Posted on 05/20/2022 6:24:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
The last time the American economic situation was this bad, then-President James Earl Carter Jr. got attacked by a killer rabbit and nearly cried in front of a live television audience lamenting the great malaise. Voters swept Ronald Reagan into the presidency to restore American confidence and take us from mourning in America to morning in America. Reagan, however, did not get there alone. A group of mostly accidental senators went into office with him.
James Abdnor of South Dakota, Jeremiah Denton of Alabama, John Porter East of North Carolina, Paula Hawkins of Florida, Mack Mattingly of Georgia and Slade Gorton of Washington surprised America by becoming senators. All ran in extremely close races. All were underdogs. All were gone after one term -- East taking his own life in June of 1986, and the others rejected by voters that November. They became known as the accidental senators.
The elections were a harbinger of things to come, particularly the South turning right and heading to the GOP. Denton, for example, lost to Democratic Rep. Richard Shelby in 1986. Shelby is now the retiring Republican senator from Alabama.
In addition to those accidental one-term senators from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Dakota, other states flipped to the GOP too. Alaska elected Frank Murkowski. Idaho elected Steve Symms. Indiana elected future Vice President Dan Quayle. Iowa elected Chuck Grassley, the last of the Class of 1980 still in office. New Hampshire elected Warren Rudman. Wisconsin elected Bob Kasten. In 1988, Gorton ran again after his 1986 loss and won two more elections, losing to Maria Cantwell in 2000.
Surprising all the pundits, the Republicans took the United States Senate for the first time since 1955 and held it for four years. In 1994, the GOP would take the House after 40 years in the minority and retake the Senate.
The Senate shift to the GOP in 1980 was so unexpected that no one had even contemplated a transition plan. Sen. Howard Baker who had, ironically, run in the Republican presidential primary to stop Ronald Reagan, became Senate majority leader. It was the largest swing in a Senate election since 1958 and the Senate GOP's best showing since 1946 when voters turned against Truman. The Republicans held all 10 of their existing seats up for reelection and flipped 12 of the 24 Democrat seats for a total gain of 22 seats.
Fast-forward to 2022. The nation's mood is as pessimistic or more pessimistic than in 1980. Inflation is at a 40-year high. American morale is in decline. We have a labor shortage, a housing shortage, a baby formula shortage and other shortages. Schools are ruining the lives of students with lockdowns, excuses and indoctrination. Parents are furious and the Department of Education is furious with the parents.
Congress won't secure the border or take care of the basic functions of government, while also blowing up deficits and making inflation worse. The Biden administration compounds the problems by driving up energy costs and harming American wage growth. Democrats, unable to run on their record, are running on "ultra-MAGA." They intend to portray Republican candidates across the country as extremists, out of touch and radical.
Surprising all the pundits, the Republicans took the United States Senate for the first time since 1955 and held it for four years. In 1994, the GOP would take the House after 40 years in the minority and retake the Senate.
The Senate shift to the GOP in 1980 was so unexpected that no one had even contemplated a transition plan. Sen. Howard Baker who had, ironically, run in the Republican presidential primary to stop Ronald Reagan, became Senate majority leader. It was the largest swing in a Senate election since 1958 and the Senate GOP's best showing since 1946 when voters turned against Truman. The Republicans held all 10 of their existing seats up for reelection and flipped 12 of the 24 Democrat seats for a total gain of 22 seats.
Fast-forward to 2022. The nation's mood is as pessimistic or more pessimistic than in 1980. Inflation is at a 40-year high. American morale is in decline. We have a labor shortage, a housing shortage, a baby formula shortage and other shortages. Schools are ruining the lives of students with lockdowns, excuses and indoctrination. Parents are furious and the Department of Education is furious with the parents.
Congress won't secure the border or take care of the basic functions of government, while also blowing up deficits and making inflation worse. The Biden administration compounds the problems by driving up energy costs and harming American wage growth. Democrats, unable to run on their record, are running on "ultra-MAGA." They intend to portray Republican candidates across the country as extremists, out of touch and radical.
The RATS don’t have a record to run on except hate, lies, deception, racism and destroying our country. They could run on that! I predict the RATS are so hated that they will lose 80 house seats and 20 Senate seats. They’re going to lose house and senate seats they never dreamed could be lost. But don’t worry, the Surrender Party still has Mitch, McCarthy, Romney, Collins, Cornyn and Murkowski to cave in on everything important.
Your predictions are based upon the expected voter fraud and election manipulation being overcome that hallmarked the 2020 election?
Democrats will be fine, voters despise them, won’t vote for them, but the system will be made to compensate to get them in enough to stop any progress.
Nobody has addressed the 2020 election for many reasons, but most of all it’s because there is one party in Washington DC, and they want your money, rights, and property.
When government fears the people you have democracy. Who believes the Government fears the people?
Funniest piece of fake news I’ve read all morning:-)
Democrats are running on “ultra-MAGA.” They intend to portray Republican candidates across the country as extremists, out of touch and radical.
“They’re going to lose house and senate seats they never dreamed could be lost.”
Perhaps. However, there is still the prospect of Covid 22, Monkeypox, or some other disease to become a pandemic whipped up by the medical bureaucracy, Democrat politicians, and the media. Lockdowns, mail-in ballots, community organizers collecting ballots, and corrupt election officials can change many election results.
Remember the election validation process in effect in most states only involves recounting the ballots, not validating the ballots themselves. As a result hundreds of thousands of manufactured ballots can be inserted into the count, by various means, and dramatically change the results. When a recount is ordered, the election officials simply recount all of the ballots, real and manufactured. The results are essentially the same, the election is certified, and the press claims once again the claims of election fraud are false.
Jeremiah Denton was a POW in Vietnam
When Hell was in Session
How can that one be accidental ???
I would argue that James Abdnor didn’t lose but he was screwed out of his Senate seat in a recount...which the democrats always seem to find just enough votes
It is virtually certain that the GOP will sweep the Congressional elections this fall and like have the majority in both houses. However, what then? The feckless GOP Congressional leadership I believe is nearly clueless how to stop the current march to Communism. The ultra RINOs like Romney, Mikulski and Collins especially cannot be reliable actors in a purge of socialism. The other question is who will be the GOP nominee for President. While Trump is the assumed likely choice, he brings a lot of baggage. Trump will like no other galvanize the opposition and stoke the media firestorm. The GOP needs another Reagan to pull the country out of this mess.
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