Posted on 11/12/2018 2:19:35 PM PST by DoodleDawg
Rep. Jason Lewis (R-Minn.), who lost his seat in last week’s midterm elections, is coming under fire for a Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he blames Republicans’ defeat at the ballot box on the late senator John McCain (R-Ariz.).
In the piece, titled “Who Lost the House? John McCain,” Lewis makes a novel argument: that McCain’s famous thumbs-down vote last year against a “skinny” repeal of the Affordable Care Act doomed Republicans by making it more difficult for them to counter Democratic claims that GOP lawmakers would do away with protections for those with preexisting conditions.
The catch, of course, is that if Republicans had ultimately succeeded in their efforts to repeal the health-care law, they would have done just that.
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And which Trump had carried in 2016.
He’s right. Him, and Ryan can be blamed for the losses.
Perhaps so, but it wasn’t because he lacked juevos. You may remember, he subbed for Rush 3 or 4 years ago on several occasions. Rock solid but in Minnesota :(.
Not sending the same obamacare repeal bill to Trump, that you had sent 50 times to Obama, was pretty stupid.
There is a good reason the GOP is called “the stupid party”
He forgot Ryan. Tax cut that his masters the Koch’s could live with, but no go on the Wall or Obamacare which is what a lot of America wanted fixed. He will be fine as a lobbyist, we will live through hell the next two years.
He's a one-term congressman. He doesn't have enough influence to become a lobbyist.
He is RIGHT!! The BIG PROMISE was that they would DEFEAT OBAMACARE, and that FRAUD REPUBLIUCAN CREEP, McCAIN HAD HIS FAMOUS THUMBS DOWN!
I meant Ryan....
Why the HELL are you blaming a CONSEVRATIVE??? Jason Lewis is totally right!
Novel argument? Pretty good one actually. McCain stopped Trump from dealing with Obamacare which became the #1 Democrat issue.
Except that it wasn't a repeal of Obamacare. It was a repeal and replace and the replace did away with the same pre-existing condition coverage that he claims killed him in the election. He lost a district that Trump won. He has only himself to blame.
Ryan was no Conservative, that is who I am blaming besides McCain...
In the two lost House seats in Iowa, he’s exactly right. No GOP answer to the health care insurance debacle.
McPain, the gift that keeps on giving, even from the grave.
Except that it wouldn't have.
Josh Hawley won the Senate in Missouri in spite of a history of trying to end coverage for pre-existing conditions. If Lewis really thinks that's all that lost his seat for him then he's whiny little idiot. A lot of things go into losing a re-election and most of them lie with the candidate himself.
Campaigns are seldom decided on a single issue. They're decided on any number of things, but mostly on the candidate themselves.
Generally true, but sometimes they ARE decided on one issue.
The dems spent billions on health care ads. It clearly had an effect. They somehow regained the high ground despite causing the very problems people face. The GOPs handling of healthcare in the current term was a complete debacle. It cost them bigly.
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