Exactly.
Sure, we want the senate and we want Reid dispatched to the cooler, but seriously I am very concerned about who it is that wins on the Republican side. More Establishment goons is simply not much of a victory.
This Uni-Party thing looks real to me and the Establishment has defined “treacherous”, as Mississippi proved.
The next generation of younger conservatives may find themselves extinct if our culture and schools are not taken back, and soon.
The MS debacle left a bad taste in many GOP voters' mouths, including my own.
If McDaniels gets his day in court and prevails, I could see a possible 'wave' election, as the base will be fired up. If not, there are still a lot of pi$$ed-off voters who may just stay home rather than vote for the proverbial 'lesser of 2 evils'. And not just in Mississippi, either.
The place to focus on conservatives is in the primaries, but once those are over, I think it’s important to vote for whoever is the GOP candidate. Mississippi was appalling, but it would be even more appalling to lose a GOP seat to a Dem, not because the GOPer in this case is any better than the Dem, but because legislative politics is a numbers game.
If the GOP doesn’t have the numbers, there’s nothing even the good people in the House or Senate can do; if it has the numbers, then it is up to the conservatives to push their less conservative brethren to more conservative positions. However, this is going to be slow simply because many of the conservatives are still juniors and do not have enough seniority to be on important committees or be committee chairs.
That will change with time, of course, if we can just patiently keep working in the primaries and convincing the electorate that they should abandon drooling, senile incumbents (Cochran) or good ol’ boys.
And we have to get it together, too. One of the reasons Cochran got to do what he did is that the conservative electorate itself was divided between other candidates. That shouldn’t happen again.