Interesting.
Total bs by el gordo de oxycontino. It was enough of a wave to give the house to the rats and narrow the chances of America’s survival to nil. The house repukis retired en mass to achieve that result. They weren’t looking at polls.
These were the GOP fossils who had nothing to contribute to President Trump’s success anyway. But having to fill the 42 open seats left by these cowards was an impossible task, and it’s a blessing that the good candidates who volunteered for the fight and the tenacity of our amazing President came through far better than expected.
Classic “self-fulfilling prophecy.”
As I recall Rush pooh poohed the importance of the retiring Republicans when it was brought up. Now he says it was a critical factor in their loss. Where was this concern six month ago, four months ago?
I say Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish, we’re better off without them.
Sucks in the short-run, but we’ll be better in 2020 for it.
It’s called “Blowing up the team”
One thing to be concerned about, while total house sets lost was lower under Trump than Obama in 2018, the congressional democratic vote count vs republican vote count was higher in 2018 vs the tea party outpouring in 2010.
But I don’t think that was solely it. I think that the Republican Party in the House of Representatives had a whole bunch of people in there that didn’t like Trump. And I think they had a whole lot of people who thought that Trump was gonna bring massive landslide defeat to the party and they wanted to get out before it happened. They didn’t want to be a part of it; so they announced their resignations.
My opinion is they all had dirt on them - recent, current, way back in their past, whatever - and they were told that the guns are out to nuke Trump, and if they didn't go along they'd be outed.
Who gives up a workless job like a congress member - all those benefits, retirement, cachet, etc.? Who voluntarily leaves that?
They were told to step down and like good little toadies they did.
If they had half a brain, they wouldn’t be RINOs
Wow, I missed a lot of this today... I was watching President Trump’s amazing 90 minute presser. Thank you for posting this, Kaslin!
The news is not all bad. Ryan, McCain, Corker and Flake are history. And with regards to the House, as Rush said somewhere in his program, the new kids such as Occasional Cortex will be challenging the old guard, whether it be R or D. Pelosi may be out the door if such little darling community organizers have their way.
I’d like to agree with Rush, but I can’t.The point he’s glossing over is that the people who retired didn’t think that they could run as a Trump Republican in their own specific districts.
True that Trump got 9 out of the 11 senate candidates he campaigned for past the finish line. But he only campaigned in red states. The non-Trump Republicans presumably were in purple districts with unfavorable demographics for Trump personally.
I’m thinking of the son of a friend of mine; he is at the state legislature rather than at the national level, and he survived in 2016 - but he had to outpoll Trump in his district to do it.
Trump executed a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, and that maps to a change in the target audience of the Republican Party. That just naturally takes time. If Trump is able to recruit enough good candidates in the next two years to win a Trump Republican majority in the House, that is the best that can be hoped for. And he personally has to win reelection, of course.
Bump
Retirings are what allowed the Dems to have the house...
Without nearly 40 house retirings the GOP wouldn’t have lost the house
No, Rush!
The RINOpublicans announced their retirements to CAUSE a Blue Wave! I was hearing of this mass exodus long before talk of any blue wave: Block Trump for two years, then hand the House to the Demokkkrats to finish the job.
They wanted to lose the House - and did. Mission accomplished. The good little globalists now go to their K Street reward in the private sector. Paul Ryan leads the way - the only real leading he did as Speaker.
Limbaugh’s insistence upon giving the treacherous UniParty collaborators the excuse of cowardice infuriates me.
The only things they may be scared of is being outed as sexual harassers named in the hush fund, or secretly complicit participants in the slow-motion coup.
But I don’t think that was solely it. I think that the Republican Party in the House of Representatives had a whole bunch of people in there that didn’t like Trump. And I think they had a whole lot of people who thought that Trump was gonna bring massive landslide defeat to the party and they wanted to get out before it happened. They didn’t want to be a part of it; so they announced their resignations. And one of the things I think that convinced these Republicans that there was gonna be this massive Trump wipeout was all this incessant chatter about the blue wave brought on by the media.
I doubt it. They wanted to cash in. Their value as lobbyists would be substantially less if the Republicans lost the House.
Rush is mostly right.
The losses were much less than expected. It is not good, but it is not the end of the world.
A lot of the deadwood got cut. Yes, we lost some players, but between the retirements and the losses, I am glad to see most of them go.
Spin it however you want. We lost the House.
We have 2 years of b’s investigations non stop and pointless bills designed to evoke score points with the leftist fascists.
AND we, I, have to hear the likes of Nazi pelousey and the devastingly stupid Maxine waters.
Not to mention the new crop of stupid d umbles like Cortez.
It is bad.
And I an sickened and disgusted.
Not only can you not fix stupid, the stupid is spreading.
TLDR
But I’ll note that incumbent RINO types who did run also ended up losing. Curbelo, Leonard Lance.