Posted on 11/09/2018 7:13:10 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
Sorry, but WRONG....
What is the #1 determiner of who wins a congressional election?
INCUMBENCY! 98% of incumbents win re-election, regardless of party.
Demographics didn’t lose this election, nearly 40 open seats allowed it.
Open Seats create far greater pick up opportunities for the house than ANYTHING else.... the GOP put nearly 40 seats into open state with retirings.... leaving the GOP to have to win nearly 2/3 of them to hold the house... which is a heavy lift. Just like in the senate the Dems would have had to carry every Red State D seat and more to take back the Senate.
The Democrats could not have set this up without cooperation from Bush League Republicans preventing US from stopping the importation of “new” Americans.
BOTH parties have been pursuing a policy of non-enforcement since the last amnesty.
It is a bipartisan plan to steal the country from the citizens.
I’m up here in blue Maine. It’s like the LePage revolution of 2010 never happened. Even he’s fleeing the state. But I’m not as depressed as I was a couple of days ago. So many close state races could have gone our way, with better candidates, a better ground game.
We’ve got two years until the next general election. If the conservatives in this state take their message directly to the voter, by going door to door, we’ll be alright. “People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care’ I believe is a Teddy Roosevelt saying. You take the conservative message and add a human face to it, we win. Our state and county GOP committee have got to get it through their thick skulls that this is a daily process for the next two years. Start knocking on doors now.
Here’s the problem.
Conservatives, by nature, don’t care about government, as long as they are left alone. They invest their time in other things, like work and family, government is just a necessary evil.
To Liberals, government is everything, it is their religion.
The GOP is useless.
Turtle McConell already praising bipartisanship and the wonders of split government. I really hate that man.
The scorpion has to sting.
How are you on immigration, defense and trade?
We’re not going to get the far left voter in Maine to vote our way in two years. But making a personnel connection with the voter, will sway moderates and low-information voters. This is still the same electorate that voted for LePage and a republican legislature in 2010. Trump nearly won the whole state in 2016. There is reason to be upbeat so long as we work hard.
I’m a libertarian, not an anarchist. I have an appreciation law, order, and justice, IE, people should face consequences for stealing or harming others. I believe nations have the right to control their borders. Most of them do. If you go to Mexico illegally and get caught you’ll have a lot of problems, but you certainly don’t get rights. For defense I believe in carrying a big stick, but not using it. If you are weak, evil will find you. Trade should be free. Everyone should be able to make their own bargains. But if other nations put tariffs, fees, and restrictions on you, then you should be able to do likewise. This is why I support almost everything Trump does.
But it's never going to be....
Evidenced by alleged, predictable ballot box fraud of Senate races in Florida and Arizona by lawless Democrats, patriots need to support Pres. Trump in leading the states to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, the “broomstick of the wicked witch.”
The 16th Amendment needs to disappear too.
Yeah. That 16th Amendment is bad news.
and the 19th ... the root cause of all the other evils ...
...and THAT is the rub in a nutshell!
The US you were born into has long since passed away. As a society, a “culture”, the US is dead to me. I am not a degenerate, I am not black, or brown, nor Muslim, nor do I speak Spanish and I am cis gendered heterosexual who doesn’t recognize gay marriage. I believe in God, I am not an activist atheist and I don’t celebrate Festivus with an ornamental tree festooned with aborted fetuses. I see reports of another mass shooting in California and I think to myself, “whoo hoo, more dead Democrats”. I see California burning with wildfires and I see God’s wrath on the Godless degenerati, burning in a hell of their own making.
Been having the same thought. They aread for power and I just don’t know that our side can stop them. Once they take over again, they will act to ensure that they never lose it again and that includes lots of violence.
I think they pretty much do realize this.
Some wise Freeper said, not too long ago, they are going for it all. And they are.
I guess I don't understand what the average conservative thinks. They are going to sit this one out? Get by in their gated community, collecting their pensions, keeping their nose down?
Not gonna play out that way, folks.
Once the guillotine of leftist revolution starts coming down, it doesn't stop. Once they get away with entering one house, hurting and/or imprisoning the occupants, seizing that property--they are going to be on a frenzied blood lust. Read up on what Mao's child soldiers did during the Cultural Revolution.
They were at a very public news person's house when his wife and children were home. They cracked the front door and were telling them they had to vacate, not only their home, but the city. NOTHING HAPPENED TO THEM. Nothing.
There is no law, no constitution, no process, no amendment, no appeal that is going to stop them.
Since women who support themselves and their dependents are taxed, they need voting power. So repeal 19, but then don’t tax working women.
On the other hand, people on unconstitutional, vote-winning federal welfare should actually not be able to vote on federal issues imo.
The Left does realize it. They are bloodthirsty.
Apparently the Robespierres of the News Media do not realize it. They will when the mob invades their homes.
As for sitting this out: The gated communities will be invaded. The pensions will be confiscated. Once the guillotine starts coming down, it will not stop.
One of America's greatest failures is its failure to teach history and civics to its children.
So you're obviously very smart. What's the best thing to do? Where to go? What measures to take?
The wise and well informed seek no pleasure in watching this play out. Who cares if the fools in the news media, academia, the Leftist enclaves "get what they're asking for"? I hope they don't; I hope they come to their senses before it's too late.
So what shall we do?
What personal liberties have the crypto-liberals lost due to
the GOP?
I know! the atheistic right to ban all religions from the public square vs allowing all
No that’s not it...
The right for Muslims to advocate and practice unConstitutional sharia law...
No...
The right to protest against ICE, Trump, Whites, Conservatives, GOP.,,
Colder still
Banning my cutting off my ween and shaping it into shaved ham....
Nah
Banning “medical”’marijuana! That’s it!!
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