Posted on 09/29/2014 8:35:23 AM PDT by cotton1706
Establishment Republicans should keep the champagne on ice until after the midterm elections. Too many are already popping corks, pronouncing their strategy of “crushing” the Tea Party during the primaries as a crucial step in their successful takeover of the U.S. Senate.
There are increasing signs, however, that the GOP might not take control of the Senate and may only make modest gains in the House of Representatives. In states like North Carolina, for example, the GOP candidate hasn’t shown the ability to wage a major-league campaign. In other key battleground states, the establishment GOP is supporting problematic candidates, like Monica Wehby in Oregon, who can alternatively be described as pro-Obamacare and a plagiarist. The National Republican Senatorial Committee handpicked Wehby over a strong conservative in the primary. She is now running 20 points behind.
In Kansas, the GOP Senate nominee, incumbent Senator Pat Roberts, seems to consider Virginia his home because that is his only permanent residence. A sizable number of Virginia Republican voters, meanwhile, aren’t going for Ed Gillespie, former Republican National Committee chairman, who is the GOP nominee there, either.
National polls show the GOP to be about as popular as the heartbreak of psoriasis. The Democrats, for all their faults (and they are many) remain more popular. Republicans are not for anything. They are defined as simply being against President Barack Obama and certainly not for any form of federalism.
FILE PHOTO OF FORMER U.S PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN.Since the 1950s, beginning with the rise of Senator Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley’s National Review, there has been a war for the soul of the GOP. But this time is different. The establishment Republicans loath the conservative-Reaganite-Tea Party-reformer-populists, viewing them as a serious threat. They stand as an indictment against the entire GOP insider culture.
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I would be surprised if the Senate does go to the GOP myself.
Per jojo biden, one word “Republican establishment”.
Because they don’t really want to.
Same. Absent the editorializing in the article, I agree with it. I might not bet a lot, but I would bet the Dims keep the Senate for any number of reasons.
Yes, but they beat the TEA party so it won’t take the Senate!
I don’t think they’re ever going to get over Cantor.
In the past I voted for McCain, and Romney nationally, and for Scott Brown in Massachusetts. But I guess it depends on your belief in how far gone this nation is, and what it will take to restore it, assuming that is even possible at this point.
Personally, I now believe that the only way to save America at this point (assuming such a thing is still possible) is to put conservatives in political offices and enact an agenda based on free markets, limited government and the rule of law. As long as we have a Republican party that actively opposes those ends (and we do, obviously), then I believe our only (slim) hope is drastic action.
As long as the Republican Party establishment believes that it can continue to survive by being Democrat-lite, and that it can continue to maintain power while actively fighting against the core principles of liberty, free markets and Constitutional law, it will never make the necessary change of direction.
Only when the Republican party understands that it must change or die can we hope to turn this country around. Our too-long-serving entrenched establishment politicians can still enjoy their comfy lifestyles, their wealth, power and prestige as members of a minority party. So why should they bother to change direction?
Surely a John Boehner (or an Eric Cantor -- had he not been defeated -- or a Mitch McConnell) would be just as happy to be minority leaders if the election cycle didn't go their way. Yes, they would prefer to be majority leaders, but what good would it do them if a conservative Republican Party won the majority and then threw them out of their cushy positions and all those perks, replacing them with real conservatives?
Ask yourself -- which do you think Mitch McConnell would prefer -- a majority Republican party in which he was stripped of his position by a conservative majority, or a minority Republican party in which he could remain Senate minority leader because the majority of Republican senators were RINOs?
You may argue that we have no time to wait for the Republicans to realize that their only choice is to change or die as a viable party. But if we don't have time for that, then what makes you think we have time to wait for the RINOs and the GOP-e to pursue a "moderately marginal" course of action designed only to maintain their personal fiefdoms at the expense of a free America operating under the rule of Constitutional law?
The GOP had majority power in the House and Senate, and occupied the White House, 10 years ago. What did all that power do to move the agenda of liberty forward? Answer: nothing.
A GOP that cannot even sell liberty, limited governments and free markets to the American people is worse than useless. It is a party of tyranny enablers, and I will have none of it.
Unbelievably, today we once again face the stark choice between liberty and death.
Once again, these are the times that try men's souls. Conservatives need to be waging aggressive war against the totalitarian leftist tyrants on all fronts -- in the branches of government at the federal and state level, in academia, in the media, through public demonstrations, and in the voting booth.
Many argue that we must continue to vote for "the most electable conservative," which means "vote for the RINO if no conservative is running." But I respectfully disagree with that choice. I am done enabling.
If we really are to lose the greatest country in the history of the world, then let's at least be fighting for it when it goes down.
And who knows, maybe -- just maybe, if we show sufficient resolve and conviction -- divine Providence will once again provide the support that gave our founders their unlikely victory in 1776, and grant us once again the "new birth of freedom" that Lincoln called for a century later.
If you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. The RINOs have managed to own the Republican party because they know that conservatives have nowhere else to go.
To continue voting for RINOs is to play right into that strategy. The RINOs have become so certain of your vote that they actually believe they can continue to stay in power by declaring outright war on the conservative base.
And when they do that, they are actually declaring war on core American principles -- war on liberty, war on free market economics, and even war on the Constitution.
The RINO Republicans cannot even make an appeal to the traditional American love of those principles, because they have lost the credibility and historical awareness to articulate them, let alone promote them.
Yes, having Harry Reid continue as majority leader is a horrific scenario. But having RINO Republicans win that office is only a marginally better short-term outcome.
And in some ways it is even worse, because as the RINOs “reach across the aisle" to promote marginally modified Democrat policies, they give the Democrats cover from the well-deserved blame for the horrific damage that they have unleashed on our country in the last five years.
America is out of time now. We cannot continue on the current path. And as things continue to deteriorate, who do you think the voters will blame if the Republicans are in power when the 2016 elections come around?
You think Mitch McConnell's senate will repeal Obamacare? You think it will take the right position on immigration? You think a Republican Senate will vote against Obama’s left wing Supreme Court nominations?
America needs clear, passionate and articulate voices to advocate and defend our founding principles, to secure our borders, to preserve our nation, and to take legislative and administrative steps to turn this country around, assuming it still can be turned around.
Majority leader Mitch McConnell will NEVER provide that voice or leadership. He is not the guy to turn things around for our formerly blessed nation.
But in 2016 a newly terrified Republican party will be forced to court instead of alienate the conservative base, and come 2017 will be in a position to put the party and our nation on the proper path. Such a duly chastised party has a real chance of nominating a Ted Cruz, instead of a Mitt Romney who, according to last night's panel on Fox News, is at this point the likely Republican presidential nominee.
So in November, for those whose only choice in the mid-terms is between a RINO and a Democrat, I urge them to stay home on election day, or vote third-party -- anything to prove the RINOs wrong in thinking that they can stay in power by literally declaring war on conservatism.
Think about it.
There’s little denying that the repub establishment would far prefer democrats winning than conservatives.
At this stage, that's frickin' good enough for me.
Politics will remain liberal, because society is liberal, our financial system is liberal and government is liberal.
Even IF Republicans take the Senate - will anything be done to trim, even in the slightest way, the huge, permanent, nanny-state bureaucracy? It is is fed by debt and printed money, so the oxygen keeps flowing to the beasts brain and heart.
Too bad the very same people who discount the media every other time lap this up like kittens lap up milk.
“I don’t think they’re ever going to get over Cantor.”
I think you’re right. I think that shook them to their core.
And somehow they still haven’t heard of Ted Cruz.
Liberal for now that is.
translation: We Democrats feel we have a handful of states within the margin of error to steal through voter fraud.
I think you’re right. I think that shook them to their core.
I can see now why the Dems are licking their chops over KS as it now looks like it is the ONLY shot they have of taking away a GOP US Senate seat as KY and GA seem likely to remain in GOP hands.
In addition the GOP should pick up with little difficulty the following Dem held Senate seats:
1) WV
2) MT
3) SD
4) LA
5) AR
6) AK
7) IA
GOP also has an excellent shot in:
1) NC
2) CO
3) NH
And an outside chance in:
1) MN
2) MI
3) OR
There is vacuum of leadership in the country right now.
Obama’s bankruptcy is clear and visible, even some of his supporters would have to say they are worse off now because they have to pay more for health insurance and are having their hours cut to under 30 because of Obamacare.
Food prices for everyone are rising at a 10 percent plus annual rate.
O’s supporters have little or no motivation to vote.
The GOPe Party is not planning on pushing back O=Care, they want to amend it to Romneycare.
The GOPe Party is beholden to the elites that want O-Care and want cheap illegal immigrant labor legalized through amnesty or some other method like guest worker programs.
The Dems and GOPe want to maintain the welfare state and will trim it a bit and or raise taxes to keep it that way.
They are into European style austerity measures to deal with the out of control government debt and spending.
Give the GOPe absolute power in this country and they will likely impose a national sales tax on us.
Hatred of Obama and his policies may give the GOPe an edge in this election, but so what. If they win power, nothing will meaningfully change in this country.
We need new blood to lead and a new political party to speak for the people.
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