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?
GOP are feckless spineless cowards and not representative of thier constituants. When they were in control they were up the rats a##es looking for acceptance and love reaching across the isle. The majority are not being represented in this country
Why am I not surprised that conservatives are the ones that get blamed.
Mr. RomneyCARE Attacked Again
Romney and Rove, for third time,
have rode in to ruin America.
I’m not voting because the GOP establishment has told conservatives it doesn’t need them. Now its whining its electable candidates can’t win. But then it listened to Karl Rove instead of to us.
Do not be surprised if the Democrats beat the odds and retain control of the Senate.
I would support establishment candidates when they’re running if the establishment didn’t try so hard to destroy conservative candidates. It needs to go both ways but Mr. Hunter doesn’t seem to understand that concept.
Has the GOP stopped RomneyCARE?
NO.
They imposed it [except on themselves, of course].
Has the GOP spoken up every day about the treason?
NO. Instead they armed al Qaeda
when even Eliz. Warren voted against them.
The GOP does not deserve to survive.
Derek Hunter, already said they didn’t want my support since, being Tea Party, I am automatically a raciss, hobbit, extremist, anarchist...you name it. You want support? Tough! Get over yourself. You GOPe turnds turned your back on Conservatism. Reap the reward.
The problem is I haven’t seen the GOP offer a compelling alternative. I was excited to vote in 2010.
This year I’m just not feeling it. The GOP is giving me no reason to come out to vote for them.
They want our votes, but not our values.
The biggest enemies of social conservatives are liberal Republicans.
Screw this author. The nrsc made it abundantly clear they don’t care about conservatives. Point the finger at them.
If the GOPe uses its position and access to funds to muscle through Democrat-lite nominees rather than candidates its base will support, it’s pretty easy to locate the cause of any needless losses this fall.
The GOP wanted moderate candidates. They got them. If they can’t win, not our problem.
I bet no one called out Lugar and his followers with similar accusations. Or the people who orchestrated the write in campaign in Alaska in 2010 when they lost a primary.
Get over it, get over it, I think they should ban anyone in the party leadership from endorsing, soliciting, or donating money during the primary either directly or indirectly with a punishment of a life time ban for the party.
This inter-party hatred is what has destroyed their chances.
They’ve lost our votes and our values.
Corruption seems to be the meme of the day!
Derek Hunter can go eff himself.
Perhaps Mr.Hunter could point out a time when mainstream Republicans had to “suck it up” and vote for a conservative they detested. Reagan, maybe?
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