It would be great if someone could post the BEST races of the night as far as how conservatives look at them.
In other words, what races were the BEST for us....or what candidates were defeated that we absolutely had to have defeated them.
It’s late (or early) so I am not being very coherent.
Just looking for a list of our best achievements for the entire election.
Thanks in advance.
2020 Vision
It's comical, for example, to see posts from Freepers who actually believe a Trump-like nationalist could win in a place like New Jersey. It ain't gonna happen, folks. Trump lost New Jersey by a wide margin!!
It’s a pain to lose the House and face two years of Pelosi trying to throw a monkey wrench into every good thing Trump is doing. With the economy doing so spectacularly it make ZERO SENSE for voters to “punish” the GOP. Nonetheless, it is pretty standard for the President’s party to lose seats during the midterm, and it happened as predicted. On the positive side, we’ve got an expanded majority in the Senate, and that means conservative judges galore.
The new house can make noise, but I think the Senate is stronger in the right way. The Dems still have no agenda, no viable candidate for 2020 and no plan. Trump's going to thrive in this environment.
Starting next Monday, the daily drumbeat on all the MSM will be the "countdown to election 2020". The race is on....
Get ready and work on WHAT?
Lower unemployment?
Jobs?
Better trade deals?
Strong foreign policy?
Border walls???
Ending birthright citizenship?
Conservative judges?
TRIED THAT. LOST ANYWAY.
Pardon me if I am so pessomistic.
I just hate to see a great Republic turned into just another socialist $***hole by a bunch of stupid ingrate voters.
I was reading somewhere that last night’s results closely matched Ronald Reagan’s first mid-term election. And we know how that turned out.
It’s depressing that the democrats get any votes at all. They are socialists/Marxists. We are in trouble as a nation.
I am fine with the results, as what I want, comes from the Senate
We will prevail in 2020 and regain the house and increase our role in the Senate as well as the White House
I believe we will gain one(1), if not two(2) scotus and that is the imperative of this presidency
The problem I see is that there was electoral strength in the Democrat platform of open borders and nationalized single payer (and Trump-hate)...too much strength for any kind of solace. The west is rapidly turning solid blue as Colorado and Nevada join California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii as Democrat only states. Arizona is getting close to tipping point with pro-Taliban, open borders socialist Sinema running close to McSally. Georgia and Florida came very close to electing hard socialist governors. We need those states we are losing. We already lost Virginia last time. The trend just continues.
Trump will have a very difficult re-election...as the next two years will see total gridlock and conflict in D.C. The progressives showed strength and made serious inroads tonight.
Speaker Ryan was not “cleared out.” He retired, many months ago, and yet selfishly held on to his position to deny the House GOP an opportunity to move forward.
Ryan has to be the worst GOP Speaker in my life.
John Boehner was a swamper, a crybaby, and a drunk. But he at least was out there fighting in 2010! And we got the House back that year!
And in 1994, Newt Gingrich was out there too. Everywhere! He nationalized the House vote. And it was historic.
I haven’t seen Paul Ryan anywhere in months. Nothing since his retirement announcement. A total disappointment. A total failure.
Lay a large portion of tonight’s House loss at his feet. Not that he’ll care. He’s probably set himself up a cushy lobby gig at a DC firm.
To paraphrase him from his ignominious VP run in 2012: “It’s math, stupid!” And he’s laughing himself to the bank all at our expense.
Ragnarok
This Democrat “win” of the House wasn’t possible without some well-planned, long-planned election fraud, admittedly by many, MANY non-citizens voting. Project Veritas has it on tape in Texas.
Parkland boy lost on Florida, Deslentas appoints the judges, gun control dead in FL. Baha!!
How many seats did we lose...? At least we flipped IN, FL, ND and MO in the Senate...
Democrats have lies which are extremely effective and for which the Republicans have no real counter other than denial. Republicans believe creating jobs and prosperity will get them elected, forgetting that as soon as they do, people will move on to other issues like health care which the Democrats dominate.
Republicans have short term wins and no goals, Democrats have short term loses and long term goals - which will eventually create a true Socialist America.
Sucks to be under 60
IMO, Prez Trump saved the Senate, Ryan aided in House defeat due to his lack of leadership. Prez will find a way to move forward.
Consider last night’s results fitting. Our POTUS is always up to a challenge. Do believe he was successful (though others might not see the strategy). This should be a learning experience. Making his rules, he plays the game his way. d’rats will be an interesting bunch to watch. Do they really eat their own?
I came across this from CNN last night.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/10/politics/house-retirement-tracker/index.html
It shows how many people in the House Of Reps, retired, quit, or moved on to other jobs.
24 Reps and 9 Dems retired.
7 Reps and 2 Dems resigned.
13 Reps and 9 Dems ran for another office.
That’s 44 Reps and 20 Dems, who were incumbents, who left their seats.
If you subtract the 20 Dems from 44 Reps, that’s leaves 24 more Rep seats that were left open.
Granted, maybe some of these were adequately filled by an alternate and held. But 17 of these seats were vacated since the beginning of this year, when their Dem opponents were already gearing up.
I could spend the time and look up each seat and how it went, but I really don’t feel like putting in the energy.
(At least not right now)
But look at the numbers,
24 more Reps than Dems, left their seats open.
17 Reps announced their leaving since the beginning of the year.
Compare 24 or 17, at face value, to the number of seats the Dems picked up, and this wasn’t any real blue wave, this was a surrender or hand over.