Predictions for the elections tonight in the above video. The Kansas constitutional amendment tonight on abortion is the one I am looking closest at. In Arizona it looks like Trump endorsed candidates are going to sweep the GOP primaries. In Missouri Trump has endorsed both of the leading GOP candidates in the Senate primary. Updates to follow.
Had a good Holy Hour/Prayer Vigil last night at church for the passage of this amendment here in Kansas, with pretty good attendance. I’ve heard the polls are close; Barnes on his Bourbon with Barnes put it at 80% passage and possibly by over four points. Kobach on WarRoom yesterday said that early voting was at 3x previous midterms. Praying for a good result.
While I hope it’s over four points, I suspect if it passes it will be quite a bit narrower, although I’d love to be wrong. There is a ton of money being dumped into this by the merchants of death, and most of the ads are just straight up lying about the amendment. I live in Johnson County, which is full of money and Karens, but hopefully the rest of the state comes through.
Jason.
I pray that your absolutely right about the rest of the state.
God’s speed in Kansas.
In Missouri, John Danforth is bankrolling a bogus independent candidate this fall to hand the Senate seat to the Democrats. His straw candidate is a J6 committee counsel who claims he will caucus with the Republicans. Danforth is nothing if not a poseur.
With 45% of the vote in as to the Kansas abortion amendment, the pro-aborts have a 100,000 vote lead. I think that will be very hard to overcome.
The Amendment has lost 62-38 with 90% of the vote in. The Republican party in Kansas has always been divided on abortion. A few errors to correct next time. If it is possible, have an amendment voted on during the general election rather than in a primary election. Less easy for the pro-aborts to swamp a low turnout primary election. Perhaps start small with a heart beat amendment, banning sex selection abortions, etc. Always better to win than to lose, but we must always learn from defeats and do better next time.
Agree that lessons need to be learned for the next effort. There must have been serious deficiencies on the pro-life side for the amendment to have lost this badly. I heard that the usual agents of death had greatly outspent the backers of the amendment, so job one may be a national fundraising effort to counteract that.
A lesson that needs to be learned is that, as Steve Deace says, the base is the problem. The merchants of death are always going to have more money because they are willing to ghoulishly sacrifice and lie and cheat for what they believe in, but the comfort buffer that our admittedly dwindling national prosperity has allowed creates complacency and non-engagement and too often even collusion with the enemy among “conservatives.” Until that changes, I don’t see anything but further defeats.
I don’t see anything but further defeats.
Then how did we overturn Roe? This is a long struggle which I have been involved in for 49 years. Persistence and optimism, for the long term, are key. The Enemy loves pessimism among the followers of Christ. I think it was Saint Francis who noted that doom and despair properly belong to the Devil and his disciples. For us, I have always liked the words of Chesterton:
The gates of heaven are lightly locked,
We do not guard our gold,
Men may uproot where worlds begin,
Or read the name of the nameless sin;
But if he fail or if he win
To no good man is told. The men of the East may spell the stars,
And times and triumphs mark,
But the men signed of the cross of Christ
Go gaily in the dark. . .
The wise men know what wicked things
Are written on the sky,
They trim sad lamps, they touch sad strings,
Hearing the heavy purple wings,
Where the forgotten seraph kings
Still plot how God shall die. . .
But you and all the kind of Christ
Are ignorant and brave,
And you have wars you hardly win
And souls you hardly save.
Persistence and optimism, for the long term, are key. The Enemy loves pessimism among the followers of Christ.
Christopher Lasch drew a distinction between ‘hope’ (“a trusting attitude toward life”) and ‘optimism’.
When someone tells you he is a ‘realist’, it is a boast.
Eeyores and panic porn vendors are easily recognized, unproductive, and tiresome.
After all the pratfalls, Michigan Republicans have nominated a rather interesting character to challenge their malevolent Governor. Missouri Republicans have nominated as the U.S. Senate candidate the fellow with less baggage.
PBS insisted on editorializing with abandon in its summary of the Arizona primary results. Mr. Masters is over the target.
Mr. Masters is over the target.
Been following him since he announced. Eloquent and a fighter. Good choice by the GOP voters of Arizona.
Donald- I am well rebuked.
No Jason, I thought your comment was cogent and I merely wanted to give my perspective from 49 years in this fight.
The people of Kansas voted that murder is a human right.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/election/article263832087.html
Then how did we overturn Roe?
And homeschooling is now not just acceptable, but considered an active good.
Firearm rights are being better protected.
I think it was the late Jerry Pournelle who repeatedly pointed out that despair is a sin.
We can do this!
Hope is one of the three Cardinal Virtues.
Re: Gun Civil Rights.
July was the 36th consecutive month wherein free Americans purchased 1,000,000 weapons.
Come and take them.
Oh, wait!
I’ve been to Kansas [twice].
Baum’s Wizard of Oz mystified me.
Why in Hell would Dorothy want to return to Kansas?
In conclusion, establishment Republicans should be gut shot.
Saw an article this morning that echoed my own assessment of the Kansas vote. Too many voters were sucked into the pro-abort lies about ectopic pregnancies and actual miscarriages being criminalized, and voted accordingly. Need to do a better job in Round 2.
Lucius, if you dig into your article you will find statements from people worrying that the amendment could ban abortion without the usual (weak-willed) exceptions for rape and incest, that it would ban women from travelling out of state, etc. The actual text of the amendment doesn’t do any of this, so it’s pretty clear that those voters quoted at least were victim of the media’s usual disinformation campaign. Maybe they weren’t all convinced completely, but they were convinced enough to not show up for a midterm primary election (which doesn’t take much at all.)
The other thing to keep in mind here is that this is hardly the final defeat that the media is portraying it as. It was a specific constitutional amendment to overturn a specific piece of overreach by the Kansas supreme court. Having it not be accepted leaves things exactly at the previous status quo. As such there’s absolutely no reason why similar methods couldn’t be advanced in the future. In fact when the left has bothered with the legal process at all, they have obtained gains by simply pressing the same matter again and again until it gets through, even in situations with a far more definite rejection.
If nothing else it is clear that the news media and DNC (but I repeat myself) want you to despair and abandon the fight as lost, not only in Kansas but everywhere. If you despair, you are doing what they want.
I looked at the data on the Kansas SOS’s web page. Kansas has right under 2 million registered voters. 542,349 divided by 1,929,972 = 28% of their registered voters that voted against the constitutional amendment protecting life. This was a primary election —not a general election. The pro lifers did not only not get their message across, they struggled with turn out. They need to work on education & turnout. More than than 70% of their registered voters did not participate in this election in this issue.
https://sos.ks.gov/elections/elections-statistics-data.html
https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/election/article264069346.html
The phrase, “Bloody Kansas “, takes on new meaning after more than 150 years. The fight should absolutely continue with realism as to what is faced. One fact, the Catholic Heirachy have no credibility.