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Best backwards-and-forwards economic summary I’ve seen. By Steve Moore. It’s brief and concise.. Mandatory reading if you want to bring yourself up-to-speed. -sam

https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/01/10/2020-looking-bullish-but-2019-economy-hard-to-beat/

Last week our Making Reality Great Again Facebook posts reached nearly a quarter million on-fire conservative Oregonians. My point? There is no voter problem here in Oregon. It’s a candidate problem. Always has been.

The Left? As usual, these people are powered by arrogance and stupidity. Diana found the following. This would be a good post to Like, Share and/or Comment. We would love to hear your thoughts.

Back to reality. Here’s Rush on Iran: “We have the military agents of destruction ready to launch on North Korea and Iran or any other enemy on a moment’s notice. Not from here, from there,” Limbaugh said. “We are everywhere and we have the ability to project power unlike any other nation in the world.” And he said, “Bottom line is the United States could destroy every strategically relevant military and economic target in Iran in 30 minutes.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-limbaugh-on-possible-war-iran-north-korea

Watch this video.

Get ready for it. They’re still coming for our guns. You thought IP42 and IP43 were bad? Watch this, by Liberty Doll regarding what’s going on in Virginia.. Your thoughts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0R19QWEWLc

-sam

“The impeachment vote on December 18^th, 2019 signaled the end of the Democrat Party as we’ve known it. Progressives have nowhere else to go in 2020 and in their frenzied befuddlement, nothing of significance will come from their side as they await next November’s electoral chopping block. In Oregon, it’s OUR turn!”

“MOGA2020 is the rallying point for taking back Oregon after over thirty years of horrible Democrat progressive mismanagement. The time to return Oregon to political sanity is NOW.”

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– Sam Carpenter.

It’s a minority of voters, headed up by Democrat progressives, perhaps 50% of all Democrats. I’ll say it diplomatically: These are unreasonable people. This Democrat progressive Ruling Class contingent is powered by a deranged hatred, not just for our president but for you and me. You know it’s true.

Also included in the Ruling Class are Republican “never-Trumpers,” less than 10% of Oregon Republicans who, unwittingly and wittingly, keep those Democrat progressives in power. You guessed it: never-Trumpers are also unreasonable people, and right now they control the state-level Oregon Republican Party which has miniscule support within our Republican voting base of over 704,000. (However, a majority of the 33 county party organizations remain strong and self-directed.)

For way too long, this Democrat and Republican Ruling Class minority has been calling the shots for you and me. And of course, their motivation is to hold on to power and not to prioritize what’s best for regular everyday county-class people like us: Oregonians who work jobs, run businesses, pay taxes, raise children, compose our military and police…and make Oregon work.

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– Sam Carpenter.

Here are ten points in response to various comments I received pertaining to yesterday’s post (in which I said another recall-Kate-Brown effort by the state-level Oregon Republican Party should not happen).

1. Well over 90% of the people who commented on yesterday’s post supported my contention that a recall is a distraction and a waste. (Check the numbers for yourself, and know that unlike Knute Buehler, I rarely delete critical comments to a post. In this one in particular, I didn’t delete any comments or ban anyone from the Page.) The negative responses? The RINO’s among us are insignificant in numbers but good-lord they’re shrill.
2. Remember that the ratio of Trump supporters vs. RINOs, nationwide, is 90% to 10%. (in Oregon Congressional District Two? I’d say it’s 95% to 5%).
3. Answer to a comment, stating, “To run for political office it takes a certain kind of individual, one with money (and) backing…” Here’s my answer: “We must have more regular people like you and me running for office, not just the elite.” No matter what the standard political consultant says, successfully running for office doesn’t HAVE to be expensive. Read this, from my book: https://www.makeoregongreatagain.com/book/myth7/
4. Overall? This isn’t a voter problem. It’s a candidate problem. The ORP blames their own base for not voting, when the problem actually lies with the ORP’s actions and non-actions that discourage good people from running for office. Yes, it’s infernal.
5. Does the ORP leadership think we voters are sheep, to be herded in their preferred direction? Or that we must be “energized” as if we are dead batteries? Related, I added this paragraph to yesterday’s post: “Oh, and the ORP’s stupid excuse that a recall effort will ‘energize and expand the base?’ No, it won’t. It will manipulate and then ultimately disappoint and discourage the base. And anyway, what the Hell good would it do to have an energized/expanded base that has no candidates for whom they can vote?”
6. Blaming voters for not voting is an ORP smokescreen and a deliberate distraction, buti It’s also disrespectful to you and me, the regular, every-day people within our Republican party. In fact, it’s sheer arrogance.
7. One negative comment was, “I didn’t read your post because you have a reputation for disinformation.” Really? No one has EVER pointed out something I said was wrong (although my character has been repeatedly attacked). I am very, VERY careful to research and source my statements. If someone doesn’t like me personally, it doesn’t make what I say wrong. Instead, it makes the finger-pointer look narrow-minded; someone who is going to stick to their dumb menu no matter the facts disputing it. (But wait! Hmmmmm. Where have we seen THAT before? Oh yes, I know where: on the Democrat progressive Left.)
8. A side-benefit of instituting another recall petition is that the Executive Board thinks it will shut me up. With a recall petition, the ORP top-brass puts me in the position of appearing to be “a bad Republican” for not being supportive of their “heroic-and-valiant efforts to remove the wicked witch, Kate Brown.” How can I challenge their effort and not appear disloyal? Actually, they have a point in being able to silence me, and that’s why I am hammering on this now, BEFORE they take action….
9. The ORP top executive leadership is smart. They WANT you to think they are lazy and stupid. I repeat: They WANT you to think that! Nope. Truth is, they are crazy like a fox. Success or failure of the recall? Either way, it’s a win-win for the ORP establishment AND the progressive Left. Failing in the recall attempt will distract our voter base right into the primary elections. And successfully recalling Kate Brown will also distract the base through the primary elections BUT IN ADDITION will establish Tobias Reed, our current state Treasurer, as the incumbent governor in the gubernatorial election of 2022. We will be facing Governor Reed rather than a brand-new Democrat face. An incumbent governor is very hard to unseat.
10. I will repeat this paragraph from yesterday’s post: “If this second recall-Kate-Brown attempt does happen, it proves – without any doubt – that the ORP is deliberately sabotaging any possibility of winning back power in Salem.”
    -sam

The Executive Committee of the state-level Oregon Republican Party has a penchant for wild-goose-chasing and this new recall effort is the latest iteration. It’s a smokescreen/diversionary tactic and it means zero energy will  go into the organization’s central responsibility of helping to win conservative control in Salem.

It’s deliberate and it’s diabolical. Our state Republican leadership, the ORP Central Committee, would prefer you think they are incompetent rather than for you to see the bottom-line  truth, that they are corrupt; that they are the enemy.

Wolves in Sheep’s clothing.

And yes, their decades of “leadership” is why Oregon is so damn blue.

Here’s where all this started. Last Spring, in lieu of beginning to prepare voters for the then upcoming 2020 primary elections, the state-level ORP Executive Committee sponsored the first ludicrous Recall-Kate-Brown petition. Of course, it failed miserably.

There was a competing recall effort that first time. The two petitions ate each other alive, emotionally dividing our base in the process. Nowhere near enough signatures were gathered. in either petition. This time? There are TWO competing efforts! With that, and upon the humiliation of the  first failure, AND now the social-distancing dictates that makes gathering signatures near-impossible, does ANYONE think enough signatures will be gathered?

Again: The state-level ORP is now on its way again to successfully diverting Republican voters’ energy from what really matters – taking back Salem.

It’s deliberate!

And really get this point: in the incredibly remote possibility the recall succeeds in removing Brown, it insures an (essentially) incumbent governor Democrat progressive Tobias Reed will be our Democrat foe in the gubernatorial race in 2022. It’s near-impossible to defeat an incumbent.

The ORP recall effort is a win-win for Democrat progressives.

It’s a lose-lose for us, the grassroots.

And make no mistake. With this second recall effort we’re not “sending Governor Kate Brown a message.” Truth is, leftist Brown is laughing hysterically at us.

Here’s more detail on the above points. It’s a post I put up early last November: https://www.makeoregongreatagain.com/newsroom/endless-recall-the-painful-truth/

Oh, and ORP chair Bill Currier’s proclamation that a recall effort will “energize the base?” No it won’t energize the base. It will manipulate and then ultimately discourage our base, just before the general election.

Any anyway, our conservative voters ARE energized. They are not little robots that need a battery recharge. The problem is a dearth of good candidates. Yes, our voters are ready to vote, but the ORP leadership has insured that there are few good candidates.

ARRGGGHHHH!

This second recall-Kate-Brown it proves – without any doubt – that the ORP is deliberately sabotaging any possibility of winning back power in Salem.

Note Facebook post comments to see who says what, and then connect the dots.

What do do? It’s a sad state of affairs but sign the silly petitions and then forget about it, focusing your energy on the upcoming elections. Work hard to get your friends and family to stay enthused enough to vote.

And when this ORP effort gets headlines for failing yet again, you can look back and see that you weren’t hoodwinked.

In the end, the good news? We have President Trump.
-sam