Let’s set this up for readers. And if I go outside my very large box, I have a reason. I’ve got this crud everyone is suffering through, so I’m just hoping the word count reaches 900 or so. See what I did there?

OK, on to the 2022 election “season.”

On one side, the Democrats. The ones with the single biggest rectal chapeau (I almost used the actual words this guy is so evil) in history in charge who’s basically a rubber-stamp-droid reading horribly off a teleprompter and signing whatever’s put in front of him. Gov. LaPetomane looks like Einstein next to this guy. His main henchman, Nancy Pelosi, is investigating, imprisoning and throwing the book at anyone who took the SS Minnow version of the three-hour Capitol tour all while continuing her never-ending witch hunt against a former president — and using a corrupt Justice Department across the country to do it. Democrats ran two (basically) dead men in Pennsylvania, one for state government and one for the U.S. Senate. To top is off, basically everything the Democrats have told you for the past six years is a lie.

OK, that should make it easy enough. As they say in infomercials, “But wait, there’s more.” The economy is in shambles. Inflation is setting records (a slow down month to month doesn’t mean it went away), the climate agenda got moved forward as they lied to you about the Inflation Reduction Act that was nothing BUT climate mandates, we’ve discovered the litany of what the leftists are doing to our schools and the LGBTQ agenda moves on with the barrel of government’s gun against all who think differently. I could go on, but I’m filling my word count nicely. So let’s see where the rubber should have met the road, yet Republicans simply spun out and ended in the ditch.

I know many of those who vote as I do clamor “term limits.” Obviously, they missed my last column telling them term limits will only get us worse people more often who go into lobbying and run D.C. from the Beltway instead of the Capitol. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ring a bell? Who’s agenda is this? It’s not the guy in charge, for sure. He doesn’t even know what the agenda is. His job is to hide and come out and say what they tell him in between ice cream.

So, what is this magic formula, you ask? Simple. Remove the unconstitutional power from Washington, D.C. It’s something the Supreme Court finally got right on Roe and it only took 50 years. By the way, SCOTUS has gotten slavery, Jim Crow, segregation and myriad other things over the centuries as well. Sadly, there are only two fixes. A new case or elections. More sad, Republicans absolutely suck at one of them.

Let use the most recent. As I said, SCOTUS got Dobbs correct in its opinion that abortion falls under the purview of states. State are the incubators for good and bad laws. We’ve all hailed some and loathed some which were passed. So yes, some abortion laws went into effect retroactively after Dobbs on one side limiting abortion and others were passed hastily, making abortion legal after live birth. Neither of these are good thing. But since when do politicians pass laws for the people? Politicians pass laws for votes for the base to win primaries.

And on the Republicans’ side, here’s the biggest misunderstanding of voters. The majority of voters in this country are single-issue voters first. Period. Rush Limbaugh summed it up best: Liberals are liberals first. In other words, 47 percent to 48 percent of the vote is gone. Forget ol’ Newt Gingrich’s statement of the last poll being as high as a Democrat can go. Sorry Newt, time for you to go. Why does this matter? Simple. Democrats have convinced leftist and independent voters all laws and rights come from Washington, D.C., and more important, evil Republicans want to take away those rights — which, by the way, AREN’T rights.

Think about this. The single biggest aggregate issue in the election was the economy. That put Republicans to sleep. Unless you’re the senior milquetoast from South Carolina, Lindsey No-Chance-Of-Being-Primaried Graham, who tried to force a vote on a federal abortion law right after SCOTUS ruled it’s the states’ to decide. Kinda makes you think it’s a federal right decided by Congress, no? The only reason he could possibly try this level of stupidity is to preserve his minority power.

OK, so a football analogy. For the Heisman trophy, 20 different guys split the first place votes equally and ONE guy gets every second-place vote plus one split of the first-place votes and wins the award. He’s obviously the best, no? Well, NO. But with the economy coming in first in every poll once added up, Republicans just knew snatching defeat from the jaws of victory was in play.

So tell me. If your single-issue passion is abortion, LGTBQ rights, the climate, animal rights, elections, Social Security and the Medis — and I could go on and on — who are you gonna vote for? The folks saying they’ll preserve your “right” to all of these. The Democrats have been pulling this for 50 years.

And Republicans fall for it every time.

Craig Hall is owner and publisher of the Business Times. Reach him at 424-5133 or publisher@thebusinesstimes.com.