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?
and specifically what bile is that.....
I said this a few days ago and I’ll repeat it;
“Is anyone else tired of the same shtick every 2 years? “Vote Republican or the Democrats are gonna get you!”, and then you have to hold your nose and accept the politico hand-picked by the party bosses. And when someone threatens that sweet set-up a la Chris McDaniel in Miss. those “leaders” will not only ally themselves with their brothers-under-the-skin Democrats, they will use the SAME tactics we’ve come to expect from the left, like flooding the Rep. primary with Dem. voters, calling fellow Republicans racists and accusing them of voter intimidation to get out the black vote, etc.
The GOP has been infected by the rot of corrupt power-hungry individuals, and the only cure is amputation. Refuse to re-elect those who care more about keeping their jobs than doing their jobs. It may hurt for 2 years, but if we continue on our present course there may not be a real GOP in the future, just a collection of pretenders who wallow in their offices while getting their marching orders from the other side. Real close to what we have right now, isn’t it?...”
If you have to ask that maybe you should sit home.”Dumb” is never an asset.
Blaming Mississippi conservative voters for the illegal acts used to defeat them. Do you not even read your own posts?
Kaslin, when the poker game is rigged, it doesn’t matter if it’s the only game I town, you don’t play...
Read #113 maybe you will get it,but I doubt it.Complaining seems to be a way of life here for some. Getting things done.... not so much.
But apparently you can see it, can’t you? Feel smug in your ability to explain it to yourself because you haven’t explained it to me.
I can have my own opinion like you can but I also came up with a simple solution...VOTE versus not vote.
Being proactive may or may not solve the problem but complaining without a solution solves nothing.
Lucky for America, the “foaming at the mouth purist conservative” posters we see here are mostly talkers and not much doers, although that very mindset gave us 4 more years of nobama in 2012.
In every election in the last 50 years, when the dem/libs recognize their coming doom, they crank up similar propaganda as we see in this thread’s report “ the GOP is stupidly its own enemy”. The puzzlement is why so few on our side refuse to see it.
The GOP will indeed retake the Senate, because only a very small portion of voters reflect “foaming at the mouth purist conservatives” who can can think beyond the end of their nose and recognize that important battles are won incrementally.
Larry Kudlow had a great interview on his radio show yesterday with Steve Forbes. Kudlow asked Forbes to give a prediction about the November elections, and Forbes gave an answer that directly relates to my question. He said he thought the GOP would win control of the Senate, but the bigger issue is what the heck it would even mean ... because the Republican Party hasn't given a clear message to voters in a long time.
If you think Steve Forbes is "dumb," then I'll take that as a compliment.
YOU got nothing.What are you talking about? Bizarre comment.
Oh - and you apparently cannot see that many people see withholding the vote in the general election to be part and parcel - integral - to “getting the job done” in reclaiming the party.
So you want to punish the party by sitting home and letting the left win because you failed to make sure your candidate won,--just not my type of strategy sorry....seems we tried that in 2012--how'd that work for ya?
But, no, you just want to continue ad nauseum rewarding the GOPe. Gotcha.
Learn to read its always helpful.
I am not trying to redirect this thread, but more and more lately, Forbes is looking like Presidential Timber IMHO. The business savvy of Romney without all his social issue baggage.
Imagine Forbes as POTUS and where the country would be. Other than Cheney who says he won't run, I can't think of anyone with the gravitas ( and age and with it comes wisdom ) that can handle the job that is a Reaganite ( Ted Cruz, sure, but the press and the same EGOP that this author is talking about that he wants our support for will destroy him ).
DING! DING! DING! We have a winner.
Well I would like to see us retake the Senate but I observed in Nov 2012 that we had just gone past the ballot box. This country is not going to be fixed by the GOP taking over the Senate. At some point there is going to be a resolution conflict and it will hopefully be resolved.
I am still waiting for even one GOP legislator to outline the list of rogue or unnecessary govt agnecies the Republicans plan to slash and/or shutter when they take control. I suspect its because they have no list nor any plans to greatly reduce the size and scope of govt which is the single core problem.
Its the bureaucracy stupid.
But, but, but...they aren't democrats!
Don’t you like to fill out the many “surveys” they send through the mail?
The GOP really wants to know your opinion.
The non-sequitur is in equating not casting a vote (not creating the "thing" called a vote) into casting a vote the other way.
>They want our votes, but not our values.<
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Not so — have you not noticed the many “surveys” they’re sending through the mail in envelopes stamped ‘OFFICIAL’?
Your opinion is highly valued.
If the Democrats win in November, America is finished as we know it and that is no exaggeration.
The bureaucracy is what we allow it.
The dems figured out a long time ago the greater importance of their being about to load up to the Judiciary. If we enable them to keep the Senate this time, they will continue at their now rapid pace and there is more than an equal chance they will get to add another liberal to the SCOTUS. That’s one of the important reasons we must stop the dem’s control of the Senate.
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