Posted on 07/30/2019 6:12:30 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
It wasn't the cause of the wave in 2016. Of the 28 Republican congressmen who retired or who ran for other offices in 2016 the Democrats only flipped 7 or 8 of those seats. If a congressman retires in a safe district that doesn't mean the seat is lost.
You can't win the war if your men aren't willing to fight.
Being in the minority isn't fun.
ABSOLUTELY.
This article is very disheartening. ONLY three of the Swamp dwelling, taxpayer-teat-sucking, open borders, big government, globalist, elitist, socialist RINOs are retiring.
With VERY few exceptions, the rest need to be successfully primaried by real conservative candidates.
My Rep is one of the few. Look him up: Paul Gosar
You are the Minority because YOU FAILED to Act like REPUBLICANS last term and deliver what you were elected to do.
One of the biggest factors was mccains no vote on health care!
It enabled the rats to run effective ads
Or greeting your friend Jack at the airport.
It enabled the rats to run effective ads
If the Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare next year, be it in June if they take it up or in late 2019 if they decide not to, then the ads that the Democrats will run will make 2018 look like a picnic.
Interesting. Didn’t something like 47 Republicans “choose not to seek reelection” in 2018? What gives?
Otherwise half will go Democrat and the other half will go to timid RINOs who will talk about being 'civil' and 'working with Democrats'.
NOTE: The only time democrats retire is when their party loses, because they do not like being out of power. Its no fun to them. Especially in the house.
Unfortunately I doubt it.
The Repus in Congress are almost invisible.
They seem to be hoping that the Dems self destruct, but that won’t win you elections.
If Trump holds out and wins, it will be a empty win when he faces a Dem House/Senate.
“Also, the DemoKKKrats are outraising the GOP big-”
It’s the HILL and I believe little of what I read there.
A quick search reveals the GOP has vastly out raised the DNC by more than 2-1.
A RINO is somebody who pretends to be a Republican, while secretly working to help the Democrat agenda get passed.
If he can’t accomplish that, then his financial backers would prefer he be gone, and replaced (if possible) by a real Democrat.
The DNC is getting killed in fundraising compared to the RNC
Bush League Republicans trying desperately to save the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA)
“...the cowards are leaving Dodge so as not to soil their tailored suits”
I think it may be that they see that the exposure of the endemic corruption in Congress is coming - multi-millionaires overnight by selling you and me out - and that the gravy train might run off the rails with those in Congress when it does slimed forever. They are jumping off the train before the massive pile-up.
And good riddance to the corrupt bastards.
The GOP has only themselves to blame. They did Zippo to advance Trump’s agenda in his first year when they had the majority.
They ran to get into the swamp. Drain it and their graft dries up. Of course they leave.
It’s the HILL and I believe little of what I read there.
A quick search reveals the GOP has vastly out raised the DNC by more than 2-1.
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I believe there is a discrepancy between national and local/regional fundraising.
Progs are killing it over GOP in some Districts and states. GOP/Trump are way ahead, nationally. Of course, we do expect some of that war chest to be redistributed where it will do the most good.
So we have 6 R retirements out of about ~200 R seats. That's 3%. At that rate it would take 66 years for a complete turnover.
Big whoop!
This looks like Hill nonsense.
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