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’m gonna agree to disagree with y’all on this but not try to turn it into a fight, which is unusual for me I’m and not quite sure how to go about doing that lol.
Here’s where I disagree and why.
The pattern is already set and it’s been so for enough time to be solid.
Getting GOP into office solves nothing. It might slow down the destructionists, but only a little and in the end, no real positive gain.
Actually, all it does accomplish is to have the GOP become associated with the same general destructionisms that should belong to the DNC at this time.
There is no valid reason to have any faith in either the honor or the integrity of the current GOP machine.
In ref to my belief on no possible peaceful solution...
The welfare class. Its size in population. Its willingness to violence when denied their parasitism in any way, shape or form.
Also the Dominance of PCism which is a direct, overt and full force assault on the 1st Amend, and is protected by all those institutions that should be forcefully against it. The fact that speaking out against PCism, or failing to fall into line and full compliance with PCism can get children and young adults banished from education. Even our military has bent its knee in full surrender to PCism.
If this is true, then putting Democrats into office must solve something, as in our two party system there are really only two choices. The only result that I can see is destruction of the country.
Twisted reasoning like that will destroy America. What the hell do I care what someone said? I make my own decisions.
McCain is a total jerk but there are major differences between him and Obama.
Stop playing word games. It has nothing to do with reality.
The people you are arguing with don’t care about logic. I’ve known these types in my personal life they are very very angry and when you tell them they will elect a Democrat who is a communist they grit their teeth and start stomping like a toddler, shouting “I don’t care!!”
And you cannot win by electing your enemies. But by all means, please go ahead and do so. If you insist on supporting candidates pledged to destroy this nation (or hold the door for those who already are), be my guest.
The fact is there has been progress getting conservatives into Congress, and pressuring “liberals” like Boehner, dumping Cantor. So fight in the primaries but don’t elect Obamas.
The great value of this thread is that arguing isn’t required and isn’t really useful. Just let them continue to post and they make all of the points that need to be made. You are describing the behavior very well.
More and more the GOPe is trying to keep conservatives from even having a real primary
We do need less welfare, less entitlement in the law, getting rid of “zero tolerance” except as relates to Islam (we need zero tolerance of Islam in media, in schools, in our neighborhoods, in our military, and ultimately on the face of our Earth)
If we want less welfare, we need two things — control of immigration, and to have a robust economy again. The latter is only possible if we become a net exporter of energy. We need to drill, we need to get rid of the 70+ formulations of gasoline, we need more fracking, we need to restructure the hydrocarbon related taxes, and we need to get off the back of coal.
Coal mining to sell overseas is an obvious advantage to the US. The problem of course is that labor costs are not competitive, and I don’t personally know anyone who wants to work in a coal mine. Maybe offering citizenship to those who work 20 years in a coal mine as the only path to citizenship would work. :’)
OPEC superficially prices in US dollars, but over ten years ago started de facto pricing in Euros, in order to keep oil price-stable in Europe and remain competitive with Russia for the EU market. The price has indeed risen a long way, but not in a long while, and rose for everyone. Price fluctuations in US dollars follow fluctuations in the dollar-Euro exchange rate.
When the US becomes energy self-sufficient and a net exporter, the value of the dollar will rise against the Euro and other currencies. Unless the Europeans get serious about fracking (there’s signs that Germany is) we’ll see better deals on posh European cars here in the US, and a big decades-long boom of employment in the US energy sector, but heavy manufacturing that isn’t related to the military won’t come back until we, I don’t know, annex Mexico.
We need to repeal Obamacare, and while we’re at it, dress it up as reform, and get rid of all employer-funded healthcare. Getting rid of that is, by the way, one of the unspoken agenda items of the Demwits. Even their familiars running the unions on behalf of the Demagogic Party know this and support it. Obamacare moves employers away from offering a separate plan, replacing that with handing out a brochure on Obamacare. It also fosters even more dependency on the gubmint.
Health insurance should be required to be offered, but the employees need to pay for their coverage, they are after all the ones who benefit from it. That’s a more realistic path toward getting costs under control and accomplishing the goal of shifting health care costs from the taxpayer on NEA members. Portability is the only selling point in the entire of Obamacare, but isn’t the only thing in it.
> Getting GOP into office solves nothing.
No, not getting the GOP into office solves plenty, for the Demagogic Party.
> all it does accomplish is to have the GOP become associated with the same general destructionisms that should belong to the DNC at this time.
No, but that is the purported attitude of those running around in their chronologically adult diapers yelling “uniparty”.
OK that’s called hardball politics. Why should conservatives win if they don’t know how to fight and win? Did they just hand the party to Reagan? Hell no they didn’t.
Oh, I get it all right. The people who want my vote don’t give a sh@t about my values, and vote against what we as the base wants. I want at least some conservatism. That cannot be counted on by Rove backed candidates.
But you are quite welcome to vote for those who hate you and what you believe, I’m just no longer comfortable with that. And I stood in line to vote for Romney..
They are called Democrats. Every single Republican in the Senate voted against Obmacare. They are called my friends, at least on that day. Democrats, on the other hand, have consistently and faithfully voted for the Obama/Reid agenda and I will fight them at every turn.
They are called statists. And they are Democrats AND Republicans. Sad that you can't see it.
Eggs Ackley ... and when their tantrum finally results in them no longer having a place to throw their fits they will whine that voting was at fault.
Who is this conservative, and why is it his fault?
I agree.
Realpolitik would suggest a more active approach of ousting those whom we see as problems.
If that means a short-term strategy of voting for McConnell's opponent in Kentucky, or voting for Boehner's opponent in Ohio, then so be it. At least that's a message that they cannot ignore or pervert as they do with the softer act of not showing up to vote at all.
I'm not suggesting this as a wholesale approach of displeasure. I'm suggesting it as a targeted surgical strike of problem Republicans in otherwise red states that can afford one term of a Democrat sitting in the seat until the state gets another shot at voting a true conservative into the office in the next cycle after the offending Republican has been removed.
That means Boehner and McConnell for starters.
-PJ
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