Posted on 09/21/2014 4:48:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
I know a lot of people are giddy at the prospect of Republicans taking the Senate this November, but that’s becoming less and less likely. It’s not because Democrats are rallying around a particular mission or set of candidates; it’s because Republicans and conservatives aren’t.
It seems like I’m always writing on issues no one wants to hear are mistakes, such as messaging or social issues. But I don’t care. These things have to be said. If these columns are received like a gaseous cousin on a long car trip through the desert, so be it. Crack a window…
If things continue on their current course, the GOP will not retake the Senate. Anyone telling you differently is selling something.
There are many reasons for this: tough primary fights, the “establishment vs. Tea Party” meme, stubbornness, arrogance, ignorance, ego. You name it, a segment of the center-right coalition suffers from it.
Too many people and groups on the right are content to take their ball and go home because their candidate lost a primary and/or the nominee doesn’t pay enough attention to whatever pet issue they care about most. They may vote, but their email lists sit idle and their wallets remain closed.
GET OVER YOURSELVES!
As upset as you may be, this election is not about any of the candidates you dislike. This election is about the following things, and the following things only – Barack Obama, Harry Reid and the Supreme Court.
I don’t care where someone lives or who their Senate candidate is … if you don’t support the Republican candidate, for whatever reason, with everything you have, you are voting to retain Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader.
In spite of what you may have heard, the Senate is very much in play and too close to call. As unpopular as Barack Obama is, that isn’t enough to win. You have to be involved – through donations, volunteering, talking to everyone you know – or else Democrats will win.
I’m not making this up, I’m not trying to scare you; these are real numbers in real races that will make the difference. And they don’t look good.
The next two years can be spent either forcing an unpopular president to veto popular, pro-growth, pro-liberty legislation, acts that will harm his party for years; or spent with an unfettered activist president complaining about a do-nothing Congress while he initiates executive actions to implement a radical agenda and worse – packing the Supreme Court.
Live in Kansas and think Pat Roberts is a squish? Tough! Suck it up and support him.
Live in Kentucky and think Mitch McConnell is awful? Get over it and support him.
Live in Iowa and not a particular fan of Joni Ernst? Grow up and support her come hell or high water.
Live in Colorado and don’t think Cory Gardner is for you? Who cares? Support him or you are supporting Harry Reid.
Live in Arkansas and wish Tom Cotton wasn’t the nominee? So what? He’s the nominee, support him or lose more than that one race.
It doesn’t matter where you live—Louisiana, Michigan, Alaska, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, New Hampshire, anywhere—if you don’t suck it up, fight and work like your candidate won, you will be handing the Senate back to Harry Reid and the power to President Obama he has always sought – to fundamentally transform America.
It’s not the Senate that’s on the ballot this fall; it’s the Supreme Court.
In the last two years of his presidency, Barack Obama could appoint as many as three new justices to the Supreme Court. Would you like to see retiring justices replaced by young activist progressive nominees rubber-stamped by Harry Reid? Then work!
Yes, a Supreme Court nominee must overcome a filibuster according to Senate rules. But those are current rules and, as Harry Reid demonstrated for all other federal appointees, those rules can be changed at a moment’s notice and by a simple majority to fit whatever he and the president want at any time.
If you stay home, or if you simply vote and that’s it, you might as well be working for Harry Reid and Barack Obama. If the Supreme Court is lost, it will be lost for at least a generation. Then it won’t matter who you elect or who the next president is, the progressive agenda will be locked in as the law of the land for the foreseeable future.
You have a choice this fall: Sit on the bench or work to defeat whoever the Democrat is running for the Senate in your state. One choice is a vote for Harry Reid for Senate Majority Leader and more cover for President Obama’s abuses of power. The other will at a minimum apply pressure on the hemorrhaging wound from which our liberty is seeping.
The damage done to this country in recent years won’t be reversed by one election. No ship as big as the United States can be righted immediately. It will take time. But it can’t start being corrected until it stops getting worse. It can stop getting worse this fall if you vote and work to get others to do the same.
If you’re unhappy with your choices this fall, if your candidate didn’t win, you face a simple choice this November: Check your ego, pull your head out from where your hands are and get in the game. Or just quit. Which way are you going to go?
Actually I am dead certain about most things that I know about, and that I hold dear. I don’t rely on good luck to get me where I need to go, and I don’t let bad luck get in my way.
The Republican Party can’t focus their 2014 Senate message on the U.S. Supreme Court because they know damn well that they aren’t going to hold up any of Barack Obama’s nominees.
This is why I think the Democrats will make sure the Republicans win the Senate. This whole wave of sentiment isn’t a result of Republican message, the public is tired of Democrats, and Obama. The mood will not improve between now and 2016, and might get worse if they continue to push hard left. As long as we have Lee, Cruz, and a conservative group in the house to fight the party leaders, I don’t see things changing in the next two years. I think this is a perfect spot to purge a few rinos. Even though the situation with who is up for reelection in 2016 favors the Dems, I think we could have a fighting chance if the Republicans could come up with a message (Long shot, I know).
I totally understand what you are saying. I always vote (yeah, even Romney) but will you be posting such brazen comments when McConnell and Boehner team up with the Chamber of Commerce to cram amnesty down our throats?
The reality is if cloture votes on liberal bills were included,
folks like McCain, Gramisty etc would have a 50% rating or lower.
Bingo! THAT ^^ should be required *rating*, on ALL Pubbie candidates. They try to hide behind their cloture votes.
Absolutely nailed it.
I can’t answer that question, it doesn’t make sense to me either. The “I’m so mad that I’m going to vote for Democrats or stay home” crowd needs to explain how that behavior constitutes a strategy that will produce more Conservatives in positions of power willing to put the brakes on government. The logic escapes me.
“This election is going to have a huge influence on the makeup of a Supreme Court that we will have to live with for decades.”
Exactly how did the incumbent Republicans vote on Obama’s previous supreme court candidates?
Why am I to believe they’ll be voting against any future ones?
You mean like being personally responsible for the liberal mischief caused by a liberal republican in the house or senate?
You also don't seem to appreciate the inherent humor in a person advocating that others violate their consciences in the name of "personal responsibility"!
You still have not articulated any plan for pulling the GOP back to the right, FRiend. Your credibility depends on it, right?
Sorry I’ve tried to make my case guess I’m not getting through.
” The problem is however, you must think in terms of electing the next Supreme Court Justice and how the balance of the court could be effected.”
What was the confirmation vote tally for Obama’s previous supreme court nominees? How many Republicans voted against them?
Why should we expect them to vote differently in the future?
Tell ya what Mort you go your way.....you should know the rest you are so smart....
The decisions on any SCOTUS nomination rests with the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Majority Leader. They can shape the debate, apply the rules of the Senate to their advantage, and control the timing. Those things have an enormous impact on the final outcome.
Great,...thanks.
I don’t think you will have to wait until 2016 to purge some RINO’S.
There will some RINO’S purged in November.
If you stay home, or if you simply vote and that’s it, you might as well be working for Harry Reid and Barack Obama. If the Supreme Court is lost, it will be lost for at least a generation. Then it won’t matter who you elect or who the next president is, the progressive agenda will be locked in as the law of the land for the foreseeable future.
You have a choice this fall: Sit on the bench or work to defeat whoever the Democrat is running for the Senate in your state. One choice is a vote for Harry Reid for Senate Majority Leader and more cover for President Obama’s abuses of power. The other will at a minimum apply pressure on the hemorrhaging wound from which our liberty is seeping.
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The man who wrote this article is exactly right- and if the opinions expressed here are representative of the stance of most of the nation’s Republicans, we can forget winning the Senate. Period.
And those of you who stayed home, voted third party or ‘write-in’ helped put the Muslim in office and keep him there.
You’re not proving anything. Sure most of the Republicans are spineless or Rinos- but what else is there right now?
The Rats are worse. Much worse.
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... because rodguy911 doesn't have a plan to pull the GOPe back to the right. He just wants to elect liberal republicans.
Yep - I know the rest.
No American conservative can in good conscience vote for a fascist, socialist republican candidate simply because they are not communist democrat. I will sit out any election that is a Fascist vrs Communist contest.
Now give me a Constitutional Conservative to vote for and I am all in. Give me a pragmatic moderate conservative and I'll even vote for them. But a fascist statistic socialist like Rove wants? No freaking way.
Maybe I wasn’t clear, that is what I meant. We should be able to get some back in 2016, because the Democrats will have to run against their record. If we have the Senate, as cowardly as McConnell is, they would have an opposition to run against.
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