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?
And if you have your way, all that will happen is more of the same.
lol @ super minority. 19 votes for Cruz’ filibuster ain’t a super minority. It’s dangerously close to half the caucus. Wake up. THAT is the reason the establishment went scorched earth. They cannot afford us to take over the caucus.
But it’s going to happen one way or another. They didn’t want the easy way, so the hard way it is. Try not to cry in your beer too much on election day. It’s the loss of a battle to enable a win in the long term war.
Name calling makes you seem much more like a liberal to me.
I do not debate with whiners who call names.
OK, there are many posts here by self avowed conservatives, stating quite clearly that they won’t vote for various RINOS in various elections. This includes some who are quite proud of obeying “God’s Will” and refusing to vote for Romney. Many say they prefer a left wing democrat to a RINO.
It is to these sentiments I am responding. I guess you did not sit out 2008 or 2012, and I hope you don’t sit out 2014 or 2016. Just my very sincere opinion.
I am not a pollster and I have no independent evidence that conservatives sat out 2012. Based on sentiments expressed here I suspect that many did.
I’d care if I hadn’t gotten that robocall that told me not to care.
That robocall went on and on about how Thad would help and support ‘our first African American president’ in Washington.
Um. No thanks.
I want someone who will OBSTRUCT Obama. Not work with him.
And that right there is the problem with the GOPe...they want conservatives to think that it's "our" party.
It hasn't been and won't be for some time to come, unless and until a clear message is sent and received.
My tagline applies here...
Party above all else! [some commie slogan to be sure.]
You started the name calling with “deranged” remember now?
If you want someone who will obstruct Obama in any way, you don’t want to elect the democrat. That will just give the democrats a sure support for 6 years. Cochran will help obstruct Obama just by voting for a republican leadership and committee structure.
I’m sure Cochran is a despicable crazy old coward. Life consists of imperfect choices.
“Cochran will help obstruct Obama just by voting for a republican leadership and committee structure.”
Which will be obstruction in name only.
He’s promised to assist Obama in meaningful ways. Just listen to the robocall.
Unless you’re saying he lied in the call. I can’t vote for a liar anyways.
good don’t I think you should stay home or vote democrat. You convinced me.
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