After a 30yr Army career followed by 15 years of working for the Methodist Church and, later, Sprint Communications, I retired to a rural Virginia county that varies from 70-30 to 65-35 Republican. Because I am a long-time member of the County Electoral Board as well as being active in church, civic, and hobby organizations, I have close, frequent contact with a lot of Republicans.
Many of my Republican friends are retired industry, military, and federal executives who moved here because of the Chesapeake Bay waterfront and slow pace of life. All have advanced degrees, many are published authors, they travel and read. In addition to these “come-here” Republicans, my friends also include a lot of “born-here” local, salt-of-the-earth rural folks. And almost to a person the born-here and come-here Republicans are howling-at-the-moon, tire-biting, tail-chasing insane.
For example: In the early summer 2020, when Biden was emerging as the Democratic front-runner, every single Republican I talked with told me there was a secret Democratic cabal comprised of Pelosi-Clinton-AOC-Soros that would sabotage Biden and swing the nomination to Clinton.
Didn't happen.
And now this same crowd is spreading a similarly bizarre claim: After Biden has been in office for a couple of months, the same cabal will remove him from office under the 25th Amendment; replace Biden with the Socialist Kamala Harris; Harris will appoint Michelle Obama as VP; and the Socialist coup will be complete.
Don’t believe it?
Here's a comment left yesterday on a major Virginia Republican blog:
ameri...canwork • 16 hours ago
Doesn’t Joe know that if he were to win the Democrats are just going to let him be sworn in then within 2 months he is out, Hariss will be President and Michelle Obozo will be VP (sic) . The Coop against Trump will their turn on their own (sic) .
They probably have a duplicate Oval Office set up in a secluded location to let him think that he is President and he’ll believe it.
The Oct 22 edition of our regional weekly newspaper carried this letter to the editor:
As Election Day draws closer, the Democrat (sic) Party’s strategy to defeat President Trump has become clear.
First: harvest untold numbers of fraudulent ballots in swing states. Second: once Biden is elected, let him serve a cursory amount of time but not allow him to make any important decisions. Those will be made by Pelosi, AOC, et al. Third: remove Biden under the terms of the 25th Amendment, thus allowing the Socialist Harris to be installed as president. I’m predicting April 1.
— Ralph Polhamus; Irvington (Lancaster County)
I need a drink.