Hey, Geoff “Landslide” Diehl, you don’t should go residence however you may’t keep right here.
Take the trace, pal. And then take a hike. And when you’re at it, take Jim “Jones” Lyons, the state Republican get together chairman, with you.
Geoff, you will have now been defeated in successive campaigns for a) the state Senate, b) the US Senate, c) get together chairman (to your pal Jim Jones Lyons) and at last d) for governor.
You have change into the GOP’s “Marsha” Coakley. Anyone fortunate sufficient to get right into a common election in opposition to you may confidently begin drafting his or her victory speech.
What Beto O’Rourke is to Texas, what Stacey Abrams is to Georgia, Geoff Diehl is to Massachusetts – a political punching bag.
Seriously, although, the Commonwealth wants an actual opposition get together, not a cult. But a cult is strictly what Lyons and Diehl have decreased the state’s once-proud Republican get together to.
How hopeless was the Diehl marketing campaign? Last week, he put out an invite to his large weekend occasion in Worcester (which drew possibly 200 folks, together with precisely one elected official).
Here’s how Diehl promoted it:
“The 2022 election year is shaping up to be 2010 all over again.”
Um, in 2010, the native Republicans misplaced the governorship. Against Deval Patrick, Charlie Baker may solely handle 42 % of the vote. So yeah, I assume you can say Diehl was proper – 2022 did form to be 2010 another time.
If you don’t like Geoff’s political stands, simply wait 5 minutes.
When he introduced in July 2021, Diehl stated the 2020 presidential election wasn’t stolen. In August he stated it was. In October, he stated it wasn’t.
On a Wednesday in June, Diehl introduced he would take state funds for his marketing campaign. A day later, he introduced he wouldn’t.
When his opponent within the GOP main challenged him to a sequence of debates, he ran like a frightened rabbit. Then he challenged his Democrat opponent to a sequence of debates, understanding she’d by no means agree. Why waste time on the Nowhere Man of Massachusetts politics?
Diehl was merely a vessel to do away with Charlie Baker, nothing extra. Once that mission was achieved, he ought to have stepped apart for an actual candidate, one who truly had a shot at successful, or on the very least contending.
But Diehl had an enabler – Jim “Jones” Lyons, the state GOP chairman. His report of latest electoral catastrophes rivals Landslide Diehl’s.
Lyons misplaced his state rep’s seat in 2018, the identical 12 months Diehl misplaced his after being crushed by the pretend Indian.
Lyons grew to become get together chairman in 2019. Since his election, there have been seven particular elections for legislative seats, 4 of which had been held by Republicans. Lyons’ report: 0-7.
In the 2020 common elections, the GOP misplaced a internet of two extra seats within the General Court.
Lyons launched three petition drives for this 12 months’s poll. All three failed to gather the wanted 80,000 signatures. (He lastly made it with Question 4, which solely required 40,000 signatures. But then the unlawful aliens outspent the GOP by a 15-1 margin.)
Lyons’ tenure as get together chairman has been so catastrophic that final 12 months 16 main native GOP fats cats introduced that they’d elevate $1 million for the flat-broke state get together if solely Lyons would give up, which after all he wouldn’t.
At least two Republican Congressmen and former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer all backed out of scheduled fundraisers after they had been knowledgeable of Lyons’ horrific stewardship.
Diehl and Lyons would by no means admit it, however the truth is, they don’t even care that a lot about yesterday’s disasters for Republicans, whilst throughout the remainder of the nation the GOP was romping to large victories.
The solely factor that issues for the Lyons-Diehl dying cult is to take care of management of the state committee. The committee is meant to have 80 members, however proper now there are six vacancies, as a result of Lyons hasn’t been permitting caucuses to fill the vacancies.
You see, of the remaining 74 members, about half need to provide an actual various to the Democrats, and the opposite half are Kool Aid drinkers in Jim Jones Lyons’ political dying cult.
So at present begins the true marketing campaign, so far as Diehl and Lyons are involved, for the chairman’s election in January. One anti-Lyons committeewoman might quickly be sued in courtroom to do away with her. Caucuses could also be held – if Lyons thinks one in all his stooges can win the vote.
As for Diehl, he simply doesn’t need to have to return to his outdated post-state rep job as an Uber driver in Greater Brockton.
In March, he introduced in Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s former marketing campaign supervisor, as a $12,500-a-month marketing campaign advisor. The day after the first, Lewandowski give up. According to OCPF information, he hadn’t been paid since his first verify on St. Patrick’s Day.
Last month, although, though Diehl’s marketing campaign was destitute, Geoff started slicing Lewandowski checks, 5 of them in all, every for $9,375 – for a complete of $46,875.
Campaigning, TV spots, press conferences? Nah, who wants any of these? The large factor for Diehl was, paying Corey.
Trump will announce his 2024 candidacy subsequent Tuesday at Mar-A-Lago. And Diehl and Lewandowski are presumably buddies once more. Maybe, simply possibly, Geoff can seize a (paying) job within the marketing campaign – writing concession speeches, maybe, or simply consulting on find out how to lose winnable fights.
Jim Lyons was an enormous Ted Cruz man in 2016, however now he too would love to connect himself to Trump’s bottom, to maintain his phony-baloney job as state chairman. And Lyons additionally has an ace within the gap – if he can someway stay chairman, he’ll management 42 votes to the GOP nationwide conference in Milwaukee in 2024.
If Lyons may simply wangle an endorsement from Trump for his bid to retain the chairmanship in January, he may promise… nicely, you realize.
Personally, I don’t see that within the playing cards. Massachusetts isn’t going to be Trump nation, and particularly not with the bleep-show that the state GOP has degenerated into underneath the Lyons-Diehl regime.
One factor about Trump: he prefers winners to losers, and that ought to rule out any assist and help to those feckless stumblebums.
This is written earlier than the ultimate returns, so I’m undecided what number of votes Diehl ended up with on this newest defeat. I’m certain if he obtained the next share of the vote than he did in opposition to the pretend Indian in 2018 – a really low bar at 36.2 % – he most likely proclaimed victory, and introduced his plans to run for… one thing, the rest.
Please, Geoff Diehl and Jim Jones Lyons, how can we miss you whenever you received’t go away?
Don’t go away mad, guys. Just go away.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”