Posted on 09/21/2014 4:48:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
I know a lot of people are giddy at the prospect of Republicans taking the Senate this November, but that’s becoming less and less likely. It’s not because Democrats are rallying around a particular mission or set of candidates; it’s because Republicans and conservatives aren’t.
It seems like I’m always writing on issues no one wants to hear are mistakes, such as messaging or social issues. But I don’t care. These things have to be said. If these columns are received like a gaseous cousin on a long car trip through the desert, so be it. Crack a window…
If things continue on their current course, the GOP will not retake the Senate. Anyone telling you differently is selling something.
There are many reasons for this: tough primary fights, the “establishment vs. Tea Party” meme, stubbornness, arrogance, ignorance, ego. You name it, a segment of the center-right coalition suffers from it.
Too many people and groups on the right are content to take their ball and go home because their candidate lost a primary and/or the nominee doesn’t pay enough attention to whatever pet issue they care about most. They may vote, but their email lists sit idle and their wallets remain closed.
GET OVER YOURSELVES!
As upset as you may be, this election is not about any of the candidates you dislike. This election is about the following things, and the following things only – Barack Obama, Harry Reid and the Supreme Court.
I don’t care where someone lives or who their Senate candidate is … if you don’t support the Republican candidate, for whatever reason, with everything you have, you are voting to retain Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader.
In spite of what you may have heard, the Senate is very much in play and too close to call. As unpopular as Barack Obama is, that isn’t enough to win. You have to be involved – through donations, volunteering, talking to everyone you know – or else Democrats will win.
I’m not making this up, I’m not trying to scare you; these are real numbers in real races that will make the difference. And they don’t look good.
The next two years can be spent either forcing an unpopular president to veto popular, pro-growth, pro-liberty legislation, acts that will harm his party for years; or spent with an unfettered activist president complaining about a do-nothing Congress while he initiates executive actions to implement a radical agenda and worse – packing the Supreme Court.
Live in Kansas and think Pat Roberts is a squish? Tough! Suck it up and support him.
Live in Kentucky and think Mitch McConnell is awful? Get over it and support him.
Live in Iowa and not a particular fan of Joni Ernst? Grow up and support her come hell or high water.
Live in Colorado and don’t think Cory Gardner is for you? Who cares? Support him or you are supporting Harry Reid.
Live in Arkansas and wish Tom Cotton wasn’t the nominee? So what? He’s the nominee, support him or lose more than that one race.
It doesn’t matter where you live—Louisiana, Michigan, Alaska, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, New Hampshire, anywhere—if you don’t suck it up, fight and work like your candidate won, you will be handing the Senate back to Harry Reid and the power to President Obama he has always sought – to fundamentally transform America.
It’s not the Senate that’s on the ballot this fall; it’s the Supreme Court.
In the last two years of his presidency, Barack Obama could appoint as many as three new justices to the Supreme Court. Would you like to see retiring justices replaced by young activist progressive nominees rubber-stamped by Harry Reid? Then work!
Yes, a Supreme Court nominee must overcome a filibuster according to Senate rules. But those are current rules and, as Harry Reid demonstrated for all other federal appointees, those rules can be changed at a moment’s notice and by a simple majority to fit whatever he and the president want at any time.
If you stay home, or if you simply vote and that’s it, you might as well be working for Harry Reid and Barack Obama. If the Supreme Court is lost, it will be lost for at least a generation. Then it won’t matter who you elect or who the next president is, the progressive agenda will be locked in as the law of the land for the foreseeable future.
You have a choice this fall: Sit on the bench or work to defeat whoever the Democrat is running for the Senate in your state. One choice is a vote for Harry Reid for Senate Majority Leader and more cover for President Obama’s abuses of power. The other will at a minimum apply pressure on the hemorrhaging wound from which our liberty is seeping.
The damage done to this country in recent years won’t be reversed by one election. No ship as big as the United States can be righted immediately. It will take time. But it can’t start being corrected until it stops getting worse. It can stop getting worse this fall if you vote and work to get others to do the same.
If you’re unhappy with your choices this fall, if your candidate didn’t win, you face a simple choice this November: Check your ego, pull your head out from where your hands are and get in the game. Or just quit. Which way are you going to go?
Great post and that’s where we are at right now.
You can't even see the non-sequitur, can you?
Reagan also screwed us with his VP choice George Bush, who blew up the Reagan revolution with his New World Order, thousand points of light, and raising taxes.
He also appointed a Libtard, back-stabbing General Colon Powell, who told Bush to let Sadam’s army retreat back home...lead us to Gulf War II that eventually put us on path directly to the current Lyin’ King Huissen Obozo!
Bull-pucky. It is our civic duty to vote, one way or the other. Not voting at all is a lazy, cop-out. It’s like telling someone what you can’t do instead of what you can do. Nothing is accomplished by doing nothing except more nothing.
Maybe you forget the Preamble to the US Constitution begins with “WE” the people, not “ME” the candidate. Maybe it’s a cliche to some people, but Lincoln claimed this is a government “of the people, by the people, for the people.” It is our responsibility to vote for our representatives in this republic. The responsibility does not lie with the candidates.
On the contrary, by your comments, you seem to follow Christopher Morley’s (American journalist & novelist) claim from his book, “inward Ho!”, that America “...is still a government for the naive, by the naive.”
The “conservative rating” system you post often
is not the entire story is it?
It does not include cloture votes on liberal bills does it.
It does not include the “yeas” on cloture votes made by many RINOs to
send the liberal bills to the floor for a simple majority vote does it?
So, it is not really the entire picture is it?
Rewarding Romney after his inventing RomneyCARE/ObamCARE
and imposing gay marriage (YES, BOTH are GOP inventions)
led to his attacks on Gov. Palin and Obama as pRes_ _ent.
The GOP/Romney did it again two years ago.
The magic is that idiots still
support the DNC/GOP/UN agenda.
You really need to change your tagline if you’re going to post such bile. You shouldn’t tar Sarah Palin’s name by this association.
I have a question for you:
What exactly is going to be accomplished with the Republicans in control of the U.S. Senate that would not happen with the Democrats in control?
For want of a more Conservative candidate, our Nation was lost. God only knows if we can ever get it back to a principled, law-respecting country. All I know is things are MUCH WORSE now than they were in 2012........it WOULD have been better if Romney had won. Flame away purists......our country is already burning.
Oh - and if illegalities won, then you apparently say “hurrah”!
Great stuff needs to be repeated.
So many crybabies here so little in the way of ideas to get rid of the RINOS.
Lots of complaints though.....typical.
I see. You’re attacking the abused wife for failing to support her husband. Gotcha.
Oh - and you apparently cannot see that many people see withholding the vote in the general election to be part and parcel - integral - to “getting the job done” in recalining the party.
But, no, you just want to continue ad nauseum rewarding the GOPe. Gotcha.
The GOP elite will wage an aggressive campaign against the conservative candidate in the primary and then want to run a “civil” campaign during the general election. I still remember when the Republicans won the Senate a few years ago the then Majority Leader Trent Lott couldn’t wait to rush across the aisle to institute a power sharing agreement so as to be “fair”.John McCain and Lindsey Graham are always making deals with Chuck Schemer and Dick Turban “to get things done in Washington”.
I’m tired of hearing over and over again that conservatives are unelectable and we need to have moderate candidates in order to advance a conservative agenda.If the moderate gets in then we can’t advance the conservative agenda because there aren’t the votes for it,it’s not the right time, or trust us we’ll get there we have secret plan but we have make some compromises first in order to get things done in Washington.
Notice that the democrats never compromise on core principals,will stand by their people through hell or high water in every scandal,and if they can’t win legitimately will always find those “lost votes” in a church basement or an innocent pol worker’s car in a close election that the GOP never disputes in a close election.They play to win the while GOP elite plays “if we surrender will you like us and let us have some government graft too?”
Not long until show time regardless of who may get the blame.
PS- I don’t know who said it first, but the time for arguing over candidates is in the primaries. Whoever wins the primary needs our vote. So, if you don’t like the candidates of the ‘GOPe’, get your candidate enough votes to win the Primary. Then make sure he wins the general election, too. Although I have noticed that the Tea Party candidates frequently don’t win in the general elections.
I look in the mirror and say what lousy job I did that we got Romney. Even Newt would have been better. This time so far I like Cruz. He's probably not perfect but seems to be the best of the bunch.
As for an agenda personally I support a conservative agenda.I do my best to get the GOP to see the light of day.It's a slow go but I do what I can as often as I can.
You are one of the smartest guys I know here and I respect your opinion. But I can't sit home because the GOPe are a bunch of a-holls. For me I have to do a better job.
Hyperbole suits you!
I learned a long time ago that party unity on someone else's terms is a losing proposition.
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