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?
And you must be out of your mind to even thin that
I researched his situation for about six months. What I found was that its very likely he was blackmailed by the regime.
Roberts and his wife were influenced by her mother to adopt two blonde kids from her home county of Cork, Ireland. They went to Ireland found two such kids from two different birth mothers and discovered that it was virtually impossible to getting them into the US..... legally. They then devised a plan to have both birth mothers take them to Central America and adopt them from there as if they were Central American kids.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2900724/posts
Problem is the NYT started investigating what he was doing and when they learned that the regime was also blackmailing them they decided that they better not violate the civil rights of the kids or some such BS. Anyway they stopped looking into it and quick once they found out what was going on and who was involved.
It's pretty clear Roberts and his wife smuggled in his kids and got caught and then was blackmailed by the regime.So we have Obamacare as a tax,who knew.
So he's an exception.
Karl Rove and Haley Barber trashed 20% of there customer base again. They should learn from ‘06 We’ll stay home. #remembermississippi
Yeah I love your plan Mort... such a winner.....
Seems you are not sure of a lot of things.....
Seems I posted a bit more than that....
The ones currently holding the reins of power in the Party, at least. They are statists through and through; have been since before the days of Nelson Rockefeller. They hated Reagan then, and their successors today look down their noses at anyone who reveres him (while presenting a façade of "conservatism" for the flybys). They're the despicable wretches supporting the likes of Thad and Mitch.
I’m not saying that. My point is that this isn’t a good argument FOR taking control of the senate. Any argument should be focused totally on the SCOTUS. That can be argued pretty well.
But the idea that the GOP are going to make Obama look stupid though, flies in the face of everything we have seen since... forever.
So staying home is the plan? Doesn’t work for me. I need to do more.We already fund only conservative candidates. That should be enough punishment for the GOP-e. Besides they only have power if we keep losing primaries to rinos or the dems.
Then what are we talking about? Sounds like it's a done deal, they're electable, so why are these discussions so heated?
I am interested in how you came up with your screen name. That was what Governor Reagan was called by Grace Slick at Woodstock. It was not a term of endearment.
You might be a troll, but the simpler answer is that you are ignorant.
You mean if I want you to accord me credibility. LOL
You still haven't defined your plan to have the GOPe actually govern in a conservative manner once you elect them. What can be done that hasn't been done already?
Or aren't you worried about your own "credibility"?
Mitch has a plan, I heard about it this week. He is going to make the Senate vote on the Keystone Pipeline. I got so excited the checks started writing themselves...not.
Election hasn’t been held yet, has it? And the campaigns have not really even begun.
You know, it's amazing. The GOPe statists beat the dog again and again until the dog finally, in 2012, runs away. Then, they say "Fine! Leave! We don't need you!" because it sees the early 2014 stats (from the likes of Karl Rove) and assumes that the Senate's in the bag.
Now, we're close to November and after looking at the poll numbers it suddenly dawns on them that Karl Rove's a moron and they need the dog, and all they can do is curse it for not wanting to come back.
So what do they do? Reibus sends his minions here to Free Republic to insult us for not wanting to come back and vote for their lousy candidates. Again. After Mississippi.
Incredible.
Oh, I forgot his first name: “Prince” Reibus. [rolls eyes]
So true. They like being rained on and dumped on.
It excites them.
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