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Vote Him In, or Republicans Stay Home
Mrs. iWe is beyond furious. She is downright incandescent. She will not vote in November unless the Republicans show spine and approve Kavanaugh. She wants the nomination rammed down the throats of the evil people who are inventing slanders to destroy good people.
She cannot be the only one who feels this way. If the Republicans do not show backbone on this pivotal issue, the base will not vote in the midterms.
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The only thing that will happen here in Maryland if Republicans don’t vote is Ben Jealous as governor. No thank you.
I would hardly call you “non-producing”!
Ah, so if the “evil people who are inventing slanders to destroy good people” aren’t stopped, Mrs. iWe wants to make sure that they get to control both houses of Congress.
Yeah, that’ll show them.
I understand the anger and frustration, but this is really counterproductive thinking.
It may be the solution is for those who despise the behavior of the assaulting Dems is to sand bag whatever blue wave they think they might have cooking.
That does require us to vote. Even if we are angry.
The issue, for me, seems less spineless Repubs, but evil, despicable aggressive Dems.
I admit I was no fan of Trump the candidate, but my Nov 2016 vote B-slapped Hillary back to her hovel in NY. I’ll take that as a win. The rest is icing on the cake.
We need to make the Dems weep MORE tears than Hurricane Florence in Nov 2018.
Mrs. iWe, please vote. And also send a letter to you legislators.
I have never pulled a straight ticket Republican lever, but this year I will.
We probably all agree that a GOP Senate that doesn’t confirm K. does not deserve reelection, maybe even that they do deserve punishment.
But if the alternative to voting for them is letting the Senate be claimed by the abortion cheerleading squad, we should be very, very careful.
I’m inclined to think this is a situation for voting GOP but having long memories. How long? Till the next primary of Olympia Snowe, or of any other (hypothetical) GOP defector.
We must express our rejection of the Democrat way.
There is no real way to do that but to pull this tug of war rope in the opposite direction of the Dems force.
She says she will definitely be voting for Hogan. Even though the Rain Tax is still here. And even though Ben Jealous promised her a unicorn that farts rainbows.
We must fight, while we still have breath. We must fight the left, until they literally kill us.
My cold dead hands are the only ones that will abstain from voting.
Even if the only thing my vote expresses is my absolute disdain and condemnation of the left.
Fight. Fight. Fight.
And condemnation of jellyfish GOP in the primaries.
I just don’t get the stay home argument. So I should stay home and deny Ted Cruz a vote if Collins or Murkowaki gives in and votes against Kavanaugh? Can you explain on which planet that would make sense?
May G-d protect and comfort the Kavanaugh family during this tribulation wrought by the enemies of everything good.
You did what I did there: Snowe left the Senate several years ago. Susan Collins is the one you mean. Also, the Senate seats this year are unusually stacked with Democrat incumbents, so we have a chance to change the makeup of the majority, forcing Leadership changes. McSally is no Flake. We have great MAGA supporters across the map. Vote them in to push McConnell out, if he fails to deliver.
There are very few times in life when politics and principle align this perfectly. Kavanaugh needs to get sworn in because if he doesn’t, these no-evidence accusations will never cease.
Only against Republicans. The media will find their principles when Democrats are in play. As my Democrat friends are currently saying. You can’t spell rape without a R.
This is very understandable. Emotionally, I agree with the Mrs. I think Kavanaugh will get the number of votes to be the next justice. And if he doesn’t, Republicans will be labeled as cowards, and some of them will deserve it. But… How will not voting help, except to say… “This will show the (expletive)?” We do not want to reward the Democrats for reckless and disgusting behavior. And not voting will do this. We will cut our throats so we can send a signal!
Olympia Snowe is no longer in the Senate.
Oops!
Whom are we worried about then? Murkowski of AK and Susan Collins of ME?
I am not sure. Maybe the Alaska lady. I think Susan from Maine will eventually do the right thing. I think she is smart enough to see that this is a charade.
I am incandescently angry, too, but giving Congress to the Democrats seems…foolish. We should all put our anger straight into forming a seawall against the blue wave.
If you are really angry and want to do something, campaign for Republicans to throw the Democrats out. Read this. It is from my county chair. It talks about ways Galveston Republicans can help Republican candidates. Blockwalking and phone banking, and other ways.
If you are not in Galveston County, every county should have something like this. Get in touch with your local Republican party and help. If through our efforts we turn the Blue Wave into a Red Ripple (Republicans gain a seat or two), that will send a message to the Democrats about what we think of their tactics -or rather what American voters think of the Dem’s tactics.
As Glenn Reynolds keeps saying, “All the Democrats have to do [to win] is not be crazy; and they cannot manage that.” Let us not reward their crazy by staying home election day and giving them victory. Rather swat them with a rolled-up vote and then rub their nose in the mess they made. It works with puppies, and Democrats are not much better than puppies when it comes to behavior.
There are Republicans in office today who would say “About time!”
Some were glad to see the IRS go after the Tea Party, some see the base that elected Trump as an impediment to their interests and want to put a spoke in our wheel.
Rush pretty much said the same thing – kiss the midterms goodbye if Kavanaugh is not confirmed.
I however, will not be deterred. Even if the GOP caves, I’m getting out and voting this November because the alternative is too horrible to fathom (shades of 2016).
We are trapped at this point. If they cave on this I will also be livid. But we have no choice but to hold our noses and vote ( although I expect enough will be so turned off at that point that the Comrades may indeed win big). But. Then we need to make our wrath known and primary every castrati who caved and kick them to the curb in the next cycle.
It’s war.
Just the thread I needed to read this morning. I so want to indulge my principles and agree with Mrs. iWe, but then @julespa said this:
And she got me. Yes. That was what my vote for Trump signaled in 2016 so it will again in 2018. Thanks, all!
In fact, as a general rule, they’re not even as cute as puppies.
They are more juvenile than puppies.
Please don’t insult puppies by any comparison to leftists. Please.
I think Mrs iWe should be given credit for a little Trumpian art-of-the-deal signalling. Republican squishes should believe they’ll be cast out into the darkness with wailing and gnashing of teeth if they don’t confirm Kavanaugh. We should all be making such “credible” threats, even if we are in a weak position of having to vote for either the feckless or the wicked.
So, raise the specter of hell with righteous anger! And don’t tip your hand about your weak bargaining position.
Okay, let me get this straight. If, say Lisa Murkowski and Jeff Flake vote against confirmation, and the vote fails by 49 to 51, I’m supposed to react by turning the Senate and the House over to the Democrats? If that’s our side’s idea of a political strategy then maybe we need to be ruled by totalitarians, because we just might not be bright enough for self-government.
For the record, if Kelly Ayotte, Luther Strange, Joe Heck, and/or any number of other Republicans were in the Senate right now, as they should be, there would be no question of confirmation succeeding. But they’re not in the Senate, because someone decided to stay home. So how’s that working out for ya?
Great comment, Larry. Thanks.
Right. Staying at home is not a strategy for Republicans. However, getting Republican voters to stay at home is a strategy for Democrats.