Posted on 07/09/2013 7:07:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
He can have all the theories and calculations he likes. A Republican Senate is worthless unless it is a conservative Republican Senate. That isn’t going to happen Period. Not a chance.
The traitorous pubbies could hold 70 seats and we still couldn’t override a veto. Probably couldn’t even get a consistent simple majority vote.
Face it, most of the Republican party at that level is closet, big government liberals. Vichy-like collaborators.
Good luck with that. Here’s my take on it.
When Kennedy/McCain tried it, they could have passed it. McCain wanted to run for president, so he let the thing die.
We had a majority of Democrats at the time. Tell me they couldn’t have passed that sucker.
They will do what they want when they want, and there isn’t a darned thing we can do about it.
When NAFTA was being considered, there were so many phone calls and faxes, they actually turned off phones. Did NAFTA pass?
I know folks mean well, and more power to them. If the powers that be think this is the time, you could have 316 million against, and 1 person phone in to support, and it would still pass.
That’s my take on it.
You may be right, but I've not given up. When Ted Cruz says the pressure works, I perk up and listen. If we all give up and watch the Zimmerman trial as a substitute for actively trying to sway our government, it's not a good thing.
The House is not the Senate. Yet.
I don't want any more RINOs!
McLame, Lindsey, Chambliss, Isaksonofabitch, Rubio all call themselves Republican, but they are mere dims taking GOP campaign money. When was the LAST time they stood for ANY Conservative ideals?
You are about to get angry posts from ideologues who believe that the sole qualification for a good GOP/conservative candidate is that he/she claim that they are the ‘most conservative” candidate in the primary, regardless of whatever nonsense they spout about rape or other issues.
They will defend those bad candidates beyond all logic, including the fact that the candidates lost in otherwise Red States because of those peculiar views.
All they want to do is shout ‘RINO” at anyone, candidate or not, who might argue that rape is not pre-ordained by the God of their particular religious vision or other peculiar and minority beliefs.
“I don’t need a Senate run by John McCain. A Senate run by Ted Cruz or Rand Paul, however, would be a breathtaking site to see.”
You raise the 64,000 dollar question. Who would run a Republican Senate? Mr. No Chin Mc Connell? It’s no different than “the Boner Leadership” in the House.
For those phone lines to have made a difference, you would have to believe that enough Democrats were convinced to change their mind, that the majority party couldn’t pass the bill on their own.
Can’t convince me of that. Something else was in play, and I believe it was stealth Democrat McCain and what it would mean to Democrats if he was elected with Ddmocrat majorities in Congress.
Then they’d get immigration and much more.
If Lamar! wins the nomination in TN, I think I will vote for the democrat with the D after his name instead of the democrat with the R after it. It would be worth it to get rid of one of the piece of crap senators we currently have.
I would tend to disagree. I'm somewhat familiar with Barone through his "Almanac of American Politics" and an occasional TV or radio interview. Unlike other political analysts, he seems to be a straight shooter.
Of course, I'd say it's a little too early to project Senate races for next November. And it's too early to tell how much cheating and fraud the 'Rats will be able to get away with..
Remember that some pundits were predicting a swing of anywhere from five to ten Senate seats to the GOP only weeks before last years elections. Turned out, IIRC, the 'Rats actually had a net gain of three or so, according to the reported numbers, which is one more reason to suspect that the 'Rat fraud machine was a key factor in the competitive Senate races as well as in the presidential vote. That makes sense because just about all of the unprecedented amount of illegal votes would have been straight 'Rat from top to bottom.
I’m calling in to these whores, because it is all I can do. We need a 2 or 3 million man march on D.C. Maybe it will happen, if people get mad enough. If they do, I’m going to D.C.
Better than sitting here reading this life-long useless idiot Barone, who worries about 2014, when our country is at stake RIGHT NOW.
GOP Dog: Chases car. Catches it. Doesn’t know what to do with it after that! *SMIRK*
I couldn’t go right now, but I think it’s were tens of millions of us should be.
This government needs to be put on notice.
I know that you would if you could.
Not if they jam "comprehensive immigration reform" down our throats.
I feel good about our chances in West Virginia and South Dakota. I’m cautiously hopeful about Arkansas, Louisiana, and North Carolina. It’s too soon to comment on Montana. Kentucky is kind of iffy, but Obama is toxically unpopular there.
Alaska as well.
Michigan open seat, we have a blue chip candidate in Terry Lynn Land. Not so much in Iowa where we lack that candidate.
Hagan looks quite weak, tied with the State House Speaker and some Tea Party doctor.
Need candidates in Colorado and NH. I’m not optimistic. Doesn’t seem like McDonnell is gonna run in VA.
I’m not concerned about losing Kentucky, Kentucky Senate races are always fairly close though so our “leader” needs to stay on his toes. Not really worried about any GOP seat except our “rental” in NJ or Maine if RINO Sue Collins follows her sister into surprise retirement.
Barone is a Republican I think and a very good analyst.
Now that guy Sabato is an a-hole.
Yeah, Sabato is a dirtbag. He wanted us to lose in 2012.
It’s a done deal in SD and WV. They’re in the bag. I’d be more than cautiously hopeful on Arkansas. Louisiana is going to depend a lot upon how many dead people Mary can drag to the polls.
He also wrote a book outlining a bunch of largely queer changes to the constitution he wants including depriving the states of equal suffrage in the Senate by giving large states extra Senators, instituting Obama’s forced “national service” aka slavery and some unworkable scheme to change to Presidency to a 6 year term with an “optional” extra 2 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_More_Perfect_Constitution#Sabato.27s_proposals
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