Posted on 09/10/2018 9:01:10 PM PDT by fhayek
This was expected to be an easier year for Senate Republicans.
Democrats were supposed to be playing defense as Senate candidates ran in conservative states that President Trump handily won two years ago.
But for Republican leaders seeking to maintain control of the Senate, some races are becoming a little too close for comfort.
A prime example is Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a former presidential candidate who is now fighting to hold on to his seat.
“We’ve got a fight on our hands,” Cruz said. “The extreme left, they’re angry, they’re energized and they are filled with hatred."
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Well, I agree Republicans are scared of their own shadow, but there was a reason why they wanted him to lose and that is they didn’t want to defend him 24/7. The press would have made him the face of the republican party and it would have been a disaster. Moore did not help himself, either. His answers were awful and contradictory. I would have voted for him, but that’s all. He gave alot of people the creeps and when a voter goes into a voting booth, you don’t want your candidate to have that kind of affect.
So we gave up a seat in the United States Senate, for a guy that would have voted with us 100% of the time.
Yes, he was just terrible. In fact he was so terrible that his own state nearly voted him in over all the lies by the Left and all the lies by the Right. He even had a Republican Congressman making robo calls against him, telling Republicans not to vote for him on the day before the election and the day of the election.
You know Dave, this is why Republicans are losers. We find a way to defeat ourselves too many times.
Moore was not the bad guy everyone painted him out to be. He was in fact a rather decent person.
That’s his job Dave. He’s not doing anything so masterful.
He has worked it so that people give him kudos for doing what, 25% to 33% of his job?
You talk of 51 votes??? You just approved of giving up one Republican vote. He could have had 52 votes, but refused to back Moore. Why? Moore would have voted for every judge.
In two years he has produced one important bill for Trump to sign. One!!!!
As Democrat after Democrat on Capital Hill trashes Trump non-stop, Mitch remains mute. He hasn’t opened his mouth once to defend Trump, other than when Trump signed the tax bill.
Where is the funding for the wall? Mitch could have added on legislation to fund that any time he wanted. The House would have had to approve of it, but Mitch isn’t on our side.
He’s been an obstructionist. Men like him are a dime a dozen.
I do think your outrage is justified - not that you needed that affirmation from me. As for Moore. I had admired him for years from afar and was excited he was running for the senate. However, a 30 something dating underage teenagers is creepy - which he did not deny. Putting that aside, he was not a good candidate and was a terrible campaigner and not to mention again, he spent the weekend before the election going to a Notre Dame football game. I would have voted for him without hesitation, but fully understand those who did not want to.
Thanks for the nice response.
There’s one thing I think McConnell is guilty of, and it’s a little bit of a stretch. I still think it is reasoned.
I think here’s a little bit of the “Good Old Boy Senate” attitude in him. “Who is this upstart Trump, that he thinks he can come in here and ‘so called’ clean the place up?” I think Mitch drags his feet over this alone. While Ryan does go along to get along with the GOPe/RNC, I don’t think he has the attitude that he won’t let Trump fix things, because of seeing him as a non-politician upstart.
What the two of them are doing now flies in the face of our Republican leaders begging us for a majority, so they could roll back Leftist policy, specifically Obamacare right now.
Did they do any of this? Trump the upstart is the only one trying to roll back Leftist encroachment.
I’ve said this a couple of time on the forum now, but this is the most frustrating experience I’ve had to endure in my political life.
McConnell and Ryan could have been sending over at least an important bill per month. We should have 18 very important bills by now. We have one.
We’re not going to overturn Roe vs Wade, but we could defund Planned Parenthood. They can’t even pull that off.
Ryan is leaving, so if we can get a good guy to replace him, he might send Mitch some important bills. The big question is, will Mitch work to get them through the Senate?
Who knows?
We are missing out on the opportunity of our lifetime right now.
This majority situation will not last. When it ends, we will probably never again get a man in the White House this willing to sign good legislation.
yeah McConnell is so awesome, yeah right. Here you are abusing another good freeper who tells the truth about McConnell. because that's most of what you do. you do run around abusing good freepers like a pathetic troll. Go back to DU.
LOL ping.
Keep in mind that Texas has statewide officials on the ballot
this time. Gov, etc. I doubt people are going to vote dem
in the US senate race and vote GOP in the other races. JMO
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Exact point I made, on another thread, earlier today.
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