Posted on 05/21/2014 8:29:24 AM PDT by centurion316
Among the themes of second-guessing and deep regret that are emerging of rubble of last night's election is the thought that the Senate could be under the control of Republicans right now if weren't for their habit of running supremely unlikable candidates. It was bad enough that Mitt Romney was soundly defeated for the White House, but what hurts even more right now is that Republicans, who at one point had hoped for a sweep of both houses of Congress, actually lost ground in the upper chamber. Depending on your definition of a poachable, that makes as many seven races over the last two election cycles that could have been theirs for the taking.
(Excerpt) Read more at thewire.com ...
McConnell needs to taken out. Period.
reaching accross the aisle, to democrats, “bipartisan” collabos...
Reaching to people or business? Nahh.
I was listening to NPR on my way to work this morning and they sounded depressed over last night's primary results. They were hoping Republican voters would field unlikeable, unelectable candidates of the Akin, Mourdock (and Paul Broun) stripe who would be soundly defeated by Democrats come November, paticularly in Georgia where Michelle Nunn's roadmap to victory has now become much more difficult.
Well, that will certainly do a lot of good --- for the Dimocrats!
Unfortunately, it's rather clear that more than a few folks on this forum did exactly that in Nov. 2012.
Doesn't matter. I no longer care who blames me. I won't vote for the liberal(R).
/johnny
Nunn won’t win in Georgia this fall. Grimes won’t win in KY.
/johnny
You and Harry Reed are on the same page.......
I don’t really see how it even matters at all.
This country is going to hit the wall very fast and very hard, and that is all there is to it.
And the people driving the train, which include both parties, think they can build a better train out of the wreckage.
That is where we are in America, we’ve gone utterly and completely insane.
The GOP and Harry Reed are on the same page.
Grimes wins in November.
/johnny
Truth be told, I don’t see any political solution to our problems. I believe we are in a death spiral.
But it’s fun to talk about.
Like the NJ GOP did for Bret Schundler, the conservative, when he won the GOP nomination for NJ Gov in ‘01?
Like that?
The GOP bigwigs outright endorsed the dim, calling Schundler ‘extreme’ and ‘fringe’.
Sound familiar?
Even the sitting GOP governor didn’t endorse him.
Yes, the GOPe would rather the dims win than a conservative. They have FAR more in common with the dims than they do with the conservatives.
Like the GOP did when ‘Murcow-ski’ lost the GOP primary in Alaska? Like that?
Not a dime’s worth of difference.
If the pubbies do win the senate this go around, how many milliseconds will it take for them to offer some sort of ‘power sharing agreement’ with the dims?...I’m hoping if we take the Senate, Ted Cruz will mollify them by saying “We will treat you the exact same way you treated us, be assured. Only better.”
Nope. Not one.
In NJ, the NJ GOP was more afraid that an ‘outsider’ would get in office and see all the graft and corruption they’d been up to. They knew a dim gov would play along and throw the occasional corrupt bone their way as a favor and keep a lid on the bipartisan hands in the till scandals leaking out.
why?
They won’t do anything with it, especially with Mitch McConnell around.
Too many bought seats in the senate for that to ever happen.
It’s nice to think about though.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.