Posted on 03/21/2018 6:39:09 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Republicans are worried that touting this year's tax cut bill and tying Democrats to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., won't be enough to hold the House and Senate in the November midterms.
While GOP lawmakers maintain that both are important campaign issue, some believe the party is leaning too heavily on them, particularly in light of some predictions that they are about to lose upwards of 45 House seats. Rep. Conor Lamb's, D-Pa., likely victory over Rick Saccone in Pennsylvania last Tuesday also showed both arguments can be neutralized.
"I think the bigger challenge for members is defining themselves," said Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa. "Members must develop their own brand for their district, if they haven't already, and then go out and sell it. Tax reform might be part of that brand, but boy, you better have a brand this year. If your brand is just generic Republican, that's going to be a problem."
"I'd have to say today we're at great risk [of losing the House]. I still say it's a 50/50 proposition right now, but it can get worse," Dent said. "The national political environment is toxic for us right now. You've got to figure out how to deal with it."
Republican groups were forced to spend heavily on behalf of Saccone after he failed to raise campaign cash, but were on the losing end and saw pro-tax and anti-Pelosi arguments fail to move the needle. The GOP abandoned its tax reform messages in the final weeks of the race despite insisting since the law's passage that it would help carry members to re-election.
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They need Trump but they’re too stupid.
How about promising to repeal Obamacare?
We’ve fallen for that one over and over...
Try acting like conservatives for once, instead of the bought-and-paid-for-two-faced political cowards you are.
Conservatives didn’t ruin the Republican Brand - Republicans did.
That's the first time I've seen a prediction that high.
McConnell and Ryan just criticized Trump for congratulating Putin, normal protocol which Obama did without criticism.
They can kiss at least the House majority goodbye. Many people simply won’t vote for those snakes. They’re pathetic.
We have been warning them since 2002.
They really don’t know what they are doing.
Tell me how many votes do the idiot republicans think they will get by criticizing President Trump for following normal diplomatic behavior? Rather than having the b@lls to say it’s the correct procedure and Obama did the same thing. Outrageous!
Ah, the best course of action then is to keep attacking the president.
Idiots.
They really don’t know what they are doing.
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They know EXACTLY what they are doing, selling us out.
That would be enough, if they believed it. Most “Republicans” are squishy swamp creatures just trying to secure their place at the public trough.
“If your brand is just generic Republican, that’s going to be a problem.”
What could possibly Trump the GOPe brand?
GOPe just wants to be Dem-lite.
***I’m more convinced now than ever — the GOPe are throwing the fall elections so that the Globalists in the Uniparty can get the country “back on the right track”.***
I’m in total agreement with that. We see some odd behaviors by the political establishment. When you see things that don’t make sense... follow the money. The globalists are beyond wealthy, and they are motivated.
The American people, lulled to sleep by the media, have no clue they are being sacrificed.
How’s your 401K? Innit it good to be working again? Hey! A truck load of building materials. Another one! Haven’t seen many of those in a while.
Look at the city skyline. Cranes are there again. ALL BECAUSE WE KICKED OUT THE DEMS. ...and you want them back in power because Trump said pussy.
Perhaps it is we who really don't know what they are doing?
Charlie Dent is a squishy RINO! It is no wonder he is so gloomy.
Look him up. What an ASSHOLE.
“They can kiss at least the House majority goodbye.”
I don’t think they really want it.
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