Posted on 09/18/2014 12:40:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
The most important words printed in The New York Times since "REAGAN EASILY BEATS CARTER" were from a front-page article last Sunday about how, after six years of Obama, the federal judiciary is now dominated by Democratic appointees. Edward Whelan, head of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, responded to this by saying: "The best way for conservative voters to prevent further damage to the courts is to swing the Senate to Republican control in the elections this November."
He's absolutely right. Turn that into a mnemonic, sew it on needlepoint pillows, include it in your wedding vows, right-wingers. For the next six weeks, nothing matters more to the country than Republicans taking a majority in the Senate. When it comes to politics, conservatives need to learn one thing from liberals: All that matters is winning.
Here's a preliminary report on where the election stands and my assignments.
First, we need to hold all 45 seats currently in Republican hands. The ones Democrats have been salivating over because of primary challenges aren't looking like cakewalks for them anymore.
(Take a moment to notice something, Republicans: No incumbent Democrat had to deal with a primary challenger this year. That's one reason why Democrats win more elections than their insane ideas would seem to dictate. Liberals understand that you can't do anything if you don't win, so Democrats don't stage primary fights against other Democrats.)
Even the Times is admitting that Sen. Mitch McConnell is probably going to be re-elected in Kentucky now that the Ashley Judd juggernaut has been dispatched. McConnell has a history of winning come-from-behind victories -- and he's up in the polls right now.
Georgia seems to have decided it's going to be Republican, so I say David Perdue wins that open seat.
Sen. Pat Roberts is likely to win in Kansas as soon as the "Independent" candidate, Greg Orman, is forced to take a position on something -- anything -- and conservative Kansas voters realize he's the Democrat. Orman's been able to hide behind limpid nonpartisanship so far, but a candidate can't refuse to answer basic questions forever.
Will you vote to repeal Obamacare?
I don't know.
Are you going to caucus with the Democrats or Republicans?
That's a personal matter.
Assignment No. 1: Sen. Pat Roberts needs to spend every day from now until Nov. 4 campaigning in Kansas. Roberts is smart, personable and engaging -- he's always voted "funniest senator"! He's certainly no John McCain. (Rand Paul is John McCain.) I don't know why Roberts got a primary challenge at all. Please stop doing that, Republicans.
Even liberals admit that Republicans are likely to win seats currently held by Democrats in Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia. Assuming we hold Kentucky, Georgia and Kansas, Republicans will be at 48.
That means Republicans need to flip three Democratic seats to take a majority in the Senate. Hopefully, the GOP will take more than three, and store them like chestnuts for a long, cold winter. These are the races that matter: New Hampshire, Iowa, North Carolina, Arkansas, Alaska, Louisiana, Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan.
Assignment No. 2: Everyone reading this column has got to donate to Scott Brown immediately. He's running in New Hampshire against a slick incumbent Democrat, Jean Shaheen, but he's a very strong candidate. Brown won the primary only last week, and he's already tied in the polls. He just needs to catch up to Shaheen's $11.2 million war chest.
Shaheen is talking about nothing but global warming because she can't very well talk about Obamacare. She was a major proponent of the bill that destroyed Americans' health care, which is no more popular in New Hampshire than it is anywhere else people need health care.
Not only was Brown "the 41st vote" against Obamacare -- forcing Nancy Pelosi to pull that sleazy, unconstitutional "deem and pass" move to push it through -- but more than any other Senate candidate this year, Brown is running against amnesty. Even with a tidal wave of new welfare cases pouring across our border, Brown is one of the few candidates smart enough to make immigration an issue.
Donate. Right now!
The biggest current danger for Republicans is that idiots will vote for Libertarian candidates in do-or-die Senate elections, including Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina and Colorado. (That's in addition to the "Independent" in Kansas who's a Democrat.) Democratic candidates don't have to put up with this crap -- they're even trying to dump the official Democrat in Kansas to give the stealth Democrat a better shot.
When we're all dying from lack of health care across the United States of Mexico, we'll be deeply impressed with your integrity, libertarians.
Which brings me to my final assignment for this week: If you are considering voting for the Libertarian candidate in any Senate election, please send me your name and address so I can track you down and drown you.
Worth repeating:
Have you READ your Tagline lately???? OMG!!! You voting for Grimes is a VOTE FOR OBAMA’S AGENDA!!! Good grief...are you suicidal?
No my reading skills are pretty good, being that English is my second language. I can read between the line. Thankyouverymuch < -—typed on purpose like that
You had better think this over and seriously.
Aren’t you putting the cart before the horse? We don’t know yet who the GOP is going to run. Why don’t you wait, you might be pleasantly surprised. Sitting on you duffs or voting third party only helps the left
Hope he's got a GPS so he doesn't get lost.
Bump
Hopefully you have one, so you don’t get lost in VA
Like Roberts, I live in VA, so I can find my way around just fine.
My to-do list: become as self-sufficient as possible and produce something of good use as a hobby for now. It doesn’t include supporting anyone’s pork from Uncle Samantha.
I don't hold Coulter in high esteem but she talks sense here. You can use my bathtub, Ann.
You’re gonna vote for a *itch who is in favor of partial birth abortion? How disgusting.
Very well said
I have been watching the Rosevelt’s by Ken Burns on PBS.
T R is said to have mistakenly said at the beginning he wolud serve out the first term and run only once again. He regretted that decision but the Republicans reminded him of it and did not nominate him for a third term.He was rejected. Being young and full of himself, he formed the bull moose party and ran, campaigning heavily and losing support all along the way. Money promised and governor support dwindled. He lost.
The lesson is that in the USA third parties are a losing proposition. There are other near identical results of well minded exuberant efforts that flop and fail.
The conservative tendency is to be agin. They have narrow strong opinions that are pro something but are different among different cliques. Even rather trivial attributes get the candidate the boot. “ He said blah blah blah and that means I’m agin em” is the foolish attitude. It is so ingrained it can not be overcome by reason. It is emotion.
What is required is a charismatic silver tongued smoothie that can charm the women and satisfy the men. So far there has been no such candidate since W.
You voting for Grimes is a VOTE FOR OBAMA’S AGENDA!!! Good grief...are you suicidal?
You had better think this over and seriously.
Have you READ your Tagline lately???? OMG!!! You voting for Grimes is a VOTE FOR OBAMA’S AGENDA!!! Good grief...are you suicidal?
I bought my place in rural Kentucky two weeks before the 2008 election (I was a Seattle resident for 45 years) because I saw the writing on the wall way back then. And I thought McCain was going to win! When Obama won it was confirmation that it was the right thing to do. My tag line is what I believe REGARDLESS of who controls the house and senate.
The lesson is that in the USA third parties are a losing proposition.
But it matters not to me. I consider the R’s and D’s to be the two sides of the same coin. And the mess they have BOTH put us in is more than either of them can get us out of. This whole thing - and I’m talking about the world, not just the US - is unravelling before our very eyes. To use a tired but accurate analogy, we’re trying to vote in a new captain and crew on the titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg. But the comical part is that we are selecting the candidates from the EXISTING captain and crew.
There is no human solution to this. We are falling. We will fall to the bottom.
Watch this video. The child is not our children. The child is us. We are there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li0no7O9zmE
Yeah, why vote for someone who is 10% liberal like McConnell when you can vote for a 90% liberal like Alison Lundergan Grimes (or “Grimey,” as she prefers to be called)? America needs more votes for the Obama agenda!
No, wait, that’s just retarded. And so is voting for Grimey.
Kentucky Republicans had the chance to nominate someone more conservative, and more aggressive, than McConnell. Unfortunately, no qualified candidate with a conservative record chose to run against McConnell. You still had the chance to vote for that Paulistinian-friendly clown with nothing on his résumé (even after he falsified it) that gave any inkling that he truly was a conservative, and I’m sure that you took advantage of it. But guess what? Most KY Republicans preferred McConnell over Bevin. Had Bevin won the nomination, I would refrain from saying anything negative about him and supported him in the general election, hoping that his claims to be conservative were not a charade, since obviously he would be preferable to Grimey. But Bevin didn’t win; McConnell won.
So the choice now is between a social, economic and national-security conservative (who often disappoints us because he’s not aggressive enough, which has been the case for *every* Republican Senate Majority Leader and Senate Minority Leader over the past 50 years) and an Obama liberal who may be a bit more reasonable than Obama on gun rights and maybe one or two other issues. One of those two will get elected. If you vote for Grimey (as she prefers to be called), you forfeit any right to call yourself a conservative).
Thing is, I see elections mainly as sport anyway. I no longer take them seriously.
Arguing over who to elect is very analogous to re-arranging the deck chairs on the titanic. I remember when Bush won in 2000. I said that all he did was put off the inevitable for another 4 years.
But we have reached the inevitable (my tag line).
Western civilization reached its Zenith a while back and has been struggling to keep itself there ever since. But we’ve kept ourself warm by burning the furniture, and we’re about out of furniture. It is poetic justice of a sort that when the whole house of cards (which has been a work in progress for a century) should be “ruled” by the most overtly incompetent president in history as it experiences its crash.
And it’s fall was great.
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