In his Editor’s Column this week, Michael Walsh implores the Republican Party to wake up and realize what kind of game it is currently playing. The Sting If you knowingly sit down at a fixed poker game and lose your entire stash, would you also complain that some of the other players also cheated? If it was a friend who brought you into the game, would you then go to another one with him? And having lost all your money when you bet the farm, would you re-mortgage it and bet it all again on the chance that this time things would be different? If you're a Republican, the answer is: of course you would, because you just did and you're about to do it again.
The Republican Party must embrace the ballot harvesting paradigm or they will never again win major important offices or national congressional majorities. These laws and regulations will not be repealed or overturned. Things that pretty much don’t matter anymore in elections: advertising, candidate qualifications. Send armies of people with suitcases of ballots door to door asking to fill out their ballots for them and get their signature. Adapt or die.
The Republican Party must embrace the ballot harvesting paradigm or they will never again win major important offices or national congressional majorities. These laws and regulations will not be repealed or overturned. Things that pretty much don’t matter anymore in elections: advertising, candidate qualifications. Send armies of people with suitcases of ballots door to door asking to fill out their ballots for them and get their signature. Adapt or die.