Posted on 09/21/2014 4:48:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
I know a lot of people are giddy at the prospect of Republicans taking the Senate this November, but that’s becoming less and less likely. It’s not because Democrats are rallying around a particular mission or set of candidates; it’s because Republicans and conservatives aren’t.
It seems like I’m always writing on issues no one wants to hear are mistakes, such as messaging or social issues. But I don’t care. These things have to be said. If these columns are received like a gaseous cousin on a long car trip through the desert, so be it. Crack a window…
If things continue on their current course, the GOP will not retake the Senate. Anyone telling you differently is selling something.
There are many reasons for this: tough primary fights, the “establishment vs. Tea Party” meme, stubbornness, arrogance, ignorance, ego. You name it, a segment of the center-right coalition suffers from it.
Too many people and groups on the right are content to take their ball and go home because their candidate lost a primary and/or the nominee doesn’t pay enough attention to whatever pet issue they care about most. They may vote, but their email lists sit idle and their wallets remain closed.
GET OVER YOURSELVES!
As upset as you may be, this election is not about any of the candidates you dislike. This election is about the following things, and the following things only – Barack Obama, Harry Reid and the Supreme Court.
I don’t care where someone lives or who their Senate candidate is … if you don’t support the Republican candidate, for whatever reason, with everything you have, you are voting to retain Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader.
In spite of what you may have heard, the Senate is very much in play and too close to call. As unpopular as Barack Obama is, that isn’t enough to win. You have to be involved – through donations, volunteering, talking to everyone you know – or else Democrats will win.
I’m not making this up, I’m not trying to scare you; these are real numbers in real races that will make the difference. And they don’t look good.
The next two years can be spent either forcing an unpopular president to veto popular, pro-growth, pro-liberty legislation, acts that will harm his party for years; or spent with an unfettered activist president complaining about a do-nothing Congress while he initiates executive actions to implement a radical agenda and worse – packing the Supreme Court.
Live in Kansas and think Pat Roberts is a squish? Tough! Suck it up and support him.
Live in Kentucky and think Mitch McConnell is awful? Get over it and support him.
Live in Iowa and not a particular fan of Joni Ernst? Grow up and support her come hell or high water.
Live in Colorado and don’t think Cory Gardner is for you? Who cares? Support him or you are supporting Harry Reid.
Live in Arkansas and wish Tom Cotton wasn’t the nominee? So what? He’s the nominee, support him or lose more than that one race.
It doesn’t matter where you live—Louisiana, Michigan, Alaska, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, New Hampshire, anywhere—if you don’t suck it up, fight and work like your candidate won, you will be handing the Senate back to Harry Reid and the power to President Obama he has always sought – to fundamentally transform America.
It’s not the Senate that’s on the ballot this fall; it’s the Supreme Court.
In the last two years of his presidency, Barack Obama could appoint as many as three new justices to the Supreme Court. Would you like to see retiring justices replaced by young activist progressive nominees rubber-stamped by Harry Reid? Then work!
Yes, a Supreme Court nominee must overcome a filibuster according to Senate rules. But those are current rules and, as Harry Reid demonstrated for all other federal appointees, those rules can be changed at a moment’s notice and by a simple majority to fit whatever he and the president want at any time.
If you stay home, or if you simply vote and that’s it, you might as well be working for Harry Reid and Barack Obama. If the Supreme Court is lost, it will be lost for at least a generation. Then it won’t matter who you elect or who the next president is, the progressive agenda will be locked in as the law of the land for the foreseeable future.
You have a choice this fall: Sit on the bench or work to defeat whoever the Democrat is running for the Senate in your state. One choice is a vote for Harry Reid for Senate Majority Leader and more cover for President Obama’s abuses of power. The other will at a minimum apply pressure on the hemorrhaging wound from which our liberty is seeping.
The damage done to this country in recent years won’t be reversed by one election. No ship as big as the United States can be righted immediately. It will take time. But it can’t start being corrected until it stops getting worse. It can stop getting worse this fall if you vote and work to get others to do the same.
If you’re unhappy with your choices this fall, if your candidate didn’t win, you face a simple choice this November: Check your ego, pull your head out from where your hands are and get in the game. Or just quit. Which way are you going to go?
Democrats Are Poised To Hold The Senate, And It’s Conservative’s Liberal Republican Establishment Leadership's Fault
Corrected this for grammar and punctuation.
1. The GOP simply doesn't have a message. Maybe it's not their fault because the problems facing this nation are unsolvable, but nobody other than a rabid partisan voter is ever going to get off their @ss to support a candidate who doesn't have a coherent message that resonates with the public.
2. People recognize that Republican control of the Senate is totally inconsequential. Control of the U.S. Senate will have no bearing on what happens in Washington over the next two years, especially with a Beltway GOP that is dominated by people who have no interest in doing their jobs anyway.
Wow, this guy lives in the delusional world actually believing the Republican party is committed to implemented Conservative principles!
I’m not excited about a GOP senate majority with the likes of Mitch Mcconnell running the senate GOP. He’s as feckless as Harry Reid.
This guy needs to get over himself and start demanding the GOP be real Conservatives instead of fake ones.
I live in Texas and will vote Republican, but I will be damned if I send the likes of Scott Brown any of my $$$money again!
Let the Democrats take the Senate again and with it the Supreme Court and put America further down the shit hole. America is half-dead now, that would only finish the job RIP. It can never be the same again, there are too many socialist minded idiots voting (Romney’s 47% and growing).
Like Davey Crocket said “you may all go to hell, as for me, I am going to Texas”. Patriots rose up once and broke Texas away from Mexico, it can and will be done again!
There you go again posting that “incomplete” bogus rating system.
Why don’t you post the “cloture” votes of McConnell and his band RINO’S?
You know, those votes that sent liberal bills to the floor for a simple majority vote.
You are not being very honest with your fellow Freepers, are you?
You have failed to show even one advantage to taking the senate. We have the house to stop bills, judges are rubber stamped, any new initiatives will have to compromise with president do-it-my-way-Obama. I have not heard even ONE way a republican senate will change the course of our nation. It is not enough to be against Reid/Pelosi, they need to offer a conservative vision.
If this were a presidential election, might have to go along... It is not. It is time to take the GOPe to the woodshed, and by all means, please tell them it is our fault.... They are a little slow, and need as many people as possible telling them that they have a problem with the base.
My vote does not belong to you or any of the POS GOP candidates that you want retained simply because of their party affiliation. All you care about is the Party, not the country. Go pound sand. America is more important than your anemic party.
Best reply on the tread!
The GOPe’s do not own our votes! Period.
There should be no RINOs in any safe conservative seat. Each one is a vote for Obama's agenda when needed.
“Personal responsibility” starts by with voting, and that can include leaving a race blank. GOPe has failed to show how winning the senate will change anything. It is now time to pay the price. I’m a conservative, not a republican, and thus in some races... I got no one on the ballot.
Nice strawman ya got there.
I live in Massachusetts. Fat chance the next senator is going to be Republican.
Most likely the toughest place to vote for a rino will undoubtedly be in Mississippi where Thad Cochran will oppose the commie dem.
Months ago,Mississippi's number two man in the Tea Party there Attorney Mark Mayfield was accused of being a part of a small group that conspired to videotape Cochran's wife. She has been in a rest home with Alzheimers for years while Cochran maintains a dc home with his tootise courtesy of you guessed it Haley Barbour/BGR.
When the allegations hit the press Mayfield was arrested, taken to jail in cuffs and the next day his three biggest clients,all banks he had represented for years quit his legal firm.Prior to that Mayfield had an unparalleled perfectly spotless record with hardly even a speeding ticket. The entire thing smelled badly.
Two weeks later he was found dead in the garage of his home apparently a victim of suicide.
For Mississippians to vote for Cochran after this is a huge stretch.
The problem is however, you must think in terms of electing the next Supreme Court Justice and how the balance of the court could be effected.
If we don't get the Senate things could go down hill rapidly.
We already know amnesty is coming our way and with the other ops already in play by the commies now in power we basically owe it to our kids not to aid or abet them in any way.
Best guesses are Cochran won't finish his term and Haley Barbour already has his replacement picked out.
But, here the rub for Barbour.His antics have created a huge firestorm and everyone now knows what and how he will have won.
Chances are really good it won't happen again.
And... if it does whose fault will it be?
We need to start looking into the mirror "more" not less.
Romney received more votes than McCain.
The “didn’t vote for Romney” canard is a fallacy.
Everything the man said is correct. Most of you elected Obama, are working on keeping Harry Reid in control of the Senate, and will soon have a left wing Supreme Court for at least a generation.
And I knew you’d be rationalizing and attacking the author before I even finished the article. At some point you need to actually oppose the communists or you may as well apply to join the party.
Barack Hussein Obama loves you.
Remember there is no Easter bunny who will magically get conservative candidates for you to vote for. And, the GOPe sure as hell wont do it either. You have to take a hand in it your self. And if you fail own up to it.If you want to elect commies instead of GOPe rinos who got there because you and I and the rest of us didn’t get the job done to keep them out that’s your business.
Why don’t you post the “cloture” votes of McConnell and his band RINO’S?
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Because I’m not a one trick pony. The world doesn’t begin and end with cloture votes. If you don’t like my charts post your own. Give us your Cloture Vote Ratings Chart.
Many here are in their second childhood, or they are not what they claim to be.
Be sure and let everyone know when you find that magical 100% candidate you are patiently waiting for won’t ya.
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