Call Bannon’s bluff: The only way he’ll beat GOP incumbents is if they fold

The New York Post ^ | October 10th, 2017 | By John Podhoretz

[Mariner]

The 248 Republican officials serving in Washington who are up for election in 2018 are facing a deeper and more frightening version of the threat that has haunted GOP senators and representatives since the rise of the Tea Party in 2009: populist ouster from inside their own camp.

How much jeopardy does the right’s internal turmoil put them in? This may be the wrong question. The real issue may be how much jeopardy they think they might be in and what they might do to stave it off as a result.

This would seem to be a strange moment for such upheaval, since Republicans control the House and the Senate as well as the White House.

Conventional wisdom suggests the GOP and its supporters should work to build on these majorities rather than expend unnecessary energy (and money) on a civil war, state by state and district by district.

But we live in unconventional times.

[BobL]

The Senate ‘Leadership’ PAC spent millions to keep Judge Moore off the ticket against the Democrat...and lost that battle.

...now they won’t spend a dime to help Judge Moore win AGAINST THE DEMOCRAT. If the Republican leaders feel keeping conservatives out of Congress is a higher priority than actually winning seats against Democrats, then IT IS OVER for them. We owe them NOTHING.

[Pietro]

Podhoretz is the poster boy for the GOPe that always seems to come up two votes short of keeping their campaign promises.

So it's Podhoretz vs Bannon and the American people.

I know where my money is.

[Bookshelf]

He is a schizophrenic pink diaper baby.

[itsahoot]

Feinstein will be 85 when the votes are cast.

In fairness I seem to remember a Republican that served until they were 100 years old and we thought it was great.

Strom Thurmand

Strom Thurmond Governor of South Carolina, United States Senator James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina. He ran for president in 1948 as the States Rights Democratic Party candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes. Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Democrat and, after 1964, as a Republican. Wikipedia

[itsahoot]

The voters will decide the outcome.

The courts and voting machines will likely have more effect on this election than the voters.

[Oatka]

Conventional wisdom suggests the GOP and its supporters should work to build on these majorities rather than expend unnecessary energy (and money) on a civil war, state by state and district by district.

"Conventional wisdom" is wrong. That's what got them into this mess. Hopefully, this coming primary will Rotor-Rooter a whole bucnh that's clogging the pipeline.

[litehaus]

“The only way he’ll beat GOP incumbents is if they fold”

Should be an easy one since politicians have “paper thin” morals, mental faculties ! Folding paper is easy.....LOL

[litehaus]

Ah, yes..Hitlery’s favorite mentor !!

[Kenny]

I don’t think it was great. It’s the halls of Congress, not a seniors retirement home. I find it shameful that these people stay to prop up their crooked politics for a 1/2 century.

Let fresh, energetic, blood in the government. It was never meant to limp along at an octogenarian pace.