THE 2018 ELECTIONS, NOW THAT THE DUST HAS SETTLED…SORT OF…

Well now that the dust has pretty much settled, it would seem that even after being presented with what I thought was a very clear, even stark, choice regarding the direction the respective parties wish to take our country, it was the gullibility of the American people, at least when it comes to believing the Democrats care about anything other than political power, that once again proved insurmountable.  For the life of me I can’t figure out why anyone with half a brain would see this wisdom in handing over to the Democrats control of any segment of our government.

But then as we all know, the Democrats have come to depend rather heavily on those voters who go through life blissfully uninformed, and therefore willing to believe pretty much whatever it is that they are told.  It seems to matter very little to them that our economy is booming, or that those wishing to come into our country illegally are still allowed to stream over our southern border.  It was those who chose to vote for politicians who seek to stymie our economic growth and favor taking no measures whatsoever to secure our border, that represent a very clear and present danger.

So in deciding to once again allow Democrats to acquire some level of political power, the American people demonstrated what can only be described as a reckless disregard in choosing who will run our government.  And despite how the Democrats made it very clear, throughout their entire campaign, that they had very little interest in keeping our economic recovery moving forward and that they were far more concerned with preventing the president from moving forward with any meaningful border security measures, they still were handed control of the House.

And as someone who loves this country, I had truly hoped that everyone with a (D) after their name would go down in flames, but unfortunately such was not the case.  So while the very last thing that any freedom loving American should ever want to see happen, at any level of government be it local, state or federal, is to have even one more Democrat elected, there were apparently those voters who somehow thought differently.  I can only assume that those voting for Democrats wish to return us to the days of Barry ‘O’s stagnant economy and wide open borders.

In these days where each election seems to be more important than the last, this one was no different. The Democrat Party has become increasingly more radical having moved further to the left.  The rather misplaced priorities of the party should make all the more obvious how it is that the limiting of the freedoms enjoyed by every single American is now firmly in the crosshairs of the Democrat Party.  Therefore anyone concerned about whether their children, and even grandchildren, will be able to live in freedom should take it upon themselves to never vote for ANY Democrat.

We now have in one of our political parties a party that has come to be increasingly made up those who seem to have what can only be described as a rather insatiable appetite for power.   And it is the members of that very party who have what is a vendetta, of sorts, against our country.  And where they once seemed much more concerned about keeping their true motivations better under wraps, these days Democrats seem of have cast aside their cloaks of invisibility and are totally unafraid of allowing their true colors to show through, and for all to see.  

And the willingness of the Democrats to lay bare, and pretty brazenly so, that which they seek to bring about in this country seems to have gone pretty much ignored by a great many people, with their increasingly radical behavior seen by many as little more than a nuisance.  And whereas the Democrats were once forced to lie about who they really were and what that sought to bring about, these days they operate much more out in the open and still there are those who will vote for them.  It seems to matter very little to a great many people that Democrats hate America.  

Allowing the Democrats to once gain a foothold in our legislative body will, I think, certainly be bad for the country.  It means two years of gridlock and dysfunction, even worse than the gridlock and dysfunction that already plagues our government.  The Democrats have made their plans very clear. They will spend the next two years launching investigation after investigation and wielding their subpoena power in what is nothing more than a blatant attempt to settle political vendettas. Apparently the first item on their list is President Trump's tax returns.  Not much to look forward to.

The ultimate goal for the Democrat Party is, of course, the impeachment of President Trump, and I have no doubt that they will move toward that goal just as swiftly as possible.  And it is that that everyone who voted for Democrats were really voting for.  Not the economy, not taxes, not even illegal immigration.  And now that they have regained for themselves they will focus on nothing other than the complete dismantling of President Trump's agenda and the personal destruction of the president himself.  That is what their crazy base demands and why they voted for Democrats.

MIDTERMS MAY WELL PROVE TO BE A REFERENDUM, BUT ON WHAT EXACTLY???

There has been much talk of late, primarily amongst those on the looney-left, about how this November’s midterm elections will be considered as a referendum on the Trump presidency as it has been executed thus far.  Now while I do agree that this fall’s election will rightly be a referendum, I disagree that it will be about Trump’s presidency.  But one thing the elections will be telling us, once all the dust finally settles, is how just far to the left the American electorate has now been moved.

One thing, for certain, is that it will tell us if the American people are more interested in our booming economy, lower taxes, more stringent border enforcement, being able to obtain reasonably priced healthcare or the fact that wages and median income for minorities are now higher than either have ever been, OR if the American people are more interested in higher taxes, open borders, sanctuary cities and more costly healthcare.  Now you would think the answer would be pretty clear, and yet…

And a number of Democrats, and you all know who they are, have now made it abundantly clear that should they regain control of the House, and God forbid the Senate, their number one priority will be to bring about the end of the Trump presidency, primarily by embarking on what would be nothing more than an agenda of ‘death by a thousand cuts’, or the launching of investigation after investigation. And is that really the direction that anyone with any intelligence would want us to go?   

And I also think that this November’s election will tell us much regarding whether or not the American people have finally come to be fed up with the level of corruption now taking place in our nation’s capital and in so doing choose to elect more of those whose only desire in seeking higher public office is to make sure that the people’s business is conducted in the most efficient and lawful way, and also in such way that it serves the best interest of ALL the American people, not to any one political party.

And something else this upcoming election will likely tell us is just how successful those involved in the ‘fake news’ media have been in their effort to assist those in the Democrat Party regarding their ongoing, and very concerted, effort to convince as many Americans as possible that President Trump was only able to beat Hitlery for no other reason than because he had plenty of help from Russia.  This despite the fact that the ONLY collusion that took place was between Russia and Hitlery’s campaign.

And yet what has me more than a little concerned, regarding the upcoming election, is that what seems to be so obvious to me, seems not to be so very obvious to so many of my fellow citizens.  After all, right now we are in the middle of an economic boom that Barry ‘O’ could have only dreamed of.  And yet there seems to be far too many Americans willing to vote for those who advocate policies that would threaten that economic boom and that would return us back to Barry ‘O’s anemic economy.

So the question is, at least at this point, who is it in their right mind who would see it as being in the best interest of our country to elect even one more Democrat to Congress?  To me that is nothing short of complete insanity.  They have shown time and again that they possess a very deep hatred for this country.  And that becomes all the more evident with each success achieved by President Trump.  This simply was not supposed to happen.  It was supposed to be Hitlery now sitting in the Oval Office! 

DEMOCRATS HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER AMERICAN’S BUT A SLEIGH RIDE TO HELL!!!

Even if you happen to be a proud card-carrying member of the Democrat Party you must admit that impeachment-hungry Democrats have next to nothing to offer the American people as being a reason for voting ‘for’ them, nothing but dysfunction of the most destructive kind.  Ever since their unexpected and rather humiliating defeat in 2016 the Democrats have embraced extremism in pursuit of obstruction. They have abandoned any and all pretense of serious governance and share only one goal: the destruction of President Trump’s agenda and his eventual impeachment. 

And while the idea of impeachment might thrill Democrat activists, and the party faithful, it would be nothing short of a disaster for America.  It would curtail the Trump administration’s impressive economic and national security progress, and seriously distract Congress from doing its job. The ‘Make America Great Again’ agenda would be stopped dead in its tracks.  It was Clinton hack Terry McAuliffe who recently said that Democrats “ought to look at” impeaching President Trump.  The truth is they’ve been looking at it since the very day he was inaugurated.

Then there’s also ‘Mad Maxine’ Waters who has been calling for President Trump’s impeachment since last year. More recently, this disgusting old bitch demanded the President’s impeachment in May, for scrapping the terrible Iran deal no less, and on at least two separate occasions in March.  And in January, Democrat Al Green introduced a resolution calling for the President’s impeachment and recently maintained that the Democrats would have a “right and privilege” to impeach the President should they manage to win a House majority this November.

Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have cautioned against calls for President Trump’s impeachment, but this is solely because they’re worried about galvanizing the Republican base heading into the November elections.  It’s naive to think that the Democrats won’t try to impeach the President should they gain a majority in the midterms.  The party and its state-controlled ‘fake news’ media mouthpieces have spent the last two years crying hysterically that President Trump is a direct threat to the 

Republic itself, and calling to resist him by any means necessary.

Yet, in the year and a half that he’s been in office, President Trump has pursued policies that have immensely benefited both the United States and the world. The Democrats want nothing more than to reverse all of them.  President Trump’s tax reform and deregulation have resulted in unprecedented job growth, increased wages, and historic gains for some of America’s most underserved communities. A Democrat majority wouldn’t just try to undo President Trump’s tax cuts, it would undoubtedly work overtime to introduce a whole slew of new taxes too.

Handing the reins of power in the House back to the Democrats would not only be devastating for America, it would also be devastating for the rest of the world. President Trump has secured a number of significant foreign policy victories, including a diplomatic breakthrough with North Korea, which would be in jeopardy with the Democrats at the helm in D.C.  At best, the dysfunctional Democrats offer bad economic policies that will drive our nation towards destitution.  At worst, they offer divisive identity politics that will drive our nation towards civil war.

Make no mistake about it, the Trump agenda is very much at stake in the midterm elections this fall, and America’s revival, and dare I say survival, right along with it!  The last thing that Democrats want, and I mean the VERY LAST thing, is a thriving middle class fueling an increasingly prosperous America.  It increases their inability to get more folks addicted to government ‘freebies’ and therefore makes them more difficult to control.  And when it comes to the Democrats, no matter what issue, what it always boils down to is being better able to control the people.  

The Democrat Party is the party of hate.  Ask any Democrat what they stand for and they will only tell you what they are against.  We cannot let hate win in November.  Can you imagine the chaos these degenerates will unleash upon this country if they get the House! They will tank the economy and the market as payback to not only President Trump, but his millions of supporters as well, not caring one little bit what they are doing to the country as a whole!  Americans must realize that if the Democrats take the House in November, they will impeach the president.

The American left has long been something of an absurdity, when they encountered only token opposition their insanity remained in check.  But the idea that we will do away with borders while providing medical care for all, as well as welfare and all the myriad subsidies already in place is simply insane. Any person who would, from a position of leadership, call for this kind of insanity is not probably himself or herself insane, but more likely a malicious power hungry psychopath.  Rabidly hard core, oppressive, totalitarian, statists have now completely taken over the Democrat Party.

Government will need a great deal more coercive power to keep things even slightly in order if we abandon our borders completely while providing ‘free’ medical care and full welfare subsidies to the entire world of people who will want these things. Likewise, the taxation on we producers will rise enormously, it won't take much to persuade many of us to drop our tools and join the new revolutionary army. The Democrats know that the longer President Trump is able to make positive changes here in America (and the world) the harder it will be for them to bring him down.

“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.”  Ronald Reagan

WILL AMERICA COMMIT SUICIDE BY ALLOWING NANCY PELOSI TO BECOME SPEAKER???

Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that the much talked about ‘blue wave’ becomes a reality.  What is it that the American people can expect to see happen when Nancy Pelosi once again takes possession of the gavel as many seem to suggest that she will? Despite leading her party to one of the worst defeats in congressional history back in 2010, after she ballooned the deficit and pushed Obamacare through passage she is yet again poised to become the next Speaker.  And yet, the agenda we can expect to see from Democrats differs little from the agenda we saw in 2010.

Theoretically, having Democrats lead part of a divided government could play to President Trump’s deal-making skills. Because the fact is that most of the country’s major problems, the high cost of health care; the national debt; the sinking entitlements, cannot be solved without bipartisanship.  Unfortunately, as is usually the case, Democrats are in no mood to compromise. The Democrat definition of ‘compromise’ consists of forcing Republicans to abandon their positions and simply surrender to the Democrats and grant their demands.  

As we have seen in the past Pelosi has no problem with preventing Congress from getting anything done.  Instead, she will hold symbolic votes that put Republicans on the spot ahead of the 2020 elections. Her agenda is simple: impeach, tax, bail out.  And it is that agenda that the American people can expect to see playout unless the majority of them make a concerted effort to ensure that the previous mentioned ‘blue wave’ becomes little more than a ‘blue ripple.’  Because unless ‘We the People’ take it upon ourselves to stop her, Nancy will make good on her agenda of:

Impeach. Pelosi has downplayed talk of impeachment on the campaign trail, and has let it be known that she is not happy with the effort of left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer to force the issue. But most of that irritation is just for show. Pelosi’s deputy, Steny Hoyer, has already accused Trump of “treason” and said that impeachment could be discussed after Democrats take the House.

Given that Republicans are likely to maintain control of the Senate — thanks to the fact that Democrats have 25 seats at stake, versus eight for the GOP — there is little chance that President Trump would be convicted and removed from office. But Democrats will impeach the president merely to punish him for having been elected in the first place, and to placate their rabid “progressive” activists. They will also use the impeachment process and vote to make the case against Trump for the 2020 presidential election.

Tax. Pelosi infamously called the Republican tax cuts “crumbs” — then had to walk that back after companies started using their tax breaks to give their employees hefty bonuses. But she left no doubt that Democrats will raise taxes if and when they take the majority. (As she put it in May, Democrats want to “revise” the tax cuts.) Pelosi has trashed each month’s new jobs report as if America is suffering rather than prospering at 4.1% growth and record-low minority unemployment, especially among minorities.

The Senate — assuming it is still run by Republicans — will reject Pelosi’s new taxes. 

However, she intends to put each and every Republican senator up for re-election in 2020 — and there will be 20, versus only 11 seats at stake for Democrats — on record as supporting “tax cuts for the rich” versus whatever wonderful programs she can pretend the tax cuts would have been used to fund.

Bail Out. Obamacare cost Pelosi the Speaker’s gavel in 2010. Now it is costing American families thousands of dollars in monthly payments for high-deductible insurance policies that are often useless anyway. Republicans promised to repeal and replace it — but could not find the votes. Democrats want to keep the system afloat by bailing out insurers — though they cannot find the money. Their real goal is socialized medicine — “Medicare for All” — as conservatives had warned was Democrats’ intent from the start.

Senate Republicans should reject that — but then again, they may not. If the upper chamber remains as closely divided as it is today, Democrats would just need a few defections from swing-state Senators to impose government health care on America.

In sum, Speaker Pelosi 2.0 offers virtually nothing more than a do-nothing Congress, whose sole agenda will be to remove President Trump — by impeachment if possible or by election if necessary.  And despite Pelosi’s deep unpopularity, she WILL be the Speaker come next January, unless the American people choose to stop her.  So you see, the choice is ours.  Turnout will be paramount if we who love and wish to protect this country from the likes of Pelosi are to succeed in sending this witch back into the muck from which crawled out of those many years ago.

What she wants is very simple: Open borders for illiterate welfare wannabees and drug dealers, as well as Moslem terrorists, Barry ‘O’s - no care - health care. She wants predator men in public toilet areas to molest, and rape women and young girls. She wants less money for the military and to then shift that money to dead beat parasites who have no right to the money of taxpayers.  These and many other insane policies are what the Democrat will be attempting to use in destroying America, and pushing the U.S. towards a Socialist/Communist society like Cuba and Venezuela.

All that and a complete surrender in the so-called ‘trade wars’ and the allowing of other countries to run up even more massive trade surpluses.  That and the liberal desire to tie U.S. businesses down with burdensome and extremely costly global warming regulations, the effort to ban fracking, and the age old dream of those on the left to regulate, quite literally, every aspect of Americans’ lives.  When you put that all together you have the dream agenda of every Leftist, including Pelosi.  We MUST make clear to ALL that these are NOT the policies that we want.

Look, I would think that it would be painfully obvious by now, especially after our eight year sleigh ride to Hell under Barry ‘O’, that the Democrats have NO desire to make America better, they wish only to push their twisted agenda, no matter how screwed up it is, just to destroy Trump, regardless of how much collateral damage it may cause to the country!  Pelosi is the warning sign for every sane American not to vote for a Democrat. No matter how much they may smile or how much they promise, mark my words, Democrats will always be traitors to the United States of America.

MORE MONEY DOESN’T ALWAYS TRANSLATE INTO VICTORY…JUST ASK HITLERY…

Far too often the amount of money raised by a specific party or candidate is used as being a kind of barometer in determining who’s likely to win an election.  And with word now coming that Democrat members and candidates for the House are bringing in huge donations heading into the November midterm elections we’re being led to believe that that would seem to indicate that Democrats are in a very good position to retake control of Congress.  But I would tend to disagree. 

And we’re also told by those who get paid to comment on such things, that if the 2018 midterm elections were held today, the Republicans could stand to lose 56 seats in the House, effectively handing over the speaker’s gavel and committee chairmanships to Democrats.  And while the Republicans, notably, have much less debt than do the Democrats, we’re told that there is a ‘blue wave’ of Democrat support now bubbling just below the surface in many areas all across the country.

The ‘Cook Political Report’ recently released a revised House ratings map for every congressional district in the U.S. Friday and found that Democrats have a shot at up to 56 seats in November.  Some 25 of those seats are in districts that “Lean Republican,” meaning the race is seen as a competitive race, but Republicans have a small advantage in those districts. Another 22 of the 56 districts are considered “Republican Toss Ups,” which means either party has a chance of winning.

There are nine Republicans up for reelection this cycle who are in districts that either lean Democrat or have a Democrat that is “likely” to take the election.  And there are also fifty House Republicans who are said to be resigning, retiring or seeking other office in 2018.  Roughly 22 House members retire each election cycle, so to say the party is going through a tumultuous period of change would not be an exaggeration.  But I don’t think we should make it into something bigger than it is.    

And in an attempt to put these fundraising numbers into some sort of perspective, I think it’s important to note that candidate Hitlery raised twice as much money as did candidate Trump and what exactly did it get her?  Nothing more than another second place finish! And while many of her supporters are still feeling cheated nearly two years later, normal people are able to recognize the fact that America dodged a rather sizable bullet in 2016 and breathe a healthy sigh of relief.

And I think it also important to point out that all the money in the world isn’t going to change the fact that the Democrat Party has no platform, beyond ‘Impeach Trump’ and ‘Open Borders’ on which to run.  I would argue that these would be two sure-fire losing campaign messages.  And I mentioned earlier, Hitlery raised $1 billion and still lost, proving the point in rather spectacular fashion, that you can put financial lipstick on a pig, but it doesn’t alter the fact that it’s still just a pig.

And I think it’s a rather bold statement to make the claim that, “If the 2018 midterm elections were held today, Republicans could stand to lose 56 seats in the House.” Because it means absolutely nothing in what has become an environment of Democrat collapse, driven by a number of growing movements, including the Red Pill movement and the #WalkAway movement that has lifelong Democrats abandoning the Democrat Party in what has been described as significant numbers.

We’re told that President Trump's approval among Hispanics is up 10 percent during this “border separating, abolish ICE’ brouhaha, and also that millennials are leaving the party in droves. There's a clear trend here, and it's AWAY from the Democrat Party.  Spouting off financial numbers is completely useless when the party is in such a state of philosophical collapse, which will eventually leave only the most rabid of supporters, who are also the ones mostly likely to donate.

DICK MORRIS, NOVEMBER 2018, AND WHAT LIES AHEAD...

Ever since he guaranteed that Romney was going to win in a landslide back in 2012 it’s become a rather rare event for me to put much stock in any of Dick Morris’s political predictions.  So while I would like nothing better than for him to be right on the money regarding his most recent prediction of a ‘Red Wave’ come this November, I have a nagging little voice in the back of my head telling me that Republicans have effectively shot themselves in both feet because of their dislike for Trump.

Apparently Morris theory regarding the midterms stems from his thinking that the Democrats are repeating the same mistakes Republicans made by attacking ex-president ‘Slick Willy’ Clinton back in the late 1990s over Monica Lewinsky.  It was this past Sunday on New York AM 970 radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” that Morris seemed to shoot down the idea that there will be a “blue wave” in the 2018 midterm elections, instead saying that it’s a “red wave” that’s on the way. 

Morris said he believes “Democrats are overplaying their hand” by going after President Trump for the Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels scandals, instead of focusing on issues heading into the midterm elections, adding that it will show in the 2018 elections.  He said, “I think that [Democrats] see fool’s gold in these scandal.” And added, “They’re putting everything behind the Stormy Daniels scandal and Michael Cohen … and the country doesn’t give a damn.” 

Morris claims, “There is no blue wave coming. There is a red wave. And what makes it red is the blood of the Democratic Party.”  He pointed to the rise in President Trump's approval ratings saying, “Since the Stormy Daniels scandal started, Trump's approval rating has gone from 40 to 45.”  And he went on to say, “From the beginning of the year it has gone from 37 to 45.  And the advantage of the Democrats over the Republicans in the House elections has been cut more than in half.”

Like I said, there is nothing I would like better than for Morris to be proven right here.  But sadly I tend to think that it’s nothing more than a way to gain for himself few more radio and television invites.  Sometimes I wonder if there’s anyone out there who actually believes anything of what they say or if they’re ALL just telling us what they think we want to here until we lose this whole enchilada called America.  And I worry that should this ‘blue wave’ occur, it’ll be the final nail in our coffin.

So, while I’m not quite ready to throw in the towel, I am a very long way from having any sort of a warm and fuzzy that things will go in the direction that’s best for the country come this November.  I pray Morris will be proven right, but at the same time I’m not holding my breath.  Will the American people decide to send to Congress more of those willing to work with the president, or more of those seeking only to exact a bit of revenge by working to impeach him?  I guess we just wait and see.

2018 AND THE DIMINISHING ‘BLUE WAVE’???

Well it would appear as if all the talk coming from Democrats about what they intend to do ‘when’ they take control of the House this November, things like to impeach the president, to raise taxes and to drive a stake through the heart of the Trump Agenda, ‘may’ be having a bit of an adverse effect.  The Communist News Network (CNN) recently released a poll, on Wednesday, the results of which shocked even its own political pundits.  Because it would seem that the much heralded “Blue Wave” so hoped for by many in the Democrat Party regarding the coming midterm elections, has now pretty much evaporated.  At least that’s what we’re all being led to believe.

Anyway, it’s according to this recent poll that the Democrat generic Congressional Ballot advantage has dwindled to three points, 47 percent to 44 percent among registered voters, two points below the five point generic advantage Democrats need to hold onto the 196 seats they currently hold. That five point bar is due to the significant gerrymandering advantage Republicans obtained when Republican majority state legislatures in states that had Democrat majority legislatures in 2000 redrew Congressional district lines after the 2010 census.  The CNN poll of 901 registered voters was conducted between May 2 and 5, and has a margin of error of 3.8 points.

The fall to a three point advantage has been a steep one for Democrats, who according to the same CNN poll held a 16 point generic Congressional ballot advantage as recently as this past December.  And even CNN’s Chris Cillizza had to bring himself to admit that the poll could actually be good news for the Republican Party.  Cillizza wrote, “But dig into the poll further and other shoots of optimism for Republicans sprout up.”  And he then went on to add:

1. The economy is becoming more prominent as a voting issue, as Trump recedes somewhat. More than 8 in 10 voters (84%) say the economy will be “extremely” or “very” important to their votes, while 64% say the same of the President. The better the economy does — or is perceived to be doing — and the less that people see the 2018 election as a straight referendum on Trump, the better for Republican chances.

2. While Trump’s job approval numbers remain stuck in the low 40s, he appears to be less of a drag on congressional Republicans today than he was a few months ago. In January, 52% said they would be more likely to vote for a congressional candidate who opposes Trump, while 41% said they’d be more likely to back someone who supports him. That margin has narrowed in the new poll; 48% said they’d rather choose a candidate who opposes Trump, while 43% prefer a candidate who supports the President.

3. Republicans are getting more interested in the 2018 election. In March, just 1 in 3 GOPers (and GOP-leaning independents) said they were “very enthusiastic” about the midterms. That number is up to 44% in the new CNN survey.

Now even with all that said the RealClearPolitics Average of Polls paints a slightly better picture for the Democrats, currently giving them a 6.1 percent generic Congressional ballot advantage.  Yet even though Nancy Pelosi has been very loudly and quite publicly measuring the drapes in the Speaker’s Office for some time now, her advisers who are reading the latest polls may well be telling her it would not be prudent to begin selecting new patterns quite yet, or to at least be doing so a bit more quietly and a little less publically.  But I doubt Ms. Pelosi will soon be following anyone’s advice in that regard.  She seems convinced the Democrats “Will Win!”

Or, should those of us on the right consider this CNN poll as being little more than another bit of ‘fake news’, the purpose of which is to lull us into what is meant to be some false sense of security or into thinking that we have this thing all but completely wrapped up?   Might a better strategy, on our part, be to simply ignore any and all polls, and simply work as hard as we possibly can to elect more ‘Trump’ Republicans to Congress?  The president has done the best he can with the ‘help’ that he now has.  But it’s time for us to step up. The ‘midterm tradition’ is about to be hammered.  We MUST NOT surrender Congress to the party of slavery, amnesty, and illegal aliens.

To be honest, Democrats are little more than the political equivalent of drug dealers whose ‘success’ is measured only by how many ‘constituents’ they are able to keep firmly addicted to government ‘freebies’, who then willingly cast their vote in exchange for obtaining the ‘fix’ that only Democrats are willing to provide.  Of course there is no real ‘fix’ only a business model that provides the party with a near endless pool of voters and which provides not one clue about fixing such issues as joblessness, drug dependency or crime.  If anything the Democrats do their darnedest to keep all of those things going the same way that they aggressively support open borders. 

I feel pretty confident in saying that Americans all across the political spectrum have become tired of the incessant, relentless and pretty much nonstop political BS.  People are experiencing negativity overload and are now so sick of all the repetitive lies and fictitious scandals that simply don’t appear to accurately reflect any sort of reality.  The leftists will remain tone deaf, vile and nasty, because hate and lies are all they know, it’s their default mode, which they substitute for true solutions.   But as we all know, the left doesn't really want real solutions. They can only survive by sowing discord and disunity. The left is a joke, an asinine parody of reality.

So it would seem to me that the ONLY viable option available to those of us who are so desperately in search of real solutions for what are some very real problems is to, like it or not, vote for those who, at least going in, say they will support the president that we elected.  It seems to make absolutely no sense to me to vote for those, in either party, whose only interest is in trying for a do-over regarding the last election.  The time has come to move on.  There are issues in need of being addressed, and while we have a president willing to tackle those issues, he has now gone about as far as he can by himself.  Those in Congress are going to need to do their part.

And that’s where we the voters come in.  As I mentioned earlier there have been numerous Democrats who have already made it very clear what their priorities will be when, and not if, they are permitted to again assume control of the House, and, perhaps, the Senate as well.  And those priorities include, but are obviously not limited to, the impeaching of our duly elected president, the attempting to revisit our recent tax cuts and to do all that can be done to stifle the Trump agenda.  These are not the priorities for making America stronger, safer or more prosperous, and therefore are not the priorities that we the American people should be voting for.

2018: CAN REPUBLICANS PULL IT OFF…

I tend not to spend much time speculating about polls, especially those that at least ‘appear’ to be favorable to those on my side.  But at the risk of jinxing things I felt it necessary to spend a few minutes regarding some new ‘Morning Consult’ polls that apparently show the Democrats ‘could be’ in serious trouble in Senate races all across the country.  Because it’s at this particular moment that it appears Republicans now have serious leads in West Virginia where incumbent Democrat Joe Manchin trails by 14 points, in North Dakota where incumbent Democrat Heidi Heitkamp trails by 8, and in Indiana where incumbent Democrat Joe Donnelly trails by 5.

Also Democrats also seem to be in a bit of trouble in Missouri, where incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill trails by 5, in Montana where incumbent Democrat Jon Tester trails by 5, in Florida where incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson is locked in a near-deadlock with Rick Scott, and in Pennsylvania and Ohio where incumbent Democrats Bill Casey and Sherrod Brown are leading by less than two points each, plus Virginia, where Timmy Kaine leads by just 3 on the generic ballot.  So the best-case scenario has the Republicans actually winning up to nine additional Senate seats.  But November is still a very long way away and there is much that can happen.

The polls also ‘appear’ less than favorable for the Democrats in the House where the RealClearPolitics poll average for the generic ballot has Democrats up 6.7%, but the polls are all over the place.  The Economist/YouGov has Democrats with a 3-point lead, Quinnipiac has Democrats with an 8-point lead, as does Monmouth.  The best available data seems to suggest that Democrats are heavy favorites to take the House, but face a seriously uphill battle to take the Senate from Republicans.  This is a rarity in modern politics; the last time a president’s party picked up seats in the Senate but lost seats in the House was Ronald Reagan back in 1982.

And it was in 1970 that Richard Nixon’s Republicans lost 12 seats in the House but picked up two seats in the Senate.  And it was in 1962 that Kennedy’s Democrats lost four House seats but gained three Senate seats. Today, Republicans are expected to lose dozens of House seats but could simultaneously pick up a half-dozen Senate seats.  Given our wildly divisive politics, this isn’t particularly shocking.  But it is a sign that our national divisions are serious and regional — that politics can’t easily be nationalized. And that means that President Trump still has a path in 2020 to victory, if he can eke out wins in the same states he did in 2016.

One thing that I would like to think that the Republicans may have in their favor is a Democrat platform that has as its major planks things like reparations and the ‘promise’ of gutting much of our First and Second Amendment rights.  And then there’s the Democrat Party’s intense hatred of all white people especially those who reside in ‘Red’ states.  To me that would seem to be a losing platform.  And also, instead of the usual relatively muted response to a presidential defeat that they usually display, they lost their freaking minds and have therefore put conservatives on the defense instead of lulling them into an apathetic stupor.

I do kind of like the way the election is shaping up.  We have prosperity, a level of which that hasn’t been seen for decades, a possible big triumph over North Korea, and growing black support, a mainstay of the Democrats has seen a nearly 10 point erosion in just this week as people wake up to the idea that being employed and having control of your life is better than being dependent on Democrat politicians on the welfare plantation.  If Trump or the Republicans pick up another few points in approval I think both the Senate and the House can be held.  With a solid control of Congress Trump can proceed with making America great again.

While we know Paul Ryan will not be returning, those now being mentioned most prominently as candidates for his replacement would bring about little change.  What I think would go a very long way in helping the Republicans maintain control of the House is Rep. Jim Jordan being selected as Ryan’s successor.  If voters knew going in that Jordan would be the next Speaker it just might be what the doctor ordered as far as convincing people to give the Republicans one more shot at being the majority party.  And over in the Senate, Mitch McConnell has got to go.  He has been nothing but an abject failure as the majority leader in the Senate. 

And you wouldn’t think the antics of congressional Democrats over the course of the last two years would convince enough voters that they deserve being in charge of Congress. Time and again they have continually demonstrated that they have absolutely no interest in helping working class Americans.  They are all about getting power, but when they get it, do nothing positive with it.  A perfect example of that would be the first two years of Barry’s first term when all they did was to force ‘passage’ of Obamacare, which hasn't stopped costing us money and unraveling since day one.  Do we really want to go down that road again? 

THIS NOVEMBER REPUBLICANS MUST FOCUS ON WHAT’S MOST IMPORTANT…

It’s unfortunate but the current situation in which we Republicans now find ourselves, regarding November’s election, can be blamed directly on those in our leadership positions.  And it is those same individuals who, very clearly, have no business being in those positions.  As I’m sure many are well aware, the general consensus is that the Republicans will almost certainly lose the House and could quite possibly lose the Senate as well.  And it has much to do with the fact that our ‘leaders’ chose to support a $1.3 Trillion omnibus bill, which was not just the most reckless spending bill in history, it was an abject surrender on every single political and policy pledge made to those who put them in office.  They have now botched every opportunity presented to them that would have resulted in November’s election being a runaway for them. 

And it's been this way practically from the very beginning.  First, they asked for control of the House and its appropriations authority to right the fiscal ship, and as importantly, to end Obamacare. In 2010, they got it — and immediately stated they could do nothing without the Senate.  In 2014, they were awarded that, too — and just as quickly declared they could do nothing without the White House.  So, in 2016 they were handed that, and with it complete control of the legislative process, and with no more excuses available what exactly have they done?   They surrendered without a fight to where any real advances that have come, have been driven by the White House.  Congress has done nothing.  But I still maintain that our ONLY viable option come this November has us essentially saving the Republicans from themselves.

Here's the difference, as I see it, between the two parties.  For the past eight years, the GOP has been the party that begins each conversation with, “This is why we can't do it.” The Democrats begin theirs with, “This is how we'll get it done.”  That needs to be seen very clearly for what it is, a failure of ‘leadership.’  Who we must have in those positions of leadership are those who are capable of creating smart political strategies and are able to craft much needed legislative victories.  And the part we have to play, as voters, is to keep the Republicans in control long enough, and to make all concerned well aware that while we remain willing to back the Republicans for now, there must be an endgame in sight.  There must be the advancing of an agenda the purpose of which is to prevent any further slippage to the left.  

Our Republican members of Congress need to get busy and they can start by showing a willingness to wrap themselves around the president in order to save him from impeachment.  This means publicly embracing him as their leader.  More to the point, it means supporting everything he puts on the table from here through November, and doing so with great enthusiasm.  They must get to work on reversing the disastrous $1.3 Trillion omnibus and to finally kill Obamacare once and for all, because nothing less will do.  Republicans must stop the funding of an organization that proudly massacres more than 300,000 babies annually with $450,000,000 dollars taken from American taxpayers.  They must fund border security and deliver real personal tax cuts to the American people. These are the reasons people voted for Republicans.

Here is the bottom line. On September 30th, five weeks before the election, there will be the need for a new spending bill to keep the government running.  Everything that have mentioned is able to be accomplished in that one piece of legislation.  No more excuses.  No more punts.  No more stalling.  Now what those of us who have tolerated much from this bunch of the last 10 years could say is: “We gave you complete control, and you not only accomplished nothing, you broke your word on virtually everything. Good-bye.”  And while we would be correct in doing so, what would be accomplished other than perhaps making ourselves ‘feel’ better?  Is that really what’s best for the long term?  Personally, I don’t think so.  Because to do so would be nothing less than a complete surrender on our part.  

We who love this country had a real chance for positive change and sadly the party leadership, to be perfectly blunt, let us down.  Sadly with RINOs Ryan and McConnell leading the charge too many on our side were willing to follow them instead of doing what they were elected to do.  So now what we, the conservative voters, need to do, what we must do, is focus.  Focus our anger, our frustration and our disappointment on an effort to remove every single RINO that we can, and replace them not with some radical leftwing Democrat but with, yes, another Republican.  If we’re foolish enough to think that handing control of Congress back to the Democrats is the best way to force upon the Republicans some level of retribution then all we have done is to doom not only our country, but our children and grandchildren as well.

For those who say this far and no farther I would only ask that if we do decide to allow the much talked about “blue wave” to simply run its course, what happens then?  Because if that happens it could be an entire generation, if ever, before we may ever have another chance to regain some of what we will most assuredly lose.  The left already has near complete control of the news media including, I would argue, Fox News.  It controls our schools and therefore access to the minds of our young.  As things stand right now at least we have our foot in the door and if we were to focus on electing more would be allies of this president isn’t that at least worth the effort?  Look, we know who the RINOs are, let us be determined in our efforts to get rid of as many of them as we possibly can.  That’s what should be our mission.

2018 NOT TIME FOR RETREAT, TIME TO SEND IN THE CAVALRY…

Let me start by saying that anyone who can look into the eyes of ANY Democrat politician and NOT see very clearly that their goal is to destroy this nation is beyond ignorant and represents the same threat level as those politicians for whom they vote.  But sadly, there are also many ‘Establishment Republicans’, aka RINOs, of whom I think it can be said share that same Democrat Party goal.  To the point where it would seem that our current batch of RINOs has little interest in winning a larger majority in Congress, or in retaining their current majority.  It would seem that their only interest is in wanting to prove Trump's election was a fluke and are willing to do whatever it takes to do so, even relinquishing their current congressional majorities.

Can you imagine if the Republicans were to actually put a little effort into trying to win the mid-term elections, and were able to win a super-majority in both houses of Congress?  But then, I suppose, that would put them in the position of having to get off their dead asses and to actually do something.  As we all know they are rather excellent at making promises, just not very good at making good on them.  So, since they are unwilling to do what is necessary to prevent the Democrats from making significant gains, it’s going be left up to those of us who love this country to make sure that that does not happen.  And how do we do that?  By getting out and voting to keep Republicans in control and then to hold their feet to the fire.

Look, there’s no denying the fact that RINOs McConnell and Ryan are little more Democrats in Republican clothing, and traitors not only to their constituencies, but to the country as well.  And despite the fact that Ryan will be gone after this year, that hasn’t prevented him from trying to pull all manner of political shenanigans as he heads for the door.  And the names now being floated as his replacement as Speaker, Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise, should the Republicans actually maintain control of the House, should be seen as simply unacceptable.  They both are very far from being the sort of leader that we would so desperately need going forward into the 2020 election.  My personal favorite for Speaker would be Jim Jordan.

So anyway, as we approach these very critical midterm elections, what are patriotic Americans to do?  Well, the answer to that is pretty simply really, and it most certainly is NOT to vote for more Democrats, no matter how sane they may sound, or the degree to which they may try to portray themselves as being anything other than the rabid leftists that we know them to be.  The conservative Democrat is a political animal that long ago went extinct.  And even those who still today refer to themselves as being some sort of ‘centrist’ in their party are doing little more than trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people.  Nor is the answer to simply sit out the election.  That’s no different than choosing to vote Democrat. 

Now before you start saying that many Republicans are just as guilty as Democrats in wanting to destroy this country, let me just say that I’m well aware of that.  Republican candidates essentially lied to us in 2010, in 2012 and again in 2016.  All manner of promises were made with few, if any, being kept.  And in knowing that, is the proper response for us to not vote Republican this November?  Let’s all remember that just because those we elected were not up to the task that we gave to them, that DOES NOT mean that we simply throw up our hands, shake our head in disgust and walk away.  That’s not only irresponsible, it’s insane.  I repeat, the primary goal of those running under the Democrat Party banner is to destroy this country. 

So why are there so many on the conservative side who simply want to roll over and allow that to happen?  Have we forgotten already the first two years of Barry’s presidency when the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress?  Or the state of the country upon Barry’s departure after 8 long years.  How there was the weakest of economic ‘recoveries’ from a recession, how race relations were set back 100 years and the rise of Black Lives Matter, the implementation of a disastrous healthcare plan with the only increase in coverage being those already eligible for Medicaid.  Say what you will about President Trump, but even with all his personal failings he has done more positive things for America in one year than Barry did in eight!

And then there’s a Republican National Committee (RNC) that seems reluctant to support non-establishment candidates in the primaries.  They didn't support Donald Trump and look how that turned out.  We need to get out and vote, holding our nose if we must, if it prevents the Democrats from taking control.  They are already running on raising taxes, open borders and beginning impeachment proceedings.  We put up with do-nothing Republicans for far too long.  At least we have a President doing great things despite them.  We can't throw it all away now, we just need to suck it up and deal with it.  The Left remains freaked out by Trump's election and are feverishly agitating and organizing, and willing to vote for anything Democrat.  

Meanwhile, many voters on our side seem a bit complacent, to the point where many are unsure whether they’re even going to vote.  And if the Democrats turn out and we don’t, guess who wins?  President Trump's victory was great but it was simply nowhere near enough.  We need to put in place a far more conservative Congress or at least one with a few less RINOs and even less Democrats.  And as I have said before, we need to replace as many RINOs as we can in Republican primaries, and then replace as many Democrats as we can with Republicans come November.  President Trump is almost single-handedly holding back the forces of evil without any assistance from the Establishment Republicans.  It’s time to send in the cavalry.  

And then it was just last week that some reports were saying that the Republicans were gaining some level of traction and had actually narrowed the Democrat poll advantage down to roughly 4 percent.  So how was it that our intrepid Republican leadership chose to respond to such news?  Well, Ryan and his loyalists want to talk with Democrats about amnesty, Grassley, along with his establishment buddies, with help from the Democrats, wants to protect Mueller.  And then we have McConnell who went out his way to kill any chance that President Trump might have had to strip $60 Billion of spending from the recent omnibus debacle.  Hence my wondering if these guys are purposely trying to sabotage their own election prospects.

So look, no one ever said this was going to be easy.  What we have here is quite the dilemma.  In that we have to make sure Republicans remain the majority in Congress, essentially in spite of the Republicans’ best efforts to make sure that they don’t.  And it all could be been so very different.  Republicans had but one task to complete that would have ensured not only that they would remain in control, but would also have virtually guaranteed a Trump landslide in 2020.  But instead, as is usually the case with this limp-wristed, light-in-the-loafers bunch, they chose to take the coward’s way out.  So now all of the heavy lifting has been left to ‘we the people’ if we are to have ANY hope of winning in November.  I sincerely hope we’re all up for it!

THE 2018 ELECTIONS, WHAT MIGHT LAY IN STORE???

Ok, so the million dollar question is: What’s going to determine how it is that people vote come this November 6?  Will it be something as basic as the continuing economic boom brought about by the policies of the current administration, and which, despite recent claims to the contrary, the last administration has had absolutely nothing to do with?  Or, will it have more to do with the allowing into this country of millions more illegal immigrants and then providing them with free healthcare and education while also providing all manner of ‘freebie’ to anyone who’s willing to vote Democrat?

I think we can all admit that the first year of the Trump administration was little more than a complete waste of time, and I place the majority of the blame for that not on the president but on those Republican members of Congress who once again seemed to have a difficult time remembering why it was that they were elected.  And it was beyond frustrating that they were so willing to let pass by that which was a ‘golden’ opportunity for making some very significant progress on a whole host of issues, many of which were the reason why Donald Trump was elected president.

The Democrats, on the other hand, have continued to put petty partisan politics above the needs of the American people as they have remained unable to move beyond the unexpected loss of their candidate, Hitlery.  Democrats have made it their purpose in life to stonewall, to obstruct and, yes even, to ‘resist’ on every level our duly elected president and the agenda that got him elected.  But their obstruction notwithstanding, progress has been made on moving forward with that agenda, despite the president receiving very little assistance from congressional Republicans.

Rarely have the Republicans ever been in the position of having complete control of Congress as well as control of the Oval Office, which makes the squandering of an entire year all the more infuriating.  And while that alone may be sufficient to cause some to throw in the towel when it comes to voting Republican this November, I think it goes without saying that should the Democrats gain control of Congress number one on their list will have little to do with the needs of the American people, the number one issue for them will be to impeach, one way or another, President Donald Trump.

So on which side of the election ballot will more Americans come down on?  I go back to my original question.  Does the impeaching of their president really matter more than a thriving economy to the majority of voters, regardless of political affiliation?  I wish I knew the answer to that question, but sadly I don’t.  And yet whenever I hear the Democrats speaking about their vision of America I find myself wondering why it is that there aren’t more people laughing in their face.  Because nearly everything that the Democrats support is, in one way or another, detrimental to this country.

And as we inch ever closer to the next election it’s a very rare occurrence when any of the talking heads out there, including many of those on Fox News, consider the election as being anything other than a cake walk for the Democrats.  And if that does prove to be the case, the Republicans will essentially have no one to blame but themselves.  And even the recent tax cuts may not be enough to protect them if they insist upon moving forward with anything that can even remotely be viewed as being amnesty for those who are in this country illegally.  That’s just a political fact of life.

Yet with all that said, it would still seem to me that all the Democrats really have as a campaign issue, if you can actually call it that, as we head into the next election, is that were it not somehow for the Russians, and old Vlad Putin, Hiterly Clinton would now be president and Donald J. Trump would not.  While this would likely prove to be sufficient motivation to garner the support of most in the Democrat Party, would it, I wonder, provide enough incentive for those outside the Democrat Party, perhaps those noncommittal Independents, to vote for Democrat candidates?   

And I guess yet another question is; are there enough Americans who yearn for a return to the days of economic policies that succeeded in nothing more than to get our economy to grow at an anemic annual rate of less 2 percent?  And still another question would be, how many Republican voters might use their frustration over the lack of progress made over the past year to justify simply staying home on Election Day, therefore allowing the Democrats to simply waltz back into control of Congress.  There is so much riding on this next election, and there remains so much uncertainty.

Lastly, I guess I would only ask those on the right who may already be contemplating sitting this election out, for one reason or another, to please don’t.  Personally I am less than satisfied with what I’ve seen coming from congressional Republicans over the last year.  But as dissatisfied as I may be, the last thing I want to see happen, and I mean the VERY last thing, is to see Nancy Pelosi and Chuckie Schumer in control of Congress.  As far as I’m concerned that would be nothing less than a nightmare scenario.  That is something that we must, at any cost, keep from taking place.