So I saw a twitter quote attributed to Senator Blunt along with Turtle McConnell suggesting to the GOP caucus that there would be consequences for any member that stood up to challenge the election from the Senate floor. So I wrote to ask if the quote was true. Additionally I talked of fraud and of my deep concern that the election was stolen and in my view (and that of many many of my fellow Missourians) the republic's future was questionable if these things are properly addressed.
Here is his response:
Thank you for taking time to share your thoughts on the presidential election results.
On December 14, 2020, the Electoral College voted and Vice President Joseph Biden received 306 electoral votes, surpassing the 270 vote threshold. President Trump still continues to have the right to avail himself of every legal option available to his campaign; however, the Electoral College has fulfilled its constitutional role in determining the president and vice president-elect. As Chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, I will work with President-elect Biden and his Presidential Inaugural Committee to plan for the swearing-in ceremony on January 20, 2021.
Again, thank you for contacting me. I look forward to continuing our conversation on Facebook (www.facebook.com/SenatorBlunt) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/RoyBlunt) about the important issues facing Missouri and the country. I also encourage you to visit my website (blunt.senate.gov) to learn more about where I stand on the issues and sign-up for my e-newsletter.
Sincere regards,
306 Electoral Votes. No question as to their veracity. No discussion as to the merits of Trump's claim. Moving on here. Nothing to see.
Weasel.
He sucks. I will do whatever I can to primary him in 2022, but if he ends up being the GOP nominee, I will not vote for him. This election has taught me that Democrat/Republican don’t matter. You have to earn my vote.
You should remind him that about 50-60 of those electoral votes were illegally certified. What a piece of shit for leaving that out of the response.
He didn't pass any threshold without massive fraud, and idiot republicans like him are just letting this happen.
That was specifically a statement I made in my letter. And, of course, he makes no counter to that.
It's pretty sad that he either doesn't think or doesn't realize that he'll be the next one to be destroyed in this exact way. They're not going to suddenly stop if this fraud is successful, and they aren't going to suddenly promote peace with anyone that isn't part of the radical left.
I just wrote back. Here's what I said:
I am in receipt of your reply to my recent letter.
I'm re-writing to let you know that I find your position entirely unacceptable. You didn't address the essence of my concerns, which deal with apparent fraud. Instead you glibly write as if nothing untoward has occurred in the General Election, in spite of massive evidence to the contrary and polls that are showing the 50% of the American people believe this election was stolen.
But let me hasten to congratulate you on winning the chairmanship of the transition committee. Must be a fine feather in your cap, Senator in the waning days of the Republic, to be called to such a high honor.
Thomas Paine wrote a little pamphlet he titled "American Crisis." Published on December 18, 1776, it was an appeal to the patriotism and resolution of the American people. It’s opening lines are some of the most well-remembered and oft-quoted in American history and ones that perhaps you would do well to reflect on.
“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”
On Christmas Day of that year, General George Washington in a desperate bid to turn American fortunes, lead 2400 men across the ice-choked Delaware river, risking everything on that one last throw of the die. And of course, he is remembered as one of the greatest American heroes ever to have lived.
Hero or zero. We all have choices to make, don't we Mr. Blunt?
William McDonald St. Louis, MO
I have seen that letter before here in Georgia - I think the lazy staffers cut and paste each others’ work to aid in cranking out canned responses.