Here in Missouri Claire McCaskill will be toast unless voters nominate another blithering idiot like Todd Akin to run against her.
Flake may lose in the primary. Certainly hope so. Won’t vote for him this time around...
Another interesting spill-over ramifications I hadn't thought of...
The high number of likely endangered Democrats in 2018 also will give the Trump administration a powerful tool. The administration can put enormous pressure on these Democrats to back certain agenda items, like new approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and the repeal of Obamacare, lest they face angry conservative voters at home.
If Obama pardons Clinton, the (R)s could end up with more than 60.
Remember the Tea Party?
Remember 2010?
That’s where we started.
Trump finished that job last Tuesday..
In 2018 we need to do it again and secure that victory.
NO likely about it. Flake is going DOWN and going down BIG TIME!
For the next two - four years we have to work to consolidate and EXPAND support for the republican party: minorities and cities. We need to start creating cracks, so that people don’t vote anymore on racial lines. We need to wide spread the values that made this country great.
Lets get Manchin over to us now!
Will Dems in 2018 be able to defend 23 Senators? See the list.
http://www.periodicalpress.senate.gov/reelection-2016/
25 Dhimmicraps up to 10 Republicans, and 13 of those Dhimmicraps are in states Trump carried.
(Remember, there was not a single “purple” state this year — every state with a Senate race that Trump carried elected a Republican Senator, and every one that Clinton carried elected a Democrat Senator.)
This could be excellent.
But in several of these races, the GOP won’t even try.
He ran as a Conservative Democrat when he first ran for office. His actions have become more and more socialist leaning over the years.
The population of Florida, when he was first elected was primarily Democrat. In fact many Conservative Democrats voted Republican in national elections, but remained Democrat, because all local and regional candidates were Dems.
Little by little Conservative Democrats have registered Republican or Independent. What has kept him in office is mainly the the migration of Liberal Democrats to South Florida, and illegal immigration.
Hopefully in 2018 Bill Nelson will be forced to retire by being soundly beaten at the polls.
So much good news, it’s almost overwhelming. Trump’s situation for his whole presidential term looks very good. He should be able to get more done than any president in ages.
I wonder if Kelli Ward would be willing to stand against that miserable excuse for a Republican Flake?
Oh, Dean Heller, Nevada will most definitely be targeted. He is neverTrump, was on the news stating that. Because of him and his ilk, Trump lost Nevada by a slim margin. We also ended up with gun control by a very slim margin.
Republicans can still lose the House in the midterms & not do as well as they expect in the Senate. Then perhaps Trump doesn’t run for re-election & it’s 2006 & 2008 again. Let’s learn the lessons of 1994, 2006 , 2010 & 2016 again. America is mostly in the middle between 2 parties. People vote for the candidate they fear & dislike less than the other candidate. Whoever wins needs to EARN repect & gain trust instead of trying to claim a “mandate” & ram some partisan agenda through with a slim vote. George HW Bush won in 1988 because the unemloyment rate was headed down from 11% to 5.3%....whereas the price of gas was $1.11 in 1981 but only $1.04 in 1989. And Reagan’s “peace through strength” & debt-financed military infrastructure made people feel stronger. In 1981, we still were using weaponry from WW2 & after Korea & Vietnam it was time to retool. At least Reagan had something to show for his debt....HARDWARE like Seawolf submarines & Apache helicopters that still are being used today....and that is why it made sense to debt-finance them. Liberal debt-financed school-building, road building, and even light rail & high speed heavy rail from nowhere to nowhere. They even debt-financed sports stadiums for private sector owned sports team franchises. People debt-financed homes , cars, businesses. So the idea that Reagan did something irresponsible by debt-financing military infrastructure is absurd—especially since he raised the gas tax & SS tax......
Politics is not fair. George W Bush was not a good president, but he inherited a recession caused by the Fed that wasn’t seen until after he took office...and deficits happened even before 2003 “tax cuts for the rich” kicked in...but he got blamed for it because people saw a surplus in 2000. We had a severe stock market crash worse than 1929-1930 from 2000-2003.......but no depression.
So if recession hits under Trump & Republicans...it’s going to be like 1982 when Reagan got slammed in the midterms just because the Fed caused that recession, too—by waiting until Reagan won the election before attacking inflation that it let rise to 13.5% to keep Carter out of recession in 1979-1980. Remember that Democrats in the late 1970s were saying that you could get less than 8% unemployment rate without runaway inflation......
GOP needs to move the people incrementally towards their point of view. The press didn’t let us talk or argue for 8 years when they graded Obama on a curve about deficits & Obamacare....and the fix still is on...so GOP needs to be as wise as serpents & gentle as doves & pick its battles wisely. Just lowering the Medicare age & getting pre-existing conditions & putting them into Medicare & getting them out of the insurance pool will do more than enough to lower health care premium costs driven up by Obamacare. If Paul Ryan wants to partially privatize Medicare-—let him do it by giving vouchers to the under 50s who do NOT have pre-existing condition. Trump needs to bring some Democrats into the debate to keep right wing ideologues from losing Congress in the midterms & causing a big reverse in 2020. You could lower the Medicare age & put pre existing conditions onto Medicaid (many who are poor and cannot work)-——and have Medicare-for-all-— which vouchers only for the people under 50 or 55 yrs old who do not have pre-existing conditions...but probably that’s not even the best idea.
Banning employer-paid insurance would level the playing field and GOP needs to expose the liberal charade of exempting “small” business from its mandates for Obamacare and minimum wage. Trump and the GOP can do a lot to turn the people against bad Democrat ideas and policies...but they need to make the argument and win the debate and stop preaching to the choir letting the opposition build and get blindsided by it. GOP needs to be honest, too. Reagan wasn’t perfect, George W Bush was a weak president. George H W Bush raised taxes because he expected aggressive rate cutting/easing by the Fed but didn’t get it. Trump represents something between Reagan, Bush and LBJ—who didn’t run for re-election. Since then, Democrats were taken over by radicals. Getting rid of the corporate income tax & tax on business payrolls and rewarding WORK as the real “risk-taking” is far better policy that pandering to internet stock traders and vulture capitalists like Mitt Romney who made $20 million annually but took less real risk than somebody taking a new job & driving to work on the freeway and risking his career and 8-12 hours of every workday. Zero percent capital gains tax is silly policy. (regardless of what Paul Gigot says) and cutting the corporate income tax to 15% is just a tax dodge. It needs to be eliminated completely as an unjust “excise tax” which of course may not be applied beyond our borders on goods manufactured and sold in other countries that have their own taxing power.
Jeff Flake would not be a great loss.
At least we got to enjoy FIVE days without discussing the next election. Can’t this wait until at least January 21?
...Oh well, let the games resume.
I wonder what a potential massively reduced number of illegal aliens will do to the democrat vote, especially in places like Nevada, Arizona and California???
Shoot for 60!
Let them Burn!