Posted on 10/01/2014 11:45:02 AM PDT by C19fan
“They walked in lockstep against Obamacare and against Obama’s stimulus package and the mass of Repub voters were pretty happy about that.”
Yep, and the result was a wave election to give remove Pelosi as the House Majority leader and install Boehner. We also took as much of the Senate as could be taken that same cycle. In addition, we flipped many State Governorships and Legislatures...
What has Boehner and McConnel done with that monumental support? Let me give you a hint, think Mississippi! Pile that on top of them conceding the power of the purse to the executive, conceding the power of declaring war to the executive, conceding the power of impeachment to the executive and conceding the appointments clause to the executive (even after a USSC decision.)
Consider how differently they treat Ted Cruz and Obama. Then maybe you will understand their loyalties are to power, not to the liberty of the citizenry.
In fact, Boehner brags about being “Obama’s best friend.”
The GOP crapped on folks like me and I have a long memory. They need to learn to embrace conservatism or get the hell out of DC. If they don’t learn the lesson, they need to continue to get the tutorials every 2 years.
Too bad we have another wave election coming. You must be saddened.
State run education should be de-funded.
“4,000,000 sour grapes conservatives stayed home in ‘12. Where did that get us?”
It got us a GOP leadership that thinks if they just move further left, they can pick us back up!
Look.
Just because you are unhappy with someone, that doesn’t mean you vote for someone worse.
Look what happened in 1976. People were pissed off with Nixon, so we got stuck with Carter.
In 2008 people were pissed off with GWB so we got stuck with the current clusterfoxtrot who now occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
I’m hoping cooler and wiser heads will prevail KS.
Orman is nothing more than a charlatan and proxy for the Dems.
Wake up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kansas Voter Registration Breakdown as of July.
Dems 422,181 Republicans 765,398 Unaffiliated 535,160 Libertarians 12,656 Totals 1,735,395
https://www.kssos.org/elections/14elec/2014_July_Voter_Registration_Certified_Numbers%20.xlsx
Thanks sour grapes voters for subjecting us to four unnecessary years of Obama radicalism!
Oh, I don’t attribute the entire closing of the gap to Sarah; I realize fully that the more Orman is defined accurately, the less people are prone to like him.
Sarah does help candidates who are trying to appeal to thinking voters, and I hope in the end there are more thinking voters in Kansas than there are emotive handwringers and polemical whiners.
“Too bad we have another wave election coming. You must be saddened.”
I wouldn’t count your chickens before they hatch. Everywhere we look, the polls are not what they should be. That said, no matter how many seats the GOP takes, imagine how many more could have been taken if they were conservatives taking a conservative message to the electorate.
However, let’s imagine that “this wave election” were to result in a veto proof majority. What do you think the GOP leadership would work on? If you listen to their words, the top priorities wouldn’t require a veto proof majority.
Right now the choice is between the marxists and the marxists-light. What a sad state our contry has become...
Finally, you should be directing your snarky comments at the GOP leadership. I supported, worked for and celebrated that 2010 wave election. They crapped on their base for that hard work. Their behaviour deserves your snark, not those of us that understand how they have thrown their base aside, simply to celebrate their seats of power.
+1
Isn’t it tiresome having to defend the imperfect so that the abjectly perverted don’t seize power??
Such is the world we live in now. Do your best. :)
Fine, but until it is 67% of the Kansas budget goes to education and that's why funding has been hit and why the soccer mom's are gathering with pitchforks and torches.
You would not even know there is an election for governor in California. I read next to nothing in the newspapers, and I see next to nothing on TV. It is a very sad commentary. Unfortunately, with the incompetent Republican party and the fact this state is full of Hispanic voters, both legal and illegal, there is little hope for the future of Republicans in this state.
If the gap get's closed I'll be sure to look for indications that Palin was responsible.
surrender has never been a winning strategy in any war.
“Finally people are about to vote in GOP reps because they sense they have had better positions on national defense all along.”
Hahaha, do you mean the “I agree with the President” version of Mitt that we saw in the third debate? You know, the debate about foriegn policy issues? The one where we learned that a candidate with no principles defers to the direction recommended by the political consultant class....
Don’t blame the voters for not voting for a candidate. Blame the candidate, and the party leadership, for not attracting the voters.
If we had Romney as President today we would have had a residual force in Iraq and ISIS would not be a household name. And there would not be any negotiation with Iran.
I don't know what you think you heard Romney say but his positions on these issues were crystal clear.
My vote belongs to me.
It does not belong to you or your Rino enables.
My advice is for the GOPe’s to stand for something. Fight for something.
If so, maybe it can be turned around in Kansas.
Democrats bad, Harry Reid evil is not enough, as evidenced by the
polls in Kansas.
At this point, I reserve my snark for Obama the radical in chief and his sycophant Harry Reid. If the GOP makes major missteps after winning to the point of harming the military the way Obama has done I will extend some snark that way but the immediate goal is to remove the Dems from leadership in the Senate.
You’d do better addressing your “thanks” towards DC...
Answer me this...What has the GOP controlled House done to blunt 0bama and his agenda? What has the USSC done to blunt 0bama?
The idiot in chief only has as much power as the other branches of government permit...
Thank you NRSC for backing the near-dead Roberts.
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