Derek, if you had even attempted to write a balanced and truthful piece, you would have maintained at least a shred of credibility. Right now, you just look like a jackass.
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?
Not much use trying to reason with a GOP troll.
You'd think the trolls would take the time to actually read the thoughtful posts from the conservatives on this thread instead of regurgitating the talking points they get from inside the beltway, but then I guess their paychecks would stop coming. I tried, but gave up; it's a waste of time and effort. I no longer respond to them.
Hey GOPe SHILL, projection a liberal trait.
You do what you think you gotta do;
and I’ll do what I think I gotta do.
How about that, free man?
One trick ponies.
Look in the mirror ... loser.
Thanks for the insult, free man.
Anytime, loser.
peace
out
“Stop playing word games. It has nothing to do with reality.”
I’m not the one in the video.
Did you bother to even click the link and watch the video?
The ‘sinator’ I’m supposed to vote for thinks Obama and McCain are both really great people and would make great presidents, either of them.
If he’s that senile, why should I vote for him? How on earth can he be expected to ‘hold the line’ against someone he clearly really likes? And he clearly likes Obama.
The problem I have is these folks want my vote and promise to fight Obola’s agenda. We vote for them and they fund obolacare, and vote to arm alqaeda. I might as well have vote for Dem!
My “R” vote requires doing conservative things. Then They just don’t do them ; Wide open border, obolacare, etc.
Watch, Oconnell and Boehner will push an amnesty vote. Is why you voted for the GOP? So they can go along with Amnesty? Because they will. Bet it..
A vote for the GOPe and Rove backed candidates is a vote for Amnesty. A GOP Senate that signs off on any type of amnesty kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?
Make no mistake, GOPe wants amnesty...
Don’t use me as your FR whipping boy “LaTranny” - I didn’t say Reagan sucked; if you had half a brain, you could understand my implicit reference in the context of the post - that even Reagan compromise and gave us a RINO VP - GHWB that went on to be president.
GHWB didn’t follow Reagan principles, he freakin’ reneged on his pledge “no new taxes”, and did it anyway. He started the talk about New World Order and lead to the first Gulf War and beat Saddam, but stopped short of whipping his retreating troops on advice of superRINO Colon Powell. SORRY you can’t think beyond your perpetually small brain! If you are a RINO supporter, it is your problem. DON’T START your own WAR on Conservatives on FR troll bait!
I understand your anger and frustration. I share it. I would like to replace most of the Republican leadership in Congress. But voting for Democrats will not solve that problem, it will just make the problem worse. If those who oppose the Republican leadership go silent, the leadership will ignore them and go on their merry way. If we elect new conservatives, they will carry our message. If we defeat the Democrats, establishment Republicans will experience a miraculous revelation and will quit behaving like Democrats.
Not voting against a dem is NOT the same as voting for the dem.
Derek, if you had even attempted to write a balanced and truthful piece, you would have maintained at least a shred of credibility. Right now, you just look like a jackass.
Derek, if you had even attempted to write a balanced and truthful piece, you would have maintained at least a shred of credibility. Right now, you just look like a jackass.
You and others like you have obviously not learned a thing
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