Vive la Vichy Republicans!
The only advantage to retaining Sen. Susan Collins is if that gives us a Senate majority. Otherwise, her major role is to vote as a big government liberal. Still, I’ll take that advantage if it gets us closer to repealing ObamaCare and buys us a few more years with at least limited federal obedience to the Second Amendment.
I have a lot of friends in Maine.
They’d be a lot happier if they could split the state into North Maine and South Maine. North Maine is very conservative.
I imagine the folks in upstate NY an western MA feel the same.
Collins is an “extra democrat” whose vote is used to pass “bipartisan” legislation or to allow democrats who actually call themselves democrats to vote against bills but still have the legislation pass to fool their constituents.
Well, actually, for many years Snow and Collins were “good” RINOS. They voted liberal whenever the leadership said they didn’t need their vote. But they voted with the party when their vote was absolutely necessary.
Then the leadership went south, and no longer held anyone to the party line. We got Lincoln Chaffee, and Rove and Bush did everything they could to get the S.O.B. re-elected, even after he betrayed us on key votes.
Then Collins and Snow got the picture. There was no longer any reason for them to vote with the party when their votes were needed—because the leadership no longer punished them if they didn’t.
So, now we have a leadership that shilled for Lisa Murkowski, even after she lost the Republican primary to a conservative candidate—because they really loved her kind of corrupt pork grubbing, and they hated the Republican candidate for his putative connections with the dreaded Sarah Palin.
Boehner is terrible, but the Senate leadership is really just as bad—they just haven’t had as much chance to prove it recently.
How many seats did the GOP defend in 2012?
How many seats did the Democrats defend in 2012?
What was the outcome?
Romney States?! What kind of measuring tool is THAT!
/rhetorical
Add 1 Colorado Republican to the 2014 Senate tally.
We don’t even know who the GOP candidate will be, but after yesteday’s anti-2A Bill signing, the Dems will be swept from offices across the state.
I hope it turns out well and we get the Senate, but people said the same thing in 2012 and we got slaughtered...there were seats that were easy wins for the Senate and we lost them all. A very embarrassing year. I don’t know what to say about 2014 but I am NOT getting my hopes up like I did 2012. I was COMPLETELY STUNNED election night.
Vive la Vichy Republicans!
With Romney out of the way, perhaps we can do better this time.
If Johnson SD is up, I wonder if he is capable, since he has had his stroke you don’t see or hear anything of him, I think everything is handled by his staff.
Class II Senate seat up for election in 2014.
Baucus, Max (D-MT)
Begich, Mark (D-AK)
Coons, Christopher A. (D-DE)
Cowan, William M. (D-MA)
Durbin, Richard J. (D-IL)
Franken, Al (D-MN)
Hagan, Kay R. (D-NC)
Harkin, Tom (D-IA)
Johnson, Tim (D-SD)
Landrieu, Mary L. (D-LA)
Lautenberg, Frank R. (D-NJ)
Levin, Carl (D-MI)
Merkley, Jeff (D-OR)
Pryor, Mark L. (D-AR)
Reed, Jack (D-RI)
Rockefeller, John D., IV (D-WV)
Shaheen, Jeanne (D-NH)
Udall, Mark (D-CO)
Udall, Tom (D-NM)
Warner, Mark R. (D-VA)
Alexander, Lamar (R-TN)
Chambliss, Saxby (R-GA)
Cochran, Thad (R-MS)
Collins, Susan M. (R-ME)
Cornyn, John (R-TX)
Enzi, Michael B. (R-WY)
Graham, Lindsey (R-SC)
Inhofe, James M. (R-OK)
Johanns, Mike (R-NE)
McConnell, Mitch (R-KY)
Risch, James E. (R-ID)
Roberts, Pat (R-KS)
Sessions, Jeff (R-AL)
Another thread on the Senate elections.
And as it says I miscounted, there are 7 rat seats up in Romney states, not 6.