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?
Shame on you
This is Karl Rove’s dream election. He should be running away with it.
Keep in mind this is the same guy who barely beat John Kerry in 2004 and who led the GOP to a historic wipeout in 2006.
Unless the judges get it right or Cochran bows out, the RINO backstabbers crossed a bridge too far. If McDaniel doesn’t have that nomination, and soon, I don’t even want the traitorous RINO backstabbers to control the US Senate!
Not a dime more for the GOP from me. I only donate to known Conservatives.
After Declaring War on Tea Party, Karl Rove Frets GOP Estab Candidates Not Getting Enough Donations
by Tony Lee 19 Sep 2014 1405 post a comment
After declaring war on the Tea Party and often showing nothing but contempt for grassroots conservatives that powered Republicans to record gains in the 2010 midterm elections, Karl Rove whined that the GOP may not take back the Senate this year because of the lack of enthusiasm for his establishment-approved candidates.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Rove notes that even though Obama’s “job approval numbers are lousy, no Democrat in a competitive Senate race polls regularly above 50%, GOP enthusiasm is high, and independents are trending Republican... each passing day provides evidence as to why a GOP Senate majority is still in doubt.”
After declaring war on conservatives and the Tea Party last year, Rove now realizes that the very voters the establishment trashed are not donating to more moderate and establishment Senate candidates in states like North Carolina and Colorado. Rove says that “Republican candidates and groups must step up” to reduce the fundraising gap with Democrats. He said “Republicans must reach a certain sufficiency of advertising in the next six weeks” to “tip the needle in the GOP’s direction.”
The RINOs can get over themselves. The establishment needs to nominate candidates that can appeal to the party’s base as well as attract centrists. We mock blacks for consistently voting for candidates that don’t concern themselves with the blacks needs so why should conservatives act the same way. It is only by making the GOP earn conservative votes that the GOP will give them respect.
I want the Democrats to lose.
More than that I want the GOP to be a principled opposition. Which it isn’t.
The old saying comes to mind here, you can’t beat something with nothing. What is the party offering for the next two years?
I’m hard pressed to find it.
I have said al along that they would.
The incorrectly used apostrophe in the headline is indeed in the original. Another bit of proof that the GOP-E has no standards.
The GOP WILL WIN THE SENATE! Take that to the bank.
Yeah it’s all our fault because we wont vote for socialist R.
Then make sure they lose. Sitting at home or voting third party guarantees votes for them
Good article and totally accurate. We hate RINOs, but we must hate Dems more.
But wait, Karl Rove and Haley Harbour will certainly win with all the Independents they are attracting, right? They don’t want us bumpkin. They want Chis Christie, Jeb, Romney, and McCain.
Sarah Palin is toxic and is embarrassing and needs to be crushed.
Today Akin needs to be thrown under the bus for good.
The Mississippi rubes just don’t know what’s good for them and we agree with the Left that they are racists.
Gee, what could go wrong?
“Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke swiped significant sections of her jobs plan from earlier proposals published by three Democratic candidates who ran for governor elsewhere.”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/wisconsin-democratic-gubernatorial-candidate-plagiarized-lar#1dmeajf
This piece is from another publication in Wisconsin by Daniel Bice—rather well written and mostly free of bias.
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/275701181.html
Here is a clip from Bice’s piece:
“Just hours after controversy erupted, Burke told No Quarter on Friday that she would not apologize for borrowing portions of her plan from other Democrats. She said she stood behind the ideas outlined in her plan.
“This is my plan on how to drive Wisconsin's economy forward,” Burke said.
BuzzFeed reported late Thursday that Burke's plan, called “Invest for Success,” includes nearly verbatim passages from the economic development plans put forward by Delaware Gov. Jack Markell in 2008, Ward Cammack of Tennessee in 2009 and John Gregg of Indiana in 2012. Cammack withdrew from his race, and Gregg was defeated.
An aide to Gov. Scott Walker, Burke's opponent, identified a separate section that were lifted from a White House press release in February, just weeks before Burke released her plan.”
Hopefully, this will see Scott Walker pull away from the wannabe Burke in the the “currently” close race.
Once again, the GOPe and their stooges are trying to scare us into voting for their candidate(s). Sh!t on us for 23 months, then a month before the elections, we hear, “It is bigger than you and your petty Tea Party. The Republic is at risk”.
At this stage, I see no difference between the Republican candidate and the Democrat incumbent in my district.
The Supreme Court nominees are in play?
You mean more liberal activist judges could be nominated and approved if the Repubs don’t control the Senate? Liberal activist judges like the ones Obama already appointed and REPUBLICANS voted for in the past?!?!?!
I guess Mitch McConnell is getting scared he is not going to be the Senate leader. Time to scare the conservatives and blame them if he doesn’t win.
Another “just do as your told” story.
You are lying. Obamacare is Democratcare. It was passed by Democrats alone.
By any scale the worst GOP RINO is better than the most conservative DEM. See all the ratings by Heritage, ACU, etc.
A Republican-controlled Senate is no guarantee that Obama’s judicial picks won’t get through. There’s a GOP contingent that will vote for them.
So be it. And in power the Democrats will remain. Given a choice between a Democrat Lite[ Elite Republican] and real Democrat, the voters choose the real Democrat. Given the choice between a Conservative Republican and a Democrat, the voters choose the Conservative. In response to your comment, so does the Republican Party.
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