Beleaguered Morales emerges victorious in secretary of state race

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27 thoughts on “Beleaguered Morales emerges victorious in secretary of state race

    1. Generally, wing men aren’t fired for incompetence…

      What Morales does is make Rokita look like a serious politician by comparison.

  1. It’s ridiculous beyond compare. An election denier in charge of our elections. He knew he didn’t even have to debate. He could rely on Hoosier suckers.

    1. Don’t worry…y’all got Mears in Indy as prosecutor. Maybe he can harness the additional crime he will encourage–by letting hardened criminals back out on the streets–to “pick off” some of the most inconvenient GOPers. It was certainly the tactics of the Bolsheviks that the donkey party today increasingly models itself after–use absolute scum-of-the-earth humans to intimidate votrs.
      But then, most of us who used to support Dems have since recognized that violence is the order of the game for the “party of compassion” and “intellectualism”.

    2. Lauren what on Earth are you going on about? Dems violence? Humans are violent unfortunately regardless of political persuasion but I do appreciate the laugh that you’ve given me with your ludicrous comment. I can’t imagine with your obvious intelligence (and I mean that sincerely) that you think January 6, 2021 was a peaceful protest with a noose just as a sweet innocent prop. Jesus Christ.
      PS I’m no Mears fan.

  2. Certainly a sad state of affairs as Indiana voters believe this one is the most qualified. Very disappointing in fact that voters cannot elect qualified candidates, regardless of parties. We need to get back to individual exerience and qualification.

    1. By reporting on the failings (and worse) of a flawed candidate? That’s their job! Any candidate that lies about their military service record, embellishes their job history, votes illegally and makes unwanted sexual advances on colleagues should expect those issues to be covered by the media.

    2. LOL Mike. Their job is to report. The failings of Mears are obvious to anyone who can read a line graph, yet IBJ and the Star didn’t devote a fraction of attention to that.

      They were slobbering over Destiny Wells “I’m alarmed by the GOP because of their stance on the transformer community”. Such a winning ticket.

  3. It blows me away that people simply vote straight ticket. You can’t have a worse candidate for office, running against a really strong non controversial candidate and its not close.
    Hoosiers get what they vote for

  4. Suck it up, you crybabies.

    How about this quote: “During that campaign, Morales was criticized for embellishing parts of his resume…”

    Hell, that consummate idiot Joe Biden proved you can become President of The United States of America despite doing the same thing to a greater degree for his entire life, so bug off criticizing Morales for doing far less.

    1. Please excuse Bob P., as he didn’t have a very good night watching the election returns come in with a promised Red Wave turning about to be nothing more than a Red Drip. Tsk tsk.

    2. Morales did do far less… that’s why he got fired twice from the SOS office. Now he’s in charge of it. Boy, I bet the morale in that office is something today.

      Behold the new Indiana Republican Party. The era of Mitch Daniels and Eric Holcomb is over, the era of Todd Rokita and Diego Morales is upon us.

    3. Don’t worry Brent. The big joke is on the American public.

      While we all know the Jim Crow Party rigs elections as a matter of course (even I joked about the way Dems get dead voters back when I mostly voted Dem), the Red Drip will at least still stop some of the excesses.

      It’s common knowledge that you need a 52-53% success rate among Republicans to overcome Democrat shenanigans. Always have.

      But there’s enough Blue in American cities that they will continue to lurch toward the conditions that made them cesspools in the 70s and 80s. Blue back then, blue today. Keep murdering one another in the name of equity and inclusion.

      These haven’t exactly been the roaring twenties so far, have they? Unless, of course, you’re a billionaire–and the Dems are most certainly the party of billionaires….all while continuing to delude themselves into thinking they’re standing up against the establishment. Identity politics has distorted the party of the common man into turning what was a class struggle into a race/gender/sexuality struggle…leaving a clearly defined persona non-grata, just like the Dixiecrats and Germans under a certain mustachioed Austrian painter. It needs to come back to being a class struggle. Leave it to what remains of the inner Marxist in me to point this out.

    4. Post all the links to all that common knowledge … and all those links to those superior news sources, too.

      0-60 in 2020 election court cases. Even Jim Irsay had a better record as Colts GM.

  5. In all fairness to Curtis Hill And Charlie White , Diego Morales must be investigated for doing the same violations they were removed from office for committing. We probably can’t count on Attorney General Todd Rokita to act as he is a Morales ally. So Maybe Marion county prosecutor Ryan Meers will act to enforce the voting laws the public record shows Morales violated in 2018. And investigate the sexual harassment allegations by the 2 Republican women who reported his behavior to Republican power brokers prior to Morales nomination at their convention. The #tag me too movement should demand that the truth shall prevail.
    Morales quote the truth always prevails at his victory speech may be more biting than he thought.

    If this action is taken quickly enough Gov Holcomb can reappoint current Secretary of State Holli Sullivan again to replace a second unqualified candidate elected by his party to the Secretary of State Office.

    1. If he does it that will be the first law Ryan Mears enforces. Maybe the King of Catch and Release will put an ankle monitor on Diego.

  6. Hilarious that there are still talks of fraud without evidence. Maybe volunteer for an election to see how they actually work, then get back to posting.

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