In 2012 I campaigned hard for Ted Cruz in the Texas primary against David Dewhurst. Dewhurst was expected to win. He lost. Curz was then elected to the Senate and I have not been so happy to vote for a candidate in a general election since I voted for Reagan in 1980 and 1984.
This year I campaigned hard for Steve Stockman in the Texas primary against John Cornyn. Cornyn won. So now I am going to vote for Cornyn in the general election. Do I still think Stockman would have been a better Senator? You betcha. Is Cornyn better than the Democrat alternative? You betcha.
If the Democrats/Harry Reid hold onto the Senate this election, then the conservatives in the Senate have no chance of blocking anything that Obama and Reid want to do during the next two years. There will be no filibusters allowed unless Harry Reid wants to allow them. Obama's far left wing judicial appointments will be legislating from the bench for the next 30 years.
If the Republicans/RINOs take the Senate, then the conservatives will at least have a chance to filibuster some of Obama's far left wing appointments. Will enough conservatives in the Senate find their balls and do it? Maybe. There are a lot of RINOs in the Senate, but in a Republican/RINO controlled Senate it will only take 40 conservatives to filibuster.
Also, if the Republicans cannot take control of the Senate this year then they have little chance of taking control of the Senate in 2016. Mathematically, it just doesn't work. This year there are mostly Democrat seats up for election (as a result of the Democrat sweep in 2008). In 2016, there will be mostly Republican seats up for election (as a result of the Republican sweep in 2010).
The only way for the Republicans to pick up seats in 2016 will be if they have a better year in 2016 than they did in 2010, when the Tea Party was new and motivated. That means throwing out some Democrats who got elected in 2010 and holding onto every Republican who got elected in 2010. That is not going to happen. The best case scenario is for the Republicans to take the Senate this year and hold onto it in 2016.
The point I am getting to is that we have to look at the long game. This year the Republicans need to take over the Senate, even though that means re-electing some RINOs. We then need to focus all of our energies on getting better candidates to vote for in 2016.
Then, in 2016, we will have a chance of electing a conservative President and replacing RINOs in the House and Senate with conservatives.
The only way to overturn most of what Obama and the Democrats have done over the past 6 years is to elect a conservative President supported by conservative Senators and Representatives in 2016. There will not be much that a conservative President can do in 2016 if the Democrats continue to hold the Senate.
Well put, but I think you’re wasting you breath on a lot of people on this forum. They want the RINOs out of there more than they want us to win the Senate.
This year I campaigned hard for Steve Stockman in the Texas primary against John Cornyn. Cornyn won
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Hell yes, Cornyn won. Stockman didn’t “run”. He didn’t do crap.... no TV ads... no personal appearances..... All he did was send out e-mails attacking Cornyn. He had one campaign HQ Office and NO ONE EVER ANSWERED THE PHONE and they did not return calls. We finally ascertained that Steve Stockman only ran to get campaign money to pay off former campaign debts. He was my Congressman both times he was in Congress. The guy needs to be in a mental ward somewhere.