Of course there were people who hated Trump enough to vote for anyone else. But not enough people. Biden attracted those people plus he was acceptable to more people in the middle. Polls reflected it, as well. He had the best chance of beating Trump. Especially compared to Sanders, who was the front-runner at the time that the Democrats threw their weight behind Biden.

As for Hillary’s health, of course many people took the Parkinson’s talk and ran with it. It also was incorrect – she has no reason for a diagnosis of Parkinson’s even 6 years later and didn’t back then, whatever that doctor said. Parkinson’s is VERY difficult to diagnose in its early stages and the symptoms are common ones in older people – difficult to diagnose even when a physician has examined the patient.

I happen to know a lot about Parkinson’s.

People alienated from Trump would have voted for a dead dog in the road. The question at hand is whether or not someone else would have offended fewer persuadables. And, yes, I think most of them would have. Bernie Sanders has a vigorous counter-constituency, but the rest of them do not, with the possible exception of Elizabeth Warren.

All the hype about Hillary’s having Parkinson’s and all sorts of things like that was wrong, and it was obviously wrong at the time. It’s now 6 years later and she’s still going quite strong.

It wasn’t hype. It was one physician living in Florida who put his name on it in a series of explanatory videos, and he was cautious in his presentation. Since any of her public appearances are carefully curated, we have a deficient understanding of just what her condition is.

Some Parkinson’s patients decline very slowly, some decline catastrophically in just a few years. Michael J. Fox has a screen credit dated 2021; he’s had Parkinson’s for 30 years.

It doesn’t have to be Parkinson’s. Dr. Noel does make the case that something very odd is going on with her.

The message is clear:
You are not supposed to protect yourself.
You are not supposed to defend yourself.
You are not ALLOWED to defend and protect yourself.
(That is, if you are a Republican or if you run a Republican state…Or unless your name is Pelosi…)

I would add that all those SF “commoners” who over the past several years were mugged, robbed, beaten up, violated, vandalized, threatened, humiliated…guess they don’t count…for anything…not in the Democratic Party playbook anyway…

https://thepostmillennial.com/flashback-dem-candidate-for-governor-josh-shapiro-sponsored-event-at-drag-queen-gay-bingo?utm_campaign=64502

1. Now that Democrats are the party of the super rich, they have had a huge advantage in spending.

2. The ads are terrible. Any of us could put together simple ads that hammer the long parade of horribles that the Democrats now own. GOP rarely scores effectively with all the money spent.

3. With less than 1% of the amounts spent on tv ads, a conservative group of talented meme creators (and compilers) could produce devastating material for people to spread on social media and via text and email which would be far more effective in producing extra marginal votes. No, I don’t have any research to back that up. But I am 100% convinced it is true.

4. Same thing for blog posts and Substack content. Whether by the actual GOP or simply a conservative/libertarian deep pocket, a well-edited compilation of the strongest arguments and fact-based posts that everyone could rely on would be huge. There is no reason to rely on Republican candidates to make the arguments that need to be made. Lefty groups don’t sit back and wait for Dems to make their claims. Thought leaders and communicators on the right need to step up and provide year round, all years, access to all the arguments in an organized manner. Would be far more productive for elections than another ten or 20 million in wasteful tv ads.

Here’s an example to show how history is buried under lies — Bush’s tax reforms dramatically shifted the tax burden away from the middle class and on to the highest earners. You have to search long and hard to find anything about that by google search. Even a lot of conservatives are surprised to hear that (demonstrating the power of Dem lies, message discipline and a news media propaganda echo).

Example 2 — our current inflation is due to a whole host of bad Democrat policies. Lots and lots. Republican politicians have been pathetically awful at pointing out most of them. They seem content to simply blame Biden because he is prez, gas prices are high, and Dems spent a bunch. This is a huge, missed opportunity. So much more:

— lockdowns (lots of horrible policies, lots of ways they damaged economy and ultimately contributed to inflation)
— vaxx mandates (reduced labor force significantly at the margin)
— paying people not to work [this was huge. Can’t be overemphasized]
— BLM riots and destruction
— out of control crime keeping people from returning to work
— Supply chain idiocy: a) Cal Democrats outlawed trucks over ten years old. b) local Democrats’ law limited container stacks in port to only two high instead of the normal six. Reduced port capacity by 2/3. Huge part of supply chain problem. c) instead of leaning on local and state Dems to fix issues, Biden simply required waiting ships to move farther from shore to anchor so not as visible. This should have been hammered home because it is a perfect example of Biden/Dem idiocy and total focus on spin. d) Los Angeles rail yards were crime central. Check the photos. The unwillingness of lefty Dems in LA to provide police, arrest thieves and prosecute them caused massive theft and vandalism of rail cars.

Conservatives/libertarians should relentlessy hammer home that all the Dem idiocy at all levels worked to wreck the economy, raise prices and hurt all Americans regardless of whether they live in a blue or red area.

All the hype about Hillary’s having Parkinson’s and all sorts of things like that was wrong, and it was obviously wrong at the time. It’s now 6 years later and she’s still going quite strong. I wrote a few posts about Hillary’s health back when she was running, but I can’t find them now, but my point was that the evidence for anything serious going on with her was poor.