By DEXTER DUGGAN
PHOENIX — Every single day’s front page has to have a top story, but they all can’t be of equal significance or impact during 365 days of the year. Just as each day in your life doesn’t carry the same weight. A marriage or a birth isn’t the same as deciding to have pizza for Tuesday dinner.
For instance, prolonged massive unauthorized immigration is bound to change the character or even existence of a nation, while an individual politician switching party affiliation likely has less historical heft.
How many people recall the name of U.S. Sen. Jim Jeffords these days, even though the Vermonter’s switch from being Republican to an Independent caucusing with the Democrats in 2001 changed the balance of power in the Senate to the Dems for a bit.
On the other hand, the radical Democrats in power today with Joe Biden’s White House fancy that they can mandate changing the very nature of human beings, such as with the far-out Dems’ loony notions about switching one’s sex or moral code as casually as changing shirts.
As with their open-borders insanity, the sex-twister Dems and those Republicans who enable them either will destroy the very foundation of the United States or else be thrown so forcibly out of power as a rejection of their hubris that they’ll become historical antiquities.
Just consider bad Catholic Biden promoting colossal social immorality. It’s hard to think that God won’t intervene against this with His own kind of transformative change. And then we’ll see what excuses Catholic prelates sputter who had looked on passively at the White House wickedness.
There’s something sick about a politician determined to abort as many of his own nation’s infants as possible while rushing in as many illegal entrants as he can. Biden’s ally and pro-abortion fanatic U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) was similarly amazing in mid-November when he lamented a lack of U.S. workers even while continuing his war against our preborn babies.
Another newsworthy topic is vote fraud. It persists through centuries, but indulging it only invites worse corruption. Even a republican democracy, such as the U.S. supposedly is, can’t survive if its voting system widely is distrusted. Like an individual’s own behavior, if the fraud is given free rein, downfall is likelier. Reform is the alternative.
A California pro-life activist phoned me in the first part of December to lament that suspicion of voting corruption was influencing pro-lifers simply to stay away from balloting. On December 13 national radio host Charlie Kirk and popular web aggregator “Kane” joined in warning that people mustn’t abandon their right to vote because that hands the other side a better chance to win.
Regarding wickedness, consider Biden’s intentional open-borders scandal.
Imagine that the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters offices, in Washington, D.C., simply were thrown open. Doors unlocked 24 hours a day, signs out front inviting anyone to come inside to stay as they please for free food, housing, personal phones, medicine, and bundles of cash.
And Democratic Party employees are required to assist in this takeover of their offices and even surrender their jobs to outsiders who want their desks. And if the outsiders prefer not to work, then guaranteed pay for doing nothing under this roof.
How long does anyone think the Democratic Party headquarters would retain its orientation or even exist at all?
That’s what Joe Biden intentionally is doing as he maliciously destroys the U.S. with overwhelming, unsustainable illegal immigration. Some land mass might remain between Canada and Mexico, but it wouldn’t be the United States of America.
The U.S. military has trouble filling its vacancies due to repellent “woke” mandates. But how many would want to volunteer to fight for the social obscenity that Biden is creating for whatever malign reason? Does he expect that conquering troops from Communist China would reward him with his own personal pagoda mansion? At his age, how long would Biden expect to enjoy it?
On December 13 the Washington Examiner’s chief political correspondent, Byron York, posted that current border jumping far exceeds the numbers considered to be dire — and Catholic Charities is one of the destructive enablers.
York wrote that border-based Bill Melugin, of Fox News, tweeted on December 12: “The chief of U.S. Border Patrol reports there have been over 16,000 migrant encounters at the border in the last 48 hours. That’s an average of 8,000 per day. Former Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson once said 1,000 in a day would be a ‘crisis.’ We are eight times that right now.”
Research by the conservative Heritage Foundation found that the massive numbers of illegal entrants are being spread throughout the U.S., York said, and NGOs like Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley facilitate this — “nongovernmental organizations that are often funded by churches or liberal groups that favor allowing virtually unlimited numbers of illegal border crossers to stay permanently in the U.S.,” York said.
This smells like Biden’s radical staffers recalling the “Cloward-Piven” strategy bruited by two left-wingers in the 1960s — to overburden the system and make it collapse in order to change it.
Going Nowhere
Probably of less consequence on the national scene — although it shouldn’t be minimized — is the political-party change of Arizona’s U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a newly minted Independent who formerly was a Democrat, even though her switch was treated as big news.
Perhaps Sinema had larger significance because the political class had grown used to hanging on her every word in the closely divided Senate over whether she’d accept some of the profligate Biden administration’s blow-out spending plans.
And then, no sooner was Democrat leadership cheering over Sen. Raphael Warnock’s Georgia runoff victory on December 6 against the GOP’s Herschel Walker, which gave the Dems a tiny 51-seat outright Senate majority, than Sinema announced on December 9 that she was leaving the party. However, Sinema said, she’d still caucus with the Democrats and maintain voting “values” that were closer to theirs than Republicans’.
One plausible theory was that Sinema knew how unpopular she’d grown with Grand Canyon State Democrats and, by becoming an Independent, she could survive at least as far as the Arizona general election in 2024 rather than lose in the Dem primary.
How the passing of years brings change. A quarter-century ago Sinema was a local Phoenix weirdo who apparently was going nowhere, a radical feminist and enviro-extremist destined to howl from the fringes. So she started changing her coloration, managing to get into the Arizona legislature, then, beginning in 2013, the U.S. House of Representatives.
When Arizona’s unpopular “moderate” GOP U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake announced in 2017 that he wouldn’t run for a second six-year term in 2018, the opportunistic Sinema suddenly jumped into that race.
She had the good fortune to face off in the 2018 general election against the Mitch McConnell-endorsed theoretical GOP “sure winner” Martha McSally, who lost to Sinema after another of those famous Arizona long counts to discover a victor.
The Wanderer asked two observers if they thought Senate Minority Leader McConnell (R., Ky.) might try to tempt the Independent Sinema into joining the GOP caucus instead and deprive the Dems of one caucus member in the closely divided chamber.
It would be an improbable match, but perks and power might work wonders.
National conservative commentator Quin Hillyer said on December 13: “I think there is absolutely no chance for Sinema to caucus with Republicans. She is far too liberal for that. Her lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union (with 100 being perfect) is under 15. She is by any definition strongly liberal.
“It’s just that not even strong liberals have a place anymore in the Democratic Party unless they are radicals on the majority of issues or tactics,” Hillyer said. “That’s why Sinema doesn’t fit with either party now: way too liberal for Republicans, but nowhere near radical enough, especially in temperament, for the Democrats.”
Conservative GOP political consultant Constantin Querard said on December 13: “No chance. I personally doubt Sinema ultimately runs in 2024 and expect her to cash out and land a lucrative position instead. There is little path for her as an Independent, although she risks nothing by trying, so perhaps she runs, but I doubt it.
“And she has no chance in a Democratic or Republican primary, so she has no reason to listen to any GOP offers,” Querard said. “Plus, it doesn’t alter control of the Senate, so McConnell has no reason to try. Lastly, Sinema votes with the Democrats an absurdly high percentage of the time and doesn’t belong in the GOP.”
Another Arizona political event that caught national attention was the November 8 general election race where four conservative MAGA Republicans running for top offices all supposedly were defeated by left-wing Democrats in a year when Biden’s disasters should have left Democrats crippled.
Kari Lake, the GOP gubernatorial nominee, supposedly lost by less than one percent to far-left Democratic pro-abortion fanatic Katie Hobbs, the incumbent secretary of state.
Hobbs wouldn’t recuse herself from supervising her own election, while two “moderate” Republicans who supervised elections in Maricopa County had clear conflicts of interest and, while holding their current offices, openly had attacked MAGA hopefuls.
Maricopa is the state’s most populous county by far and easily can determine winners of statewide offices.
Attorneys for Lake filed a lawsuit on December 9 asking either that Lake be declared the gubernatorial winner or that the deeply flawed election in Maricopa County be redone.
Serious issues included widespread voter suppression by chaos at many of the county’s 223 voting centers on November 8, numerous tabulating machines that repeatedly or completely rejected ballots, lines of voters who were forced to wait for hours, untabulated ballots being commingled with tabulated ones, ineligible ballots being counted, ballots perhaps not being counted, and 25,000 ballots that suddenly turned up late.
Phoenix radio news on December 13 reported that after a Maricopa County Superior Court judge considers arguments by Lake’s side and defendant county officials, there should be a decision no later than December 27.
The text of the entire lawsuit can be read at SaveArizona
Fund.com.
Following Bad Advice
Conservative commentator Emerald Robinson wrote at her Substack.com newsletter, “Emerald Robinson’s The Right Way,” on December 10: “The lawsuit is 70 pages long and full of enough blatant election corruption and government malfeasance to make even a Communist blush.”
Robinson listed what she considered the nine most important sections. Here are the first four.
“There were hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots counted in Arizona’s midterm elections — in Maricopa County alone. Almost 60 percent of Maricopa County’s voting machines failed on Election Day — that’s not a statistic you’ll see reported in our corporate media. There is no way that 59 percent of Maricopa County’s voting machines stopped working on Election Day by accident — and one day after being tested.
“Between November 9th and November 11th, Maricopa County suddenly discovered more than 25,000 additional ballots that needed to be counted. That’s suspicious because Katie Hobbs supposedly beat Kari Lake by 17,000 ballots — according to the certified results.”
Analyses sprang up of what happened to Lake’s fate during the campaign. One was presented at the December 12 edition of the Arizona conservative Republican Briefs blog, which isn’t an official site of the GOP. It said Lake had accepted some bad advice.
Constantin Querard, the GOP consultant, told The Wanderer on December 13: “There isn’t any question that the campaign’s messaging was very off for a close general election, and responsibility always rests, to a certain degree, on those giving the bad advice.
“But the story seemed to indicate that there were, at one point in time, other voices in the room who had the winning plan,” Querard said. “So the ultimate responsibility is with the candidate or whoever made the decision to follow the bad advice instead of the good advice.”
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