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?
I see elections as uniting a diverse party such as the dems do to defeat a common enemy.
Our side mostly represents free enterprise/capitalism while their side mostly represents socialism/communist/statism. Why there should be such confusion about which side to join and which side not to join is confusing for me at best.
I’m sorry but sitting home dos not seem like much of a strategy to me.
Well, if you're ever honestly interested in the long-term strategy of ridding the union of statists, the posts have been placed far and wide. Try reading them and get educated.
Well said
“Are to planning to vote for David Alameel for the U.S. Senate in Texas?”
Definitely NOT voting for John Wayne McCornyn, who is just like one of us
Oh, sorry, RINO voters will vote for Big John
You can’t even use a dividing line of freedom and capitalism v.s. Socialism and regulation without using a qualifier like “mostly” to describe rinos. Sad thing is I’d even differ if they qualify as mostly. Either way, in your own words, you see the problem... You just can’t bring yourself to see that not all enemies have a big D next to their name on the ballot.
I was misinformed. I was led to believe that Alameed was a Democrat.
I have yet to see such a strategy, just a ton of emotional pleadings with zero chance of achieving success. I continue to search.
The GOP is serving sh!t sandwiches and whining when no one wants to eat them!
I completely agree. Romney and Cochran should love me. And you are making Obama happy. I will take that trade all day long.
I don’t say that to be snarky. You need to think about what you are doing in aiding Obama because soon it will be too late.
I’m fine with Palin, Cruz, etc but against Obama then I vote Romney. If conservatives want a better candidate they damn well should win in the Republican primaries.
Trashing your base and running racist ads against one of your own
is not much of a strategy either.
Speaking of strategy, what exactly is the GOP strategy, message, plan
if they take senate? Rush was talking about this the other day too.
The fact the GOP has no message, no vision, no plan to offer the
American people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EQ0BqT0tb_8
And Thad Cochran loves Obama.
See, it makes a circle.
Now, who’s for a good song of Kumbaya?
Imo, and I fully expect to get beaten about the head and shoulders for saying this...
Voting for the “lesser of two evils” does nothing except reinforce the evil on both sides.
Voting for an established GOPer these days serves no purpose in the fight against the destructionists. All it does do is discredit the anti-destructionist side of the political divide and provide the “they did it too!” excuse to the destructionists, since our current GOP damn sure will do it too.
Dishonorable is dishonorable. Cowardly is cowardly. Absolute lack of integrity is absolute lack of integrity. The letter denoting political party after the name makes nearly do difference any more.
Besides all that, it is already far too late for a peaceful solution. The destructionists know this to be true. This is why the constant and aggressively contra constitutional campaign to not only disarm the population, but so twist and distort the meaning of all other parts of the constitution is ramping up so heavily.
I agree with all the criticisms of liberal Republicans. Hate Rove. But voting against the true communists is imperative.
There are many reasons for this but there are conservative forces in the Republican party. That means you will get conservative judges, US Attorneys, cabinet secretaries. Not all but 80% and you will not get true communists.
With the Democrats you will get Holder, etc. All racist communists.
Even the candidate I’m ‘supposed’ to vote for didn’t see a difference between McCain and Obama.
If HE can’t see the difference, why should I vote for him?
Thanks Grimmy. The opposite is true — not showing up means that Republican voters (because, duh, we have two major parties in the country) are vanishing as the country shifts to the left, and the next go-round the candidates are running even farther to the left. Failure to vote, or making a protest vote (sic) for a minor party is the same thing as voting for the Democrats. The Demwits know this, count on it, and part of the strategy are various illegal schemes to target areas where their incumbent, or ours, is in trouble.
We have the worst President in the history of the Republic. He is aided and abetted by criminals serving as Senate Majority Leader, House Minority Leaders, and Attorney General. In the midst of this, conservatives can do nothing but complain about other Republicans and proclaim that they find the Democrats a better alternative. I believe that this is a very apt description of insanity.
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
You cannot win by losing. I participated in one of those follies many years ago and the fundamental truth of it has not changed.
I cannot imagine someone like Holder or Fauxcohontas—or the Jumail defender being on SCOTUS.
If for SCOTUS only, the right has to take the Senate.
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