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?
Truer words were never spoken.
I and all of my cohorts held our collective noses and voted not only for Romney but also for McCain in 2008.
Tell me truly, how many people do you get to vote by constantly berating and insulting them? You should work for Charlie Christ.
Perhaps articulating your magical plan to move the GOP back to the right after you reward their leftward plunge would help you kick some ass? Or do you still have no such plan?
In addition the Illinois GOP is responsible for the election of Obama:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2004/02/12/retiring-senator-stood-up-for-principles/
When Congress adjourns this year, Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (search), R-Ill., will retire after just one term. He’s retiring because his own party has turned on him and promised to run a primary candidate against him. That’s because this particular senator decided that while he was in office he’d be his own man and vote his own conscience. He wouldn’t be a lackey for his party, he wouldn’t vote pork home to his state, and he wouldn’t do what the special interests who run his party told him to do. And that got him into trouble.
Former Sen. Fitzgerald was excellent. When he retired Obama got in by “someone” finding the right judge to open divorce records.
http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-13090354/
So, I have no pity for us or the GOP. Sorry.
For the most part both parties have the same globalist goals. It’s going to take a third party, but due to the level of corruption reached our elections don’t mean a thing. It will take a miracle from God at this point.
Lets take one issue. You say they are just now investigating Benghazi, dragged into it by the Tea Party.
OK, and when do you think Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will investigate Benghazi?
I mean are you really that blind?
Go Stupids! Beat the Evil Party! (Yawn)
OK are you claiming Cochran will vote for Reid as Senate Leader?
Will the democrat vote against Reid?
I’m sure Cochran is an idiot, but if you don’t understand the value of having the republicans control a senate seat ....
Seems to me we’ve all gotten a crapload from your posts already!
I didn’t claim he’d vote for Reid.
It won’t matter who he votes for.
He voted for LOST treaty, START, and most of Obama’s appointees so far.
He will also vote for amnesty.
And has stated he’s perfectly fine with Obamacare being settled law.
What other issues are left?
None that I really care about.
Did you listen to that robocall? I actually got that robocall. Does that sound like a man that will struggle against Obama in DC?
If the folks on this forum have their way, it will probably be about 20 given the ever expanding definition of the term RINO. Anyway, the number doesn’t matter, the whole notion that a super minority conservative caucus would have any power in a Senate dominated by Democrats is spending too much time in Colorado. Have a great evening.
No you really don’t care do you
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Just want to point out that complaining you voted for McCain and Romney is rather pointless. They lost. So you suffered absolutely nothing from your vote except Obama got elected anyway.
Your complaint would make sense if they won and then governed as liberals but that never happened.
So now your solution is to make sure other Republicans lose? And elect more Obamas?
The consensus is it's becoming more likely, Derek.
Rememeber dud you are the one with no plan.Don’t bother posting to me anymore you have little I want to read.
I have never stated anything of the sort. have you actually read any of my posts or do you just make them up as you go?
All I have requested on this thread is for one you to provide actual proof that conservatives sat out 2012. What I have received in return is condescension and insults. Bless your heart.
I appreciate your doing the right thing and voting against nobama. I too found it uneasy to go for mcLame, although Mitt wasn’t perfect he was better than mcLame and at least was unlikely to keep pushing America toward the brink as the damn halfrican is doing.
The “sit at homers” that gave us 4 more years of wrecking America don’t deserve any niceness. I was thinking more the Tar and Feather treatment.
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