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 thats becoming less and less likely. Its not because Democrats are rallying around a particular mission or set of candidates; its because Republicans and conservatives arent.
It seems like Im always writing on issues no one wants to hear are mistakes, such as messaging or social issues. But I dont 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 doesnt 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 dont care where someone lives or who their Senate candidate is … if you dont 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 isnt enough to win. You have to be involved through donations, volunteering, talking to everyone you know or else Democrats will win.
Im not making this up, Im not trying to scare you; these are real numbers in real races that will make the difference. And they dont 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 dont think Cory Gardner is for you? Who cares? Support him or you are supporting Harry Reid.
Live in Arkansas and wish Tom Cotton wasnt the nominee? So what? Hes the nominee, support him or lose more than that one race.
It doesnt matter where you live—Louisiana, Michigan, Alaska, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, New Hampshire, anywhere—if you dont 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.
Its not the Senate thats on the ballot this fall; its 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 moments 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 thats 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 wont 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 Obamas 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 wont be reversed by one election. No ship as big as the United States can be righted immediately. It will take time. But it cant 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 youre unhappy with your choices this fall, if your candidate didnt 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?
Maybe universal suffrage in combination with the federal government taking on the role of "guarantor of personal welfare" is at fault. I don't think there is a controlled fix or remedy.
Honestly, one would think they read this book, believing it was a work of satire.
Actually, unlike the GOP (not Sen Cruz, and some others),
Sen. Warren voted against arming al Qaeda aka the “rebels”.
Does this mean that you consider the Democrats to be preferable to the “Establishment Republicans” who voted against the passage of the Obamacare law, but voted for funding bills that included the Democrat passed Obamacare law? Remember, in this game you only get two choices.
Does this mean that you consider it a good thing to continue rewarding corrupt politicians who want to throw your grandchildren's and great-grandchildren's future away until the country is completely bankrupt? Remember, in this game YOU actually only get one choice - your progeny get none.
Shaddup, GOPe SHILL. They voted to fund it ever since. What have they done lately ... NOTHING. Another winning strategy. GOPe = DemocRat losers.
I’m wondering what leads you to believe that you are a part of the base. The definition of a base is a group of voters who will reliably vote for your party and for your candidates, and never vote for the opposition’s candidates. By that definition, I would say that you, and others of your ilk who advocate voting for a Democrat rather than a Republican deemed by you to be a RINO.
Your support may be welcome, but it’s certainly not reliable from a politician’s point of view. And, oh by the way, many like you have been known to get off the reservation and vote for Ross Perot or some Libertarian nutcase on occasion. It’s hard to claim that some politicians is pissing on the base when the so called base is pissing back.
Both of these criticisms are, at best, misplaced; at worst, they are just disingenuous.
At any rate, they are easily answerable.
Lets begin with the argument against purism. To this line, two replies are in the coming.
As for the second objection against the Tea Partiers rejection of those Republican candidates who eschew his values and convictions,
it can be dispensed with just as effortlessly as the first.
Every election seasonand at no time more so than this past seasonRepublicans pledge to reform Washington, trim down the federal government, and so forth.
Once, however, they get elected and they conduct themselves with none of the confidence and enthusiasm with which they expressed themselves on the campaign trail,
those who placed them in office are treated to one lecture after the other on the need for compromise and patience.
Well, when the Tea Partiers impatience with establishment Republican candidates intimates a Democratic victory,
he can use this same line of reasoning against his Republican critics.
My dislike for the Democratic Party is second to none, he can insist.
But in order to advance in the long run my conservative or Constitutionalist values, it may be necessary to compromise some in the short term.
For example,
This one’s got to be a paid Priebus troll. Completely ignores any reasoning, and keeps to the GOPe script.
Kiss my ass, troll.
This GOPe troll is getting tiresome.
My choice is to never vote for a Democrat, more correctly, my choice is to consistently vote against Democrats. Since voting for some third party nut case or not voting is a complete cop out, I will always vote for a Republican. If there is no Republican on the ballot, I will write in the name of local Republicans whom I know are not on the ballot elsewhere.
I long for the day when there is a Conservative Party run by true conservatives in the manner that lefties run the Democrat Party, but until that day arrives, I will follow my current practice and work within the Republican Party to advance Conservative causes and candidates.
Those who vote for democrats are my lifelong political enemies and that includes anyone on this forum who actually do what they advocate (I understand that some are just spouting off to appear to be something that they are not)
GREAT POST.
My vote is my voice and I will not be silenced.
I WILL ALWAYS vote for the lesser of two evils.
Anything other than that is the behavior of a 5 year old.
When you can’t argue the facts, pound the table and shout. Your problem, not mine.
The establishment Republicans have been around since way before Nelson Rockefeller. They always hated Reagan. Now they’re in control of the Party. They’re the ones pushing Thad and McConnell, and think Boehner is just fine heading the House. Now their shills are here on Free Republic, screaming like banshees at those of us who refuse to eat their Party’s Obama sandwiches. This thread’s a perfect example.
They are among us.
We'll see what happens in November. When their lousy candidates go down in flames, they'll go and blame us again, instead of looking in the mirror as usual.
Oh and who is Sara Palin?
Shaddup, GOPe SHILL. The is Free Republic and not the GOPe fellation zone. ROFL. Loser.
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