jimnyc
10-27-2018, 10:38 AM
Worse chances than before in total? Yes. Red wave that keeps the House republican? I still don't see it.
---
The Making of a Red Wave?
Are Republicans finally getting the message? Polls (notoriously inaccurate, as Hillary Clinton, MSNBC and The Young Turks can attest) that earlier showed Democrats taking the House -- and possibly even the Senate -- are now wobbling with less certainty. Some leftward-leaning pundits are even tacitly admitting that momentum seems to be moving in the Republicans' direction.
Why could this be?
Perhaps it is because Republican national leadership is finally wising up and doing what conservative voters have been telling it to do for years:
--Stand up for your position.
--Speak directly to the voters -- and listen to them.
--Reach out to voters who everyone tells you you'll never win over.
--Realize that the press will not give you fair coverage.
--Admit that Democrats don't really want bipartisanship, nor will they play by the rules they'll hold you to.
Let's give credit where credit is due: It is President Donald Trump who has stiffened the spines of previously squishy Republicans. Trump saw early on that he would never get a fair shake from the media and took his message straight to the American people in his singularly blunt fashion. Trump has also exposed how false and fraudulent the press has been. (The press, for its part, behaves as if it still controls the message. It doesn't.) Trump dared to go after the votes of minorities, women and working-class Americans -- and his rising approval ratings in those groups have shocked observers who've claimed for years that no Republican could achieve what he has done.
President Trump stood by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein dropped ("leaked") her 11th-hour sexual assault allegations. That sleazy stunt was a tactic from a bygone era, when the mere threat of a scandal would have been enough for a Republican president to go weak in the knees and pull the nominee's ticket. Plenty of traditional Republicans would have. But not Trump.
When Trump didn't cave on Kavanaugh, Feinstein & Co. were forced to follow through with their smear campaign. The resulting circus was a revelation of corruption, the likes of which we haven't seen since Watergate. Democrats -- and their paid protesters -- showed themselves to be deceitful, exploitative, hypocritical and -- most shockingly -- completely disdainful of the Constitution. These are truths that Republicans' prior capitulation has kept the electorate at large from seeing with painful clarity.
Rest - https://townhall.com/columnists/laurahollis/2018/10/25/the-making-of-a-red-wave-n2531684
---
The Making of a Red Wave?
Are Republicans finally getting the message? Polls (notoriously inaccurate, as Hillary Clinton, MSNBC and The Young Turks can attest) that earlier showed Democrats taking the House -- and possibly even the Senate -- are now wobbling with less certainty. Some leftward-leaning pundits are even tacitly admitting that momentum seems to be moving in the Republicans' direction.
Why could this be?
Perhaps it is because Republican national leadership is finally wising up and doing what conservative voters have been telling it to do for years:
--Stand up for your position.
--Speak directly to the voters -- and listen to them.
--Reach out to voters who everyone tells you you'll never win over.
--Realize that the press will not give you fair coverage.
--Admit that Democrats don't really want bipartisanship, nor will they play by the rules they'll hold you to.
Let's give credit where credit is due: It is President Donald Trump who has stiffened the spines of previously squishy Republicans. Trump saw early on that he would never get a fair shake from the media and took his message straight to the American people in his singularly blunt fashion. Trump has also exposed how false and fraudulent the press has been. (The press, for its part, behaves as if it still controls the message. It doesn't.) Trump dared to go after the votes of minorities, women and working-class Americans -- and his rising approval ratings in those groups have shocked observers who've claimed for years that no Republican could achieve what he has done.
President Trump stood by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein dropped ("leaked") her 11th-hour sexual assault allegations. That sleazy stunt was a tactic from a bygone era, when the mere threat of a scandal would have been enough for a Republican president to go weak in the knees and pull the nominee's ticket. Plenty of traditional Republicans would have. But not Trump.
When Trump didn't cave on Kavanaugh, Feinstein & Co. were forced to follow through with their smear campaign. The resulting circus was a revelation of corruption, the likes of which we haven't seen since Watergate. Democrats -- and their paid protesters -- showed themselves to be deceitful, exploitative, hypocritical and -- most shockingly -- completely disdainful of the Constitution. These are truths that Republicans' prior capitulation has kept the electorate at large from seeing with painful clarity.
Rest - https://townhall.com/columnists/laurahollis/2018/10/25/the-making-of-a-red-wave-n2531684