This is kind of the butter-spined weakness that is supposed to appeal to the suburban wine mom set, but do women really want to support a sissy? Do the men of the district want to come out for a candidate who seems like he or she will break into tears if he or she ever found himself or herself microaggressed?
Conservatism, aggressively and unapologetically articulated, wins.
No, we are not raising your taxes to buy stuff for illegal aliens.
No, we are not making you ditch your Ford Explorer because a bunch of Bay Area weather cultists demand you sacrifice to Gaia.
No, we are not sending your kids to get killed in some border dispute between Whocaresistan and Bingobadoodle.
No, boys pretending to be girls are not going to take all the prizes in your girls’ sports leagues.
Yes, you are going to get to keep your health insurance and your doctor.
Yes, we are going to ensure your kids get taught to read instead of how to complain about their privilege.
Yes, we are going to stand up to China.
Yes, we are going to defend our border.
These are winning issues – you just need a GOP candidate who is woke and willing to take the heat for articulating them. Our candidate has to understand that, no matter what, the Democrats will call him/her a racist, sexist, transphobic, Islamophobic climate denier who supports hunting kids with AR-15s, and he/she has to not give a damn.
Our positions win. Infrastructure aside, our candidates often lose because they care what their opponents say and soft pedal our conservative message. Stop caring. Start making them take positions that persuadable GOP voters hate.
Fortunately, we have a Republican candidate in the 25th with a proven track record of being tough. He’s Mike Garcia, and he’s a Navy fighter pilot who smoked jihadi dirtbags while whatever candidate the Dems put forward was wandering around some college campus introducing his/her/xisself with his/her/xis pronouns.
Mike is the real deal, with a solid civilian career, a beautiful family, and no throuple weirdness. He embodies the normality and the kind of forthright conservatism the 25th needs. Check him out, and help him out if you are so inclined.
This is no time for shenanigans or vanity candidacies. This is the time to clear the field and rally around the guy who strapped himself to jet engines and took off to drop bombs on bad people over in the sandbox. We need a warrior. This fight will make all those other special election fights we’ve won lately look as peaceful and tranquil as one of Katie Hill’s naked hair brushing sessions. This is the decisive battle, right here, in the 25th. This is where we turn it around and counterattack to take back the House.
Speaking of California and its slow degeneration into a Venezuela-like nightmare of blackouts and sidewalk dung, my action-packed yet hilarious novels of America torn apart by liberal failure, People’s Republic, Indian Country, Wildfire, and the upcoming (this November!) Collapse, largely take place there. The loser hacks of Never Trump called this book series “appalling,” which is literally the greatest blurb any author could ever aspire to!
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What’s that German word for “punchable face”?
That face again.
Physiognomy for the win.
we need this seat.will they fight for it?
Is it my imagination or are her eyes much too close together?
Take away the hair and you’ve got a thumb puppet.
A thumb puppet is the perfect sock puppet!
it is stupid to have an election 4 a seat that will only be held 4 a year–
the governor should be allowed to appoint someone to finish out the term–
Nein! We take the seat back (it was a GOP seat for a long time). New rules….we win they lose!
Members of the House of Representatives represent the people, not the state government (that was the function of the Senate, before the 17th amendment), therefore the people must be the ones to select their representatives.
What is a throuple?
an ongoing menage a trois —
A what point does a Throuple become a harem? Asking for a friend.
If people are not breaking the law, what does it matter what they do in their personal lives. Its when those libtards who just can’t help but show off how depraved they are, with all their queer agenda crap. If I had two girlfriends I would want to be with both at the same time. Perversion is strong in man, only God can judge what is in his heart. Can a man or a woman have two spouses. Well we do it all the time with divorce. God wants us to become one out of two, but doesn’t say you can’t have more then one spouse at a time. I mean, King David, had so many wives and concubines he couldn’t possibly have serviced them all to their own satisfaction. Like all men, David just wanted to be surrounded by beautiful women. Nothing wrong with that, but again, even two wives would be too much for most men… And people say we have a problem with PORN, well we do, but again freedom of your private live should be private. Don’t stick your LGBTQXYZ crap in our faces and we could care less about who you screw…
Nobody cares who was sitting on her face. She clearly broke the House rule on fraternization with staff which was put in after massive sexual harassment lawsuits.
Some of King David’s marriages were political alliances. You can always see the trouble it caused for the men with many wives. Even though the women were chattel, they still managed to cause all kinds of trouble and double that when you get the kids fighting each other. Notice how King Solomon was never happy and complained about women even though it’s estimated he had as many as 1000 wives and concubines. The more he had, the more unhappy he became.
But dang it he could spin a good yarn or two!
multiply that by a thousand, like Solomon!
She’s probably about average in the Congressional Morals Spectrum. We reap what we sow.
Voting democrat or republican is almost as effective as getting the band to change the tune that’s played as the Titanic sinks.
California is a 1 party state.
The best the citizens can do is take absentee ballots in dark red areas and transfer them to light Blue districts.
Vote for the Libertarian party candidate instead.
I live in the 25th Congressional District, and I was the Libertarian Party candidate for this district in 2006. The Republican neocon Howard P. “Buck” McKeon won that year, as he did for many elections both before and after that year. He was as useless as any other neocon, but he won because he was a Republican, and this district was always reliably Republican until Katie Hill won in 2018. It was gerrymandered to be a Republican district but I don’t think it will go Republican again. The demographics have changed too much for that.
I will probably be voting for a third party candidate, as I usually do, although not necessarily the Libertarian Party candidate. I don’t agree with the libertarians on all issues, especially their position on open borders.
This article isn’t correct where it says the district is in the north (San Fernando) Valley. A very tiny portion of the southern part of the district is in the northern part of the Valley, but that is it. The district is mostly the Santa Clarita and high desert areas of Los Angeles County (where I live) and the Simi Valley area of Ventura County.
Fascinating. Too bad the Libertarian party (as opposed to Libertarian policy) does not actually support libertarian orthodoxy on a national level. Good for you for making the effort and getting in the ring. Kind of a shame CA used to be a conservative state…..I was there with Pete Wilson (a squishy GOPer). As goes CA so goes the USA…..maybe.
I hope this will shut up the yammering yo-yos that paint California with a broad brush. The 50 shades of grey assholes have got about as much nuance as a house painter. Fucking monochrome morons need to get some more colors on their palette.
EC, I have gathered from previous comments you have made that you also live in this district, probably somewhere in or near Palmdale. Is that correct?
unless they’re in a zoo or on the wall,coyotes have no permanente address–
ec moves with the wayward wind–
East side.
Who is JE? Is that another one of your aliases?
Yes, I have many. Sorry.
I tried to link the chubby photo but it didn’t hook up.
Go check out the story our mutual friend wrote for your Coyote pals.