[centurion316]

This is an article from the last election in Nov, 2012. It is written by a left wing twit, writing for a left wing twit website. But, often it's useful to consider what the opposition is saying, or in this case said the last time that they were gloating about winning yet another election.

Winning the Senate is not the important thing, it's the only thing.

[staytrue]

“Winning the Senate is not the important thing, it’s the only thing. “

I agree completely.

[JRandomFreeper]

You can't govern conservatively with a Senate led by a liberal republican.

The GOP-E proved that last time they held the Senate.

/johnny

[MichaelCorleone]

Republicans actually want to win? That’s great! When did this finally happen?

[chris37]

Why?

Which ever party wins the senate is irrelevant, because the federal government is still going to control the senate.

What would make a big difference is if state government controlled the senate via appointment of senators as opposed to dumb and greedy people who have no idea what they are doing electing the same evil people to the senate.

[V_TWIN]

How’s that obamacare working out for ya there Dashiell?

[RIghtwardHo]

Yeah he’s a wit but he is correct.

And winning the Senate is definitely preferable, but it is 2016 that matters. That is when the GOP will lose 7-10 seats and stands little chance at the WH.

No legislation is passing anyway so who holds the Senate in 2014 is not nearly as big a deal.

And I agree with you 100% ... you MUST know what the other side is saying even if you don’t like it.

[Arm_Bears]

So that’s why the GOP-e has declared war on the conservative wing of the base?

Tactical brilliance—NOT!

[dware]

Winning the Senate is not the important thing, it's the only thing.

Lol. We had the Senate. And the House. And the WH,. From 2000-2006. We got the Patriot Act. No thanks. It doesn't matter to elect the R's, if they ain't listening to us. Thus far, they haven't. So, it's time to walk.

[Tupelo]

After watching the “Super Tuesday” GOP results and the outlook for most of the other primaries, I am starting to thin that maybe Dashiell Bennett can recycle his November 7, 2012 on November 5th or 6th and no one would be the wiser.
I now think Georgia and Kentucky will go Democrat. With others to follow.
I am thinking that maybe the GOPe has burned one too many bridges this time.

[ModelBreaker]

“Lunacy is not a policy.”

You cannot talk about 50%+ of the people in your party in that manner and expect to have a party. Moderates have never rallied behind conservative nominees and frequently boycott them. Increasingly, conservatives will do the same to moderates.

We don’t have a party.

[tennmountainman]

McConnell and the GOP already have tools(rules) available to them to use
such as the filibuster. If they won’t fight now, what makes you believe they
will fight if they are the majority?

[Drew68]

Winning the Senate is not the important thing, it's the only thing.

I was listening to NPR on my way to work this morning and they sounded depressed over last night's primary results. They were hoping Republican voters would field unlikeable, unelectable candidates of the Akin, Mourdock (and Paul Broun) stripe who would be soundly defeated by Democrats come November, paticularly in Georgia where Michelle Nunn's roadmap to victory has now become much more difficult.

[Logical me]

I have had my doubts that we will win the Senate. I was hoping we would but I also realized that the communists hold on the Administration would make the effort useless. Where we lost the fight for freedom was when the heavy effort by some Republicans to defeat Romney in 2012. That put the nail in the coffin. America is in real trouble and the communists Democrats will destroy most of America. And 2016 might be the only chance and even if we get that it will take generations to return America to a conservative Constitutional land.

[null and void]

The GOPe long since determined they'd rather lose than allow a TEA party candidate win.

They got their wish, and now they're complaining?

There's a reason rational people call it "The Stupid Party"!

[Candor7]

Senate could be under the control of Republicans right now if weren’t for their habit of running supremely unlikable candidates.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Stop sounding like Karl Rove.

We need leaders, men like Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Trey Gowdy in the Senate. How did THEY get elected? They would have been classified as supremely unlikable beceuase THEY TELL THE TRUTH about government and work to change it.

The GOP can take its supremely likable candidates, who stand for nothing but totalitarian government, and relegate THEM to the scrap heap.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

How many times does the Republican Establishment have to lose to understand a "moderate" stance is a DEMOCRAT strategy. They try to get the "moderate" vote and lose all their conservative base.

You'd think they would have figured it out after McCain, but no, we got Romney, they lost again ... now watch them give us a Jeb Bush Or Cristy ... I've given up on them. I voted the last two times AGAINST Obama, not "FOR" a Republican Candidate. If that happens again this year, I stay home ... waste of time ... besides, I'm retired and the fish are biting.

[xzins]

One comment I heard the other night from the republican senatorial campaign is that they intend to run away from any candidate who says something they deem stupid.

They, of course, will deem stupid anything the media deems stupid.

So the message to candidates is “nobody has your back.”

What a team!

[TBP]

Then why did they throw away Kentucky?

[Political Junkie Too]

Republicans failed to take back the Senate in 2012 because they didn't nationalize the race for the Senate.

They were winning the Senate prior to the convention. After the convention, McConnell went AWOL and Romney never extended coattails to campaign on a national message of sending a team to Congress to work with him as President.

Each state, each candidate, was left the themselves to win their seats.

Republicans went from being ahead in 7 races before the convention to losing 2 seats after the convention.

It was not because of flawed candidates. It was because of a failure by the party to create a national message that everyone ran on.

-PJ