[[YES!! the gimmedats don’t just live in the hood anymore.]]
That is exactly why republicans lost the house- too many ‘gimmedats’ have crept into the republican party!
There are 4 reasons republicans lost-
1: Republicans are freakin allergic to success- We ALWAYS rest on our laurels when we win, and the next election sees us not getting out enough voters to defeat the enemy
2: Republicans had 2 years to prepare for these crucial midterms- and they had NOT gotten the message out enough (Beyond Trump’s rallies I’m talking- republicans were NOT hammering home the message about how well the economy was doing, and how terrible voting for democrats would be for the great progress we had been making- Independents who get most of their news from msm could only see how ‘divisive’ Trump was (in the terms of CNN and msm), and they did not get the message about how well we were actually doing
3: Freakin never trumpers in the republican party hurt our party by driving independents away. Instead of republicans WORKING TOGETHER to make America Great again, never trumpers destroyed the party’s chances of maintaining control by their incessant infighting- Independents took notice- and left- We NEEDED their votes- and never trumpers drove them away!
4: Gimmedats in the party ignorantly believed the socialist democrats, and think they will be ‘getting free stuff’ from democrats
Democrats won in solidly red states all across the country where they had no business winning- The country is doing great now, and voters SHOULD HAVE recognized this and wanted more of the same- instead they inexplicably said ‘ya know, the country is doing great- but I think it’s time for a change’... Unreal!
The purpose of this election was to purge the GOP of the deadwood.
Now that it’s done they need to start getting ready for 2020.
But maybe this was needed to ‘cleanse’ the republican party of all those never trumpers. Trump can focus on the judges for a permanent (my lifetime) change to the commonsense conservative principles. The dems will now have to work with the President if they want to show their constituency that they can actually govern. or they will show just how really stupid they are. Both work for the republicans.
I have said this often here in freeper land that the republicans need to get off their collective assess and start meaningful outreach to women, minorities, and young adult. Teach them about capitalism and why it works and why socialism doesn’t Put together educational programs that can be seen on the internet. Become aggressive in getting our message out as the dems have been doing for the past 60 + years. and do it at the local level, school districts, town hall, etc.
We are beginning to see the failures of the democrats message and it will now be on full display. We need to be ready to step in with meaningful explanations of why socialism is always a failure. We are also beginning to see a wake up of blacks and hispanics.
The Republicans also didn’t effectively address the pre-existing condition issue.
There should have been a lot more emphasis in noting Obamacare is what destroyed all of the previous state programs covering pre-existing conditions.