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Be Careful What You Leave Democrats Alone to Vote For
American Thinker ^ | 10/08/2014 | Gene Schwimmer

Posted on 10/08/2014 11:42:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Will conservatives lose three elections in a row – three chances to win the Senate, three chances to stop Obama and the Democrats’ agenda, three chances to put Democratic senators up in 2016 on the hot seat by forcing them to vote on popular legislation that liberals oppose – because a cohort of die-hard conservative purists cannot bring themselves to choose between the lesser of two evils?

For conservatives, the stakes in this election could hardly be higher.  The course could not be more clear.

Republicans must keep the House and win the Senate.  Nothing else matters.

If...

...should have taught conservatives anything, it's that there are worse dangers to life, liberty, and property than returning Thad Cochran and Pat Roberts to the Senate.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014; conservatives; democrats; elections
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To: SeekAndFind

Ok Mr. Schwimmer, please explain exactly HOW having a GOP Senate would have stopped anything on your ridiculous list.

Sec of State Kerry? How many GOP votes did he get to be confirmed? The vote was 94-3 you moron Gene. The 3 no votes were Ted Cruz, John Cornyn and Jim Inhofe; you know - those “purist” conservatives.

How would a GOP Senate have stopped Benghazi?

This guy’s article should be in the American Stinker.


41 posted on 10/08/2014 1:11:46 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

BTTT!


42 posted on 10/08/2014 1:14:43 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Fledermaus

As to Sonia Sotomayer, she got in 68-31 with 6 GOP Senators (including mine - that useless Lamar) voting AYE.

Most of those 6 also (five total) voted for Elena Kagan: Graham, Gregg, Snowe, Collings, Lugar. Lamar! this time voted NO. It was still 63-37.


43 posted on 10/08/2014 1:20:30 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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To: SeekAndFind
From the article

...............Republicans must keep the House and win the Senate. Nothing else matters.

Wow, those are fighting words around here these days.

44 posted on 10/08/2014 1:26:31 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: SeekAndFind
One of the better comments from discourse below the article:

The RNC/GOP can't keep serving crap sandwiches and then try and guilt the customers for not supporting the restaurant. This election the Ruling Class has gotten almost every one of their candidates and the voters are not interested in voting for them. That's not the fault of the voters but of the drunks in charge of the RNC and the cowards in the Party that would not fight even if EVERYTHING was to their advantage.

45 posted on 10/08/2014 1:28:17 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: SeekAndFind

All of those horrible things happened because the Republican Party, in its infinite wisdom, ran the feckless moron McCain and the socialist jackass Romney for President.

That is all.


46 posted on 10/08/2014 1:31:31 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: duffee
"If Republicans don’t take the Senate it’s the fault of the GOPE."

No, no no. The NRSC, NR, WSJ, GOPe, MSM, etc. have all decided that if the Republicans fail to take the Senate with their anointed candidates it is the Tea Party's fault for sitting out.

So, if the GOPe wins, it's because of their superior intellect and politics.

But if the GOPe loses, it's your fault.

47 posted on 10/08/2014 1:38:30 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Proud to be Attacked by the GOPe daily!)
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To: sickoflibs; Impy; NFHale; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; KC_Lion

The SCOTUS is the focus; if Obola replaces one of the “less horrific” guys, it really is game over.

Same thing goes for 2016 - the RATS cannot win.


48 posted on 10/08/2014 1:46:16 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Vendome

You don’t remember, I guess, that Jim Robinson also urged folks to vote for Romney once he won the primary.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2951524/posts

The trouble with the all-or-none approach is that there is a chance we get the none. Some people gotta wake the hell up.


49 posted on 10/08/2014 1:51:01 PM PDT by jstaff
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To: jstaff

Uhmmmm, you don’t remember that JR came to his position very late and was, if I recall, not interested in Romney.

If JR and another friend hadn’t come to the same conclusion, for the same exact reasons, I would not have sent him money.

I want my $25 bucks back!

I live in California and while I voted it was never going to matter...


50 posted on 10/08/2014 1:55:07 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: jstaff

BTW, that was your response to my post?

You are way better than non-sequitors...

Gots to run to the bank...

be back later....


51 posted on 10/08/2014 1:56:47 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: SeekAndFind

Earn my vote. If you can.


52 posted on 10/08/2014 1:57:42 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: Alberta's Child

“I’m trying to figure out what exactly is going to change in the next two years if the GOP wins control of the Senate, and I’m drawing a huge blank on this one. “


Sadly, the same here. Mainly because conservatives tend to be straight shooters (in both senses of the word!). Sure - we don’t all get along all the time, or march in lock step. But we also are perfectly fine with leaving each other alone in most cases. I say most, because there are humdingers of fights when someone gets flicked on the raw, but most of the time it’s at the very least “listen to each other.” May not agree - but listening and thinking about what the others say seems to be reasonably well ingrained. It’s manners, if nothing else.

The Left don’t do that. Have you EVER managed to have a decent conversation about politics with a Leftist? I’m not talking about the old school Liberals here - we tend to have a fair amount of overlap between us. Unfortunately, they are hated by the Left even more than the Tea Party is!

The Leftists have been setting this up for several generations now. About the only way I can see to make any change at all is to tolerate the less squishy RINOs and take a leaf from the Left’s playbook - start local. Take the school boards. The town councils. The state legislatures. The legal and judicial systems.

It took at minimum 130 years to get to this state. Slowly and imperceptibly. Can’t be fixed by a single election, and you are correct that a GOP controlled Senate will show all the spine of a jellyfish next year.

It’s going to get a lot worse, before it gets better. No one is going to swoop in like Superman and save the country in a single bound. With maybe 3 exceptions (Cruz, Palin and (possibly) Walker) I can’t think of a single potential candidate for ‘16 that has the clear sight, guts and stubbornness to put the entire country before their pet projects. Even those three can’t do it alone - not until the culture itself changes.

Figure that’s our job. Change the culture. One mind at a time. One town at a time. One organization at a time.


53 posted on 10/08/2014 1:59:40 PM PDT by EC1
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To: Vendome

Well, you did mention “shilling for Romney” so I just wondered if you considered JR a Romney shill also. So I guess we could just say that this was a “sequitor”, no?


54 posted on 10/08/2014 2:18:58 PM PDT by jstaff
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To: jstaff

That wuz petty of me.

sorry


55 posted on 10/08/2014 2:26:15 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: NorthMountain

McConnell - “”I think we are going to crush them everywhere,” McConnell told the New York Times in an interview. “I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country.””


56 posted on 10/08/2014 2:35:07 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

But I get berated for suggesting that the Republican Party is losing because it doesn’t distinguish itself from the demonicrat party.


57 posted on 10/08/2014 2:46:50 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: SeekAndFind
If all the losses to Democrats are the fault of conservatives, why do conservatives have to be the ones to bend? Why doesn't the GOP recognize conservatives have great enough numbers in certain areas and respect their choices in candidates?
58 posted on 10/08/2014 2:52:49 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Your right of course, I was just stating the opinion of me a Conservative, the only opinion which will matter are of those you mentioned.


59 posted on 10/08/2014 3:49:51 PM PDT by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: Vendome





60 posted on 10/08/2014 5:59:51 PM PDT by Patton@Bastogne (.)
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