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?
I will answer your question. You are “supposed to”vote for the Republican because they will depose Harry Reid as Majority Leader, they will control all committees, they may block a radical Supreme Court nominee, they will give Republicans a base in their state for the 2016 presidential election, after that they will recommend Republican federal judges in your state, they will block leftist treaties, they will investigate Beghazi, etc, and if that is not enough reality for you then you just don’t care.
A Democrat senator will do all the opposite, guaranteed. And yes you should do this even though your senator is a damn senile cowardly moderate. You almost replaced him but that will have to wait 6 more years now. All this is reality.
We are in a terrible situation..
While I will vote Republican in general elections, the only thing I hate more than a Republican is a Democrat. The Democrats will take the Virgin Mary and convince everyone she is a whore. The Republicans will be afraid to call attention to Satan’s horns. This happens every time and I hate Republicans for their stupidity and cowardice.
However I still have to vote for the idiot republican against Satan and his minions. And every so often we get a Reagan in there.
The Republican Senate will DO little in the next 2 years. But they will do some things and block others.
Unfortunately for your plan it is expected Democrats will win back the Senate in 2016. So you need to “stock up”on some republican gains now hopefully to assist a Republican president in 2016 election and beyond.
The Faces of Failure aren’t that pretty, are they? Only the American people can be fooled to nominate them.
Now, now...all they've got are their GOPe talking points! You don't expect them to have backup examples with actual facts, do you?
Now, THAT’s FUNNY !
No you really can’t possibly prove the future anymore then I can. But the constant “it’s better to elect a communist Democrat” here is insane.
I saw this in my town where Republicans smugly thought turning it over to Democrats would “teach”everyone a lesson. That was 20 years ago. The Democrats changed the demographics and Republicans barely have one rep on the town council. They are finished.
Every election.
Things will get better if we always jettison our foundations.
Oh so you are praising the Democrat now and you see honest conservative Democrats to vote for? ??
Facinating. I think half of you are Democrats.
You see #412? He took Priebus’ advice!
If you think Thad Cochran will do any of that you’re smokin’ better dope than they’ve got in Colorado.
LOL.
They’ll also pass amnesty, fail to do anything about stopping funding of Obamacare, and spend money just as fast as the dimocrats.
In fact, Cochran promised to work WITH Obama:
Listen to that call and tell me what, precisely, Cochran would ever do to oppose Obama. Regardless of who is sinate majority leader...
The people who are lacking common sense are not conservative voters, but the GOP, their leadership, the candidates, and the strategists and consultants. Obviously they don't care about winning as they claim to. They don't listen to common sense if it is repeated to them multiple times.
It is not the responsibility of the conservative voter to unite the party. It is the responsibility of the party's leadership and of the candidates. Speaking of which, I did not see any party unity lectures when Lugar lost in Indiana, or when Ken Cuccinneli was running in Virginia. Apparently the burden is on the conservative voter to "unite".
What does the GOP and its leadership offer conservatives? Other than taking a dump on them every chance they get? Maybe they need to start earning the votes for a change.
The people who obviously don't learn a thing are the GOP leadership and their schemers. They haven't learned a thing after that last few elections.
“And Cochran has supported treaties that weaken our sovereignty and threaten our national security, such as the new START treaty and Law of the Sea Treaty. Cochran also voted to confirm Obama appointee Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel who is now trying to downsize our military.”
I’ll bite.
There are two ways to increase conservative influence in the Senate Republican caucus: 1) Beat establishment candidates in the primaries, replacing them with conservatives. 2) If that fails, reduce the size of the caucus by defeating establishment candidates in the general.
The smaller caucus, minus the Quislings will greatly strengthen the conservative voting block in the senate. The establishment cannot afford for the conservative block to get any bigger, because if it does, they will be forced to listen to it. That’s why they went scorched earth in the primaries.
We’re in a pretty screwed up situation. The only way to win is for the establishment leadership to crash and burn, so a new, more conservative, senate Republican caucus can rise from the ashes with the focus and moral authority to actually affect change.
Winning with guys like McConnell, Tillis, Cochran, and Graham isn’t going to do anything but make things worse. Those type of guys had control for years and that only dug our hole deeper. It’s time to stop digging.
Hey! It's a GOPe FAX line item sent to the trolls, to be regurgitated ad nauseam here on Free Republic. Don't ask for proof!
Amen.
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