{"id":1743425,"date":"2022-11-18T06:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1743425"},"modified":"2022-11-18T08:03:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:03:11","slug":"kurt-schlichter-ok-who-is-getting-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kurt-schlichter-ok-who-is-getting-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Schlichter: OK, Who Is Getting Fired?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkurt-schlichter-ok-who-is-getting-fired%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1743425&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/4a2e7c97-7d4f-4565-a80d-d2dbb95ac05e.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Somebody better get canned. Someone has to pay. Somebody important. Our culture is a disaster in large part because we have failed to hold leaders accountable when they screw up, because we have given losers a free pass and accepted excuses and therefore, accepted sub-par performance. Look at the wars since 2001 \u2013 what generals got relieved for the failure to win them promptly? And look at our military now. It\u2019s a disaster. This goes for the GOP in the wake of last week\u2019s fiasco.<\/p>\n<p>We were supposed to win big on Election Day. The fundamentals were there \u2013 history, the bad economy, general malaise. The president is a doddering pervert and at least one of the opposing candidates was a brain-addled ogre. We were told we were going to see a red wave, maybe a red tsunami, and the red we ended up seeing was our blood on the floor. So, who in a very top position of power in the GOP \u2013 not some second-tier functionary \u2013 is getting fired because of it?<\/p>\n<p>Now, I understand there are a lot of people with a piece of last week\u2019s debacle. But this is a situation that us lawyers call \u201cjoint and several liability.\u201d That means a lot of people are to blame and all of them own the results jointly. So when we talk about the GOP leadership, the guys and gals who accepted the job of getting it done, there\u2019s no <em>\u201cWhat about so-and-so!\u201d<\/em> There\u2019s no<em>\u00a0\u201cBut I was a victim of circumstances beyond my control!\u201d<\/em> There\u2019s no excuse.<\/p>\n<p>Trump? Trump owns part of the blame to be sure \u2013 I have ticked off enough diehards and Democrat bots by saying so \u2013 but he\u2019s not a GOP official. And he was part of the battlefield. We hired these people to solve problems, and the problem in Mar-a-Lago was no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Cheating? Let\u2019s assume there was some. Again, not a get-out-of-termination-free card. Cheating was another thing that we hired these folks to overcome. Yeah, it was a challenge. And they took the job with the understanding that they would meet the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>New voting rules? Again, not an act of God that was unforeseeable.<\/p>\n<p>Bad candidates? No one ever promised these guys perfect ones. Their job was to win with who we voters picked, not sit back and bitch about our choices.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP voters didn\u2019t show up? You don\u2019t get to blame your customer. We hired the leaders to get it done. They did not get it done.<\/p>\n<p>Any other excuses? Tommy Lee Jones put it best to Harrison Ford in \u201cThe Fugitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_FdvXl5GAes\">I don\u2019t care<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut they tried, Kurt!\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Well, Yoda put it best.<\/p>\n<p>Do or do not. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BQ4yd2W50No\">There is no try<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The leadership had one job \u2013 win. It failed to win. Now it must pay.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s tough but fair. If things had gone differently, the same leaders wielding the blamethrower would be at the head of a triumph marching up Pennsylvania Avenue with a staffer whispering in their ears \u201cYou are mortal, oh and the head lobbyist for MegaCorp is calling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s less important who gets fired than that someone does. There are plenty of people in leadership positions. Not all have to go \u2013 we need to be strategic. But somebody must get fired. Somebody must pay. Somebody big. And there are only three people of sufficient stature in the GOP to demonstrate, through their defenestration, that the GOP is serious about accountability and winning in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there is Mitch McConnell, the past and future Senate Minority Leader. He\u2019s already loathed by the base, and he\u2019s lost a lot of steps over the last year. His strategic choices for spending money were bitterly resented, and his problem is that he feels no need to go tell people why he spent money in Alaska and not Arizona (I think I know what he would say if he thought he had to explain himself to peasants, but I didn\u2019t make the call so I don\u2019t have to explain it for him). Right now, he is despised by the base, and telling folks that Trump must go but Minus One Mitch gets to stay seems like a hard sell. But firing him presents a problem beyond the fact that the Senate Republicans will not push him out \u2013 he\u2019ll likely stay leader until he\u2019s carried out. Before you fire him, you need to identify the senator who can keep a coalition from Susan Collins to the incoming J.D. Vance on the same sheet of music. Until you can answer that question, you are wishcasting.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut Kurt, Mitch did a lot of good things in the past and he was dealt a bad hand \u2013 you can\u2019t blame him!\u201d<\/em> Did we get a 51<sup>st<\/sup> Senator? No? He did not get it done.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the Squeaker Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, who was measuring the drapes in the Speaker\u2019s office and nearly did not get to put them up. No, the House Republican leader is not the guy who runs the campaigns, but he is the leader. A commander is responsible for everything his unit does or fails to do. That means the buck stops with him.<\/p>\n<p>As with McConnell, the problem is who would replace McCarthy. Until you ID a replacement who is willing to do it and can get the votes, it\u2019s just more wishcasting. Moreover, there are a bunch of factions that need to be assuaged. The fact is the House is likely to retain him because it\u2019s the least worst option.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut Kevin was dealt a bad hand because of reasons, Kurt!\u201d<\/em> Save it. Did we win? Sort of? So maybe he sort of slides through.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves Ronna McDaniel. She heads the RNC. She\u2019s now lost at three election cycles in a row. Failure requires accountability. Seems pretty obvious she needs to try her hand at a gig where she can actually perform adequately. How often do you have to not cut it before even the GOPe says <em>\u201cYa know, perhaps your unique skill set could be better applied in another career field, like lettuce mining or interpretive dance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mitch and Kevin are not going anywhere \u2013 that\u2019s just how it is. So that pretty much leaves Ronna McDaniel as the lucky fall gal. And there absolutely has to be a fall guy\/gal\/non-binary.<\/p>\n<p>Again, somebody has to pay.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an idea for her replacement \u2013 Matt or Mercedes Schlapp, which is really a two-for-one deal. They are both perfect for it. They know everybody. They have been in the trenches (I worked with Matt after the 2020 election in Las Vegas, so he gets the voting issues; Mercy was in the White House with Trump). They are both media savvy and donor savvy too. Also, they are not related to Mitt Romney and they don\u2019t have a track record of failure.<\/p>\n<p>If one of them won\u2019t do it, try Lee Zeldin, a smart Army officer who ran an unexpectedly good campaign in New York. And yes, he lost \u2013 but no one expected him to win, and he not only came closer than anyone thought he could but if we won the House, it was by Zeldin dragging several congressional seats along with him.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut Kurt\u2026when I offer some excuse for Ronna, you\u2019re just going to blow it off, aren\u2019t you?\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Yes, Grasshopper, you are learning.<\/p>\n<p>At least one head must roll, and it must be a big one that will serve as a warning designed to encourage the others. We need accountability not because it represents some sort of cosmic justice but because the base needs to see consequences for the bigwigs and because the party needs new blood. We have to win in 2024. We have to. We need fresh thinking, new ideas, and new faces. Do you know why a lot of people did not support Republicans even though Biden is a disaster and the Democrats are pinkos? Because they hate our leaders. 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You get access to a bunch of great stuff, not the least of which is my extra Wednesday column, my weekly\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2022\/11\/11\/the-democrats-clearly-havent-gotten-their-wake-up-call-n2615849?tpcc=kurtcolumn111722\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Stream of Kurtiousness\u00a0<\/em><\/a><em>videos every Friday, and the Unredacted podcast every Monday! Plus, some stuff from Larry O\u2019Connor \u2013 and a bunch of other stuff.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody better get canned. Someone has to pay. Somebody important. 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