Posted on 10/21/2018 5:56:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
In barely 15 days the most important midterm election of our lifetime will be underway.
It's bearing a remarkable similarity to the 2016 presidential election, only we know the president’s not on the ballot.
Right?
Don’t tell him! He’s working every bit as hard in 2018 for a bunch of incumbents, some of whom were ungrateful jackweeds toward him just two years ago.
Yet there he is going to state after state—drawing the biggest crowds imaginable—all for the good of others.
It’d be one thing if he had nothing else to do. But this guy has everyone from North Korea to Russia believing we are ready to bust up every nuke treaty necessary to get America back on an even footing. He’s got trade imbalances coming back into our favor. He’s got an economy that may exceed a 5% GDP this year (which his predecessor proudly stated once, “something that will never happen again.”) Don’t even start with how low the unemployment numbers are, or how much wages have grown.
Reports from those closest to him indicate that he is as calm and nonplussed by all the pressure of the office as someone on vacation.
Terrorists are on the run, ISIS is destroyed, Iran is on notice, and even the Saudis are now having to do deep soul searching to stay in his good grace.
Stacking the courts with 84 District, Circuit, and Supreme Court picks has redirected the entire future of Constitutional jurisprudence.
Oh yeah don’t forget about the opioid issue, or prison reform.
At this stage of the game his predecessor had accomplished but one thing. Obamacare. Which Trump has also dismantled.
Want to play a fun game in a blue state this week? Ask someone what the No. 1 issue for Democrats is. What’s one policy message that they’ve gotten together, put the research in, and come out with a coherent proposal for.
I do it with callers to my show as well as people on the street. It’s hilarious, they are so focused on hating the president that most of them don’t even realize that the Democrats are actually offering zero by way of policy proposals.
They are so heavily banking on the “Trump is Evil” meme it’s like they didn’t even bother preparing for this election cycle.
Some of them will stupidly utter, “To undo everything Trump has done.”
Oh that should work well. Take jobs away? Increase regulation? Raise taxes? Weaken our resolve, our borders, and our national security?
But seriously—think on it for yourself—have you seen or heard one plausible idea in terms of policy that Democrats have articulated?
The closest I’ve seen is in the Senate races in New York and New Jersey where candidates have specifically mentioned getting the SALT exemptions for federal taxes expanded.
But alas—it has been the Republican candidates saying it—not the Dems.
The president isn’t on the ballot, but he’s literally saturated through every layer of this election.
And back to the comparison of 2016, for the previous year poll after poll had predicted that Hillary would soundly defeat the upstart challenger in Trump.
Then he went to work rallying voters and talked about jobs to rust belt workers who candidly had been told by the previous president that their jobs would never be returning.
This year, starting in January, the polls showed that he was going to lose a crushing defeat in the House and the Senate was on the verge of collapse.
But now he’s going work, rallying the voters and reminding them of what’s at stake. And he's doing so against the headwinds. Doing so in this cycle entirely on behalf of House and Senate candidates who need his help far more than anything they could ever repay.
And it looks like it’s working.
The only poll that matters is the one on November 6.
The networks are planning coverage to rival that of a presidential year—as they should.
For like 2016, network anchors most likely will be sitting stone faced in utter disbelief that he did it again.
For while the Democratic Party and the nation’s news media still haven’t figured out the American voter and what they face, Trump has, and what you’re seeing is historic in accomplishment and scope.
America likes it.
And she will say so in 15 days.
Vote like it is 2016!
Only if every damn last one of us goes out to vote! defeat the MOB!
For reasons I cannot begin to understand, many want an encore of the time of the wun.
Trump should have more terms than old FDR, just to make it even.
He is the greatest Show on Earth!
yes! I second that.
No, the 2016 election was the most important election of the 21st Century.
The election will reveal if the media continues to slip slide away with influence.
And before practically every episode of his show he says something to the effect of "THIS show may very well turn out to be the most important you'll watch all year."
As I had a class at 8:30 the next morning, I was fully expecting to be the only one bleary-eyed. Turns out, EVERYBODY ELSE was bleary-eyed...and ecstatic (even the teacher!). I had assumed that, since we were in Austin, and it was a meeting of government workers, everyone would be crying and upset. Turns out THEY were as surprised and happy as I was!
I've NEVER had so much fun on an election night (the Reagan wins were anticlimactic and over by 9 PM).
God forbid the Commies win the House we have Trump as the veto power to squash their leftist intentions. So Nov 8, 2016 was epic.
Remember the broken glass that was strewn in the wake of the ‘Kristallnacht” at the closing of the vetting of Brett Kavanaugh, in his bid for appointment to the Supreme Court.
Successful, but - Only. Just. Barely.
Nobody should ever go through what was heaped upon Justice Kavanaugh at the last minute.
The next Supreme Court nomination by Trump will make this last episode look like a rainy Sunday in the park. Unpleasant, sure, but not a free-fire war zone, which if the Democrats are in a position to do so, they will unleash without a qualm.
It might be like 2002 when George W. Bush gained seats in the house and senate. I’ll never forget Carville on TV with a wastebasket over his head... Other than Obama’s 2008 and 2012 election, the Democrats have been on a losing streak at the national, state, and local level. They are hoping there is another Obama in their ranks but it does not look like it. They love identity politics as they lose on the issues. Nominating another black man or white woman won’t do it for them. Maybe a black woman or a hispanic.
El Trumpo!!
America will stay the course.
And as the days tick down, Trump is becoming more popular - not less - and his crowds are growing.
According to the Democrats and fake news media, Trump will be headed, due to his alleged enormous unpopularity, to the mother of all political repudiations.
Looks again like they’ve underestimated Trump like they did back in 2016. Oh and there’s old adage that you can’t beat something with nothing.
Yep - in the process of moving but won’t change the address until after election day so my name show up on the rolls where I have voted for past 26 years....staying in same county but not sure where my new voting place will be yet.
I cheer for President Trump and for America every time the best president in 30 years gives another giant campaign rally for the team he has to carry. America is the last, best hope for freedom on earth, and President Trump is the last, best hope for America. We have some great incumbents defending their seats, along with some slugs who are barely worth keeping, but the alternative is pure evil. I'll take the slugs who survived the primaries over the alternative.
If Trump can carry us over the finish line with a gain in the US Senate and a viable majority in the House (dare I dream of gains there too, even hidden ones that the polling has not alerted us to?), perhaps even the RINO wing will pretend to grow a spine.
Democrats arrive at a rally.
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