From The Hill:
President Trump on Sunday said he regretted endorsing Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R), taking a swipe at the top Republicans in the state ahead of two critical Senate runoff elections.
The president decried the use of Dominion Voting Systems machines in Georgia, which are the subject of unproven conspiracies among some conservatives. He placed blame at the feet of Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) for approving the rules of the election.
Poor guy, he endorsed someone who refused to baldly break the law. My heart goes out to this unintelligent dupe of Putin’s.
Speaking of Georgia, this article reminds the reader about the shameful statement issued by incumbent Senators Perdue (R-GA) and Loeffler (R-GA) with regard to the results which leave them both involved in runoff elections:
Sens. David Perdue (R-Ga.) and Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) are facing Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, respectively. Both Perdue and Loeffler have called for [Republican Georgia Secretary of State] Raffensperger to step down.
Once again, calling for the resignation of those who refused to break the law.
And I was thinking that we can consider the Republican election workers and related bureaucrats of 2020, such as Raffensperger, in one of three lights:
- Traitors! To their Party, that is.
- Heroes! After all, they withstood dreadful Party loyalties and pressures to be criminals for their brothers-in-arms!
- Folks just doing their jobs.
I go with #3 myself. I thank them for not falling into the Pit of Immorality into which they’ve been invited to jump by Trump and various conservative pundits, grifters, and others who’d benefit from another Trump term, or just from the chaos that it’d cause, but quite honestly, they have done their jobs with honor and, presumably, skill.
That is not a tremendous, awe-inspiring accomplishment. It’s an everyday thing to do. And it’s best that we all think of it that way; to expect that election workers of one persuasion or another will bend and twist the results toward that persuasion is an embarrassment to those who believe it – especially if they can’t think of any immorality to associate with it.
A good election worker is one whose first loyalty is to truth, not to either fuckin’ Party.
