Harry Reid's Desperate Measures

The Wall Street Journal ^ | September 30, 2014 | Fred Barnes

[centurion316]

In Kansas, Democrats persuaded their Senate candidate, Chad Taylor, to drop out of the race against incumbent Republican Pat Roberts. Mr. Taylor was running third in polls behind Mr. Roberts and independent Greg Orman. Soon after Mr. Taylor's early-September withdrawal, Democratic lawyers went to court to keep his name off the ballot.

In Montana, after Democratic Sen. Max Baucus announced that he would not seek re-election in 2014, Democrats feared that an open seat would be an easy win for Republican Steve Daines. So Mr. Baucus resigned and went to China as U.S. ambassador. Lt. Gov. John Walsh was appointed senator. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, meanwhile, pressured another Democrat to drop out and allow Mr. Walsh to win the primary without a challenger. Mr. Walsh later quit the race in a plagiarism scandal.

All that maneuvering only begins to suggest the lengths to which Democrats are going to retain control of the Senate in the midterm election on Nov. 4. Candidate switches have happened before. Democrats replaced New Jersey Sen. Robert Torricelli, who had won the primary, with Frank Lautenberg as their candidate in 2002. But that pales next to Democratic machinations in 2014.

Republicans aren't above ruthless tactics, but in 40 years of covering national elections I've never seen anything like the extraordinary efforts of Democrats to prevent Republicans from picking up the six seats to gain Senate control.

Mr. Reid is the leading architect of the Democratic campaign and its unprecedented tactics. He has sought to protect incumbent Democrats from votes that might imperil their re-election. And he is determined to keep Republicans from demonstrating that they're not opposed to every Democratic initiative. To manage this, he has slowed Senate business to a near halt.

[centurion316]

Good insights on the Democrats plan to sustain their organized criminal enterprise in power. Harry Reid is the most ruthless and corrupt public official in my lifetime at the national level. Yet, he and his gang of thieves are actively supported by long time members of this forum who have concocted their elaborate and completely irrational arguments to support their positions.

One of the most important principles of politics is to identify your enemies and do whatever you can do to defeat them. Harry Reid clearly understands this. His fan club on this forum does not.

[Hildy]

Who supports Harry Reid on this forum?

[Jacquerie]

Mark Levin accurately described senators as “at large.”

They don't represent their states. They don't represent the interests of the people of their states until about a year before reelection.

Our once esteemed senators represent party interests. They are melding into one, the Uniparty. Once this happens . . .

[csivils]

“One of the most important principles of politics is to identify your enemies and do whatever you can do to defeat them.”

We get the principle. You just object to us applying it towards RINOs.

[csivils]

centurion316 does. Specifically, the position that we should elect senators who would vote with Harry on crucial votes such as closure votes.

[kaehurowing]

This is the way it happens here. Instead of politicians announcing they will not run for re-election, they abruptly resign in the middle of the term, thus allowing the Democrat Central Party Committee and the Democrat Governor to pick their successors and put them in office as successors. Then they are already plugged into the money machine and can run as “incumbents” in the next election. Many of our “elected” representatives are in fact appointed.

[Liz]

Mmmmmm.....let's be more compassionate as Harry faces losing his status come midterms ---just another Dumbocrat victim of the WH ding-a-ling.

Here's one delicious option.

Let's give Harry a brand new office ....in the Capitol's sub-basement, next to the furnace. Harry'll just love his brand-new cardboard desk (some assembly required).

Although I hear phone service isn't hooked up down there yet. Too bad. Harry can always use smoke signals (from the handy furnace) to communicate.

And give 'ol Harry a comfortable desk chair---complete w/ comfy head and foot rests.......and tell him not to worry about all those silly electrical switches lying around.

Harry's new chair....with our compliments.

[Liz]

HARRY SAYS HIT 'EM HARD The buzz is Harry is advising nervous Dems to chat-up the "social issues." In Iowa, desperate Democrat Bruce Braley is falling behind pig castrator, Joni Ernst. Braley is up and ready---he is resorting to pumping abortion-on-demand to get women's votes.

Typical---the last refuge of a scoundrel---a woman's vagina.

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Iowa women voters need to ask themselves:

"Would you want Bruce Braley in your vagina?

[what's up]

There are people who refuse to participate in helping to oust him.

[Hildy]

What can we do on this forum to “oust” him?

[what's up]

Seems pretty obvious. If you live in a state where a Senate race is occurring vote GOP.

[skinkinthegrass]

hmm... 😷