Clearly this was an Anti Obama and Anti-Democrat vote. It certainly was NOT a pro RINO vote.

IMHO | 11/05/4

[Enlightened1]

Clearly this was an Anti Obama and Anti-Democrat vote. It certainly was NOT... a pro RINO anti-Tea Party vote.

Agree or Disagree and Why?

[Eccl 10:2]

“The GOP did a good job avoiding lunatic nominees like O’Donnell, Angle, Mourdock and Akin.”

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Gonna catch hell for this. But aside from whatever else we may think of him, apparently a lot of the credit for this goes to Karl Rove. He said on Fox last night that a lot of money was donated for this effort, which he apparently quarterbacked.

So he may have hurt the most conservative end of the pool, but apparently he got a lot of the turds off the bottom.

Either way, I find it hard to be critical of any Republican today.

[2nd Amendment]

The only thing we know for sure is that the Repubs will draw the wrong message from this and screwup in 2 years. In my opinion here are the lessons.
1. This was definitely anti-obama vote (regardless of what CNN, the democratic shill Megyn Kelley,and Juan Williams says)
2. In a midterm elections, the hardcore tend to turn out.
3. This is a mandate to impeach and remove this tyrant if he continues to flaunt the constitution
4. This election is like building a levee to stop a tsunami. We have so much work to do to restore our republic to a constitutional form

[goldstategop]

It was a vote against Obama.

Conservatism was not on the ballot last night.

[Lake Living]

I’m afraid you’re right. Did you see this article on the Wash. Post?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/battle-for-the-senate-how-the-gop-did-it/2014/11/04/a8df6f7a-62c7-11e4-bb14-4cfea1e742d5_story.html

If most of it is true then this will only reinforce a move back to “Karl Rove type thinking” among the GOP-e.

[Servant of the Cross]

But make no mistake, [my] policies are on the ballot. Every. single. one. of. them.

This was absolutely an anti-0bama/anti-democRAT socialist policies vote.

Now for the game changer .... Senate Majority Leader Cruz

[jazzlite]

As I have posted in a couple of other places, Stephen Hayes, Senior Writer for the Weekly Standard, told us a few days ago, what this election would be about. He said, “It is about the size and scope of government, It’s about the rule of law. It’s about the security of the citizenry. It’s about competence, integrity and honor. It’s about an electorate determined to hold someone responsible for the policy failures that have defined this administration and the scandals that have consumed it, even if many in the fourth estate will not. And, it’s about time.” I was listening this a.m. to Squawk Box, CNBC, to get some business news, and all but a couple of those people were progressives who refuse to see what we out here are thinking and feeling. While our economy is very important, these other issues play into what happened yesterday, BIG TIME.

[Hugh the Scot]

This is already happening in the media. The lessons are:
(1) The Tea Party is a bunch of old un-electable white racist homophobes who had to be put in their places before this win was possible.
(2) Squishy moderation is our only path forward.
(3)Principal is dead.

If you're a Democrat, feel free to rightly accuse the Republicans of fraud in this election: They know, because they helped perpetrate it: Mc Daniel / Cochran

As stated in posts above, rest assured that all the wrong lessons will be taken by the GOP.

I am thrilled that the Republican party has made such gains, and that we now have the opportunity to put this once-great nation back on the track to prosperity and freedom; but I don't for one second believe that the Democrats, the DC political punditry, or the squishy GOPe will ever come to the right conclusions based on this result.

[RoseofTexas]

"Now, just inform Boehner about this."

Now to replace the crybaby. I'm so sick of him ...he's always bending over for obola.....we should demand he be removed and replaced immediately!!!

[Flintlock]

Nationally, the only thing I noticed was pro-life and pro-gun. Anti-Hussein, of course, but that’s it.

[xzins]

There isn’t much choice, really. For the most part, you can vote Democrat or Republican. The truth is that there is not a viable 3rd party out there yet. (And they need to build from local to national, but they insist on trying to go national to local....something that simply won’t work.)

I don’t think they voted Rino. I think they voted republican, and that because they wanted something different, and republican was the only viable alternative.

[Dick Bachert]

Yesterday was not so much a wholesale embrace of the GOP as it was a complete and total repudiation of Barack Obama and the gang of criminals he brought to Washington in 2008.

In the last 2 decades, it became clear to me that we were losing that struggle as those major institutions gained ground among the growing class of those either employed by or dependent upon the expanding welfare state. My way of emotionally coping with that was to tell myself that if the majority did, indeed, lust after a socialist welfare state, well then, let’s bring it on and let them have it good and hard. Rub their noses in it. Shove it down their throats!!

At the same time, I continued to tell myself that there were still enough honest-to-God adults out there who, once they had a taste of a totalitarian command state regime, they would reject it. I refused to consider that so many citizens (and I use the term loosely) would come to love and embrace the thing enough to sustain it and prolong the economic and personal agony history teaches always attends such despotic systems.

Yesterday, I THINK we began to come to our senses!

I’d analogize what happened yesterday to what an otherwise healthy human body does when faced with an existential threat. Just as our bodies are complex organisms, nations are complex organisms. Faced with ISIS, ebola, the invasion across the southern border and Obama’s criminal neglect of those threats, and on and on and on we STILL have the resolve and character to rally and turn back the threats and deal with the SOURCE of the threats.

All that said, we’re not out of the woods yet.
Now it’s up to the Pubbies to set out a serious and freedom oriented AGENDA and be RESOLUTE in repairing the damage this renegade regime has done over the last 6 years!

Obama and Valarie Jarrett are NOT going to go gently into that good night. As an egomaniacal malignant narcissist, this guy will dig in his heels. Just as a wild animal is most dangerous when cornered, Obama is now in a corner from which there is little chance escape. Ted Cruz was asked last night by if the Pubbies would take up the matter of Obama’s “lawlessness” and he stated rather emphatically that they would.

I’ll be watching to make sure that happens! I’m sure Darrel Issa and Trey Gowdy are licking their chops. I’m doubling my popcorn order for THAT show!

The only event that would please me more than what happened yesterday would be the sight of Barack Obama leaving the White House in manacles and leg irons with Eric Holder right behind him. If he and Eric are smart, they’ll spend today booking air travel to some non extradition country. I’m sure Lois Lerner would like to go along!
And speaking of air travel, tell these new Pubbies to take the keys to Air Force One away from Obama. It’s time to halt his endless taxpayer funded world apology tour!

Now comes the hard work of keeping all these new folks honest in the toxic and corrosive atmosphere of Washington, D.C. . it’s up to these same voters to watch all these new folks like the proverbial hawk and keep them within Mr. Jefferson’s “chains of the Constitution.” When you see them beginning what is the inevitable drift into the D.C. Swamp, CALL AND LET THEM KNOW WE’RE NOT GOING BACK TO “BUSINESS AS USUAL”. The Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121! Write it down. You should call just to hear the world’s worst “Music on Hold”.

The massive wins by in the statehouses MAY mean that at least SOME voters believe the 10th Amendment will be the most important tool to roll back the growth of fedzilla and return the states to the status of “LABORATORIES OF FREEDOM” the Founders intended them to be.

In that vein, the new national Pubbies need to start taking apart the federal bureaucracy, starting with the Department of Education, the EPA, the IRS and on and on.

Not to be the skunk at the picnic, but there IS some not so good news: The good guys won this one but the tight margins in many of these races mean that there are STILL large pockets of diehard Democrats who STILL DON’T GET IT!!

If you know any of those folks, spend some time attempting to acquaint them with our history, the ideas of the Founders, our tradition of freedom, the Constitution and why those things are important! There will be another election in 2 years and – unless we somehow reach them – many of these folks will be cocked and locked for payback!

[Kazan]

It was a repudiation of Obama and his far-left wing agenda. BUT, it was also repudiation of the insane philosophy that it is better for conservatives to sit out elections and let Democrats win.

Conservatives and Republicans spoke loud and clear -- nominate the most conservative candidate possible in the primaries but vote Republican in the general election.

[The_Reader_David]

I agree. But unfortunately, just as it is not a pro-RINO anti-TEA-party vote, it is also not a pro-TEA-party, anti-RINO vote. The only thing that can be learned from this election is that the electorate is fed up with Obama and the ‘Rats.

Whether they want real American conservative limited government, or just think at present the GOPe is more likely to deliver technocratic solutions to the problems they see than the ‘Rats are, or are moderates on a spectrum anchored by those two extremes, is unclear.

[DNME]

I agree with Servant ...

Senate Majority Leader Ted Cruz. Screw that squishy McConnell. Let’s have some serious opposition!

And find somebody with a spine to replace Boehner, too. Where are the Special Prosecutors for the IRS scandal, the NSA scandal, etc., etc. ?

[Carry_Okie]

If you are going to put up a thread to have a discussion, do a little work please. Else we click, look, and blow it off having wasted precious time. You don't want that reputation.

Thank you.

[Carry_Okie]

This is how it's done.

[mythenjoseph]

Agree...Rino from Maine Susan Collins is as bad as any lockstep communist (democrat). First thing is to squash and arrest Sotoreo if he AGAIN infringes on the powers of congress in regards to immigration ...any attempt to issue an executive order that attempts to legalize illegals needs to be dealt with lightning speed....that along with immediate prosecution for the president NOT ENFORCING current law which he supposedly swore to do...tear into every executive agency and expose the lawlessness and infiltration of communists and muslims. Then ...the list is just about endless.

[greyfoxx39]

HEH! Great post!

[pfflier]

The people that made the decisive difference in this elections were not the partisans on either side. They always vote straight tickets. The people that made the difference were the 30% "in the middle", those that identify neither as demoncrats or Republicans.

I hope everyone understands that these are the votes are in fact a vote against the status quo. American voters are always seeking balance and in this case they saw a huge problem with the direction obummer, reid , pelosi and wasserman-schultz were taking the country.

The smartest thing the Republicans can do is see this throught the eyes of President Reagan. The voters last night saw the shining city on the hill, not the dirty back alley the dims created.

[HamiltonJay]

This election was simply a repudiation of Obama, period.

Republicans need to work on delivering a consistent message, because the anti-Obama message will not work beyond 2016.

2016 presuming Hillary is the candidate, you can certainly do the she’ll be an Obama third term argument.. I don’t care how hard she tries, she cannot separate herself from this turd.

However, beyond that, its over... so R’s still have a lot of work to do long term.