Posted on 10/28/2014 5:34:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Democratic Party is systematically destroying America and other than Barack Obama, no one deserves more blame for it than Harry Reid. He may be an excellent politician who runs circles around Mitch McConnell the way Bugs Bunny baffles Elmer Fudd, but he's also a habitually dishonest, mean-spirited sociopath who cares absolutely nothing about the good of the country. The Democrat senators who put Reid into power and went along with Obama deserve to be punished for what they’ve done.
Certainly, that doesn't mean the Republicans are wonderful. Just the fact that they allow themselves to be led by a mediocrity like Mitch McConnell tells you a lot. So does the fact that Ted Cruz is talked about as if he’s this wild-eyed, radical conservative. Don't get me wrong: Ted Cruz is my favorite senator and I can't say enough good things about him. But really, what makes Ted Cruz so special? That he's smart? Aren't senators supposed to be smart? Is he unique because he effectively attacks the Democrats? Aren't Republicans supposed to do that? Is Ted Cruz a stand-out because he behaves as if he believes in all the things he said on the campaign trail? Really? Aren’t Republicans supposed to believe in the things they say on the campaign trail? In a sense, the most remarkable thing about Ted Cruz is that he IS so remarkable despite doing little more than what the average Republican in the Senate should be doing in the first place.
That being said, while we shouldn’t put the Senate Republicans up on a pedestal, we also shouldn’t underestimate how bad the Senate Democrats have become. So, why is it so important to beat the Democrats?
1) It helps check Obama’s power: Politically, what we’ve seen in recent years is that the party out of power benefits tremendously from hunkering down, saying “no” and refusing to cooperate. For the most part, the Republican Party has done just that. The problem with that approach is Barack Obama doesn’t care about the Constitution, doesn’t care about the law and is acting more like a king than a President. We’ve desperately needed the Republican Party to do more than meekly complain about it and they just haven’t stepped up to the plate because they’ve adopted the, “We’re out of power, so the best thing we can do is nothing” mentality. On the other hand, if Republicans control the House and the Senate, they will quite rightfully be expected to DO SOMETHING when Obama overreaches. How much will they do? How effective will they be? That’s hard to say with two pitiful sad sacks like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell in charge, but you can be guaranteed they’ll step it up simply because the media, the establishment and the general populace will now join grassroots conservatives in expecting them to take action. A Republican Party that is just as timid in the majority as they are in the minority has nothing to offer the country and they know that.
2) It enables Republicans to set the table for 2016: The House Republicans have more than 350 bills that have died in the Senate without a vote; yet they’re the ones getting blamed for being obstructionists. If the GOP controls the Senate, suddenly Democrats are going to have to start taking tough votes again. That means they’ll have to vote against popular legislation or even better, they’ll go along with Republicans, pass it and send it up to Obama. Then either Obama signs the bills into law or he becomes the obstructionist, vetoes the bills and gives our 2016 candidate strong issues to run on. Moreover, he puts the Democrat candidate in a tough spot. Do Democrats make their supporters angry by saying that the Republicans were right and Obama was wrong to veto the bill or do they continue to support his unpopular vetoes? Let’s leave their 2016 Presidential candidate defending an unpopular, obstructionist President while our candidate will have a readymade raft of popular issues to run on for once.
3) If we don’t get it done in 2014, we sure won’t get it done in 2016: This year, the number of Democrat senators up for reelection in red states is heavily tilted towards the Republican Party. In 2016, the math will run the other way and Republicans will have to defend 24 out of the 34 seats up for reelection. Moreover, most of those Democrat seats will be in safe districts while at least 10 of the Republican seats will likely be in competitive states. If Obama’s popularity continues to sink and we win the presidency, could we hold enough of those seats to keep the Senate? Yes, but obviously we need to pad our totals as much as possible this year to give us a chance to do that. If we’re going to have any kind of opportunity to move the ball forward on the deficit, Obamacare, foreign policy, taxes, protecting the 2nd Amendment or any of the other issues we care about, we’re going to need Republicans in the Senate that we can beat, threaten and cajole into doing the right thing.
4) It will improve the quality of GOP legislation: Putting Republicans in charge of the Senate will take a big excuse away from the Republicans on issues like immigration. Ironically, the reason the House leadership Republicans were so hell-bent on passing it this year was BECAUSE they feared the GOP would take over the Senate. Truthfully, they’d rather have a bad bill that codifies open borders and amnesty that they could blame on Harry Reid. Then, the line would have been something like, “We know it’s not the greatest bill, but what do you expect when we have to work with Harry Reid?” That same principle applies to Obamacare, the deficit and a number of other issues. If the GOP runs the House and the Senate, Republicans can’t take a show vote, then embrace some left-wing bill and blame it on the Democrats. Since the GOP leadership is comprised of country club Republican idiots, we still have to worry about the legislation they’ll pass, but at least we’ll be sure that it’ll be better than anything they could have done this year.
5) It’s a necessary rebuke of Obama: We all know that Democrats are never going to publicly admit that Barack Obama is the worst President in American history. However, even fanatically loyal, dumb Democrats can do basic addition and subtraction.
By the time Obamacare came up for a vote, the Democrats had control of the presidency, 60 seats in the Senate and 257 seats in the House. That is about as far as the scale can tip in their favor and so if the GOP ends up with overwhelming control in the House and a majority in the Senate, Obama will get the blame just as Jimmy Carter did for Ronald Reagan. Democrats can toss out all the propaganda they want, but if they know that moving way off to the Left will lead to crushing defeats at the ballot box, it will shake their nerve and they’re likely to be more moderate for a while out of fear. Like most Republican politicians, Democrat politicians care more about keeping their cushy jobs than anything else. That’s why we need to take some of those jobs away to change their behavior.
As an extra added bonus, it will give the Democrats a strong incentive to try to prevent Obama from further hurting the party with his outlandish executive orders. Will that slow him down? Maybe it will, maybe it won’t, but if he starts getting calls from senators, donors, activists, unions and the rest of the people he listens to telling him not to make any big moves, it may give him cold feet. Obama may not care about America, but even he doesn’t want to be remembered as another Jimmy Carter whose buffoonery ended up helping Republicans more than Democrats in the end
6) Senate Democrats need to be punished for what they’ve done: My days of telling people to vote for the “lesser of two evils” are over, but there are still times that you need to vote to punish the people in charge for doing the wrong thing. Are you going to let Democrats who voted for Obamacare get away with it? Are you going to reward them for enabling Barack Obama’s unconstitutional, un-American, and oftentimes illegal executive orders? When far left-wingers like Michelle Nunn in Georgia or Greg Orman in Kansas insult your intelligence by pretending not to be liberals, are you just going to take it? These people aren’t acting any differently than they would if their goal is to destroy the United States; so how can you just shrug that off? At a minimum, these Democrats who’ve hurt you, your children, and your country need to see their cushy jobs disappear for what their party has done to America.
We have forgotten how we can change our country. We think we can put up a few conservatives and the Rhinos will just roll over and hand us the reins of the party. Of course, they are going to fight. Rather than look at what happened in MS (where I live)and other places, as a great defeat, we can see how far we have come. The key is to take control of the party. And to those who want to just leave the GOP we need to remember that the stakes are far too high to just let the Rats win and maintain power. We are too close to tyranny for the luxury of taking 8 to 10 years to build a “pure and the driven snow” party. I don't like Thad Cochran but I am going to hold my nose and vote for him nonetheless. And for you in KY and Kansas, how much good will it do if you stay home and the Rats win? For so many reasons, we need control of the Senate, if for no other reason that we can put some brakes on federal tyranny.
Vote November 4th! There's just too much at stake!
Maybe, but what about this?
After the election is over, and after the democrats keep the Senate, and after things get much worse--more totalitarianism and White House Executive Orders, complete and full amnesty of tens of millions of new democrat voters, more of not VOTING on ANY bills passed by the House, some of us will remember the FR posters who asked that all Republicans be defeated, to really show the GOPe/RINOs just how bad they are and not conservative enough ...again.
And Obama smugly smiles...
Sorry...guess I misunderstood!!! My error!!!
Every Republican but Mitch McConnell. For the good of the nation, he must lose.
I have so much respect for you, and you do so much on this forum.
The unfortunate truth here is that the rebuttal to this can be rendered to a single word: Cochran.
He’s our Lautenberg, and Boss Hogg down in Mississippi is Exhibit A why we cannot continue to reward this behavior.
The courts are being used by the Executive (at the Fed AND State level) to rule by fiat. I don’t see that changing through the ballot box any more.
If you are going to make ANY kind of appeal to conservative voters, the only one left is this:
“Before we essentially agree that political representation and political reform is no longer possible through the ballot box, we should give the counterbalancing party one more chance.
If they don’t do what they’ve been elected to do, the alternative is going to be bloody.”
That’s what its come down to. It’s on that basis, and that basis alone, that I’d pull the lever for a Republican.
The only purity test I have for Republicans is this:
Read, understand and respect the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It’s not a ‘living document’. It’s the culmination of the learnings of 10,000 years of people ruling over people. With respect to the cultural forces, there is nothing new under the sun there either. Have a backbone.
BLA-BLA-BLA
He already IS a lame duck, except for his Executive edicts, which neither party can touch.
You are entitiled to ur opinion...and, I am entitled to mine....have a nice life!!! End of story!!!
Well whose ox is being gored here?
I don’t remember any registered FReeper asking some one to “sell out” to the Republican Party, either...
Exaggerated words are typically thrown all around by ALL sides, don’t you think? But we only see the ones WE take offense to, and consider offensive things WE say as minor at best, and those who are offended by them as big babies...
But we both digress... My position has NEVER been that we sell out to the Republicans. My position is that the USA-hating/America destroying, baby-killing, Islamic caliphate loving, atheist-supporting/Christian/Jew hating of the democrats be opposed at every step. When the choices come down to only these two, I’ll vote AGAINST the democrats.
Time and again, I find all the caterwauling about how terrible the RINOs/GOPe are to be not nearly as terrible as what the average democrat has done to us.
Meanwhile, to increase or perhaps create their self esteem, many Freepers deny the existence of the GOPc, the conduit for real conservative energy. The conservative wing of the Republican party is the means for reaching conservative goals
Absolutely agree, and that is who I support. My Senator Jeff Sessions, for example! :-)
However, I still vote against/oppose democrats everywhere and anywhere.
Early in my military career, there were conservative democrats, or at least pro-American democrats, such as Scoop Jackson or John Stennis, and as a military man I felt they had my back as much as anyone. But they are gone and the entire party, represented by such anti-Americans as Pelosi, Kooksinich, Obama, Holder, Warren, Boxer, Hillary, Dean, Lurch, etc., etc., have all kicked them out.
To that extent, I am left supporting Republicans, because the alternative IS killing the country... The country I love and vowed (and still do) through a sacred oath to defend to the death.
The time to oppose RINOs IS the primary. Every state in the Union had primaries, but this year, once again, voter turnout was dismal at best. I can only conclude that many stalwart conservatives stayed home, and typed their hatred of the GOPe on computer keyboards, but forgot to get in the car and go vote.
It doesn’t take much to search the web and find out what a particular state or district’s primary turnout was. Even in such states as Kentucky, where the Horrible Turtle Man, Mitch McConnell, was opposed by a TEA partier, had a 26 % turnout. Now how can conservatives win a general election if they don’t vote in the primary, in order to GET a candidate they can vote for?
So I think a lot of it is hot air and blow-hard-ism. I’m tired of hearing how awful the Republicans are without nary a remark about how awful the democrats are... People complain here all the time about the House of Representatives and how limp they are, but these guys have passed hundreds of good bills that have all been shot down in the Senate. Yet people are going on and on ad nauseum about Boehner—but not Reid. It is tiresome. I think they need to focus on the options we DO have, and vote accordingly.
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