There is no reason to get our tail in a knot right now.
I fail to see this turning out bad for us.
Of course if the McConnell/GOPe/RNC cabal go south on us, who knows. Failing that, we’ll do okay.
The RINO GOPe cabal went south on us years ago For example, McConnell. For example, many people campaigned for mcShame and romney to try to stop the obama cabal. But they both threw the elections and attacked us, behaved shamefully since. They even didn’t repeal Obamacare. Still very little swamp draining.
As a former Payroll
supervisor and a life long bookkeeper/accounting person, I don’t see any problem with the 2018 elections.
Someone on the Dem side hasn’t figured out yet that those tax cuts & larger paychecks that are being issued timely are being issued to Democrat voters as well as Republican voters.
I am betting that those larger paychecks & more stability in the companies they work for will sway many of them to actually vote for Trump & GOP in 2018.
A puzzle to me that Pelosi keeps demeaning the recipients of those bonuses-—I am sure they were NOT just issued to Republicans. I am pretty darn sure Democrat voters got some of those bonuses, also.
We’re going to have to deliver a huge victory they apparently neither want nor deserve. There are certain elements that would like to lose big so they can create the narrative that “the message has been heard” to abandon the conservative agenda (and get rid of President Trump). If there is a big victory in November, that narrative is pretty much destroyed. There are many other bad narratives a big win would also destroy or at least damage.
I remember that huge moneybomb of $10 million Christine O’Donnell got virtually overnight back in 2010. Unfortunately she did not utilize it well (the opening ad of her campaign was “I’m not a witch” which was a poor choice) and was running in a near impossible state to win. However, we have more than 10 states up where it is not impossible for the Republicans to win. Getting a full campaign war chest of $10 million per candidate is just 1 million conservative giving them each an average donation of just $10. There are far more than just 1 million conservative who can afford to do that. I wish that could somehow be organized for these candidates like it was for O’Donnell. That would counter the donor classes closing their wallets to the GOP as they seem to be doing this election cycle (that article from HotAir about McConnell - I went back to the original The Hill article and McConnell was more expressing pessimism due to lackluster fundraising - although that is not something he should have been discussing publicly as that is demoralizing to the base).
Here’s the map:
https://www.270towin.com/2018-senate-election/2A4oxa
The new Trump voters need to get the message about what is at stake and know to show up - the rallies for some of these candidates aren’t nearly as fun an entertaining but if they do indeed show up to the polls, it doesn’t matter how “fired up” the Dems are, the Dems will lose - they were fired up in 2016, too...they lost. Trump should start making his regular calls to the talk radio circuit across the nation to fire up the base again to get interested in this election cycle - so much is at stake. Losing the Senate also means grinding judicial nominations to a halt. I believe the President through those actions can move momentum back to his own party like was done back in 2002.