By Steve Levy
The Democratic party will go to just about any measure to win an election. They are utterly ruthless. They will sacrifice the national welfare for their short-term political gains.
But you have to hand it to them. They know how to win.
They will impeach.
They will try to knock their opponents off the ballot.
They will prosecute their political enemies on the flimsiest of charges.
They will raid the offices of their political opponents’ legal counsel.
They will conspire with social media to kick their opponents off media platforms.
They will conspire with social media to change algorithms so that their stories are accentuated while their opponents’ are repressed.
They will import 10 million illegal aliens with the hope of getting them registered and voting to bolster the power of the Democratic Party.
They will give voting rights to people in jail.
They will oppose voter ID, even though it’s supported overwhelmingly by the public, including rank-and-file Dems.
They seek to legalize ballot harvesting, which intimidates voters and loses the ballot’s chain of custody.
They will eviscerate signature verification safeguards.
They will overhaul the Supreme Court.
They will eliminate the filibuster.
They will try to create new states (Puerto Rico and D.C.) to get more Democratic senators.
They will do anything it takes to win.
Republicans, on the other hand, always wimp out in the end. They talk a tough game, but when push comes to shove, they can never get enough votes to play hardball like the Dems.
They wouldn’t impeach Biden over his betrayal of the American public by refusing to enforce the border.
They wouldn’t impeach Biden, even though he held up foreign aid to get a Ukrainian prosecutor hostile to his son’s interests fired.
They won’t hold Democrats, such as Eric Holder and Merrick Garland, in contempt, even though Democrats did so to many Republicans, including Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon.
And now Republicans are wimping out on perhaps the easiest way for them to help secure the presidential election this November, which is to make Nebraska a-winner-take-all state.
There is at least one scenario where Donald Trump and Kamala Harris can end up in a 269-269 tie. The difference maker could be the one vote in a congressional district in Nebraska. The Cornhusker State is one of just two that is not winner-take-all. The congressional district is a liberal college area that usually goes Democrat. A simple tweak of the state law by Nebraska lawmakers can convert the state into a winner.
You would think this is a no-brainer from a strategic point of view. The Democrats would do it in a nanosecond. But the Republicans, once again, wind up playing Hamlet, twisting in the wind. They don’t want to give the appearance that they’re interfering with the election, and, God forbid, be the subject of a scathing editorial in The New York Times.
It’s the reason they may very well lose this election in November.
Steve Levy is President of Common Sense Strategies, a political consulting firm. He served as Suffolk County Executive, as a NYS Assemblyman, and host of “The Steve Levy Radio Show.” He is the author of “Solutions to America’s Problems” and “Bias in the Media.” www.SteveLevy.info, Twitter @SteveLevyNY, steve@commonsensestrategies.com