Be Careful What You Leave Democrats Alone to Vote For

American Thinker ^ | 10/08/2014 | Gene Schwimmer

[SeekAndFind]

Will conservatives lose three elections in a row – three chances to win the Senate, three chances to stop Obama and the Democrats’ agenda, three chances to put Democratic senators up in 2016 on the hot seat by forcing them to vote on popular legislation that liberals oppose – because a cohort of die-hard conservative purists cannot bring themselves to choose between the lesser of two evils?

For conservatives, the stakes in this election could hardly be higher.  The course could not be more clear.

Republicans must keep the House and win the Senate.  Nothing else matters.

If...

• Obamacare,
• retreats from Iraq and Afghanistan,
• the loss of the world’s confidence in America’s strength and resolve,
• the elevation of “wise Latina” Sonya Sotomayor to the Supreme Court,
• the elevation Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court,
• Fast and Furious,
• Solyndra,
• obsession with global warming,
• unrestricted illegal immigration,
• a politicized and corrupt Justice Department,
• a politicized and corrupt IRS,
• mismanagement of the fight against Islamic jihadism,
• “red lines” that get erased almost as soon as they are drawn,
• attempts to gut the First Amendment to reverse Citizens United,
• John Kerry as secretary of state,
• Eric Holder as attorney general,
• Benghazi,
• billions of dollars wasted on “stimulus,”
• Michelle Obama starving innocent schoolchildren with unpalatable food,
• negotiating with terrorist-supporting Iran over nuclear weapons, and
• pressuring Israel not to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons that, in time, certainly would be capable of reaching the U.S.

...should have taught conservatives anything, it's that there are worse dangers to life, liberty, and property than returning Thad Cochran and Pat Roberts to the Senate.

[Vendome]

Po lil feller...

[itsahoot]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ---C.S. Lewis

[Impy]

Reportedly the old *itch Ginsberg is reluctant to retire before Obama’s term is up, the rats are trying to browbeat her into it. Breyer is also getting old.

GOP Senate with a rat President is rare, the last (and only) a times a democrat President had a SCOTUS vacancy with a GOP Senate was Grover Cleveland, in 1888 (he had 2 of them), a narrowly GOP Senate.

If Scalia slips in the shower under Obama or Clinton, America is ***ked. The waffler Kennedy is also old. Thomas is 66, God willing he’ll last a good while longer.

And 4 more years of a rat filling the lower judicial vacancies, unacceptable. We really have to win.

[GOPsterinMA]

I’ve been preaching about the SCOTUS as THE issue for years.

A RAT +1 appointment and that really is it.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”I’ve been preaching about the SCOTUS as THE issue for years. A RAT +1 appointment and that really is it.”

But what I am getting at it that maybe the GOP wins the Senate by a seat or two and that stops Obama’s free pass appointments, but if they also use it to totally pee off say 60% to 70% of voters and none of the SCOTUS justices retire till after 2016, when the tables turn and now Republicans in Blue states are up for re-election, and say Hillary is POTUS then, it would be a disaster.

Recall all those here sure that the 2010 victory in 2010 meant a similar one in 2012.

[AuH2ORepublican]

I dreamed last night that Ginsburg had died. Suffice it to say, not a happy dream. She needs to hang on until 2017 (or at least until 2015 when we get the Senate back).

[GOPsterinMA]

Yes, yes.