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To: pfony1

Please. Name me some of these revolutionaries who will cut spending.

First, it’s going to be very, very hard for the GOP to retake the House. With 13 members announcing retirement already (and needing to make up a good 17 seats to re-take control, not counting the NC special election where the R trails) you are looking at needing a net of about 25 flips to retake control. Not impossible, but I certainly haven’t found 25 killer candidates out there. At beset we have a really good one in OK5, one in one of the NJ seats, and probably the IL seat has a good candidate. In all the rest of the retirements, you’re relying on the fact that five or six of these are “red” districts.

2018 taught us that doesn’t matter. Will Hurd’s district has had its numbers decline every single year. So has one of the other TX districts. Here in AZ, we still have no one even remotely strong to run for any of the “flipped” seats.

It’s great to talk in generalities, but until you actually find stellar candidates, NO seat is safe.


22 posted on 09/07/2019 6:53:37 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

There will be Trumpian coat tails if the predicted land slide actually occurs.

Then there is the Pelosi congress. It has accomplished nothing. It will continue to accomplish nothing. There may be no fervor to go vote

The truth seems to be, it is too soon to predict outcome


24 posted on 09/07/2019 7:00:13 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: LS

I don’t want to sound overly optimistic, but I believe that a Trump “tsunami” will carry many “unknown” Republicans with it. IMHO, a GOP majority in the House and a filibuster-proof GOP majority in the Senate are both achievable.

I do not agree with you that it is MY responsibility to “name” each and every new Republican who will be elected to the House and Senate.

Nor is it my responsibility to “name” today the Democrat Senators and Representatives who will “flip” to the Republican party after the election.

Nor can I list the “programs” that our new Constitution-supporting judges and Justices will soon rule must be stopped — because they are (in spite of Democrat bleating) un-Constitutional.

I DO accept responsibility to vote against the “big spenders” and to communicate to the representatives that we elect that it is THEIR duty to cut wasteful spending.

In other words, I think we patriots should not “surrender” before the “fight” has even begun. I hope you agree.


35 posted on 09/07/2019 7:28:32 AM PDT by pfony1 (Put Up or Shut Up!)
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