A Positive perspective on the 2018 midterm election

American Thinker ^ | 11/07/2018 | By Tiberiu Dianu

[SeekAndFind]

The liberals and mainstream media wanted everybody to believe that in 2018 there would be a Democratic tsunami wave. There wasn’t.

In the 1994 midterm elections Democratic president Bill Clinton lost 54 House seats, 8 Senate seats and 10 governorships. That was a tsunami.

In the 2010 midterm elections Democratic president Barack Obama lost 63 House seats, 6 Senate seats and 29 governorships. That was an even bigger tsunami.

In the 2018 midterm elections Republican President Donald Trump lost a just over a couple dozen House seats (confirming the historical precedents), expanded robustly his Senate seats, while the number of governorships remains split. More importantly, the president won governorship races in swing states Florida and Ohio, which will be extremely beneficial for his reelection in 2020.

So, no tsunami in 2018. Rather than a blue wave, this was a “green wave.” The Democrats pumped-in extraordinary amounts of money to little or no avail. In Texas and Georgia, for instance, their contenders for Senate and governorship lost.

Sure, the liberals and their media will keep on bragging until 2020 about their House small-margin takeover. But what will this, in fact, mean?

Despite the president’s temporary defeat in the House, there is a silver lining here, too. The House Republicans were never loyal 100 percent to the president anyhow. Many of them were RINOs, Never-Trumpers and moderates, not on the same page with the president’s policies anyway. Most of them decided not to run again for the 2018 midterm elections, starting with the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.

[SeekAndFind]

Does this prove loyalty to the President? I don’t think so. They chose to abandon the president and abdicate from their responsibility to sustain a solid reformation of the American society. They were used to promising their voters for years that they would get things done. And when President Trump actually got things done, they started to hate him for that. Many of their seats were won by Democrats, who managed to get a small majority in the House.

The good news is that the rest of the Republicans, most of them elected on November 6, are now more loyal to the president and he can rely on them. No more Paul Ryans, no more Bob Corkers, no more Jeff Flakes.

There is other good news (which I predict will happen). After the post-election euphoria, the House Democrats will discover that they are not so united anymore after they get the power in the lower chamber. How the newly elected Democratic former military members will get along with their wacko socialist colleagues? It will be fascinating to see.

[Psalm 73]

"No more Paul Ryans, no more Bob Corkers, no more Jeff Flakes."

Oh, thank you! I needed that.

[dfwgator]

I think the McCain-loving Republicans decided to vote for the Rats out of spite.

They are about to find out the Democratic Party doesn’t want them, and they’ll come crawling back.

[fortheDeclaration]

Despite losing the House, there is a lot to be happy about the way the election went. Neither side got everything they wanted, but we got the most important, the Senate and key Governorships.

[dfwgator]

Now Trump has only one enemy instead of two. Ryan is gone.

[gspurlock]

Good points. The swamp is draining itself. It will be easier to replace junior Democrats than Rinos with staunch conservatives in 2020. But we need to start identifying them now and develop name recognition for them.

[itsahoot]

Despite losing the House, there is a lot to be happy about the way the election went. Neither side got everything they wanted, but we got the most important, the Senate and key Governorships.

There is nothing good to be said about the people of America committing suicide by socialism.

Madness.

[DaxtonBrown]

“No more Paul Ryans, no more Bob Corkers, no more Jeff Flakes.”

[Oh, thank you! I needed that. ]

And no more John McCain (RIP)