Actually, I’d have said years ago that money would have bought most any election. Here in Georgia, Republicans and conservatives were mostly content to try in increase the lead of ‘Republicans’ over Democrats in the state house and senate and governorship, and they were content to accept the then perceived ‘foibles’ of a representative that was ‘not quite up to snuff.’
However, given the last five years and the absolute betrayal of a Senate and House that have given into the self-survival instinct (i.e., appease, trick and lie to your constituents at home, etc.), I’d say that money is second to dissatisfaction at home, one that I can say is vehement satisfaction and need for retribution against a traitorous GOP.
I am going to do everything I can to unseat my Senators (Chambliss is leaving but I’ll fight against his GOP chosen successor). And, as a result of his recent traitorous vote on the budget, my Congressman, Doug Collins.
I don’t care about keeping the majority in the House, or winning the Senate if it means we keep dishonorable people like this up there. Never again.
What do you say about Dr. Paul Broun to replace the horrible Chambliss?
As for Collins - I like him in spite of his recent vote. In fact I think the result of that vote will be a major component in taking the Senate.
We have to make sure the right people are elected to take over such new majority as you say.
“I don’t care about keeping the majority in the House, or winning the Senate if it means we keep dishonorable people like this up there. Never again.”
The trouble is our view of what’s going on is clouded by being on the outside of a complicated game. Politicians trade their votes like gamblers. They try to amass votes for issues they want to pass while exchanging heir yes vote to issues they’d like to fail in exchange. That’s how the game is played. So, from the outside we don’t know what they really want. (If they have any guiding philosophy other than staying in office, that is.)
Only over time and many issues does a pattern that we can read emerge. How many times did he vote for something we don’t like that failed versus how many times he voted for something we’d like that passed?