Would it help if President Bush campaigned with the Republican Senate candidates?
The democrats might even offer to pay his travel expenses,
if Mr. Rove is a little short of cash.
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?
Would it help if President Bush campaigned with the Republican Senate candidates?
The democrats might even offer to pay his travel expenses,
if Mr. Rove is a little short of cash.
I don’t see a difference between the Senate being held by the Democrat Party or the ‘We’re Better Democrats than the Democrats’ Party.
Will a Republican Senate block a Supreme Court nominee? They didn’t even blink as the nuclear option was crammed down their throat. Some ‘gang of X’ will ensure whatever communist is nominated.
Will they pass a conservative budget and hold the line on a veto. Not hardly. It’s those damned conservatives that want to use the powers that congress holds to force a showdown. The Senate is a club and we want to just get along...
Will a Republican Senate hold the pResident accountable for his illegal executive fiats? Of course not.
Will they hold the line on immigration? Those damned conservatives (and most other Americans, too, but that doesn’t matter) are the obstacle to Republicans being as progressive as they know they want to be on this issue.
Gay marriage? Well, that’s already a fait accompli and you should really get over it.
I don’t see any daylight between the parties. I don’t see how McConnell is one bit better than Reid. I do, however, see that rewarding McConnell with majority status teaches the BDTD Party that their base doesn’t matter. I believe it more important to rub in the message that they can’t win without their base than it is to allow a changing of the drapes with no change in policy.
So. I get probably 10 solicitations a day to help take back the Senate. By phone. By mail. By email. See. I DO have a history of supporting candidates, and the various donor lists know it.
Until someone can show me it’s in the interest of conservatives to tow the party line, I’ll continue to ignore every solicitation. Nothing in this article changes my mind. I share the writers concerns about the Democrats holding the Senate. I just believe the same exact concerns exist if the ‘Better Dems than Dems’ Party takes over.
So all that to say this: the squishes can go to hell.
GReat post....Should that go into breaking news? Now go hide your head in the sand since you are part of the problem not the solution.
Wow. That is a really compelling “blame the voter” piece. LOL.
Accusations are a dime a dozen. Solutions however... are a lot harder to come by.Got any?
News Flash!!! The Tea party is not a party. Stop pouting because the tea party candidate did not win. Sitting at home or voting for a third party candidate only guaranteed that dingy Harry Reid remains the Majority leader of the Rat party. Do you want that?
That’s what you get for acting like Democrats and spending money to take on the Tea Party. Screw you to the author.
Conservatives’ fault.
Unless these indignant “pure” conservative voters want to gather by the millions with real pitchforks (and at that point I’d be happy to join up) and throw all the bums out, they should stop with the tougher-than-you talk, hold their noses and vote for the best choice. If they voted for Romney last time, we would be in better shape today. There’s no question. What did they accomplish last time by not voting for Romney? Somebody tell me, because these pols are not learning anything from it, and guess what? The tea party folks who get elected become corrupted just like everyone else in our suffocating, money-hungry DC cesspool.
Wow with an election strategy like that how can the country lose? Brilliant plan-—don’t vote.JUst another 100 per center crybabying because no one is actually 100%. Let me know if you find one.
Just so. But then, us conservatives is dumb, see, and can't remember what he said back when he thought the GOP had the Senate in the bag. Now he needs us back!
Maybe we should make Rove “an offer he can’t refuse”.
And your plan to right these wrongs is?
crickets....
Complaints are a dime a dozen.....
If that happens it will just confirm how many ignorant and stupid voters live in America.
Very true. The "I would rather see Harry Reid running the Senate than vote for any RINO" crowd is very vocal around here.
Sad to see. The article is, I'm afraid, predicting the future. And it's a Harry Reid future.
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. How short sided it is to keep the Dems in power to put whatever Marxist they choose to fill the upcoming vacancies. What foolishness.
Oh, me being a dumb conservative, I fergot to add: Hey, Derek, kiss my grits!
Yes, shame on us frogs. We just now realized that the water we are in is a pot that is boiling.
The GOPe has boiled us and we have no place to go
As a Republican, one is either Conservative or one is Democrat. I don’t vote for or in any way support a Democrat even if he calls himself a Republican. The Republican candidate here says all the right things and claims to be Conservative. He says he will support Boehner. I will not vote for a House member this year.
The Republican establishment told conservatives that they were going to be “crushed,” in McConnell’s own words. Thad Cochran is Exhibit A of how the GOPe cheated to defeat a conservative candidate in MS.
Now polls show that those hated conservative voters may stay home on election day and the GOPe is hauling out their scary specter of Harry Reid continuing as Majority Leader. Too bad, so sad. If they lose, the GOPe won’t get to negotiate their Illegal Alien Amnesty plan with the Democrats to favor their Chamber of Commerce cronies.
The GOP has no principles and deserves to lose.
What they really want more than anything is your money. How many times in the past few days have their been articles and tv commentary about how the conservative wing isn't donating to the cause? The establishment is the enemy of conservative principles. They only look to us when they want something, and they we are put back in the closet.
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