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A Republican red tide is pushing back against the Dems’ blue wave
New York Post ^ | October 13, 2018 | Salena Zito

Posted on 10/13/2018 6:51:15 PM PDT by TBP

Jason Vogel is fired up to vote. He says his passion crystallized two weeks ago when he saw just how chaotic Washington would be if the Democrats seized power in Congress. When Democratic senators smeared Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as an attempted rapist without proof, and angry protestors stormed the Capitol, he says he grew increasingly concerned.

“A lot of my friends feel the same way. We ask ourselves, ‘Why would you vote Democrat?’ Our lives certainly weren’t better under their way of doing business.”

This November, the question is: What will encourage the conservative populist coalition that put Donald Trump in the White House to vote for Republican candidates — and help keep their majorities — in both the House and Senate?

For Amy Westbrook, a Republican who says she’s an occasional ticket splitter, voting in the midterms means preserving things that are important to her, like traditional values. “I just heard Mike Kelly for the very first time. I like what I heard,” she said.

If people like Westbrook and Vogel coalesce around the GOP, the Democrats could be in trouble. And if the Democrats keep supporting people who claw at the doors of the Supreme Court in protest, or harass Republicans and their families at dinners, or talk nonstop about impeachment or echo Hillary Clinton’s sentiment that: “You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for,” then they may do what I thought unlikely: stop their own blue wave mid-flow.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; bluewave; redtide; redwave; zito
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When the blue wave doesn't happen, the Democrats could be dangerous.
1 posted on 10/13/2018 6:51:15 PM PDT by TBP
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They are already dangerous.

They have always been dangerous.

Consider Vietnam.

Consider WWII

Consider WWI. Democrats were immensely dangerous in all those conflicts.

2 posted on 10/13/2018 6:55:28 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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The real dichotomy here is since women control the Democratic agenda, they should be the red tide.


3 posted on 10/13/2018 6:59:02 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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And they’ll be even more so. They’re still angry about 2016. If they don’t get their blue wave that they’ve been promised, the anger may be uncontrollable.


4 posted on 10/13/2018 6:59:38 PM PDT by TBP (Progrssives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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See my Tagline. Posted weeks before Kav nominated


5 posted on 10/13/2018 6:59:54 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Mods/Independents/Dems/Non-voters" Are CRAZY DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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I donated again to my local Congressional candidate and plan to support in other ways. I am doing my small part, I ask you to do the same. Thank you.

JoMa


6 posted on 10/13/2018 7:08:20 PM PDT by joma89
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To: TBP

Note the terminology —

Blue Wave — I see no negative connotations. It’s a potential political trend in voting. Nothing else.

Red Tide — Yeah, that’s an algae bloom that pollutes the water and makes seafood poisonous. It can result in massive death of sea life, close beaches in the summer and drive up the cost of seafood. Oh, and it’s also a voting thing.


7 posted on 10/13/2018 7:14:29 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The MSM is in the business of creating a fake version of reality for political reasons.)
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To: TBP; Salena Zito

8 posted on 10/13/2018 7:16:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Red tide...oh my goodness.

Sixty years ago my brother was at Georgia Tech. When they played Alabama their cheer went like this:

“Kotex [Go Tech], Stop that Red Tide.”

Don’t suppose they get to yell that anymore.


9 posted on 10/13/2018 7:29:49 PM PDT by ryderann
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Yes, who would vote for DemocRATS? A Party that only offers crazy Leftist Hate and Poison.


10 posted on 10/13/2018 7:39:20 PM PDT by wetgundog (CNN is FAKE NEWS ...Just added NBC.)
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11 posted on 10/13/2018 8:03:12 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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Well, then, by all means, we should vote Democrat!


12 posted on 10/13/2018 8:30:34 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That spells “Republican,” wrong.


13 posted on 10/13/2018 8:32:33 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Per the picture...RepubliCAIN???


14 posted on 10/13/2018 8:52:42 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic is one stop shopping...It's the super Walmart for news.)
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No. A Red Tsunami is Drawing Out A Blue Tide.

There. Fixed it.


15 posted on 10/13/2018 9:32:35 PM PDT by RideForever
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TrumpNAMI!
Lets make the libs choke on that expression come Nov. 7


16 posted on 10/13/2018 10:30:43 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017...The end of an error.)
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They need to stop calling those idiots the “DemocratIC” Party. Those jackasses are a lot of things, but “democratic” they most certainly are not!


17 posted on 10/13/2018 11:46:24 PM PDT by RocketMan1
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I have been wondering for quite some time now, when Democrats will roll up their sleeves and start working for the American taxpayer rather than obstructing the American taxpayer’s governmental functions.


18 posted on 10/14/2018 3:51:18 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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'Bama fans unite!

ROLL (Crimson Red) TIDE!!!

19 posted on 10/14/2018 3:54:29 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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The “blue wave” had been a lie from the beginning. It’s false, empty hope by lying media. A Red Tsunami is far more likely.


20 posted on 10/14/2018 4:09:10 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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