What Will It Be, America?

In one of the more effective campaign ads here in Florida, incumbent Republican Senator Ashley Moody is summing up the choices many voters face quite simply: “You’re voting for either freedom or socialism. It’s not complicated.” Neither is Moody complicated, but her critics claim she is a lightweight who only got the job via appointment by Governor Ron DeSantis, who in turn had previously tapped her for state attorney general upon the departure of Pam Bondi. However, if she doesn’t win big against her self-proclaimed socialist opponent in solidly red Florida, it will not be a good sign for our side.

A couple of months ago, I noted that two of the key Senate races in the upcoming election take place in Michigan and Texas. The million-dollar question is, will voters reject far-left candidates Abdul El Sayed in Michigan and James Talarico in Texas, or will they, as they did for Barack Obama twice, ignore obvious red flags and vote them in anyway?

Of course, the ubiquitous and always-slanted polls have had both of these far-left Democrats holding a slight lead, although in both cases that lead has narrowed recently. Perhaps the attack ads by the Republican candidates themselves and their supporting political action committees are having some impact. El Sayed’s opponent, former Congressman Mike Rogers, has taken the gloves off in a recent debate with El Sayed about the latter’s undeniable support for terrorist governments and groups. This is unlike both John McCain and Mitt Romney, Republican presidential candidates who barely laid a kid glove on Obama for fear of being labeled as racist. 

There is, I believe, a big difference between allowing an “attack dog” to do the candidate’s dirty work for them, and the candidate him/herself doing it. In choosing to take the “high road” in his failed presidential campaign, McCain not only delegated the attacking duties to his VP nominee, Sarah Palin, he also did not back her up when she blasted Obama’s record. By leaving Palin hanging out to dry, and allowing her to go on hostile media interviews ill-prepared to boot, McCain became, however unwittingly, the best player on Obama’s team.

As Election Day closes in, another current event has been developing that may have either a minor or an enormous impact on the elections. The investigation into the validity of Ilhan Omar’s U.S. citizenship has disclosed some disturbing information about whether allegedly doctored birth records, allegedly operating under a false name, and alleged marriage to a brother are legitimately fraudulent actions that will justify her removal from Congress - and perhaps from the country. 

As all Democrats do when the tables are turned and they are the ones under investigation, Omar is doing an outstanding job of playing the victim. Will her strategy work? If so, and if the feds are unable to make any of the proposed charges stick, this may work favorably toward candidates like El Sayed and Talarico, who are also playing the deny-deny-deny game about previous far-left positions and statements, along with playing the victim of, in Hillary Clinton’s words, the “vast right-wing conspiracy.”

Candidate El Sayed in particular has displayed arrogance and slickness seen in the likes of few other national candidates in recent times (Bill Clinton and Barack Obama come to mind). Although the Koran does not permit Muslims to lie except in extraordinary circumstances, El Sayed is apparently getting around that obstacle by playing the “Islamophobe” card every chance he gets.

The Sean Hannitys of the world have proclaimed the last several national elections to be “the most important in our nation’s history.” The question to be answered on the upcoming Election Night is whether enough voters will realize that this time the claim rings true, and they will vote accordingly. Or whether, like the reaction to the boy who cried “wolf” once too often, “Normie Norm” voters will tune out the apocalyptic predictions of what Democrat victories will do to the country and vote the short-term as they usually do – with their pocketbooks and wallets in mind. 

If early voting participation is any indication, this midterm election may set a record for the numbers and percentages of voters actually participating in the privilege. We can only hope and pray that the anti-socialist vote outweighs that of those more concerned with current affordability issues than the nation’s long-term survival as a beacon of freedom.