GOP primary losers claim rigged elections. Sound familiar?
Thought for the day
Well, folks, it's finally happening. Losing GOP primary candidates are now calling foul. They believe their defeats have been the result of rigged elections.
Frankly, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. What I do know is this: Their attempts to reverse the outcome of their election defeats sound alarmingly familiar.
In Colorado, state Rep. Ron Hanks and Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who's been indicted on seven felony counts of breaching her voting system's hard drive, easily lost their June 28 Republican primaries for U.S. Senate and secretary of state. Both have formally requested recounts because ... get this ... of widespread irregularities.
Similar challenges have been raised by losing Republican candidates in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and South Carolina.
According to one GOP insider, "The 2022 elections haven't even been held yet, and already we are seeing speculation doubting the results -- especially if certain candidates lose. It's one of the most irresponsible things I can imagine."
As far as I am concerned, the "election infection" that started with Donald Trump, when he blamed his 2016 Iowa caucus defeat on voter fraud, has become a full-blown national tragedy. Trump's insistence that the 2020 election was stolen has been rejected by more than 60 courts as well as countless local, state and federal authorities coast to coast.
If that wasn't enough, even the former president's own administration insiders, like Attorney General Bill Barr and White House counsel Pat Cipollone, are on record as having told Trump he lost the election fair and square. And yet, because millions of MAGA voters still believe the Big Lie is true, serious doubts about the 2020 results continue to poison our most treasured value (democracy).
I don't know how many losing GOP primary candidates are out there, but their calls of rigged election results are preposterous. This goes way beyond simply being a denier. In my opinion, losers lose and liars lie. This is not the America I want my kids and grandchildren to inherit.
-DF