Commentary: Instead of Trying to Win Elections Fair and Square, Democrats Are Moving to Kick GOP Candidates from Ballots Entirely

Instead of working to present electable candidates of their own, democrats in Wisconsin are demanding in a lawsuit that three serving Republicans be removed from the ballot.

The democrat false claims are that these three politicians were part of the so-called “insurrection” of Jan. 6, 2021.

This from westernjournal.com.

Left-wing democrats in the Badger State are demanding that election judges remove Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and GOP Reps. Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald from the ballot for the 2022 midterm elections.

In the lawsuit, reported by the Epoch Times, the leftists claim that the three Republicans running for re-election “used their public positions of authority to illegally foment an atmosphere meant to intimidate and pressure Vice President [Mike] Pence and Congress to take actions inconsistent with the facts and with their duties under the Electoral Count Act and the U.S. Constitution.”

Despite the numerous irregularities of the 2020 election, Pence has said he is “proud” of his actions on the day he certified the election results that put Joe Biden in the White House.

Whatever the facts will eventually reveal, the results of the election were still passionately disputed by millions of Americans when the time came to certify the elections. By Jan. 5, hundreds of thousands of concerned Americans were pouring into Washington D.C., many preparing to attend the rally that President Trump had planned for the next day.

The next day, just as President Trump’s rally was ending elsewhere in the capital city, a large group of protesters participated in an incursion into the Capitol itself.

Whatever you believe happened on Jan. 6, the federal government has not been able to prove there was any pre-organized attack on the Capitol. It was certainly not an armed “insurrection.” Finally, none of the protesters arrested and charged for their part in the riot have been charged with sedition or treason.

And while the riot did result in tens of thousands in damage to the Capital, that cost is a far cry from the billions of dollars that the many Black Lives Matter riots cost in lives and property destruction, not to mention the loss to businesses across the country.

Regardless, Wisconsin democrats hope to convince a court that Johnson, Tiffany, and Fitzgerald somehow organized an “insurrection” that day. It is a charge as absurd as it sounds.

The [d]emocrat litigants claim that the three GOP officials are ineligible for office under the 14th Amendment because they have each expressed concerns about the integrity of the 2020 election.

 

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was designed in the aftermath of the Civil War to prevent congressmen who fought for the Confederacy from returning to Congress. The concept was that those who fought in an insurrection against the federal government and lost did not have a lawful right to simply return to their positions of power inside the federal government.

Democrats are banking that courts will proclaim the Jan. 6 incursion an “insurrection” despite the scant evidence to arrive at such a conclusion.

The three Republicans in Wisconsin are not the only elected officials facing this absurd attack on their eligibility for the 2022 ballot over their support for election integrity measures.

Democrats also attempted to get Rep. Madison Cawthorn thrown off the ballot in North Carolina. The gambit, though, failed, when a federal judge blocked the move.

It is a sad state of affairs for a nation, though, when political discourse transitions to using an event of one day to remove opposing politicians from the ballot.

Is this not a cowardly move, one that shows just how scared and desperate democrats are of losing the coming midterms in a landslide?

Final thought, a warning of sorts: The democrat party and individual democrat politicians may be scared and desperate as premised in this article, however, we can be sure that this attempt to kick GOP candidates off ballots is merely one of many tricks and slimy questionable maneuvers the democrats are perpetrating during the run up to the 2022 elections.

To quote an old saying, “The sky’s the limit.”