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?
What about MS?
Well, if you are not voting, who do you think is contributing to the democRATS odds of retaining control of the Senate? Duh!
You have two choices in most elections. Vote or don’t vote. If you do vote, you usually have two choices as well. Republicans or democRATS. If you don’t vote, you’ve, by default, given your vote to the democRATS.
Not a strategy for taking back the Senate. Just like too many Republicans sat out the 2012 election, and instead if the imperfect Romney, we got the extremely imperfect Obama. Great strategy.
Grow up and get a clue. Sucking your thumb and pouting because you can’t get your way, is not a strategy to win anything.
Republicans would much rather lose than see Conservatives win elections. They are loyal to the Democrat Party, not to the country, not to the people.
Well said. Whoever thinks the GOP is DIFFERENT from the democrat party..
IS NOT PAYING ATTENTION!!
What would Reagan do?
Reagan was personally assaulted and defeated by the establishment Republicans.
Reagan did not whine or cry or lament the party like these little babies.
Instead, Reagan doubled his efforts and took control of the party, won the White House and assumed control over a very liberal Republican Senate.
Reagan dealt with a very liberal Democrat House.
But Reagan did not whine or cry like Obama or so many here who blame the GOP for primary losses.
These people need to grow a spine!
Thank you
Not only that Derek has got transference, projection, and victimization down to a tee.
It's their problem they created, don't shift it to us. They stabbed us in the back how many times? How many times are the Tea Party / Constitutional Conservatives going to continue with this battered syndrome. Stop telling me you those are vegetarian meatballs ( your candidates ) those are horse-hockey pucks, my eyes aren't that bad...
Lots of cry babies here.
I guess some here have not figured out how candidates are elected!
From my perspective it all happens during the primaries. If we as conservatives don't get rid of the Cochran's and McConnell's and the rest during the primaries we are the ones who screwed up. We didn't work hard enough or do what it takes to get rid of these bastards. That's the time to moan and groan and do everything we can to get rid of these rinos.
NOT FRIGGN NOW! TAKE SOME PERSONAL REPSONSIBLIITY WHEN "WE" DON'T GET THE JOB DONE.
After the primaries its too dammmmm late to keep complaining. We failed!!! Get over your losses and vote whomever we can to keep the dam commies out of office!! That's not really rocket science. Its called taking personal responsibility!!Try it!
Do you recall how ObamaCare got to the floor for a vote, in the Senate?
Have you asked yourself why the GOPe has refused to defund any part of ObamaCare?
Excellent point, which many in here don’t seem to get
The election is not about Karl “friggin” Rove. We all hate his sorry ass! It’s about keeping as many commies out of office as we can! Try and learn what is at at stake.
The default is actually accepting whoever the winner is, and that isn't always the DEM candidate.
It's up to the candidate to win a majority of votes cast. Blaming the voter is a cop out.
The arguments used by this hunter fool are getting tiresome. I only vote for, give money to, spend effort towards electing Conservatives. His ridiculous argument and the “get over it” BS relates more so to the RINOs and GOPe who can’t “get over” that they are DIM-lite and are co-conspirators along with the DIMs in ruining this Country. Get over it RINOs and GOPe. If you don’t...you lose. You are doomed to becoming the current day Whigs. I really don’t care what that implies.
Most conservatives (Hannity, all of us, etc.) know that to beat the rats and dump Reid, devise a N-point plan that most sides of the GOP believe in, nationalize the election, like Contract with America, defend the onslaught of media detractors. Your base voters would come out in droves.
But committing to a major issues agenda would cause media to focus on it - which the GOP fears; they are incapable of standing up to that. More important, it would shut out donors hoping to cash in on the opposite $ide of that agenda. So losing is ok to the GOP.
Tell that to Joe Miller.
A President has a right to his nominees.
Orin Hatch
who is funding obamacare ?
BTTT
Exactly. The GOPe’s got the candidates they wanted by hook or crook.
Let them deal the coming diaster.
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