Submitted by: Jackie Juntti
Let's hope the GOP grows some *GRIT* in their *body*. They have played Nice for too long - Time to FIGHT to WIN. Unless, they are really just pretend helpers of the DNC.
Jackie Juntti
Conservatives Would Be Foolish to Not Take Michelle Obama Seriously
Jan 11, 2022 6:45 PM ET
I’m going to be blunt.
It would be the very height of foolishness for the Republican Party not to take this seriously.
If Michelle Obama says she’s going to register one million voters, you better believe she is going to register at least one million voters in time for the midterm elections. You don’t have to like her, but she is more than capable of accomplishing this feat. She has the name recognition and charisma needed to mobilize Democrats to get the job done.
If the GOP fails to take notice and develop a strategy to counter this move, they will live to regret it later. Sure, the GOP might still take back the House and maybe the Senate, but this does not mean Obama’s effort will not have long-term ramifications in the future.
The Republicans need a comprehensive strategy to also register new voters. Fortunately, we already have a template to follow in conservative activist Scott Presler, who has been tirelessly traveling across the country to register new voters and training others to do the same. He told RedState of the importance of voter registration, pointing out the difference it can make. Presler told RedState via email:
Voter registration wins elections. In 2012, the Democrats had an advantage of more than 500,000 voter registrations in Florida. As that lead decreased, Republicans won the state in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Today, there are more registered Republicans than [D]emocrats in Florida.
If we want to win in 2022 and beyond, we must register new voters, sign up as Election Day Workers, & pass election integrity legislation across the country. Republicans are outpacing the [D]emocrats in voter registration in Arizona, Iowa, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, & Pennsylvania. 2022 presents a historic opportunity for the Republican Party and private citizens are leading the charge.
Presler also noted that the GOP must also focus on the working class, a voting bloc that has been largely ignored by the Democrats. “If the Republican Party wants to win and — more importantly — show it cares about working class America, we must introduce legislation that provides for medical freedom and patient protection,” he said.
He continued:
Think about who has been affected by the unconstitutional Biden vaccine mandates: nurses, firefighters, doctors, police, union workers, truckers, the military, grocery store workers, teachers, and construction workers. The very people, who — through their compassion and empathy — served us for the last two years during a pandemic are being told to get the vaccination or be fired.
They are told to get the vaccination or lose their pensions. The Republican Party has a historic opportunity to pass legislation on behalf of working class America. Our message is “We are going to fight for your jobs. We are going to fight for your families. We are going the fight for your livelihoods. We are going to fight that you, not government, get to dictate how to live your lives.”
Presler is spot on.
The Republican Party has an opportunity to not only wrest control of Congress from the Democrats, but also to expand its base, which is in sore need of growth. A bigger tent and voter registration efforts are key. Indeed, we saw this in the case of Jalen Johnson, a conservative candidate who won his race for city commission in Albany, Georgia, in a district that is 70 percent black. He told RedState:
So there’s a lot of people out there my age that are young black men that I went to high school with, that I knew probably didn’t have anybody registered in the vote. So, I knew the importance of rallying those votes because the way that I think of it, the way I think everybody should think about it is that every election year, there’s going to be hundreds of thousands of new eligible [voters].
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