Commentary

Don’t you just love it?  Seeing the Democrats scramble in the final days leading up to the midterms.  They call in losers Obama and Clinton to continue their strategy of insulting anyone who doesn’t agree with their failed policies –  Republicans, Independents and even some Democrats – foolishly continuing to spout the threat a Republican victory will impose on our democracy.

Meanwhile, President Biden goes to safe territories, where he can’t do anymore harm than the candidate there has already engendered.  Like Fetterman in Pennsylvania.  While Arizona’s Sen. Mark Kelly insists he would welcome the president, he hasn’t invited him to the campaign.  But Jill Biden will.

The president did travel to a handful of politically safe states, Illinois, Pennsylvania,  New Mexico and California over the weekend, but not without continuing his attack on fossil fuels and spewing further divisive insults at Republicans.

“We’re going to be shutting those coal plants all across American and having wind and solar,” he said in Carlsbad, California, requiring the White House to try to walk the remark back.

His statement was very clear, yet press secretary Karine Jean Pierre said, “The president’s remarks yesterday have been twisted to suggest a meaning that was not intended … he regrets it if anyone hearing those remarks took offense.”

West Virginia’s Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin took offense, calling Biden’s pledge “Offensive and disgusting.”  He called comments like these “the reason the American people are losing trust in President Biden,” adding that the president’s comments were “not only outrageous and divorced from reality, they ignore the severe economic pain the American people are feeling because of rising energy costs.”

Arriving in Joliet, Illinois, it was clear that those brandishing signs referring to socialism got under his skin.  “Socialism … give me a break, what idiots,” he shouted.

He attempted to fend off the socialism label saying, “no one ever doubts I mean what I say … I say all that I mean,” further reflecting how out of touch he is with voters who understand how socialism has crept into the Biden administration via Sen. Bernie Sanders and his minions.

Going Out on a Limb

I rarely make predictions.  Even when my Michigan Wolverines are playing a team considered a pushover.  But I decided to publish my predictions for the midterms.

I do so, having faith in America’s voters, who recognize that the candidates who voted in line with the Biden administration are responsible for foisting policies upon us that have made our lives worse than two years ago.  All Democrats have voted in lockstep with Biden and have to be defeated.

Additionally, I have faith in America’s voters, who recognize those candidates who have not performed to our liking, and those not prepared to return sanity to our Congress.

I’ll cite two examples.  Reading a Wall Street Journal op-ed about New Hampshire’s Democrat incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan’s campaign, I saw her as someone who feels entitled to her position.  She’s not alone.

Her public persona screams “political establishment,” the op-ed points out. She doesn’t release her public schedule, hasn’t had an open press conference in years, and studiously avoids engaging with anyone who isn’t screened by her staff. She agreed to a debate only if she and her opponent, Don Buldoc, weren’t on stage together.

Meanwhile, Buldoc has campaigned heavily across the state in his effort to upset and unseat Hassan

She reminded me of New York’s Rep. Joseph Crowley, the number four Democrat in the House at the time (2018), who’s arrogance led to his defeat by upstart Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

My second example cites my faith in America’s voters to recognize someone unfit for office, namely Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman, running for the senate.  The big question, however, is how many Pennsylvanians voted prior to the revealing Fetterman-Oz debate?

Here goes nothing. I have no money riding on these predictions, but I predict Republicans will win 248 seats in the House and 53 in the Senate.  It’s a gut thing. I just cannot believe how close they are telling us the races are today.

May God be with us on November 8, and continue to bless the United States of America.