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.
Now since you are neither a citizen from Kentucky nor Mississippi but Wisconsin, don't you think it is up to the voters of these two states who they want to vote for and not you?
Even the rhinos voted against Obamacare. That’s important to remember because that bill was the most damaging in our history. Want more like that? Go ahead, sit home and don’t vote. That is just what Harry Reid and the Rats want you to do.
Politics is compromise.
GOP funding of the obama agenda (Obamacare, abusive IRS, etc.) in the lame duck is not compromise. It’s surrender.
One reason above all: Harry Read.
That contemptable little slug will be pushed to the sidelines. I need no other reason to vote GOP on 11/4.
I voted for Joe Carr in the primary
“As an alternative, I’m putting forward the notion of staying true to one’s conservative leanings and vote the best you prayerfully can. “
And then part two of this plan is what? Conservatives are unable to even beat RINO senators in primaries! We have the nerve to call the GOP the “stupid party” while we arent even smart enough to beat a RINO in South Carolina.
We suck at social media, have terrible TV news outlets and still depend on AM talk radio in the 21st century to “get the word out”. But we keep thinking we are owed victories by doing everything half @ssed or else we are going to stay home and let the Dem have it.
Will the GOPE give us everything we want? Hell no. Will it be a better placeholder than a Democrat so in the next election we get our act together in the primaries and actually concentrate on winning? Absolutely.
Excellent point
What would an R have to do to get you to NOT vote for them?
Maybe the GOP e/e’s who are doing ALL of the backstabbing should have thought about that before starting their traitorous behaviors.
You get a clue. We see what you e/e’s do and we’ve left your plantation/reservation. There is no going back. If you want conservatives to line up, stop stabbing us and remove the knives.
May God bless you for your conviction!
Honestly.....I do not trust most of the Republican Party, especially the GOPe folks!!! The salvation lies, I believe, in electing more conservatives to the Republican Party. That, I believe, over time, will weed the RINOs into political oblivion.
The problem, for our country, however, is today. Next Tuesday, on November 4, 2014....we the American people, of all political stripes, must simply turn out and vote to destroy the entire Democrat Party, politically....for quite obvious reasons....starting with anti-American, destructive to the USA, POTUS Barack Hussein Obama!!! it is as simple as that.
Now...is not the time for internal squabble...ya gotta play with the hand you have been dealt!!! Obama must be made an instant “LAME DUCK”, next Tuesday...period!!!
The deck has been stacked against us by the GOP e/e's. They make sure the dems can vote in our primaries in conservatives states. I'm absolutely certain they've crafted this policy on purpose. There is no reason South Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi and other Southern conservative states should allow democrat cross over voting. It is done so they can manipulate the election and get their RINOs into office.
I see the use of the word “purists” in this context in the same vein as anti-semite or bigot.
It’s an ad hominem directed at conservatives and its only purpose is to demean, ridicule and divide.
Look....I agree with you...you are right on about past remarks and living to see the results. But...I just believe, this specific election is critical!!! And I am also sorry for your loss. I just want you to know, that this American, knows what freedom, the right to vote and express one’s opinion is kept that way and protected by those who willingly gave their lives for us to keep these priceless treasures, freedom, liberty, opportunity, the right vote, etc.!!! God be with you!!!
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