Posted on 10/07/2014 6:18:53 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
Because of the meddling of people like Karl Rove, John Boehner and the rest of the GOPe, what was supposed to be an easy jaunt to a Senate majority finish line next month has turned into a nail biter.
Tokyo Rove has forced Tom Tillis on us in North Carolina. Tillis is not doing well and could very well lose to a very vulnerable Democrat.
He and Haley Barbour cheated to get another amnesty rubber stamp, Thad Cochran the nomination in Mississippi re-nominated and he too is headed for defeat.
This bunch did the same thing in Kansas and forced Pat Roberts on us. It is no wonder were angry and some of us are thinking about sitting this election out.
Nevertheless, Terri Lynn Lands campaign in Michigan makes this unnecessary. We can keep our integrity and get in this fight for our country.
He has not come out and said so, but Rove most likely hates Terri. He is determined to hand the Democrats control of America for generations by having the Republicans grant amnesty to illegal aliens. That makes Land his enemy.
On the record, Land has said she opposes any form of amnesty. This is why the Democrat in the Michigan race for an open Senate seat is Roves choice.
For some, myself included, this is all the reason necessary to support Land. But she is not shy about speaking out on the issues. Here are Terri Lynn Lands positions on the issues.
As you read them ask yourself why a Republican candidate who is down just 41/39 in an important senate race is constantly overlooked in news reports? When you get to the end youll understand.....
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
On it. Thanks.
Hah? How can that be? He had all those DemocRATS vote for him in the primary. Why would they turn around and vote for the DemocRAT candidate in the general?
The NRSC just pulled money from Michigan.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/219959-nrsc-cuts-michigan-tv
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/09/05/conservative-groups-spend-millions-on-three-senate-races/
Karl Rove and the GOPe are conservatism’s worst enemy.
The Dreaded Kochs will just plow it right back in. They WANT to disembowel the RATS, thank the Lord.
Oye Vey.....That worked will for McCain when he pulled out of Michigan in 08' now didn't it.
It became fodder to Sarah's 1st book with the line back to Michigan...
Sarah Palin if your lurking, please come to Michigan and stump for Terry all over the State. The foliage is stunning, the rides from stop to stop will be beautiful if it isn't raining :-).
I haven't met her, she seems like a nice lady, not setting the world on fire politically, but my guess is she'd be to the right of McCain and Brown if he makes it back in. I can live with that....
CrippleCreek, what say you?
I’ve seen more anti-Land TV spots over the weekend, but so far nothing either pro-Land or anti-Peters. The Michigan Senate campaign is being mishandled, maybe on purpose?
And then theres John McCain saying what will happen if the Republicans win the Senate: I will work very hard to go back to 60 votes, said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who boldly predicts a Republican Senate would process Obamas nominees more rapidly than [Democrats] do today.
And as for the House: John Boehner: Very Few Republicans Will Oppose Me
So tell me again how much better off we'll be voting for the RINOs.
No more voting for RINOs ever, under any circumstances. Period.
In the past I voted for McCain, and Romney nationally, and for Scott Brown in Massachusetts. But I guess it depends on your belief in how far gone this nation is, and what it will take to restore it, assuming that is even possible at this point.
Personally, I now believe that the only way to save America at this point (assuming such a thing is still possible) is to put conservatives in political offices and enact an agenda based on free markets, limited government and the rule of law. As long as we have a Republican party that actively opposes those ends (and we do, obviously), then I believe our only (slim) hope is drastic action.
As long as the Republican Party establishment believes that it can continue to survive by being Democrat-lite, and that it can continue to maintain power while actively fighting against the core principles of liberty, free markets and Constitutional law, it will never make the necessary change of direction.
Only when the Republican party understands that it must change or die can we hope to turn this country around. Our too-long-serving entrenched establishment politicians can still enjoy their comfy lifestyles, their wealth, power and prestige as members of a minority party. So why should they bother to change direction?
Surely a John Boehner (or an Eric Cantor -- had he not been defeated -- or a Mitch McConnell) would be just as happy to be minority leaders if the election cycle didn't go their way. Yes, they would prefer to be majority leaders, but what good would it do them if a conservative Republican Party won the majority and then threw them out of their cushy positions and all those perks, replacing them with real conservatives?
Ask yourself -- which do you think Mitch McConnell would prefer -- a majority Republican party in which he was stripped of his position by a conservative majority, or a minority Republican party in which he could remain Senate minority leader because the majority of Republican senators were RINOs?
You may argue that we have no time to wait for the Republicans to realize that their only choice is to change or die as a viable party. But if we don't have time for that, then what makes you think we have time to wait for the RINOs and the GOP-e to pursue a "moderately marginal" course of action designed only to maintain their personal fiefdoms at the expense of a free America operating under the rule of Constitutional law?
The GOP had majority power in the House and Senate, and occupied the White House, 10 years ago. What did all that power do to move the agenda of liberty forward? Answer: nothing.
A GOP that cannot even sell liberty, limited governments and free markets to the American people is worse than useless. It is a party of tyranny enablers, and I will have none of it.
Unbelievably, today we once again face the stark choice between liberty and death.
Once again, these are the times that try men's souls. Conservatives need to be waging aggressive war against the totalitarian leftist tyrants on all fronts -- in the branches of government at the federal and state level, in academia, in the media, through public demonstrations, and in the voting booth.
Many argue that we must continue to vote for "the most electable conservative," which means "vote for the RINO if no conservative is running." But I respectfully disagree with that choice. I am done enabling.
If we really are to lose the greatest country in the history of the world, then let's at least be fighting for it when it goes down.
And who knows, maybe -- just maybe, if we show sufficient resolve and conviction -- divine Providence will once again provide the support that gave our founders their unlikely victory in 1776, and grant us once again the "new birth of freedom" that Lincoln called for a century later.
If you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. The RINOs have managed to own the Republican party because they know that conservatives have nowhere else to go.
To continue voting for RINOs is to play right into that strategy. The RINOs have become so certain of your vote that they actually believe they can continue to stay in power by declaring outright war on the conservative base.
And when they do that, they are actually declaring war on core American principles -- war on liberty, war on free market economics, and even war on the Constitution.
The RINO Republicans cannot even make an appeal to the traditional American love of those principles, because they have lost the credibility and historical awareness to articulate them, let alone promote them.
Yes, having Harry Reid continue as majority leader is a horrific scenario. But having RINO Republicans win that office is only a marginally better short-term outcome.
And in some ways it is even worse, because as the RINOs reach across the aisle" to promote marginally modified Democrat policies, they give the Democrats cover from the well-deserved blame for the horrific damage that they have unleashed on our country in the last five years.
America is out of time now. We cannot continue on the current path. And as things continue to deteriorate, who do you think the voters will blame if the Republicans are in power when the 2016 elections come around?
You think Mitch McConnell's senate will repeal Obamacare? You think it will take the right position on immigration? You think a Republican Senate will vote against Obamas left wing Supreme Court nominations?
America needs clear, passionate and articulate voices to advocate and defend our founding principles, to secure our borders, to preserve our nation, and to take legislative and administrative steps to turn this country around, assuming it still can be turned around.
Majority leader Mitch McConnell will NEVER provide that voice or leadership. He is not the guy to turn things around for our formerly blessed nation.
But in 2016 a newly terrified Republican party will be forced to court instead of alienate the conservative base, and come 2017 will be in a position to put the party and our nation on the proper path. Such a duly chastised party has a real chance of nominating a Ted Cruz, instead of a Mitt Romney who, according to last night's panel on Fox News, is at this point the likely Republican presidential nominee.
So in November, for those whose only choice in the mid-terms is between a RINO and a Democrat, I urge them to stay home on election day, or vote third-party -- anything to prove the RINOs wrong in thinking that they can stay in power by literally declaring war on conservatism.
Think about it.
They’re giving her the Cuccinelli treatment. All Teri has to do is run ads non-stop condemning amnesty and she’ll take the seat.
The GOPe wanted Dave Camp but he turned them down.
If Land is indeed against amnesty then I wish she’d take a public stand on it via her political ads......
Are you seeing a lot of Land ads? What’s in them? TIA
Good, good, good.
This tells me the polling on her is biased and WRONG. And I think you’ve told me before your AG and SOS have done much to clean up vote fraud in your state?
Here are some of the ads but far from all of them.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCSw2tl4H1eO1R—aXF-MYg/videos
Our election laws have been strengthened considerably in recent years.
Terri land
Strong supporter of the keystone pipeline and developing our own energy sources
Supports easing the tax and regulatory burden to entice manufacturers to the USA
Supports full repeal of Obamacare
Supports returning the power of infrastructure to the states (tax/funding)
Has the endorsement of Michigan Right to life
Pro 2nd amendment
Why does anyone listen to Rove? Is it because he did so well with the 2012 elections? Oh wait. I guess he’s lucky that Dick Morris is around to make him look good.
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