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?
2. I do have a plan to "get rid of the commies." Let me assure you that casting a vote isn't part of the plan. There's too much at stake to leave things in the hands of a bunch of @ssholes in Washington.
P.S. -- My state doesn't even have a Senate election this year, and my House district doesn't have a close race. So everything I'm posting here is pretty much academic.
Yeah heard it-- wabc on the net. I like Kudlow but he's a bit on the rino side for me.Forbes is probably sad because he can't get the potus nod,he's hardly the charismatic figure we need to head up the country.Still he's a brilliant guy. And ..more important were he the nominee I would support him all the way.
You obviously don't get it.
If we have the rinos in control of the GOP whose fault is it?
From my perspective I see myself as part of the problem since I didn't do enough to get rid of these a-holls. What are you doing to get rid of them? What's your plan?
I do like Cruz and Lee.
The reality is if cloture votes on liberal bills were included,
folks like McCain, Gramisty etc would have a 50% rating or lower.
” 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.”
For way too many years this argument has been nothing but PUPE B.S.
The most current example of a Republican RINO president selecting a LEFT wing Supreme Court justice
Mr. Roberts - Its a TAX - Who needs a constitution when I am making the rules (Uncle Joe Stalin)
There is no power in the senate really, its been shifted to the executive.
The argument being made is not: “elect Republicans and we’ll get conservative legislation passed!”
It is: “Elect Republicans so we can made Obama look bad when he vetoes all this great stuff we send him!”
And from what I’ve seen of the GOP media wing, Obama will STILL make the GOP look to be at fault when he vetoes everything. The GOP are totally feckless at public relations
Missing the real point - the Left will invariably rally round whoever they have on the ticket. We eschew the big picture due to our own interests/beliefs and will refuse to attend the rally even if it means another term for Obama - and likely a first term for Hillary.
Derek Hunter should ponder the meaning of that old Americanism:
“I ain’t got a dog in that fight.”
Derek Hunter doesn’t just drink the Rove Kool-Aid, he bathes in it.
The establishment called us racist. They enlisted Democrats to defeat us in Mississippi. They are hoisted on their own petard.
They don’t want my vote, so if they want the Senate they can damn well win it themselves.
I have only one “pet issue”: opposing Obama and Reid. When Republicans run candidates who will do that, they can earn my vote. When they run McConnell and Cochran, they can forget it.
POst me again when you have a plan to get rid of the RINOS. Any plan, some sort of plan rather than endless friggin’ crybaby complaints. If you cant take the heat you know what to do...big crybaby....
Well put, and completely correct.
When the GOP comes to see Democrats as the enemy rather than putting all its resources into a scorched earth policy trying to destroy conservatives, I will modify my attitude.
“All I know is things are MUCH WORSE now than they were in 2012........it WOULD have been better if Romney had won. Flame away purists”
You are just such a hater. Everyone LOVES Barack
You might want to look up the definition of “ad hominem”.
You also might want to consider that allowing the GOPe to fail in the general election *is* a plan, albeit one you clearly disagree with.
Finally, you might want to consider that I have not advocated for or against the withholding of votes. I have merely pointed out where your arguments veer into bullying and nonsense.
Why don’t Republicans say what they stand for ? It seems to me that their total program is - we are not Barack Obama, but we will continue to support or even enhance his policies ! Talk about eliminating three letter agencies, do away with the minimum wage, the military is to be used to win battles - to Hell with collateral damage, etc.
Brilliant post had to be repeated.
And how will those battles be won via a “Power sharing agreement” Trent Lott style. You don’t think if McConnell has a 51-49 majority he isn’t going to reach across the aisle and bend over backwards to be “fair”.John McCain will push for “immigration reform” and his buddy Lindsey Graham will say “it’s time for the bigots to shut up! “Don’t forget Obama Care is now “settled law” and by working with the democrats can we “get things done in Washington.”
We have gone the “we need to bide our time and trust the leadership’s secret plan to advance conservatism” route time after time and where are we at? Here’s their plan, we let upstart hicks like Regan and Gingrich hijack the party from sensible Bob Michael and his friends and we’re never going to allow that to happen again! We will get the conservative vote regardless but we’re not going to let “those people” any where near the levers of power!
If the RINOs win in November, America is finished as we know it and that is no exaggeration
It doesn't matter which party wins if there aren't constitutional conservative guiding principles. The RINOs should at the very least throw us a bone. How about Cochran dropping out SOON and McDaniel be the nominee, with vigorous RNC support lauding conservative issues? How about defunding something we hate? How about being on our side about stopping the invasion of the US and demanding EVerify for jobs? The RINOs have done NOTHING to make us think we'd be anything but marginalized if they get a majority.
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