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The Grim Reality for Democrats: Kathy Wyenandt loses steam in a local election which reflects the national implications for her party

I couldn’t help but notice that Kathy Wyenandt’s campaign sign was gone from the billboard she had been renting near my home on RT.4 in Liberty Township where she is running against George Lang for the 52nd District House seat. The old billboard was nice, and expensive and she started with her message early in September 2018. She thought like a lot of Democrats did that this whole thing was going to be easy. After all her experience told her that the 2013 Lakota levy had passed and she had led that tax increase. In reality I had to break her heart on the matter when we spoke privately later after a debate. The Lakota levy of 2013 didn’t pass by just 1% because people all of a sudden wanted to raise taxes on themselves. It was because a large portion of the resistance who was working with me wanted to play nice with the other side, so the no vote side was less inclined to show up to vote on election night. It was a simple numbers game, it was my job to evoke people’s passions to get them to the polls, even if I had to call people names. The Lakota levy didn’t pass because of anything Kathy did, but because of what the tax fighters didn’t do. She only benefited, and we had that talk personally. People are often surprised when they meet me that I’m actually a very nice person, not some crazed lunatic. But clearly after that night where she and George Lang debated her behavior changed as did that of her supporters. Sure you can still see a sign for her here and there but the energy had gone out of her campaign. Her premise from the beginning was wrong, she was a moderate running in a conservative area as a Democrat. She was a woman running against a white man and Democrats thought that was enough. Her levy supporting friends at Lakota had been treating her as a celebrity since 2013 for a levy victory when in fact it wasn’t anything they did to secure a victory, other than convince my supporters to play nice and reunite the community under the flag of Lakota. George Lang in the debate had done well with her and after the depth of just how hard it was going to be to win the 52nd District seemed to have dawned on her. And now with just a few weeks ahead of the election the money was hard to come by to renew her billboard until the election. Now it’s gone leaving only a tattered empty place with peeling paper in its place and every time I see it now I think of how it is a good metaphor for the Democrat Party.

Recently Vennessa Enoch caught me in a parking lot asking for my vote. She was a nice black woman running as a Democrat against Warren Davidson, and she obviously didn’t know who I was. Of course I was polite to her but she could see by my face that it was a mistake to hand me any campaign literature. She seemed like a nice enough lady but it was clear she didn’t know the game she was playing. The Democrats in Southern Ohio and up into counties past Columbus really thought that women were so stupid as to vote as a collective association—that girl power was a viable political strategy. Since Trump had been elected Democrats continued to think that they’d split up the women vote by offering women as candidates, such as Vennessa Enoch and Kathy Wyenandt. I don’t think Vennessa had been told by her Democratic friends that people weren’t going to like her just because society said they had to like a black woman. That voting for a person for congress in Warren Davidson’s district was going to take a lot more than that. We weren’t so stupid to vote for a liberal just because they were women or black. Those are not traits that effectively win elections, they never have been and they certainly aren’t now. Women love Trump and they specifically like the kind of Republican Party that is forming under the Trump umbrella. For examples just go to Instagram and do a search for Babes for Trump or God Guns and Freedom and you’ll see what I mean. A new kind of sexual expression is taking place where suddenly its cool for women to wear bikinis and use their bodies as billboards for Trump and Republicanism in general. Women were not doing this for John McCain, Mit Romney, or George Bush, this is a very new thing and it comes as a byproduct of having a winning approach to elections in general. There are a lot of women who love the kind of men that are emerging from the Trump administration and the Democrats are not on that wagon.

I noticed a tremendous difference in Republican attitudes at a recent event at Premier Shooting and Training where they had a Second Amendment celebration night there. For one, it was unusual to have all those top-level Republicans in the same place at the same time where fundraising wasn’t the primary objective. Some of the guys there had been around for a while, but there was something very different about them now that Trump was the head of the Republican Party. There was a swagger present that I hadn’t seen before in all the many years that I had been doing these kinds of things. Back at that Lakota levy period that Kathy Wyenandt was so proud of we had a meeting after the third attempt that went down in flames in the fall of 2011 that we should lighten up, that we had too much Tea Party in our No Lakota Levy campaign. Of course, everyone knew I wanted to punch harder than we had been. The district was not respecting voters with continued attempts at a tax increase. My friends who were all top Republicans in Butler County wanted to mend fences for the sake of business. Back then the leader of the Republican Party in Butler County was John Boehner and he was a very moderate Republican who wanted to play by the rules that Democrats established. I tried to tell them what was coming, but nobody wanted to hear it then, and only now are they seeing it. The energy that put people into voting for key elections was swagger, and confidence—not compromise and conciliation.

As I watched Republicans rejoice at a hard-fought victory over the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation I could see that finally what I had been saying for years was starting to really sink in. Trump’s election and the results of success that have followed have won over most of the key Republicans I knew in Ohio. They had adopted to this new leader of the Republican Party and were seeing success. Meanwhile Democrats were still playing an old game of identity politics that only appealed to a small minority of voters. People hadn’t voted for Hillary Clinton just because she was a woman and they weren’t going to vote for Kathy Wyenandt just because she was attractive and pleasant. Republicans for the first time in their lives could go on Instagram and see lots of mostly naked Republican women in red white and blue bikinis hold guns and Bibles all too happy to show their support for President Trump and its that kind of energy that wins elections. People over politics or some other socialist message isn’t going to work. The world had changed and Democrats were too stupid to see it. That is the reason they threw everything they had at Brett Kavanaugh and why with only a few weeks left to close the deal their campaigns in local races like the ones in Southern Ohio are running out of gas—because they didn’t understand the situation they were getting into.

Republicans should win most of their races easily around the country. There will be some surprises here and there but in essence if Republican voters show up and vote, they will easily outnumber the Democrats. There just aren’t that many Democrats, they are a minority party with a sloppy message of old socialism that only lazy people like. The new Trump Republicans are much cooler all of a sudden and if that energy fuels voter turnout, Republicans will gain seats in the House and Senate, not lose them. And I predict that there will be many more billboards going vacant for Democrat candidates in the near future. They didn’t learn from the mistakes of the past even when the evidence was quite clear. I could tell in my conversations with Kathy and Venessa that nobody on their side had talked to them the way I was which isn’t good. It’s not that I was mean or anything, but just to frame the situation they were stepping into, obviously nobody had done that for them. Because the Democrats thought all they needed was women to vote against men and their ticket to the future would be punched. What they didn’t calculate was that there were many, many women more than willing to take off their clothes and use their bodies for billboards for Trump’s Republicans and that would prove to be the deciding factor for the upcoming midterms. And it wasn’t crusty old men providing that energy, it was women, young and vivacious and looking for winners. And those winners are not in the Democratic Party, that’s for sure.

Rich Hoffman

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I Was Right About James Comey: When my appearance on CNN illustrated the FBI scandal before anyone else imagined it was even possible

I have to say I’m just a little proud of myself. It was the beginning of June in 2017 when a friend of mine called to invite me to be a part of a group of CNN viewers to watch the James Comey testimony in front of Congress. The whole things was set up at Rick’s Tavern in Fairfield, Ohio. The CNN producer Stephen Samaniego had picked a place on the map in the heart of Trump country and wanted to gauge audience reaction to what they thought would be really damning testimony from the recently fired FBI Director. I knew what I was saying yes to and understood that CNN was hoping to catch us flat-footed with overwhelming evidence that President Trump had obstructed justice by firing Comey to stop an investigation into some mystical collusion with Russia to win the American election. So I showed up with about 8 or 9 other people early in the morning as CNN was setting up the popular sports bar as a viewing center. When the testimony started the CNN team was kind enough to buy us all lunch and film us as we watched the hearing unfold. It was an interesting experience. Throughout the testimony most of the people left before it was done leaving me and one other woman there until the conclusion.

I love that kind of thing. I have a busy life professionally, but I usually take time for big national events like this testimony. Even if CNN hadn’t invited me on the air to talk about it, I would have taken the day to watch it, so I was quite happy to stay for the entire event and speak with the CNN people afterwards. As anti-Trump as their network was, the crew with me were pretty neutral guys. We talked about regional bubbles which is why they wanted to come to Trump country and how different regions of the country had different perspectives, which I agreed with. We talked about the signs that something was wrong with John McCain who just a few months later would be diagnosed with a serious terminal ailment. We talked about what a great location Rick’s Tavern was for an understanding of the typical Trump voter. I was with CNN for another hour or so after the event ended and they seemed interested in my perspectives.

We were all told to come back later that evening for the Anderson Cooper show where we’d give live feedback to questions asked of us about the Comey testimony. I had taken copious amounts of notes during the testimony and there were a lot of fishy things said that gave me very strong opinions about the nature of James Comey—who up to that point I had been willing to give the benefit of the doubt. I thought he was an honest cop who had gotten caught in a political cross fire—but his testimony revealed holes that apparently only I could see, because the CNN guys thought the evidence against Trump was overwhelming in an obstruction of justice case. Again, the attribution to our differing points of view at that moment was thought to be regional. But to me it was just pure logic, so I had a feeling that I was going to be called on as a feature during the Cooper segment.

The mood of that night was against Trump supporters. On the surface Comey came across as a nice guy who was believable. I have however a built-in bullshit detector that had serious alarm bells going off inside me, and my instinct told me that Comey was up to no good. That bullshit detector is something I have learned to trust over the years as it is almost always correct. I don’t always let the people know whom I’m dealing with that I know they are giving me bullshit. There are tactical advantages to not saying so, and given that this was a CNN event, I didn’t come right out and announce my thoughts to the producers—rather I let them talk most. When they called on me during the Anderson Cooper segment I was free to articulate the situation the way I truly felt about it, which was to compare Comey to the fiction writer Ian Fleming of the famous James Bond series. James Comey to me after his testimony was a radical hiding behind a good old American façade who fancied himself as some kind of secret agent saving the world from itself, so I said as much to the millions of people watching and in hind-sight, I’m very proud of it.

On the cusp of the congressional memo announcing in grim detail how the FBI abused its power to spy on the Trump transition team inspiring a phony Russian conspiracy to shield the real criminal behavior that our top law enforcement agency in America had actually conducted—I am happy to say that when it mattered most, I called it correctly. Now the rest of America is about to learn what I’ve been saying for many years, and the proof is right there in front of everyone to deal with—just as I told you it would be many years ago. The only real collusion that occurred during the 2016 election was between the Democratic Party and our very own FBI. And Comey was the ring leader. When I stated to CNN that Comey was more inclined to fiction than the truth it went against all conventional thinking on that early June day in 2017.

After the show was over and the CNN guys were packing up their equipment we spoke for a little and I wondered if they’d be angry with me for saying what I did. After all, I thought I was pretty kind in how I said it—and as it turned out, they liked the statement and even went so far to feature it on their YouTube site. Rush Limbaugh picked it up the following day and I felt I had done a pretty good job. It was however only over the coming months that slowly I would be proven right. As it usually is, people who make bold predictions or say things that aren’t yet accepted as reality are ridiculed and at that time saying that Comey and the FBI were up to fictional testimony to hide a crime they committed was very scandalous and was an extraordinary thing to do. But now we are all learning that what I said wasn’t at all outlandish. It was rather, quite factual.

Like I said, I have a built-in bullshit detector. I know a lot more about people than I let on because once you say something, you can never take it back, and often that’s not the way to communicate most effectively with others. With the CNN guys, I had a chance to tell millions of people my thoughts about James Comey just hours after his testimony and without question because I made it easy for others to follow, I played a small part in shaping the defense of Trump in some critical hours when the White House needed it most and now that the FBI has been caught—I am extremely proud of my position so early on. That’s certainly not the first time for me nor will it be my last—but it feels good when the current seems against you to stand up to the pressure and trust your instincts—then to be confirmed correct. If I had been a rambling partisan, they likely wouldn’t have put me on television and who knows what would have happened next. Its one thing to be right, but if you really want to communicate it’s not always best to rub the nose of your opponent into their own excrement. Sometimes you have to let them come to things in their own way. Sometimes you do want to rub their face in it, but usually that’s not the best thing. But when it comes to standing up to the FBI and going against an icon of justice that James Comey was before that day of testimony, it wasn’t easy to sit there in Rick’s Tavern and declare that the former FBI Director was lying. But he was, and I’m very glad to have been one of the first to say so. Now, when I say that the Democratic Party is about to destroy itself, maybe you’ll listen to my thoughts a little more carefully dear reader.

Rich Hoffman

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A Convention Run by Losers: Protesters send DNC into chaos and anger

The news coming out of the DNC convention in Philadelphia is quite extraordinary.  Not only are the democrats in trouble with all the Wikileaks problems that are showing what kind of people they are behind the cameras—forcing resignations and an adherence to an even more progressive platform than any right mind would think is possible—but they are in a state of extreme chaos.  Strangely, the media—even Fox, is avoiding showing much of the trouble—so I am providing videos from the same people who showed the dark side of the RNC convention to expose the DNC. Obviously, the protests and malcontent ratio at the DNC is much, much higher.  Given that Wikileaks is about to unload another barrage of revealing emails about the Clinton Foundation—this convention on only day two is a complete disaster.  There is no way they can recover the momentum they have lost only halfway through.  The public impression has been now cast in stone.

Listening to Bill Clinton’s speech, you can tell they are all guilty when they can’t address the issues directly, but choose some “high road” as a means to defend themselves.  If they weren’t so guilty of so many criminal escapades, they would defend themselves more valiantly, but they can’t, and even the socialists Millennials who were Bernie supporters know it—which is actually quite sad.  For instance, the number one concern that most in the world have right now is ISIS—yet on day one of the DNC convention nobody mentioned it.  But that is just the tip of the iceberg with these idiots.  Obviously I’m not a fan, but even so, it is amazing how jagged their convention is both inside and out.  The videos above show what’s really going on—and not even the national media outlets can avoid the specifics.  Those tricks simply don’t work anymore.  By the end of the week, I don’t see Hillary getting a bump in the polls.  I think she’ll actually lose ground because the idiocy of the DNC convention cannot be ignored.  Normal people are seeing what a bunch of losers are attending and running it—and when you can’t even appease the anarchists and the socialists—you have a real problem if you are the Democratic Party.

Rich Hoffman

 CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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The End of the Democratic Party: Rich Hoffman and Matt Clark on WAAM

Yes, during this broadcast on WAAM in Ann Arbor, Michigan with Matt Clark, I predicted the end of the Democratic Party.  What, Why, How, When and Where I described in some detail during the radio broadcast.  Click the link below to hear it for yourself and be sure to pass it along to a friend in need of some energy in these trying times.  Don’t worry, help is coming!

https://soundcloud.com/clarkcast/obama-threatens-education-funds-over-bathroom-debate-5-14-16-podcast

Rich Hoffman

 CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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