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?
The specter of Hairy Reid and the Dems holding the Senate is too horrifying to face - even without my nose.
Worth repeating:
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.
The GOPe’s are bankrupt of ideas, a message, a vision.
Only democrats bad, Harry Reid evil.
And that will not be enough.
Its the only reasonable course of action.Next time we obviously have to nationalize many more primary races than we did this time.
And don’t forget many members of the GOPe abandoned Goldwater in 1964,
Wow, The Republicans make me feel like an abused wife. They call me names and cheat on me behind my back and then promise they’ll do better the next time?
I’ve been hearing this for years. I’m done.
The American people haven’t experienced enough pain yet. They’ve become accustomed to mediocrity. When the D & R after a name no longer represents a difference in policies, there is nothing a voting block can change.
What ticks me off is they know they might lose without us and yet they are unwilling to concede any of their power to accommodate.
They acknowledge that we are not supporting them. They know we are principled people and actually believe in something. They realize they may not win without us yet they are unwilling to change their ideals and we are the bad guys?
Doing something over and over and expecting a different result is insanity. I’m not participating.
BS. I voted against my RINO US senator, he used the same tactics on Conservative TN State Rep Joe Carr as cochran used on McDaniel’s. Cross over dem votes to win.
DIRTY POLITICS from a man who votes 62% dem and is breaking his oath to the US Constitution daily and his oath of 2 terms and OUT. TN lamar alexander. corker is the next RINO in 2016 that needs ousting.
We have 4 State Constitutional Amendments on our ballot. And you don’t have to vote for the RINO governor to vote on the amendments. YES on 1, 3, 4 NO on 2 unless you love paying more taxes. I plan on only voting for the State Constitutional Amendments. To H with the RINOS on the ballot.
And, it is about what got us these monsters to begin with Mr. Hunter. Big government republicans. Me too, me too, me too.
You are absolutely correct. Here is my Excel version of the Heritage rankings. The most conservative Democrat is, amazingly, Harry Reid at 11%.
Like it or not, we do not have a Senate with very many Senators in the mold of Mike Lee and Ted Cruz. But that is no reason to vote Harry Reid back in as Senate Majority Leader. How foolish that would be.
We'll eventually prevail. The key factor is how long Americans are willing to endure pure misery before seeing things our way.
You aren't "done" you never started. It's as much your fault as mine or any of the rest of us that the rinos scored as big as they did during the primaries. Time we all take personal responsibility for losing and stop expecting the driveby media to get fair and balanced or the GOPe to all of a sudden grow a conscience or become conservative. There is no Easter bunny. If we want stuff done we have to do it ourselves and stop depending on some mysterious "they" to get the job done.
"They" don't exist.
This is what happened in 12. Too many wanh-wanh cry babies stayed home and re-elected 0bama.
That is happens when the GOPe’s rain and dumps on their base.
Just because you like being rained on and dumped on,
does not mean the rest of do.
“There you go again.”
Sirius Lee, seems we have the same problem. Instead of being called a hobbit we are called Neanderthals in TN.
I can’t be racist, I have 3 bi-racial great grands.
What I have is an issue with is RINOS as they are no different than libtard demoRATS.
Get over yourself mr writer and learn the TRUTH for once.
We want GOD, COUNTRY, FLAG, 2nd Amendment and the rest of the US Constitution enforced. Our borders sealed. Our Troops to flatten our enemies, not doing meals on wheels. Carpet bomb those poppy fields. Scorch earth policy on them and their manufacturing of weapons plants.
RINOS turned their backs on us, betrayed us, SO GO TO H with out my vote.
I wouldn’t worry about it too much.
Psycho skank Hillary needs a republican controlled House and Senate for her 2016 campaign.
She’s going to get her supporters to vote for the repub then after they get elected her supporters will make the claim of vote fraud and the repubs stole the election.
She’s also going to use repubs own words against them after the repubs win.
Following the 2006 when the dems won election everything started going in the tank.
Repubs have been saying for the past 8 years everything tanked after the dems took control.
Right now everything is planned out to go to hell in a hand basket right after the election so it can be blamed on the republican win.
Not only the economy but Hillary’s banking on the repubs voting to send ground forces into Iraq so she can make the claim the repubs got us into another war in Iraq.
Apparently you forget about that money missing from Hillary’s State Department.
She can do a lot of damage to the economy with that much money especially if someone like Soros has control of it and you don’t care if you loose it.
A Senate sans Harry Reid leading it.
That alone should be incentive enough.
A number of the GOP candidates aren't conservative enough for my liking either but any repub is better than a dim.
Sitting out an election ,esp. one as important as this one because the repub isn't conservative enough is a disservice to the Country IMO.
As close as the Country is to having a majority dependent society this my be our last chance .
Interesting chart. By my cipherin’, the very “worst” ‘Pub rates twice as good as the very “best” ‘Rat. That pretty well tells the story.
Agreed!!! We should hit the rinos with everything we have in the primaries...we are having an affect on the party...we are dragging it to the right. Main objective still remains defeating the democrats!!
This is what happened in 12. Too many wanh-wanh cry babies stayed home and re-elected 0bama
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