Posted on 11/01/2014 7:20:29 AM PDT by cotton1706
They succeeded, but it cost them dearly. McConnell and Cornyn won with 60%, Graham with 56%, Cochran with 50%, Alexander with 48% and Roberts with 47%.
Their "warchests" have been drained and donations have dried up. And their "electable" candidates have struggled to stay above water.
And there's always another election coming!
‘And there’s always another election coming!’
Elections are troublesome for the ruling class. They, the elections, need to be eliminated.
Now that I’ve said that, why doesn’t the concept also apply to the ruling class?
Hmmmm?
So the GOPe can gloat and give us Jeb Bush to run against Hillary. He’ll lose, but losing is what the GOPe is good at.
Day after the election we will all meet here to discuss what happened. I feel we will be ok with the results BUT still need to raise the roof with the GOPe...
This election should have been a cake walk....GOPe has only themselves to blame.
let’s say the GOP won every single race — how much would things change?
TheyI don’t like me. They don’t like you. They hate Sarah and they hate Cruz. We are an embarrassment to them.
The GOP will win and in order to show what gracious winners they are they will independently *initiate* amnesty while we look on in horrified astonishment.
There is no substitute for victory. Ronald Reagan.
I don’t know which would be worse, if Jeb loses against Hillary or if he wins.
“Elections are troublesome for the ruling class. They, the elections, need to be eliminated.”
Elections have ALWAYS been a problem for those in power. “Where annual elections end, there slavery begins,” John Adams wrote. We have biennial elections, which is pretty close to this principle. Fixed elections, every second November. It’s the ONLY thing that allows us to keep our hand in the government...so the chains rest on the politicians and those granted power, not the people!
total non sequitur - too cute by half.
Ditching Mitch would be good too, but not so likely now.
we’ll stop Jeb before he gets going. The elites have no idea how nauseated the vast majority of Republican / conservative voters are with power families and legacy candidates and royalty.
EVen if Jeb were less estab and more conservative, conservatives understand the danger of political family empires. Liberals love em, Bidens, Kennedys, Reids, etc.....but not our primary electorate.
people go into government and if they stay there it’s because they think Gummint is Good.
How many little kids run a lemonaide stand because they believe it’s actually an impediment to good health..?
the GOP fly off to DC where they learn they’re viewed as chess club geeks and they spend their terms yearning for the approval of the letterman jacket guys.
There won’t be much difference. The common thing will be boredom with blowhards.
They wrote that article and failed to mention Mississippi once. I can’t help but think that particular oversight was deliberate.
Jeb would be much better than Juan, but not close to good enough.
For 2016, clearly there will be multiple GOP-E candidates.
Hopefully, the conservatives & libertarians will get together and coalesce around 1 candidate to focus their support and allow GOP-E to split among themselves.
That said, Rand Paul is the GOP-E loyal stooge to split and Conservative candidate - i.e. Ted Cruz
I’m not. I firmly believe we’re at the point of no return.
Vote commie nationally to make the fedgov even more untenable to the low information voter.
Vote conservative locally, and force the convention.
If republicans pull this out in a significant way, then we must hold their feet to the fire, on every issue bombard them every day with phone calls, emails, townhalls, even large protests, you can bet the liberals will doing it.
If we want them to take us seriously, we must not become complacent, the mess we are is ultimately the fault of “We The People”, we must get engaged and stay vigilant, if we want to restore our Free Republic. One thing we can count on, the liberals will be fully engaged regardless of the outcome of any election, we must respond in kind.
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