Nov is going to be a problem......just saying.
The question before us is "do we reward such behavior with another vote?"
My answer would be no. And I came to that conclusion some time ago (and have caught hell with many FReepers here because of it).
Basically, in the parlance of our times, voting for those who betray you is AMNESTY, though most would call it COMPREHENSIVE SENATE POPULATION REFORM, i.e. "we have to win back the Senate!"
By voting for such men as John Cornyn, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Lamar Alexander, Scott Brown, Thad Cochran, etc., you are essentially saying, "what you did is perfectly ok and you will have our support because you were clever enough to put an "r" next to your name."
In Mississippi, would write-ins be permitted in the November election?
Could he be immediately recalled? Just start the process tomorrow? It would send the right message.
save for later
A lot of Freepers apparently enjoy being spit on, pissed on and sh$t on.
The more they get dumped on the more excited they get.
Like you, I don’t get my kicks from being dumped on by my own party.
Everyone is misinterpreting what happened last night.
Last night was a TEST for Hillary’s campaign.
Hillary is running third party, the “Third Way”.
Last night was a test to see if the black drones that vote democrat and only democrat could be convinced to vote for someone other than a dem.
If the black drones can be convinced to vote republican they can be convinced to vote third party for Hillary.
The test worked.
Time to stop voting Straight Party Ticket!
Republican congress, esp senators, with a long history in the senate, have a machine. They are IN.
they know that Cantor’s ousting in Virginia, of all states, the majority leader, first time in history, is the true temperature out there.
Working to change that is like steering a battleship, and it can’t be done by just one person.
Still too soon to start shooting?
Aside from the fact they are corrupt, what really drives the treachery in this DC establishment GOP, money or fear for theirs or a family members lives?? Could it be both given the world’s oligarchs commonly rule by offering the option of lead or silver?
from article http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/381187/flier-got-thad-cochran-elected-john-fund
More than that. If the GOP in Mississippi had asked for the run off to be closed, Mississippi was bound by law to do so.
I’m not rewarding the GOP with jack.
I remember when George Wallace ran on a third party ticket. He said there was not a dimes worth of difference between the two parties.
The odd thing is there wasn’t a dimes worth of difference between Wallace and them either.
we need a viable 3rd party to keep the other 2 at bay.
The ruling coalition is united around several things that the people are against. They are skilled at setting up phony issues (or issues that don’t concern the Federal government) to break up the formation of any possible other coalition.
Republicans and Democrats agree that the purpose of the State is redistribution. How much, and to whom, and under what circumstances, there are disagreements. But no elected officials of either Party believe that it is wrong to take from you and give to another of their own choosing, for reasons that make sense to them.
Republicans and Democrats agree that you have “rights” - lots of them. They also agree that any question ABOUT your “rights”, or whether or not something IS a “right”, should not be decided by a political process because that is “divisive”. So, they both agree that the voice of “the People” as contemplated in Articles IX and X can only be voiced by nine unelected life tenure judges, and that five of them, at any time or for any reason, can give new “rights” and take away old ones, particularly if those old ones arise out of majority voting.
Republicans and Democrats all believe in “diversity”. They, ignoring completely the results of all social science research on this subject, and contrary to millennia of human experience and wisdom, believe that the more “diverse” our country, its institutions, and any private entities within her become, the more cohesive and productive we will become.
Republicans and Democrats almost all believe in “free trade” and “immigration”. These things are good for various constituencies of both parties while they wreck the economy and the nation.
Many of the People, perhaps a majority, do not believe in any of these things. But in our existing system, captive as it is to the MSM-mandated “process” for choosing two candidates for POTUS neither of whom will change a thing, leaves the People with no voice.
Something’s gonna blow.
I’m voting against McConnel for similar reasons, but you have a LOT more reason to vote for the rat in your state. This was downright creepy.
The GOPe does not understand the concept of ‘cumulative effect’. (They are not bright enough.) The bedrock issue here is abuse. The GOPe is, & has been, abusing the base for quite some time. They assume nothing bad will happen, even though with each instance their abuse intensifies. Yet they look back & see that nothing bad happened the first time they gave the base the middle finger. Or the second, or the third, etc. Like any abuser that has gotten away with it in the past, they figure they always will.
But at some point in these types of relationships the abusee snaps. They say ‘Enough!’. For some in the conservative base it has already happened. For others, last night did it. Still others will take a bit more abuse before they reach their limit. But it is cumulative. It adds up. The GOPe is sowing the wind, & will reap the whirlwind. It’s just a question of when. Last night brought the day of reckoning significantly closer.
Palin/Gowdy 2016
I hope that a serious and aggressive write in campaign is in the works. I had just as soon let the dems have the seat rather that give it back to that RINO.