Posted on 09/18/2014 12:40:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
The most important words printed in The New York Times since "REAGAN EASILY BEATS CARTER" were from a front-page article last Sunday about how, after six years of Obama, the federal judiciary is now dominated by Democratic appointees. Edward Whelan, head of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, responded to this by saying: "The best way for conservative voters to prevent further damage to the courts is to swing the Senate to Republican control in the elections this November."
He's absolutely right. Turn that into a mnemonic, sew it on needlepoint pillows, include it in your wedding vows, right-wingers. For the next six weeks, nothing matters more to the country than Republicans taking a majority in the Senate. When it comes to politics, conservatives need to learn one thing from liberals: All that matters is winning.
Here's a preliminary report on where the election stands and my assignments.
First, we need to hold all 45 seats currently in Republican hands. The ones Democrats have been salivating over because of primary challenges aren't looking like cakewalks for them anymore.
(Take a moment to notice something, Republicans: No incumbent Democrat had to deal with a primary challenger this year. That's one reason why Democrats win more elections than their insane ideas would seem to dictate. Liberals understand that you can't do anything if you don't win, so Democrats don't stage primary fights against other Democrats.)
Even the Times is admitting that Sen. Mitch McConnell is probably going to be re-elected in Kentucky now that the Ashley Judd juggernaut has been dispatched. McConnell has a history of winning come-from-behind victories -- and he's up in the polls right now.
Georgia seems to have decided it's going to be Republican, so I say David Perdue wins that open seat.
Sen. Pat Roberts is likely to win in Kansas as soon as the "Independent" candidate, Greg Orman, is forced to take a position on something -- anything -- and conservative Kansas voters realize he's the Democrat. Orman's been able to hide behind limpid nonpartisanship so far, but a candidate can't refuse to answer basic questions forever.
Will you vote to repeal Obamacare?
I don't know.
Are you going to caucus with the Democrats or Republicans?
That's a personal matter.
Assignment No. 1: Sen. Pat Roberts needs to spend every day from now until Nov. 4 campaigning in Kansas. Roberts is smart, personable and engaging -- he's always voted "funniest senator"! He's certainly no John McCain. (Rand Paul is John McCain.) I don't know why Roberts got a primary challenge at all. Please stop doing that, Republicans.
Even liberals admit that Republicans are likely to win seats currently held by Democrats in Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia. Assuming we hold Kentucky, Georgia and Kansas, Republicans will be at 48.
That means Republicans need to flip three Democratic seats to take a majority in the Senate. Hopefully, the GOP will take more than three, and store them like chestnuts for a long, cold winter. These are the races that matter: New Hampshire, Iowa, North Carolina, Arkansas, Alaska, Louisiana, Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan.
Assignment No. 2: Everyone reading this column has got to donate to Scott Brown immediately. He's running in New Hampshire against a slick incumbent Democrat, Jean Shaheen, but he's a very strong candidate. Brown won the primary only last week, and he's already tied in the polls. He just needs to catch up to Shaheen's $11.2 million war chest.
Shaheen is talking about nothing but global warming because she can't very well talk about Obamacare. She was a major proponent of the bill that destroyed Americans' health care, which is no more popular in New Hampshire than it is anywhere else people need health care.
Not only was Brown "the 41st vote" against Obamacare -- forcing Nancy Pelosi to pull that sleazy, unconstitutional "deem and pass" move to push it through -- but more than any other Senate candidate this year, Brown is running against amnesty. Even with a tidal wave of new welfare cases pouring across our border, Brown is one of the few candidates smart enough to make immigration an issue.
Donate. Right now!
The biggest current danger for Republicans is that idiots will vote for Libertarian candidates in do-or-die Senate elections, including Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina and Colorado. (That's in addition to the "Independent" in Kansas who's a Democrat.) Democratic candidates don't have to put up with this crap -- they're even trying to dump the official Democrat in Kansas to give the stealth Democrat a better shot.
When we're all dying from lack of health care across the United States of Mexico, we'll be deeply impressed with your integrity, libertarians.
Which brings me to my final assignment for this week: If you are considering voting for the Libertarian candidate in any Senate election, please send me your name and address so I can track you down and drown you.
Anne Coulter shilling for yet another rino.
Phuk Ann and her libtards boyfriends. She has lost any respect that I once had for her.
The Founders provided the political levers, but perhaps even they did not envision wildness this bad.
Still, the folks who are correct to say that Congress never meant to ban a creche in a city square, might take heed that the creche is in their heart. They’d soon find that a real live God is doing things in their lives that aren’t always “nice” — sometimes they are painful — but that are always divinely gainful. And we’d see improvements in a lot more than just politics.
Can anyone imagine how good our judges would be, if Boehner appointed them? LOL
Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, perhaps a very few others (at least I would hope) would help. Others would simply put in luke warm moderates that would go along to get along.
We’re in a world of hurt here.
Anyone who votes third party and that includes libertarians throws their vote over to the rats. When are you going to wake up?
The milktoast ads currently being run for Tillis by the U. S. Chamber and others may allow the teachers' union's ad misrepresentations of his purported actions on education to prevail in the public mind and result in Hagan keeping her seat.
Hagan lied about the reasons for supporting the Trojan Horse (ACA) to give unfettered Democrat government power over individuals and the coercive taking of the fruits of their labors.
Hagan participated in the lies which Democrats used for justifying that economic power grab, such as claiming that patients with cancer or pre-existing conditions could not get insurance in the pre-Obamacare marketplace, and she, along with Pelosi and Reid and their President, lied when they assured citizens that "if you like your . . . , you can keep . . . ."
Every day between now and Election Day every citizen should have those quotes and the disastrous results we're now seeing and will continue to see blaring from every radio and TV set.
Instead, they're seeing nice little soft ads by sponsors of her opponent about his work history.
Cancer patients, last year, many of whom had been able to purchase policies since their diagnosis, and were happy with those insurance policies, were forced to spend what, for many, was their last Thanksgiving/Christmas Season online searching for new coverage, all because their insurance carrier was forced by the "rules of the so-called "Affordable" Care Act" to cancel the perfectly good policy they then held. This is a sad fact which few are talking about and one which should lie at the feet of Senators like Kay Hagan!
Families of such patients know the agony the Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Hagan dead-of-night votes brought to their loved ones, some of whom will be reaping the consequences in the coming year or two as well.
But those Republicans still have to stop all of Obama’s appointments. Will they?
In other news, I’m voting for Grimes against McConnel. My first vote for a D since 1972.
But those Republicans still have to stop all of Obama’s appointments. Will they?
Anyone who votes third party and that includes libertarians throws their vote over to the rats. When are you going to wake up?
So if we assume your premise is correct, when is the GOPe going to run a candidate that the conservative base can vote for? It seems to me that the GOPe is trying to gain 1 or 2 percent from the middle, yet at the same time, intentionally pissing off 5 to 6 percent of the base.
So you don't think rinos should face conservative challengers in the primaries? I've done my fair share of holding my nose (Dole, McCain, Romney) but damn if I will not try to get rid of rinos in primaries.
Roll your to-do list into a tube and shove it up your Hillary, annie.
Re: “Liberals understand that you can’t do anything if you don’t win, so Democrats don’t stage primary fights.”
The Liberal leadership are also true believers in the principles of the Democrat Party.
That is not the case with Republicans.
The GOP leadership is Conservative only when it is necessary to staunch an internal revolt.
They are not Conservatives, and they will betray us - again - as soon as the election is over.
reality is there is no Tea Party
there is a Tea Party concept, an ideal, that is making some headway in some local congressional races but there is no organizational structure. There is no Tea Party fund raising effort, at least none that contacts me. There is no Tea Party national organization.
There is however the GOPc or conservative wing of the GOP. It has been and is very much alive and well. The Tea Party is a significant part of the GOPc. What is lacking is a charismatic individual that can make the various disparate conservative factions unite.
The GOPc must unite and go forward to tame the GOPe
Whether Thelma is driving the T-bird at 100 MPH, or Louise is driving at a more sedate 90MPH, the car is still going off the cliff.
Personally, I’d rather get it over with quicker. The sooner it crashes and burns, the sooner a pheonix can rise from the ashes.
I call it the TEA party. And I completely agree with you about it. I’ve made the same argument here and in the “real world”. But I think the GOPc needs to split off from the GOP. the R’s and D’s can split the liberal vote.
Where did I say I would vote for a third party or libertarian? Are your reading skills poor or are you just stupid?
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