https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/04/ignoring-and-ridiculing-election-fraud-concerns-will-not-make-them-go-away/
By Stella Morabito

The essence of conservatism is to conserve principles of due process and the rule of law. Those values are essential for avoiding chaos and tyranny. So why would anyone identifying as conservative ignore the innumerable oddities revealed since November 3?

Even the editorial board of the supposedly conservative New York Post in telling President Trump to “give it up” would not squarely address the central concern: auditability of votes and transparency. Its ad hominem argumentation included the Pravda-esque line “Sidney Powell is a crazy person.”

We already know that Big Tech and the propaganda media are invested in fraud denial and in shutting up anybody who asks about abnormalities by comparing them to Holocaust deniers. Sadly, that’s no puzzle. Nor need we question why Democrats don’t care if their win is perceived as grand theft by scores of millions of Americans. They just don’t care how they’re perceived as long as they can control every aspect of what they view as your sad and unworthy little life.

So the more vexing question—and the rude awakening—is this: Why do so many self-identified conservatives play along with a media machine that is already 95 percent in the Democrats’ corner? The list is long, and includes many big-name Republican officials who have taken a particularly hostile stance against any real investigation into voter fraud, including Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and scores of other supposedly conservative members of Congress.

As Federalist editor Mollie Hemingway recently pointed out, there is “a big disconnect between most of ‘conservative’ blue checkmark Twitter and the bulk of average Americans on the right” regarding the existence of election fraud. No question about that.

In addition to GOP officials, lots of self-identified conservative pundits have rejected concerns about voter fraud in this most bizarre of elections. Popular American Conservative writer Rod Dreher, among others, has mocked those who challenge the election results.

Why is it so important to these conservatives that every single American aligns with a propaganda machine that is now almost completely anti-thought? At the very least, they should understand the stakes of allowing massive electoral oddities to go unexamined. They should be especially unsettled about the loss of trust in our electoral process rather than joining with the left in dismissing so many concerned citizens as kooks.

In short, why are they so willing to accept abnormalities as normal?

She suggests five possibilities which I commend to your attention.

I made a couple of comments myself a few weeks ago, but only recently caught up with his articles. He is against all the efforts challenging the voting in any and all states, or so it seems to me. I may have missed a few caveats.

His rhetoric is not quite so rabid as AP’s at HotAir, but he falls well into the “nothing to see here and if there was it doesn’t matter any more” camp.

Have we siloed ourselves too much, or is he the one with blinkers?
Since it took him an astonishing amount of time and evidence to admit that his DOJ and FBI heroes were lying scoundrels, that could go either way.

However, I hesitate to put my own impressions against McCarthy’s professional, and possibly better-informed, analysis.

Fortunately, on the internet, there is almost always someone who agrees with me!

https://amgreatness.com/2020/12/26/mccarthy-misses-the-point-in-the-michigan-election-audit/
By Bart Marcois

I have admired Andrew McCarthy since I was a diplomat in the Middle East, and he filed the indictment against Sheikh Omar for the 1994 bombing of the World Trade Center. He has been right, and courageous, about many things in the years since then. But he is wrong about the massive election fraud in November, and especially about the Allied Security Operations Group report signed by Russ Ramsland that focuses on the role of the Dominion Voting Systems machines in Antrim County, Michigan.

In “A Whopper of An Election Rigging Claim,” McCarthy clarifies the misunderstanding about the reported 68 percent error rate. But he goes on to accuse Ramsland, wrongly, of many other errors. It seems as though McCarthy is basing his criticism on reporting in the Detroit Free Press, and he fails to understand several important matters. Let me point them out in no particular order.
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There’s a very easy way to resolve all of this. It’s what all of the Trump and Republican lawsuits have been requesting since November 4. We need full forensic audits of all the machines used in the six metropolitan areas where counting was stopped and ballots were dumped. We also need a full bipartisan examination of the paper ballots and machine reports of those votes.

Every American should want to know that our voting system is secure. But the Democrats, the elected officials who approved the voting machine contracts and who conducted the questionable ballot counts, and the owners of Dominion voting systems and other voting machines have fought furiously to prevent it.

“What are they so afraid of?” Ramsland asked. ”What is this fanatical effort to avoid real audit or transparency?”

We would never allow a publicly traded security to go without a third-party audit, substituting that with a ‘trust us, these are the numbers’ approach,” he added. “Why are we to accept this in our most sacred right to vote and have it recorded accurately? And clearly, the public is now awakening to the fact the voting system, and the people in charge of safeguarding it, cannot be trusted without audit and transparency.”

Why won’t Democrats just allow audits? You would think it’s in their collective interest to prove that their hands are clean and that the elections were clean. You would think that they would want an investigation because it would exonerate them. But they don’t. What are they hiding?

And why have the media neglected to ask these questions?

And why are nominally conservative pundits, politicians, and press buying into the refusal?

Cross-reference: the Georgia Phone Call on the “no evidence” thread.

Attorney Leslie Dundas thinks he won’t, based on history of the exercise of that singular discretionary power, plus Pence’ own words bearing on the topic, from just over a week ago, as heard by Leslie herself in person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xRLn2bcoSEI

I don’t know enough to disbelieve her account. Just have a listen. And maybe, perhaps, the Divine spark will manifest itself in the Vice President’s courage….

Most college educated Reps, like me, have as many or more friends and social contacts who are Trump-hating Dems than are Trump-supporting Reps. Among the few Reps, many are not so keen on Trump.

The GOP leaders will continue to be mostly college educated. Elites or elite wannabes. There will be more possibilities in 2022 for more anti-illegal, pro-freedom Reps, but most GOPe seem pretty content with losing Trump, gaining in the House (tho still a minority. As usual.), and maybe keeping the Senate.

Failure Theatre. But at least getting more of the fraud, and objections to it, on record.

No justice for Sec. Clinton’s illegal server, nor bribery Foundation. Almost none for the Russian Hoax (one guilty plea of written false note). None for the fake Ukraine crime impeachment.
Won’t be any justice for the election fraud.

Until voters vote anti-fraud politicians. Which seems unlikely at this point. 🙁

Too little, too late.

Thus, he thinks, a protest vote by 10 Senators on the 6th, or some more is this document is indicative, will not see Joe Biteme off from becoming DementiaDent of the former USA.

But I still believe that this anti-Democratic Democrat “process” (like the first CW), the four years of permanent coup against a duly elected president (See Lee Smith), culminating in a stolen “election,” means that CW2 begins immediately after the so-called “Congress” endorses this abortion.

How this de facto war begins or proceeds, I cannot foretell. Will it be with riots or Boston Tea Party street theatrics or Tax Strikes or Euro-style “general strikes” or Hong Kong style flash mob protests or even secession before violence and blood letting and guerrilla style terror against corrupt office holding traitors begins? Or all of the above? I have no clue.

But I do know the itch to scratch out the Enemy is deep and growing and lasting to get out and righteously attack and kill traitors.

Trump fought them ALL for us. Very shortly it falls to us alone — until, eventually, the military takes sides.

THAT’S how huge these short days ahead are for the year(s) to come. Warn the pols. Warn them. Prepare for the worst.

Apres les deluge is too late.

Sen Blackburn has spoken well on a number of occasions but I notice that she voted to overturn the Trump veto and in favor of big pork spending. I’m a bit puzzled.

Geoffrey Britain, email me at edward at bonderenka dot com please.

Republicans do control the legislature in Michigan, so they could change the method for choosing presidential electors. If Michigan chose their electors the way Maine and Nebraska do (one from each congressional district, two at large), then the Democrats could manufacture phony votes ad infinitum in Detroit, and it would only affect the two or three districts around Detroit (which they could probably win honestly) plus the two at-large electors.