Posted on 10/10/2016 7:26:30 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
I made this point on this thread here, but a vanity is more preferable.
If you are not voting for down-ticket Republicans, you are giving the Democrats a chance to retake control of Congress.
Now, this is not a defense of the utter fecklessness of Congressional Republicans over the last 5.75 years, because Donald Trump IS the end result of this fecklessness from the Republicans, so we did send our message.
If Trump had not been the GOP nominee, I wouldn't even be holding my nose. I simply would not have voted and would have checked out the political process entirely and crawled into a hole with a bottle of liquor like Calvin Coolidge did after Hoover won.
I totally agree with you. I get it. I hate the Republicans in Congress too. Guys like Congressman Joe Heck, a Brigadier Army General who should know better, may have squandered his chance at an easy Senate seat pickup just because he heard man-talk that was probably on par with the stuff he heard in the military, or in the hospitals (Heck is also a physician) where there is frequent gallows humor about the patients.
New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayeotte, a Tea Party darling who has turned into the female version of John McCain, is also in danger of losing her seat as well.
So the supporters of Trump are going to vote for Trump, but many of them will now write in someone else, vote 3rd party, or even vote for the Democrat.
This is wrong on 2 counts:
(1) Unlike the feckless, door mat Congressional Republicans who hold the "majority," Democrats have no qualms about using Congressional powers to the max. And you'll all of a sudden hear the media scream that Trump is abusing the Presidency and needs to be reined in by the very same Congress that the Left disregarded over the last 5.75 years as they used the courts and the Executive Branch to implement their agendas.
All of Trump's initiatives - including hiring more Border Patrol agents and maybe needing more money for the wall - will not be funded by a Rat Congress.
Trump's SCOTUS picks will not be confirmed.
Trump's lower court picks will not even have a committee hearing.
With a Republican Congress, Trump will be in a much better position to pass his agenda. There will also be none of the backscratching and the Republican's lobbyists will have no input. Also, Trump will owe none of these turncoat Republicans who demanded he step down NOTHING. Assuming he wins his Senate seat, guys like Joe Heck will have to get on board the Trump train...or Yucca Mountain will be immediately chosen to store nuclear waste and Trump will endorse and campaign for his primary opponent in 2022.
(2) Keeping Congress in Republican Party hands also keeps Trump honest, at least from the Freedom Caucus and other conservatives. Remember: Trump is not a Constitutional conservative! He is someone who will save America from the internationalists - but we will still have big government here at home. So on the flip side of this, with a Democrat Congress, Trump may have the urge to pull a Schwarzenegger, all but abandoning his agenda and negotiating with the Democrats on theirs (I don't see it happening, but you never know). Those conservatives in Washington will stop or at least exert more state control over some of Trump's big government projects like his support of expanding child care. They'll likely get Trump to turn over more federal power back to the states.
So yes, I don't care if your Republican candidate is a flaming liberal. Hold your nose and vote for him, and keep Congress in Republican's hands!
Yes, more posts like this (unless you can safely help take out a RINO, safely)
Don’t bother. The raging anger has over taken logic.
Absolutely - vote Republican. It’s essential that we keep the House and Senate. Remember, the majority controls committees - like Judiciary. The next generation will be governed by the new Supreme Court.
It’s gonna be tough pulling the level on that sanctimonious Rob Portman. Figure, I can leave it blank or go 3rd party. He’ll still win, but his totals will be lower the the other R’s.
There are a number of races here in Houston where there is no Republican candidate, but there is a Libertarian candidate. In that case I vote for the Libertarian solely for the purpose of denying the Democrat the vote.
The Democratic Party must be crushed, obliterated. See my tagline.
ABSOLUTELY NOT!! You find any republicrat supporting hillary and crush that jack ass. I voted libertarian against a hillary supporting RINO bastard!! Never will I support an anti— again. SCREW THEM!
Agreed and should be obvious.
I just posted about how my hatred of ryan cont overshadow holding onto the congress, so the good guys will be better positioned to help Trump.
I agree with this.. take out the phony’s in the next primary— except Paul Ryan— we can sacrifice one seat...
I have NO problem voting for Ron Johnson over Rusty Feingold.
And luckily, based on where I now live, that’s the ONLY tough decision I need to make this time around. :)
I don’t want hilary supporting republicrats ever again!! To hell with them . Why vote for a fake Democrat when you can get a REAL Leftist !!
Don’t bother. The raging anger has over taken logic.
The raging anger is in the tantruming never Trumpers who will not support the will of the GOP voters. Returning the favor to them is a calibrated response and 100% correct.
The House is safe. The Senate is gone. They simply won’t support Trump regardless of who controls the body.
Paul Ryan needs to resign now .
He is destroying the ticket.
No GOP must win if Ryan is their speaker.
LET THEM REMOVE RYAN OR PERISH.
“If you are not voting for down-ticket Republicans, you are giving the Democrats a chance to retake control of Congress.”
Yah, so?
Exactly
Ryan must GO !
In California we have two Democrats to choose from for US senate.
WE WILL STILL VOTE FOR Mr. TRUMP.
THE GOP DESERVES DECIMATION ON THE STEPS OF THE CAPITOL.
I refuse to vote for Portman.
I’m listening...you want me to vote for Ayotte?
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