Posted on 10/28/2014 5:34:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Democratic Party is systematically destroying America and other than Barack Obama, no one deserves more blame for it than Harry Reid. He may be an excellent politician who runs circles around Mitch McConnell the way Bugs Bunny baffles Elmer Fudd, but he's also a habitually dishonest, mean-spirited sociopath who cares absolutely nothing about the good of the country. The Democrat senators who put Reid into power and went along with Obama deserve to be punished for what they’ve done.
Certainly, that doesn't mean the Republicans are wonderful. Just the fact that they allow themselves to be led by a mediocrity like Mitch McConnell tells you a lot. So does the fact that Ted Cruz is talked about as if he’s this wild-eyed, radical conservative. Don't get me wrong: Ted Cruz is my favorite senator and I can't say enough good things about him. But really, what makes Ted Cruz so special? That he's smart? Aren't senators supposed to be smart? Is he unique because he effectively attacks the Democrats? Aren't Republicans supposed to do that? Is Ted Cruz a stand-out because he behaves as if he believes in all the things he said on the campaign trail? Really? Aren’t Republicans supposed to believe in the things they say on the campaign trail? In a sense, the most remarkable thing about Ted Cruz is that he IS so remarkable despite doing little more than what the average Republican in the Senate should be doing in the first place.
That being said, while we shouldn’t put the Senate Republicans up on a pedestal, we also shouldn’t underestimate how bad the Senate Democrats have become. So, why is it so important to beat the Democrats?
1) It helps check Obama’s power: Politically, what we’ve seen in recent years is that the party out of power benefits tremendously from hunkering down, saying “no” and refusing to cooperate. For the most part, the Republican Party has done just that. The problem with that approach is Barack Obama doesn’t care about the Constitution, doesn’t care about the law and is acting more like a king than a President. We’ve desperately needed the Republican Party to do more than meekly complain about it and they just haven’t stepped up to the plate because they’ve adopted the, “We’re out of power, so the best thing we can do is nothing” mentality. On the other hand, if Republicans control the House and the Senate, they will quite rightfully be expected to DO SOMETHING when Obama overreaches. How much will they do? How effective will they be? That’s hard to say with two pitiful sad sacks like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell in charge, but you can be guaranteed they’ll step it up simply because the media, the establishment and the general populace will now join grassroots conservatives in expecting them to take action. A Republican Party that is just as timid in the majority as they are in the minority has nothing to offer the country and they know that.
2) It enables Republicans to set the table for 2016: The House Republicans have more than 350 bills that have died in the Senate without a vote; yet they’re the ones getting blamed for being obstructionists. If the GOP controls the Senate, suddenly Democrats are going to have to start taking tough votes again. That means they’ll have to vote against popular legislation or even better, they’ll go along with Republicans, pass it and send it up to Obama. Then either Obama signs the bills into law or he becomes the obstructionist, vetoes the bills and gives our 2016 candidate strong issues to run on. Moreover, he puts the Democrat candidate in a tough spot. Do Democrats make their supporters angry by saying that the Republicans were right and Obama was wrong to veto the bill or do they continue to support his unpopular vetoes? Let’s leave their 2016 Presidential candidate defending an unpopular, obstructionist President while our candidate will have a readymade raft of popular issues to run on for once.
3) If we don’t get it done in 2014, we sure won’t get it done in 2016: This year, the number of Democrat senators up for reelection in red states is heavily tilted towards the Republican Party. In 2016, the math will run the other way and Republicans will have to defend 24 out of the 34 seats up for reelection. Moreover, most of those Democrat seats will be in safe districts while at least 10 of the Republican seats will likely be in competitive states. If Obama’s popularity continues to sink and we win the presidency, could we hold enough of those seats to keep the Senate? Yes, but obviously we need to pad our totals as much as possible this year to give us a chance to do that. If we’re going to have any kind of opportunity to move the ball forward on the deficit, Obamacare, foreign policy, taxes, protecting the 2nd Amendment or any of the other issues we care about, we’re going to need Republicans in the Senate that we can beat, threaten and cajole into doing the right thing.
4) It will improve the quality of GOP legislation: Putting Republicans in charge of the Senate will take a big excuse away from the Republicans on issues like immigration. Ironically, the reason the House leadership Republicans were so hell-bent on passing it this year was BECAUSE they feared the GOP would take over the Senate. Truthfully, they’d rather have a bad bill that codifies open borders and amnesty that they could blame on Harry Reid. Then, the line would have been something like, “We know it’s not the greatest bill, but what do you expect when we have to work with Harry Reid?” That same principle applies to Obamacare, the deficit and a number of other issues. If the GOP runs the House and the Senate, Republicans can’t take a show vote, then embrace some left-wing bill and blame it on the Democrats. Since the GOP leadership is comprised of country club Republican idiots, we still have to worry about the legislation they’ll pass, but at least we’ll be sure that it’ll be better than anything they could have done this year.
5) It’s a necessary rebuke of Obama: We all know that Democrats are never going to publicly admit that Barack Obama is the worst President in American history. However, even fanatically loyal, dumb Democrats can do basic addition and subtraction.
By the time Obamacare came up for a vote, the Democrats had control of the presidency, 60 seats in the Senate and 257 seats in the House. That is about as far as the scale can tip in their favor and so if the GOP ends up with overwhelming control in the House and a majority in the Senate, Obama will get the blame just as Jimmy Carter did for Ronald Reagan. Democrats can toss out all the propaganda they want, but if they know that moving way off to the Left will lead to crushing defeats at the ballot box, it will shake their nerve and they’re likely to be more moderate for a while out of fear. Like most Republican politicians, Democrat politicians care more about keeping their cushy jobs than anything else. That’s why we need to take some of those jobs away to change their behavior.
As an extra added bonus, it will give the Democrats a strong incentive to try to prevent Obama from further hurting the party with his outlandish executive orders. Will that slow him down? Maybe it will, maybe it won’t, but if he starts getting calls from senators, donors, activists, unions and the rest of the people he listens to telling him not to make any big moves, it may give him cold feet. Obama may not care about America, but even he doesn’t want to be remembered as another Jimmy Carter whose buffoonery ended up helping Republicans more than Democrats in the end
6) Senate Democrats need to be punished for what they’ve done: My days of telling people to vote for the “lesser of two evils” are over, but there are still times that you need to vote to punish the people in charge for doing the wrong thing. Are you going to let Democrats who voted for Obamacare get away with it? Are you going to reward them for enabling Barack Obama’s unconstitutional, un-American, and oftentimes illegal executive orders? When far left-wingers like Michelle Nunn in Georgia or Greg Orman in Kansas insult your intelligence by pretending not to be liberals, are you just going to take it? These people aren’t acting any differently than they would if their goal is to destroy the United States; so how can you just shrug that off? At a minimum, these Democrats who’ve hurt you, your children, and your country need to see their cushy jobs disappear for what their party has done to America.
This election and the one in 2016 are the most important ones in our lives
Nope. The GOP is punting until 2016. They’re already planning another preemptive surrender in the lame duck by fully funding the Obama agenda. Doing so would severely limit conservative options against Obama.
We’ll be in exactly the same spot in 2016 even if the Dems keep the Senate because a GOP lead by Boehner & McConnell simply has no interest in substantively opposing the Obama agenda.
Sitting the election out will also give victory to the left
That should read, the Democratic and Republican parties are...
Under republican leadership, the borders have remained wide open, government scope and size has ballooned, American middle class shrinking, government bailouts of crony capitalist continues, debt spiraled out of control.
I dunno, maybe I just see things differently than most. I just don't think the republican party has done Americans, particularly the middle class any favors over the last few decades.
In fact, partially under republican leadership, Americans have realized the largest shift of wealth in the world's history. I'm speaking of the outsourcing of good paying American jobs to Asia where child slave labor is common. Labor and environmental practices illegal here in the states, are also common practice in China.
Now, before you folks come chimin in, “Wa wa wa, dats why man-fakterin moved cuz too spensive here”, just like to remind y'all that I am not talking about healthy competitive capitalism here.
We have Chinamen jumpin out of manufacturing facility windows, folks sleeping on the line, unbelievable pollution of their water and air. Really crazy stuff not to mention the Chinese military gaining ground and exerting heavy handed influence around the world, particularly their immediate neighbors.
I am chastising this perverted globalist style of capitalism that throws mama from the train or sells out the national security of a nation for a $$buck$$. Hint hint...China
Democrats and Republicans sucked up campaign cash from multi-nationals in return for policy and egregiously lopsided trade deals that favored foreign interest and the lining of these crony capitalist pockets at the expense of American citizens.
Here is an example. No names, but the corporation I worked for does business in China through a front company. In other words, we cannot sell goods into China as an American entity, we must re-label our products under the name of a Chinese brand, otherwise we cannot do business.
So...what's wrong with that picture folks? They can sell billions upon billions in our country, yet we are squeezed in theirs. hmmmmm
Seems to me this all has happened under the leadership of BOTH parties.
Our government is out of control, pretty much on all levels. About the only thing DC could do is stop the stuff that will make it impossible for some areas to recover when it all comes tumbling down. What's left of the US will NEVER recover, even on local levels if we're over-run by hordes of the global under-class, Ebola and other 3rd world diseases take hold, our medical care deteriorates further, our education system stays bizarre and ineffective, terrorism and civil unrest become the norm, we don't bring jobs back that develop survival skills, the middle class doesn't rebound,....
The Republicans will probably stop some of the deliberate stuff. But I don't see the current DC crowd having the vision, intelligence, or integrity to save the US.
Yes, I'm voting 'pub, but I'd never vote for Cochran if I were in MI. That's proof positive how disgusting the party we have no choice but support has become.
well, he was a 1/3 Senator from MA, serving for 2 years.
Here is a chance to lock out a ‘Rat from what otherwise would be a slot they’d have for 6 years.
From MA, the best at the moment to wish for is an R (RINO) winning a special election for Sinate. There are just too many drones and zombies that vote in general elections here.
Sitting the election out will also give victory to the left
GOP support to fund the Obama agenda in the lame duck will be a victory for the left.
Does Obama need Reid if McConnell will roll over for him?
“After the election is over, and after the Republicans have taken the Senate, and after not much still changes, some of us will remember the FR posters who asked that all conservative FReepers sell out to the Republican Party...again.”
and what are we putting up as an alternative?
Sitting at home and complaining? Ranting on about Civil War 2 or some other fantasy of secession?
Because this “plan” of wiping out the GOP, and hoping that Democrats running the entire government will be so bad that people will flock to some completely non-existent Conservative Party, isnt going to happen seeing how incompetent conservatives have been during this past primary season.
I acknowledged that in my post, and then explained that a GOPe victory is also a victory for the left.
Just like a bad day of fishing eats a good day at work, a bad Republican beats a good Democrat (even if there were any)every time. Why? Because even the most notorious rhino supports conservative causes SOME of the time, whereas Democrats are always monolithic in their vote. First, you get rid of the fire that is burning down your house. Then, after you’ve put out the fire, you exterminate the house. It does no good to exterminate a burning house.
Many times in the past 50 years I’ve voted for republican candidates I’ve not been comfortable and if I were in any other state than Mississippi I would probably do it again but I’m not going to vote for “our turd” because he doesn’t smell as bad as the “democrats turd” this year. I’m writing Chris McDaniel. Yes, I know it won’t be counted.
DO NOT SUPPORT MITCH OR THAD!!!
Mitch declared “war” on “tea party types” and supported Thad in his partnership with democrats to steal an election through vote fraud from a “tea party” type who had already beat him in the primary.
If you support these two F’ers then YOU are part of the problem! Let them LOSE! MAKE them LOSE! The senate can be taken without them and even if it cant, what good would it do to have one of these Aholes in charge of it?
Sorry man. NO MORE! Rats are rats... be they in the democrat party or the republican party.
Well at least he’s not third party
I have been preaching this mantra for over six years. This election is it!!! We either throw out all the Demcorats, or....we throw away our once great nation!!! End of story!!!
hahaha. Meaningless. I don’t care who takes the Senate next week. It means nothing. Long term is the issue and as long as we keep electing “they stink” then Conservatism dies in the long run.
We’ve been voting for them even though “they stink” for awhile now and what exactly has it gotten us? It has pushed us to the brink of extinction with NO demographic preferring Conservatives but ours.
Myopic in the extreme.
we have many surrender ONE battle to forfeit the war philosophers.
If ANYONE wants to give the conservative caucus a fighting chance we have to have a majority, PERIOD.
Politics is compromise.
That wasn’t directed at you, just in general to all the “purists” out there that happen to read my post.
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