I don'tThe liberals fear true conservative control of the Congress far more than they fear a Mitt Romney presidency.
How pathetic has the GOP become on a Presidential level conservatives, like me, are wishing for a GOP Senate to stop who will likely be the GOP nominee. I think this “bulwark” argument works better against Obama for the simple reason with Mitt in the White House it is very difficult for an individual GOP Senator to say “NO” to the head of the GOP. Look at how Obama/Pelosi/Reid was able to shove ObamaCare down the throats of the Congress when many Democrats who voted YES knew it was political suicide. Would the Big Government domestic agenda of Bush II been able to pass a GOP Congress if the POTUS making the proposal was a Democrat?
Very wise move.
Another wise move would be to seize control of Republican County and Municipal Committees. From there, work upwards into Local and county offices which lead to state offices which lead to Federal Offices.
The number is going to have to be a lot higher than 51 for conservatives to get anything done. We still have a handful of RINOs who dream at night of the chance to dive across the aisle on issues important to conservatives. The day after the GOP takes control you can be certain that a “gang” of this-or-that will announce that they will be “working together.”
I don'tI don’t believe the GOP wants the white house or the blame that comes with it. After all, they can continue to sit in congress while getting rich and screwing the rest of us.
The problem with this strategy is that the GOP, with Romney at its head, will force moderate Senate candidates on to us. And, if a tea partier does win a Senate primary, they will not assist them in winning against the Democrat incumbent.
In the state of Wisconsin, this will play out. The establishment GOP and Mitt will back Thompson for Senate, even though the Tea Party and conservative groups here see Thompson as a RINO. If Thompson loses the nomination, they will not assist Newmann, Fitzgerald, or Lasee in the general.
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I think this is a making lemonade from lemons approach that could work. A RINO president with a tea party congress could protect the Supreme Court and move a lot of good legislation far better than a RINO with a democrat congress. I fear we have lost any opportunity to get rid of Mitt but if we can surround him with the right congress it might work. Might.
Even after the election, there will not be 40 conservatives in the Senate. And even if there were, they wouldn’t be able to resist following a Republican president bent on expanding the Welfare State. When have they ever been?