The Election that Changed the Country (Vanity)

(none) | Nov 5, 2014 | (self)

[BobL]

While it's easy to get caught up in the excitement of yesterday's victories, the only reason that we won so decisively yesterday was because a small group of DETERMINED REPUBLICANS in Virginia decided that the country couldn't take anymore of Eric Cantor, and somehow, beyond all expectations and all precedent, sent him packing to K-Street, on June 10, 2014. That set the stage for yesterday.

Earlier, the US Senate had passed a horrendous Amnesty Bill (the prior summer, 2013), worse than anything than even Bush had pushed for. The House Leadership was ready to act on the advice of their consultants (most of them gay, by the way) and "put this issue behind them" by passing their own Amnesty, and then reconciling with the Senate version. Eric Cantor was LEADING THE CHARGE in that direction - he was the #2 Republican in the House, the House Majority Leader, and he had the votes to pass it.

But as the months rolled along since the Senate Bill, Cantor had a bad feeling - he was worried about his own primary (and other Republican primaries) if they pushed through Amnesty early, as the Tea Party was ready to strike and throw them on to the streets. So the plan was to keep quiet on Amnesty, until the primaries were over.

But a funny thing happened on the way to permanently changing the demographic (and electoral) composition of this country. A Mr. David Brat, a political novice, with virtually no funding put together a bunch of grass-roots Tea Party Republicans and DEFEATED Mr. Cantor in his own Primay. And all of those Republicans that were ready to follow him off the cliff suddenly said NO THANKS. Amnesty was killed for 2014 (and yes, it is really dead).

And what is my point - the surest way to keep Republicans from coming out yesterday was to pass Amnesty, as what would be the point of voting for the people that just handed your country and your children's future over to a bunch of madmen? But it didn't happen, and the Republicans, contrary to what their advisers (most of them gay, by the way) promised, were REWARDED with a historic victory. Even here in Texas, we won our statewide races by about 20 points (or more) each, a HUGE MARGIN for this state (a record, in fact), and Dan Patrick, the most partisan person on Illegals also won by 20 points and will now be our Lt. Governor, considered either equal in power to the Governor or even greater in power, as he also runs the State Senate...there was no downside at all by opposing Amnesty and supporting secure borders.

[BobL]

We did have a couple of clean elections. The Virgina Primary that I mention was off the radar, so Cantor (or the Dems, for that matter) got caught off guard and couldn’t rig it. The other election was Texas, where virtually all means of fraud were stopped in their tracks by having Voter ID...and the Republicans went on to TROUNCE the Democrats with a bigger margin than ever.

[arthurus]

Vigilant.

[Brother Cracker]

[camle]

first of all we need to harp on the fact that it’s the democrats who are our enemies, NOT a specific democrat like obama or hillary. that enables them to play a shell game with us like slipping lizzie warren in to run for prez. we focus too much on the individual.

secondly we need to serve notice on obama and the democrats that we will not tolerate any lame duck actions on the part of the president or the senate between now the the actual turnover.

[BobL]

Can’t argue that either. We need to have a SOLID RESPONSE to lame-duck tricks (i.e., Amnesty), such as simply not approving a single judgeship until the trick is reversed - and if that means 2 years of court openings, so be it. Same for ramming through a new Attorney General.

We’ll have a lot of power, if we use it.

[camle]

and teh un treaty on small arms, too

[BobL]

No crap...I don’t think they’ll get any of that junk through the Senate now.

[camle]

knowing the republican leadership, we won’t get any if it ever. they’ll sell us down the river again, like they always have