Comments on: Concern Trolling the Democrats #EERS

By: Dave_A

Dave_A — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 03:29:20 +0000

The majority of the power in Congress is based on who’s in the leadership.

One of the main reasons we had to compromise on the debt ceiling, for example, was that the Democrats had control of the Senate.

It is much easier for a conservative bloc to have influence on final legislation when the leadership is at least slightly to the right of center, then it is when anything you want to do has to not only be pushed past Obama, but also past Harry Reid….

By: commonsenseobserver

commonsenseobserver — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:18:22 +0000

I think Corker would be much more vulnerable.

By: tnfriendofcoal101368

tnfriendofcoal101368 — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:12:38 +0000

Alexander was a good Governor and he is not a Dick Lugar but he is a reliable McConnell Republican. If he were in Mass, heck he’d be to the right of Brown but in Tennessee, whoever wins the Republican primary will win the seat (though if the Democratic challenger were Phil Bredesen that would be somewhat scary but Bredesen would be scary vs Alexander as well). If Senator Alexander wanted a more graceful retirement, sure, but if not…well there is the Lugar retirement plan.

By: commonsenseobserver

commonsenseobserver — Thu, 31 May 2012 12:58:59 +0000

Isn’t there any way we could give him a somewhat more graceful retirement than we gave Lugar? Say, maybe ease him into his old post of Education Secretary, before making that post totally irrelevant.

By: tnfriendofcoal101368

tnfriendofcoal101368 — Thu, 31 May 2012 12:55:47 +0000

I do believe Lamar Alexander and Lindsay Graham could do with a little forced retirement, however.

By: commonsenseobserver

commonsenseobserver — Thu, 31 May 2012 12:53:53 +0000

I also see that he put in a lot of effort himself.

By: mikeymike143

mikeymike143 — Thu, 31 May 2012 12:49:47 +0000

and let me remind everyone that it was the TEA PARTY that helped get scott elected, not the establishment.

the RNC and other republicans actually ”sat on their hands” during that election because conventional wisdom said that a republican couldnt win teddy kennedy’s seat.

By: tnfriendofcoal101368

tnfriendofcoal101368 — Thu, 31 May 2012 12:35:45 +0000

That is negative 100 for Elizabeth Warren.

By: tnfriendofcoal101368

tnfriendofcoal101368 — Thu, 31 May 2012 12:35:03 +0000

every day ending in Y over Elizabeth Warren, the mother of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Occupy Wall Street (well she just claims that one, but she also claims to 1/10000 Cherokee as well). Were he running in Texas, I’d be all for Ted Cruz creaming his tail but that is not the choice in Mass. It is a choice between Scott Brown: Heritage Score of 44 or Elizabeth Warren Heritage Score of -100.

By: mbecker908

mbecker908 — Thu, 31 May 2012 12:27:35 +0000

Please provide a list of conservative candidates in Massachusetts who could get more than a dozen votes in a general election against any of the Marxists in the MA Democratic Party.

Scott Brown, from Massachusetts, is a wonderful U.S. Senator and I’m proud to have him in our Party. Were he from Utah, Texas or Arizona, that would be another story.

Get over it.

By: wolfgang

wolfgang — Thu, 31 May 2012 11:54:18 +0000

Unless their Democratic opponents informs their electorate that are staunchly against anal fornication.
Dick Blumenthal (D-CT) bragged about in being in country during the Vietnam War when the closest he ever got was a ‘Toys For Tots’ collection warehouse in DC. Linda McMahon wasn’t even close.
And Lizzie, 1/32 Cherokee, Warren, excuse me “Trail Of Tears”, Warren, because her real relative was one of the drovers, not one of the ones on foot, is running for Teddy Kennedy’s old seat. We all know how that went, the Mass voters repeatedly, time after time after time, sent the man who drove his car and passenger, off a Cape Cod bridge, fled the accident, leaving his female passenger to drown in the meantime and failed to report the accident and drowning for twelve long hours back to the Senate, irregardless. Nothing would have changed even if the Mass voters had known about Teddy’s all night rental of an entire Mexico City bordello.
There must be something in the water or the air, because the residents East of the Hudson historically have been repeatedly incapable of recognizing patriotic, responsible political candidates when they are presented with them.
Now, do you suppose Barack Hussein Obama privately refers to Air Force One as Choom Wagon One?

By: renl57

renl57 — Thu, 31 May 2012 11:47:33 +0000

And that’s what neutralized the powerful college feminist crowd in MA. The Dems couldn’t use the “war on women” theme against Brown.

By: moonmad

moonmad — Thu, 31 May 2012 07:21:29 +0000

Is that we don’t get to control when the moderates go off with the democrats. So yeah Scott Brown does the politician thing when it’s easy he votes with the conservatives when it’s hard he goes with the democrats. How does that help us? I am tired of the tyranny of the moderates. I am hoping that we can get enough of a conservative caucus to make it so we don’t have to kiss the moderate ring to get things done. That not the “extremist conservative positions” has been more of an impediment to making headway against the the liberal policies.

By: lineholder

lineholder — Thu, 31 May 2012 03:48:48 +0000

And it would fit on a bumper sticker, too, wouldn’t it?

They’re coming unhinged, ya’ know? Totally unhinged.

By: Dave_A

Dave_A — Thu, 31 May 2012 03:39:29 +0000

fear and loathing…

By: Dave_A

Dave_A — Thu, 31 May 2012 03:38:47 +0000

Which seems to indicate she’d lose again, since I doubt she’s changed any positions since 2010…

By: lineholder

lineholder — Thu, 31 May 2012 03:34:53 +0000

First, there’s Holder saying to black pastors “civil rights is endangered”.

Then you have Ed Schultz saying “If Romney wins this election, there’ll never be another Democratic president”.

Yeah…they’re fear-mongering…trying to use fear to motivate their base.

Soooo…we’ve gone from “hope and change” to “fear and [needs a term here]

By: commonsenseobserver

commonsenseobserver — Thu, 31 May 2012 03:09:00 +0000

I don’t really like Shays, but I think he’s our best bet in CT.

By: Dave_A

Dave_A — Thu, 31 May 2012 03:04:51 +0000

Electability matters.

Yes, Brown is not ideologically pure…. But he’s sitting in Ted Kennedy’s old seat, and seems fit to stay there for some time now, thanks to the Dems running a walking punchline as their candidate…

So long as we’re OK nominating moderates in that area – at least while it’s still basically-blue-territory… We have a chance to get a few seats there…

By: APA Guy

APA Guy — Thu, 31 May 2012 00:52:11 +0000

I don’t care what one half-a**ed poll showing the race tied says. This state is solidly conservative…so much so that we ran out one of our favorite Democrat sons in Evan Bayh…someone who, like Lugar, was once as good of a bet to win as Kennedy was in MA.

My sources inside the state Dem Party tell me they are scared stiff about the ads Mourdock will run trumpeting Donnelly’s rubber-stamping of the failed Obama stimulus and Obamacare…especially at a time when SCOTUS is set to chuck that thing entirely. They saw how Mourdock waxed Dem GOP favorite Lugar and fear what he will do to an actual Democrat.

Hold on to your hats…this Indiana senate race will be one of the great conservative moments in electoral history. Mourdock will show how it’s done…and perhaps others will then have the courage to follow his lead. THEN we will have the conservative majorities we so desperately need in congress.