Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
President Donald Trump, given all he has endured for five years from those piously pleading now for a “time of healing,” cannot be faulted for his defiant resolve to unearth any and all high crimes or misdemeanors committed in the counting of ballots in the election of Tuesday last. Trump owes his people this, and he owes the establishment nothing.
“In victory, magnanimity… in defeat, defiance.”
That counsel about human conflict comes from Winston Churchill.
And President Donald Trump, given all he has endured for five years from those piously pleading now for a “time of healing,” cannot be faulted for his defiant resolve to unearth any and all high crimes or misdemeanors committed in the counting of ballots in the election of Tuesday last.
Trump owes his people this, and he owes the establishment nothing.
Yet, in making this his priority, Trump should be mindful of several realities. From what we have seen so far, the prospect that the decision in the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona or Georgia will be overturned does not appear high.
Indeed, it seems a certainty that not enough electoral votes could be flipped from Biden to Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral vote victory.
And Trump should realize that in alleging fraud, he is creating an imperative upon himself and his team to provide the evidence to prove it.
In politics as in poker, there comes a time when you have to show your cards or fold your hand. Are the cards there?
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Trump should also be aware that his reputation, the causes he has served, and the future of both, will be influenced by how he conducts himself in what appears to be an inevitable defeat.
Richard Nixon, in the 1960 election against JFK, declined to challenge the returns from Illinois, which he lost by 9,000 votes, though journalists then and historians have contended that the state was almost surely stolen in Cook County.
Nixon chose not to challenge the Illinois count.
Among the reasons was that, even had he done so successfully, after a brutal battle like the Bush-Gore contest in Florida, and even had Illinois been shifted into his column, he would have been short of the 270 electoral votes needed to win.
Nixon would have had to contest and flip Texas as well.
Also, while Trump and his campaign are devoting time and resources to the ballot count in battleground states, a last crucial battle is shaping up in Georgia, where the stakes are second only to the presidency.
Minutes after Biden declared victory last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, exulted, “Now we take Georgia, and then we change the world.”
Schumer was referring to the two Senate races that will be decided Jan. 5, both runoffs where none of the four candidates got the Georgia-required 50.0% of the vote on Nov. 3.
Republican Sen. David Perdue won 49.7%, just short of the 50.0% that would have ensured GOP control of the Senate through 2022. Perdue faces a runoff against 33-year-old Jon Ossoff.
The other race is between Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who is seeking to fill out the full term of Johnny Isakson who stepped down from the Senate in 2019 for health reasons. She is opposed by African American pastor Raphael Warnock.
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If Rossoff and Warnock both win, Democrats take control of the Senate. Schumer will be the new majority leader, displacing Mitch McConnell. And all tie votes will be decided by the new Senate President and Vice President Kamala Harris, who, as of 2020, was, by her voting record, the most radical member of the entire body.
What would this mean?
On Jan. 20, 10 weeks from today, Democrats would control the House with Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the chair, the Senate with Schumer as majority leader, and the White House with newly inaugurated Joe Biden in the Oval Office.
The sole residual power Republicans would retain is the filibuster, the right of extended debate, the capacity to block the radical proposals of the new Democratic majority dominant in D.C. by talking them to death.
Before the “Green New Deal,” “Medicare for All” and the Biden-Bernie tax hikes could be passed, before a trillion-dollar bailout of blue states like Illinois could be enacted, before the Supreme Court could be packed, the Senate filibuster would have to be eliminated.
But, if it were, we would be transported back to the days of 1965, when LBJ, with veto-proof majorities in both houses, rammed through his Great Society, the failure of which is manifest today in Detroit, St. Louis, Philadelphia, New York — and in our staggering national debt.
Are Democrats ready for so radical a step? Indeed, they are. Even Barack Obama is calling for killing the filibuster as a “Jim Crow relic.”
Republicans who think that Democrats would not abolish the filibuster to advance their agenda are deluding themselves.
Yet, all that is needed to block this rising radical revolution is for the GOP to win one of the two Georgia Senate seats at issue Jan. 5.
If the Democrats lose either Georgia race, the Bernie-BLM-antifa-AOC revolution may just end up devouring its children.
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Perdue is close enough that he could win if the fraudulent votes are tossed out. The question remains as to whether the fraudulent votes can be identified and sorted out from the valid votes.
Damn I needed a first thing in the morning dose of defeatism. Thanks Pat.
A great legal mind once said that ‘a vote must be legal, in order to be counted.’ The evidence must show the legality, otherwise none is assumed. The Dominion Voting software offers plenty of proof and they know where it is. This battle must be won. There is no other viable option.
That sounds very ominous. Gridlock is much more preferable.
If they get away with stealing the Presidency, then they will get away with stealing both of the Georgia Senate seats as well.
In other words, there will be no ‘gridlock’.
To be clear. One race was among about 26 candidates as it was a special election to replace useless Isackson. In the other race, it was 3 candidates. With the presence of Stacey Abrams in the state, it is guaranteed that election fraud occurred.
Pat is from another time, when there were only 2 sexes, when phones had wires, and when the news business was semi-respectable.
I have no clue who Pat thinks is reading his articles, it’s not written for the 70 million who actually voted for the current president.
maybe he is trying to get a gig at FOX?
So it is better to just let the fraud continue? How about if Nixon had successfully challenged it back then (even if still losing overall) we might not have been at this stage today. And then Pat mentions the Senate race in Georgia….. so if there is fraud to be uncovered it may stop the steal in those two races. That is attention being given.
I get at times it seems futile, but sitting back and just letting things go is one of the reasons we are in the various predicaments we are in today.
Pat needs to get on GAB. His news sources are fake and he doesn’t even know it.
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“From what we have seen so far, the prospect that the decision in the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona or Georgia will be overturned does not appear high.”
Apparently, Pat believes that the media decides who becomes president, and when. Someone needs to tell him that none of those states are done counting, and none of those states have declared a winner.
You’d think a guy who ran for President would know such things…
n. carolina has been called 4 trump–arizona had about 60,000 votes left to count earlier today & biden’s lead was down to just under 15,000 votes–
trump could still pull this out–
It’s really sad and discouraging in a way always butting heads with people you have known for years, and when you try to show them facts about various issues; the voter fraud, russia hoax, rona, the way the real world functions, blah, blah, they just don’t want to hear it. WTF!! These people suffer from the worst cases of normalcy bias and cognitive dissonance it makes me want to vomit. These are the people that are going to suffer the most from what is coming. They just don’t understand what is at play here. Oh well. Eyes open, No fear, Be safe everyone. so
Poor old Pat is 82 years old. The same age Joe Biden will be at the end of his first term (if he wins the election, which he won’t). Pat was quite a fighter in his day. He hated the Bushes which makes him OK in my book. Age takes it’s toll though and Pat has definitely lost his fastball. It shows how bad a choice Biden really is on age alone.
Pat could have written a more interesting column about how Nixon conceded in 1960 despite obvious fraud by Kennedy. Supposedly, it was for the good of the country. Some good! If Nixon had been President instead of the ill prepared and incompetent John Kennedy, there would have been no War in Vietnam, no Great Society, no Watergate, No social upheaval in the sixties and much more.
The lesson is that the will of the people MUST be honored. If you think you won (and Trump DID WIN), never give up and never give in to the cheaters.