This is exactly what I’ve been saying for months.
Focus on Congress. Focus on Congress. Focus on Congress.
Get good conservatives in Congress and Romney won’t be able to do as much damage as he otherwise would be able to do.
Will we win every battle? Probably not. We already lost the big one. But over time conservatism will trump all other philosophies.It just may not be pretty.
Amen, fellow freeper: ‘Focus on Congress. Focus on Congress. Focus on Congress.’
Get good conservatives in Congress and Romney won’t be able to do as much damage as he otherwise would be able to do.
“Mourdock’s victory not only means that this particular Senate seat is likely to be more conservative (assuming he goes on to win the general election in this traditionally red state), but it also puts Republican Senators everywhere on notice that no seat is safe anywhere in the country. Any elected Republican that doesn’t pursue a small government agenda once in office risks suffering the same fate as Lugar. Had Lugar hung on, then a lot of people would have dismissed the Tea Party as a passing fad from 2010. But now it’s clear that the movement has been underestimated once again. Tea Partiers have a lot more staying power than skeptics expected.
With the Republican presidential nomination going to the ideologically malleable Mitt Romney, supporters of limited government have recognized that their best hope for advancing the conservative agenda rests on the ability to elect as many principled conservatives to Congress as possible. That is, lawmakers who will be willing to fight for smaller government even if it means standing up to a president of their own party. The more victories the Tea Party racks up, the greater the chance that Romney will be forced to govern as a limited government conservative if elected, even if his natural inclination is to migrate to the left.”
Yes the Senate is a chamber of Congress if you will and IMHO it is where the action will be. I posed over a week ago I think we get 60 in the Senate, now Dick Morris agrees with me. He must be a lurker reading my post :-)...
The bigger issue IMHO is getting new Leadership in the House and Senate. I don't think Romney has the Stones to ask for them to resign. We may have to force the issue...
From the American Thinker Yesterday, by Thomas Lifson....
"I find it quite fascinating that prominent liberals are grousing in public about Obama. There are many subterranean signs of deep discontent with leadership among Democrat grown-ups. ObamaCare cost Democrats their House majority, of course. Despite the happy talk, Obama's track record is not the sort that merits re-election. Those who are not fooled by the media veneer see that Obama could wreck the Democratic Party if his re-election bid ushers in a GOP president and Senate majority. Last night Dick Morris predicted a filibuster proof 60 vote majority is even possible for the GOP in the Senate. That would be a truly chilling prospect, and can't be dismissed because so many more Senate Democrats are up for election this year than Republicans."
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/05/obamas_likeability_fading_fast.html