Posted on 09/21/2014 4:48:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
I know a lot of people are giddy at the prospect of Republicans taking the Senate this November, but that’s becoming less and less likely. It’s not because Democrats are rallying around a particular mission or set of candidates; it’s because Republicans and conservatives aren’t.
It seems like I’m always writing on issues no one wants to hear are mistakes, such as messaging or social issues. But I don’t care. These things have to be said. If these columns are received like a gaseous cousin on a long car trip through the desert, so be it. Crack a window…
If things continue on their current course, the GOP will not retake the Senate. Anyone telling you differently is selling something.
There are many reasons for this: tough primary fights, the “establishment vs. Tea Party” meme, stubbornness, arrogance, ignorance, ego. You name it, a segment of the center-right coalition suffers from it.
Too many people and groups on the right are content to take their ball and go home because their candidate lost a primary and/or the nominee doesn’t pay enough attention to whatever pet issue they care about most. They may vote, but their email lists sit idle and their wallets remain closed.
GET OVER YOURSELVES!
As upset as you may be, this election is not about any of the candidates you dislike. This election is about the following things, and the following things only – Barack Obama, Harry Reid and the Supreme Court.
I don’t care where someone lives or who their Senate candidate is … if you don’t support the Republican candidate, for whatever reason, with everything you have, you are voting to retain Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader.
In spite of what you may have heard, the Senate is very much in play and too close to call. As unpopular as Barack Obama is, that isn’t enough to win. You have to be involved – through donations, volunteering, talking to everyone you know – or else Democrats will win.
I’m not making this up, I’m not trying to scare you; these are real numbers in real races that will make the difference. And they don’t look good.
The next two years can be spent either forcing an unpopular president to veto popular, pro-growth, pro-liberty legislation, acts that will harm his party for years; or spent with an unfettered activist president complaining about a do-nothing Congress while he initiates executive actions to implement a radical agenda and worse – packing the Supreme Court.
Live in Kansas and think Pat Roberts is a squish? Tough! Suck it up and support him.
Live in Kentucky and think Mitch McConnell is awful? Get over it and support him.
Live in Iowa and not a particular fan of Joni Ernst? Grow up and support her come hell or high water.
Live in Colorado and don’t think Cory Gardner is for you? Who cares? Support him or you are supporting Harry Reid.
Live in Arkansas and wish Tom Cotton wasn’t the nominee? So what? He’s the nominee, support him or lose more than that one race.
It doesn’t matter where you live—Louisiana, Michigan, Alaska, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, New Hampshire, anywhere—if you don’t suck it up, fight and work like your candidate won, you will be handing the Senate back to Harry Reid and the power to President Obama he has always sought – to fundamentally transform America.
It’s not the Senate that’s on the ballot this fall; it’s the Supreme Court.
In the last two years of his presidency, Barack Obama could appoint as many as three new justices to the Supreme Court. Would you like to see retiring justices replaced by young activist progressive nominees rubber-stamped by Harry Reid? Then work!
Yes, a Supreme Court nominee must overcome a filibuster according to Senate rules. But those are current rules and, as Harry Reid demonstrated for all other federal appointees, those rules can be changed at a moment’s notice and by a simple majority to fit whatever he and the president want at any time.
If you stay home, or if you simply vote and that’s it, you might as well be working for Harry Reid and Barack Obama. If the Supreme Court is lost, it will be lost for at least a generation. Then it won’t matter who you elect or who the next president is, the progressive agenda will be locked in as the law of the land for the foreseeable future.
You have a choice this fall: Sit on the bench or work to defeat whoever the Democrat is running for the Senate in your state. One choice is a vote for Harry Reid for Senate Majority Leader and more cover for President Obama’s abuses of power. The other will at a minimum apply pressure on the hemorrhaging wound from which our liberty is seeping.
The damage done to this country in recent years won’t be reversed by one election. No ship as big as the United States can be righted immediately. It will take time. But it can’t start being corrected until it stops getting worse. It can stop getting worse this fall if you vote and work to get others to do the same.
If you’re unhappy with your choices this fall, if your candidate didn’t win, you face a simple choice this November: Check your ego, pull your head out from where your hands are and get in the game. Or just quit. Which way are you going to go?
“Forbes is looking like Presidential Timber IMHO. The business savvy of Romney without all his social issue baggage.”
You must have a very short memory or no memory at all. Forbes is PRO Abortion. Take a look at his last presidential run
Don’t forget the 14 gangsters. They will rear their ugly heads again
to clog up the senate.
And I'll vote for a candidate who supports most of these principles even if he doesn't support all of them, but I won't expect much of him and I won't be disappointed if he loses. I'm not inclined to waste time or energy with inconsequential @ssholes from either major party.
The ptb had already decided that GWB would be the nominee. Forbes/Quayle or the reverse would've had the knowledge and maturity to run the country, Forbes with the economics and Quayle on foreign affairs.
We'd never have been in the mess we're in now.
The country might be ready for "boring" (neither one is, but they're not media darlings). Forbes/Quayle or Forbes/JeffSessions might be the hail-Mary pass that could save the US.
Good luck you will need it.
Reagan also screwed us with his VP choice George Bush, who blew up the Reagan revolution with his New World Order, thousand points of light, and raising taxes He also appointed a Libtard, back-stabbing General Colon Powell, who told Bush to let Sadam’s army retreat back home...lead us to Gulf War II that eventually put us on path directly to the current Lyin’ King Huissen Obozo!
Don't forget, Reagan gave us amnesty and more spending as well! Yeah, Reagan sucked! /sarc unfreakinbelievable!!!
Somehow I don’t want the GOPe making plans for me....I’ve failed to get rid of them so far but I don’t plan on quitting.
Good point but it’s five years away
I prefer “getting rid” of the sob in 7 weeks.....
Oddly enough, Steve Forbes actually came across as a stronger pro-life candidate than George W. Bush in 2000. He really put him on the spot in one of the Republican debates when he asked Bush if he’d make a commitment to appoint a pro-life running mate.
I don’t believe in luck, so I’m not sure what that means if I’ll “need it.” LOL.
It is a real shame that the bots elected W instead of the vastly more conservative, inteligent and capable Steve Forbes. I did all I could back in 2000. Oh well, elections have consequences and we are now paying a heavy price for not electing Forbes in 2000.
ROFL!
oh, that's a good one!
We could win EVERY Senate seat up in November and the Senate would STILL rubber stamp ANY Obama nominee to the court!
Yes, if we had the majority, a few Republican senators would make a good show for the cameras, but in the end the Senate would approve ANY nominee.
Are you suggesting that because we can’t do anything about Obama in this election, it’s not worth doing anything? Is the status quo really acceptable to you?
If you don’t seized control of the Senate in this election cycle, how do you propose it be done in 2016?
” Elections are not about individual races, or even the political philosophy of individual candidates. Elections are about political power and power is exercised through the two major political parties. “
I absolutely agree with your statement. The Republicans love power as much as any Commie.
Why should us peons desire a limited G’ment when our bettors can tell us what to do, when to do it and how to do it?
“Your replies tells me all I need to know. Don’t deny it. You want the rats to continue to be in power.
Shame on you”
Nice straw-man you built there.
You and yours burned the bridge.
Live with it, quietly please.
You must hate Sara Palin then. She doesn't seem to agree with your logic.
Democrats bad, Harry Reid evil will not be enough.
Are you willing to let 40 million illegals become legal just to say hey see I was right while watching the country go down the proverbial tube? At least you can sit back and say you were right....right?
I hate to admit it, but you’ve got a good point. I wonder if RNSC put that in their mailers? I wouldn’t know because I’m always too pissed off to open them up.
Theoretical, twisted pretzel-like, faculty lounge logic. Maybe you are textbook correct in your description of my analysis but it still doesn’t solve the problem of getting a candidate elected.
I am saying there are two choices but I’m also stressing that the non-voting option is not valid one if you want to elect somebody besides the opposition.
Getting candidates elected who will carry out policies you believe in will not happen if you stay at home on election day and sit on your hands. Too many people on this site who think that is a strategy. But it is not a realistic strategy if you don’t want the opposition elected. Anybody can do “nothing”. It takes more to do “something”. That “something” may not be prefect for some folks but then, neither is anything in life. Do “something” and VOTE for our candidate, perfect or not.
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