Liberty & Prosperity Blog

After Tuesday night's thorough thumping, the GOP is faced with the daunting task of rebuilding the product. I'm not takling about a rebranding. Rather, I'm talking about who we're putting forth as our salespeople. That starts at the top. It starts with President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance but it includes our down-ticket caandidates, too. President Trump is tireless but he's also prone to making comments that stunt the progress he frequently makes. Mark Levin's lengthy tweet should serve as a wakeup call to conservatives. He wrote "The mid-terms were not lost over a single issue. And anybody with a functioning brain knows that. The party not in the White House traditionally wins, some of our candidates were weak, and the messaging was confusing. Despite a robust economy, affordability remained an issue -- health care, housing, energy, etc. - and prolonging the defeat of the Iranian terrorist regime, all contributed to the results, as did the Woke R...

Let the fingerpointing and infighting start. We lost bigtime. Let's start the fingerpointing with President Trump. Before we get into the fingerpointing, it's essential to thank him for his tireless campaigning. That said, he started the Iran war. We didn't have a choice on starting the hostilities. However, we had choices in how we prosecuted (and won) the war. Eliminating the theocrats and their protecters was required. President Trump failed with that. Instead, he bombed them, then signed the infamous MOU. He had a partner in that disaster -- VP J.D Vance . Vance published this tweet , which is utterly disloyal to President Trump. VP Vance wrote "In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were: End the war Focus on cost of living/inflation Put America F...

Hayley Stevens is the gift that keeps giving -- to the GOP. This Hannity article quotes Stevens as saying "Once I concluded that Abdul El-Sayed is not fit to serve in the United States Senate, I had to confront who should. I chose Mike Rogers." If there is some animosity in Stevens' statement, that's el-Sayed's fault. If he'd congratulated her for a well-run, hard-fought campaign, this weekend didn't have to happen. Instead, el-Sayed insisted on following Hasan Piker's school of winning with magnanimity. He was likely going to lose without this fiasco. This fiasco just makes el-Sayed's losing more likely. Stevens lost the August Democratic primary to El-Sayed. She said she endorsed him anyway and "put the party first. Instead, I was shut out," she wrote. "The endorsement was welcomed; the people behind it seemed to be forgotten." Then came the ads. Stevens said a group supporting El-Sayed ran one tying grocery costs to America’...

If there's a message that the Propaganda Media want Republicans to get, it's that Democrats are leading, usually by a significant if not overwhelming amount, and that voting is just a waste of time. If there's a message I want to send, it's that a) people are smarter than politicians give them credit for and b) when leads seem too big to be true, it's time to ignore the polls and vote. And bring your GOP-supporting friends with you. Tom Hauser ran through one such poll in Sunday's edition of At Issue With Tom Hauser . First, let's give a little context for the poll. The spending in the Minnesota Governor's race by independent expenditure groups Restore Sanity PAC (GOP-aligned) and the Alliance for a Better Minnesota (DFL-aligned) have spent $12,200,000 combined, with Restore Sanity outspending ABM by a $9,100,000 to $3,100,000 thus far. That's the first time the top GOP-related PAC has outspent the top DFL-related PAC. Further, GOP excitement is peak...

It isn't surprising that this Sahsn Journal article criticizes GOP gubernatorial nominee Lisa Demuth for being a racist. According to Sahan Journal, Lisa Demuth ran an accurate ad. First, the article said "A campaign ad by Republican gubernatorial candidate Lisa Demuth calling out 'Somali gangs' and singling out a Somali American man’s alleged planned attack at the Mall of America is drawing condemnation from some community members and political analysts." It's been well-documented that the gangs that engaged in a gunfight outside the Eden Prairie High School Homecoming Game were Somali gangs. It isn't racist to tell the truth about who's shooting lethal firearms outside a high school football stadium. The Sahan Journal reported that "The ad and others like it prompted Imam Hassan Dhooye, who leads Al-Hikmah Islamic Center in Minneapolis, to denounce the rhetoric to his many social media followers. 'I want to name this for what it is: explici...

It isn't a secret that Minnesota is considered Ground Zero for fraud. That's why members of the Trump administration held a news conference in St. Cloud, MN Friday afternoon. Vice President Vance was first scheduled to head the administration's delegation but he didn't come for some undisclosed reason. Instead, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, FBI Director Kash Patel, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz and FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson led the delegation. The delegation came to "St. Cloud to announce new arrests, federal investigations and an intensified crackdown on schemes siphoning taxpayer dollars from government programs." According to the article, the Trump administration's message was clear: Minnesota’s fraud problem has reached extraordinary proportions, and Washington is no longer looking the other way." Implied is the thought that a) the Biden administration turned a blind eye to the fraud and b) the Walz-Flanagan had ignored the problem until...