Why Are the Senate Races Close?

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For six years the Democratic majority in the Senate has formed a solid bloc behind a president who betrayed every American soldier who died in Iraq by deliberately losing the war and failing to secure the peace. Obama’s anti-military, anti-American zeal has brought this country to its knees internationally. His cowardice when it comes to the use of force has created a terrorist threat greater than any America has faced since the height of the Cold War. With no dissent from the Democratic majority in the Senate.

The Senate Democrats have supported Obama’s anti-Constitutional efforts to crush their opposition through voter fraud and the political corruption of the IRS. They have embraced his open borders mania, which has introduced tens of thousands of criminal illegals into the American heartland, along with exotic viruses and unknown numbers of terrorists who come here with the intent to kill.

The Senate Democrats have supported Obama’s socialist schemes depriving Americans of the right to choose their health care, destroying millions of jobs, leaving 90 million idle, and 47 million on food stamps. They have turned a blind eye when his unconstitutional executive orders restored a malicious welfare system that condemns millions of disadvantaged Americans to lives of permanent poverty and denied them a shot at the American dream.

Senate Democrats have embraced the lynch mob in Ferguson and used this deplorable episode in their campaigns as a symbol of Republican racism instead. This is a classic case of projection since Democrats are the party of racial categories and racial malice. The nation’s most notorious lynch mob leader and premier racist, Al Sharpton, is the president’s special adviser on race. Thanks to Obama’s policies and the support of Senate Democrats the nation is more racially divided than it has been since the passage of the Civil Rights Acts in 1964 and 1965.

So why are the Senate races close? They are close because Republicans are paralyzed by a political cowardice that makes them reluctant to fight fire with fire. From election to election they are afraid to hold Democrats morally accountable for what they actually stand for and have done. Where is the Republican calling out the Democrats for their support for racists like Sharpton and the lynch mob demanding blood in the case of officer Darren Wilson? Where is the Republican decrying the betrayal of the brave Americans who died to keep Iraq free? Where is the Republican standing up for the millions of poor black and Hispanic children who languish in public schools that don’t teach them and whose lives are being crushed by Democratic “welfare” systems? Where is the Republican Party’s campaign against the Democrats’ totalitarian attempts to destroy the two-party system and empower criminals? Why is their political language so tepid when it comes to the outrages that Democrats daily commit?

Yes there are individual Republicans who take on these issues and the Republican Party has occasionally done so as well. But consider the tone of their arguments as compared to the Democrats’ moral indictments of Republicans as racists, and woman haters, and enemies of the poor. Where is the Republican language to match these indictments and neutralize these attacks?

The Democrats have launched a war against individual freedom and the American constitutional arrangement that defends it. That is the meaning of their attacks on the Second Amendment, their attempts to impose speech codes on a once free nation, and their determination to make voter fraud a normal corruption of the political process. Where is the Republican battle cry in defense of individual freedom? Republican opposition to the atrocity called “Obamacare” is framed in the language of accountants. Yes Obamacare will raise health care costs for those who can pay. But like all socialist programs the foundation of Obamacare is theft. Take the earnings of those who have worked and use it to subsidize the costs of those who don’t. This is an assault on individual freedom. But where is the Republican battle cry identifying it as such?

Fostering terrorist concentrations of power, opening America’s borders to criminals, failing to quarantine Ebola carriers, unleashing the IRS to crush their political opposition, supporting a lynch mob seeking to coerce the judicial process, violating the Constitution and stripping the representatives of the people of their authority and power – all these have a common core. They are a war against individual freedom. Why is this not the Republican campaign theme?

The Republican Party is the party of small business (the political billionaires are clustered among the Democrats). But politics cannot be viewed as a business. Democrats are missionaries seeking to change the world. Like all such missionaries from Lenin to ISIS, individual freedom presents a threat to their world transforming goal. They know what’s good for you, and they are determined to prevent you from resisting it. This is what the political battle is about and unless Republicans embrace the missionary attitude, and make freedom their rallying cry, it is not just elections they are jeopardizing but the future of our country as well.

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  • truebearing

    This is a great analysis of our existential threat.

    The Democratic agenda is evil, but they have effectively evil leadership that ruthlessly drives to achieve their goals. The Republican leaders are afraid to take strong stands against the Democrats for fear of being unpolite. They don’t know how to lead, nor do they have the passion to inspire or encourage.

    Great leaders take risks. Republicans consult with wormtongues, read tea leaves, and make sure they always carry an umbrella. They are timid and afraid of the elements. They speak in measured tones, terrified of speaking strongly or being mocked by the media. Worst of all, they fail miserably at recognising the exigency of stopping the criminal Left before we are all prisoners of poverty and oppression.

    Where is their passion? Where is their courage? Why do they bother running for office if they aren’t going to fight for their convictions? Do they even have any convictions?

    We’re in a life and death struggle with evil people. It is time to say it, say it frequently, and say it loud. We don’t need anymore pussyfooters. We need warriors.

    • http://www.aol.com/ Fongzilla1970

      The problem is that those in power at the head of the Vichy GOP are made up of what have been referred to as “Firestone Country Club Republicans”. They are creatures of the “status quo” and far too many of them are themselves “Progressives” who merely believe their purpose is to gently let America slide into socialism while maintaining their status in life. By their nature they are not hardened revolutionaries and will not rock the boat. They believe as many Germans did as Hitler rose to power did that they can make deals with the opposition or compromise.

  • swemson

    Than you David for saying what needs to be said.

    The political cowardice of the Republican leadership is simply beyond comprehension. Their cowardly unwillingness to take up impeachment proceedings against our current illegitimate and criminal administration is a betrayal of their oaths of office and their moral duty to their constituents and their country itself. The only possible explanation for their behavior is that they too are members of the progressive movement, and supporters of the kind of big government that’s been destroying our economy and the freedoms & liberties that our founding fathers and millions of American men in uniform have fought and died for since our nation was born.

    Obama’s policies regarding Israel, and his criminal importation of Islamic terrorists into our country by the thousands, takes him beyond the level of simply being an incompetent and failed president, and elevate him to the status of being an enemy of our country and a clear and present danger to the American People. His handling of the Ebola crisis only serves to magnify what a danger he has become.

    Having worn the uniform of this country myself almost 50 years ago, my only regret is that I can’t do more at this point in my life than fight with words alone. I’m afraid that a 2nd American revolution is inevitable at this point. Our enemies have simply done too much damage to our system for us to fix it from within.

    Too many Americans have become addicted to the free lunch, that they will never willingly give up without putting up a fight. Like all addicts I’m afraid, they’re going to have to reach bottom before there’s any chance of reforming them. I fear the battle will begin soon.

    Perhaps it’s for the best….

    Jefferson’s tree of liberty is looking pretty thirsty right now.

    fs

    • The March Hare

      I am afraid you are right and a revolution is looming. I can understand the reluctance to impeach given that the senate is majority Democrat with the assistance of some liberal Republicans rendering impeachment moot. Also, impeachment proceedings would elicit the smear machine obliterating the message and spurring the wrong group into action. I have been more in favor of a vigorous campaign with a strong message speaking as directly as possible to the majority of Americans.

      • Sheik Yerbouti

        Everything about Obama has been the kind of strong-arm extortion you are speaking of. It started before he used the race card to plow the Clinton machine under, easily.

        The GOP was not ready to deal with street gangs and turf wars. Their head is still in the thermosphere thinking about nukes and ICBMs. A real stand up fight is brewing in their own back yard but they don’t see it.

        The rest of us see the GOP as an array of wallflowers with a few blowhards who don’t actually say anything. It’s pretty clear not a lot is getting accomplished either. So, what’s the GOP for again? To slow democrats a little?

        Or to turn this whole mess around?

        • truebearing

          They want to turn it around, but do it gently, politely, with little mess or hand-to-hand fighting. They think they can do it without getting bloody. It can’t be done that way.

      • mdemetrius

        Right, as long as the battles can be concluded after The Voice, but before Dancing With the Stars.

    • lyndaaquarius

      recently,Dick Morris,in comparing Joni Ernst to Sarah Palin,said that Palin wasn’t too bright.When have you ever heard a Democrat operative trash another Democrat with a big base of support?Would Axelrod ever,ever say that Cory Booker or Elizabeth Warren just didn’t measure up?I am shocked that Morris would say something so outright stupid.Democrats understand the role of unity in victory far more than Repubs. One of David Horowitz’s finest articles.

      • swemson

        I’m not shocked by Morris. Remember his background, working for the Clinton’s, & his resignation after being caught using hookers. He may be a genius at political strategy, but I suspect that he may have switched to the “right” side of the debate for nothing more than monetary reasons.

        It’s a shame that we need to resort to taking advice from someone of such low character.

        fs

        • lyndaaquarius

          if he is such a “genius at political strategy” what are his recent successes? Not a smart move to alienate a political base as large and solid as Sarah Palin’s.

  • Captlee

    This is so maddening. The left is destroying our country and the Republicans just stand by, afraid or unconcerned. I really can’t understand Republican meekness.

    • mdemetrius

      Well, let me help. When most Republican legislators get home, they take off their Elephant caps and put on their Donkey slippers. Then they settle into their recliner chairs and take a nap. In the end, both sides want the same thing: Globalism. For that to occur, America must sink to the level of the Third World. There, does that help?

    • cathnealon

      Well, let me see why Repubs are so ‘meek.’
      Republican politicians are for the most part very wealthy or their wives are wealthy just like the Democrats.
      Republican politicians work and live in a bubble just like the Democrats.
      Republicans want to maintain their seat of power just like the Democrats.
      Republicans do not want to socialize with the same people they purport to represent just like the Democrats–they only want their votes. At any other time you can find them at their A-list Georgetown parties just like the Democrats.
      R’s and D’s drink from the same trough and we wonder why they don’t speak up. Are you kidding? Maybe because they do not have any desire to stop living the good life.
      Now that said there are rank and file real conservative Republicans out here who are fighting the good fight. We are the ones who will save this country. After 6 years of millionaire so-called conservative media personalities, authors, journalists and radio pundits making a boatload of money off of our suffering in speaking engagements, lucrative Fox contracts and talk shows and those Republican pols pretending to be with us I think the jig is up.
      And yes I’m voting Republican on Tuesday because voting–whether fixed or not–is what makes this Republic great and they will not take that away from me. And because voting for the other Party is the same as voting for socialist Bernie Sanders.
      The Rebelpundit video of the four black men railing against Obama’s policies should have happened in 2010 and 2011–why now in 2014? That’s the messaging of the regualr people that should have gotten out. Not listening ad nauseum to eye candy on Fox or Charles Krauthammer. Where were these guys in 2011 when they could already see the policies were failing? Where was Atkisson railing against the media in 2010 2011 2012–she doesn’t resign until 2014 and conservative media praises her?

      • Captlee

        I’m with you; can’t argue against anything you said.

    • ADM64

      The Republicans accept many of the basic premises of the left having internalized them and the left’s view of our history and culture over the decades. This is explicit with some Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt who were actually progressives. Ayn Rand, whatever one thinks of her philosophy, nevertheless pointed this out decades ago with respect to communism, stating that all its victories were due to free men granting its basic morality but arguing only against its practicality. This is exactly what the Republicans do against the Democrats, and of course, they also assume that their opponents are honorable. So, the right is morally disarmed and thus cannot fight. I think that many in the Republican party also see themselves as the same sort of elite as the Democrats, and have a similarly dim view of the people. The result is that they think the latter will never understand or support a principled, passionate argument.

  • John Smith

    Our choices this election:

    The Evil Party

    The Gutless Party

    • MukeNecca

      Still, the choice should be obvious. While the evil, per definition, can not and will not change, the gutless may aspire to speak truth and follow it. Or the former can not reform, while the latter may. So follow the probability of change and vote Republican.

  • mjnellett

    Conservatives: those people dedicated to following the original documents and intent of the founding fathers. We are FOR: freedom and liberty as proscribed in our Bill of Rights, and our Constitution. We believe in small government, free enterprise, personal responsibility, the sanctity of innocent life, and freedom of religion. We are also FOR the federal government protecting us from ALL enemies foreign, or domestic. That list includes protecting Americans from disease, and subversion from within. We are AGAINST: government intrusion into our personal, everyday lives, big government, over-regulation, over taxation, federal usurption of powers specifically reserved to the states, an activist judiciary, lawlessness, and the redistribution of wealth. Conservatives also believe in accountability of our government, ALL of it, to the people who gave their consent to be governed only in certain areas by the federal government. We are also against the Federal Reserve, an entity with way too much power and zero accountability to the people’s representatives. We are against open borders, and treaties that would surrender our freedom and liberty to ANY outside organization, or entity. We are NOT racists, bigots, homophobes, Islamaphobes, or any other kinds of phobes. We welcome people of ALL races, creeds, and colors, IF you have a desire to become an American, assimilate into our culture, and work to make America a better place. Learn our language, our history, our issues to becoming knowledgable voters that benefit ALL. We also believe strongly in giving people equal opportunity, NOT equal results, in attaining their heartfelt dreams and aspirations. Vote wisely in November for those you believe will make America a better country.

    • sundance69

      This sounds way too logical…….

    • The March Hare

      Vote as conservative as you can, given the choices on your ballot, but vote.

  • Elizabeth capecod

    It makes it easier to sell your party when you’re the ones giving away free stuff and resorting to underhanded mistruths about the opponent.
    Republicans are the adults in the room trying to sell the truth of what it’s going to take to get us back on our feet. This is a message that Americans have become too self absorbed and too lazy to hear.

    • truebearing

      Yes, but that message won’t get through until they speak the unapologetic truth in a loud and unwavering voice. They don’t lead, they follow polls.

  • DaCoachK

    This is the “new” America. For decades, the Left has hammered home several principles of their ridiculous belief system, which all stem from one action: redefining the word “racism” to the point where opposition to the Left’s idiocy is now considered racist. Republicans, gutless as they are, simply roll over.

  • http://johnnyangeladvocacygroup.net JohnnyAngel Advocacy Group

    David has more faith in mainstream Republicans than we do. We believe the GOP is really closer to the Democrat Socialists in government than to the Conservatives of their own party ! They have demonstrated this in two Republican figures. John McCain & John Boehner have NO love and no agreement with the Tea party !! Their speech gives them away and they are two MAJOR reasons for the very close races in the Senate and House. AND…if they win the majority in the Senate they had better lead to the RIGHT and then nominate in 2016 a conservative with a vision, not a politician. Bush,Paul & Christie may get elected, but NOT BY CONSERVATIVES !!!

    • mdemetrius

      Hear, Hear! You have rightly discerned, sir.

  • flappdoodle

    It is almost illegal to be a conservative. It is also very dangerous. Until there is a change in the culture, we’re going to have to deal with that reality.

  • http://erikrush.com Erik Rush

    I love David like a brother (though we’ve never met), and he does some of the best work out there. That said, I think that, more than cowardice, the failure of Republicans to hold Democrats accountable stems from the philosophical/political acceptance of the Democrat agenda – or at least, elements of the Democrat agenda. The GOP elites are progressives, and I believe that their job, as it were, is to provide token (ineffectual) resistance to the Democrat agenda in order to give the impression that they are “doing something about it,” and representing a political alternative. They’re not, and their actions demonstrate this. The difference between the size and scope of government that the GOP and the Democrats desire is the difference between an off-the-shelf Wal-Mart basketball and a regulation basketball – that is, indistinguishable unless one looks closely.

    • Hisdoulos

      Both the gop-e and teaparty are intimidated. Have you seen a demonstration of teaparty people lately or for the last 4 years? Have you seen the R’s fight against the IRS targeting teaparty groups? Have they called for a special committee or council?
      I get the feeling that everybody in government, representatives, city, county, state and federal employees and their marketing division the MSM are all aligned against anybody that disagrees with their view of the all powerful government, we rule, don’t talk!

  • crudbud

    Well said David!!!

  • namberak

    ‘They are close because Republicans are paralyzed by a political cowardice that makes them reluctant to fight fire with fire. From election to election they are afraid to hold Democrats morally accountable for what they actually stand for and have done.’ Amen, brother. The Republican Party only wins elections these days because it’s not the Democrat Party. If only they stood for something…

    • lyndaaquarius

      stood for something and had the confidence and wisdom to shout it from the roof tops. Contrast is key.

  • rbla

    If the Republicans would follow the lead of America’s Senator, Jeff Sessions, they would pick up the white working class vote and become the majority party.

  • Rosasolis

    Perhaps the strength with the Republicans lies in the fact that many are
    trustworthy, intelligent, and quiet conservatives, who do not need to use loud
    aggressive speeches with false promises to convince voters to choose their
    candidates. But aside from their introvert and honest approach, the Republican
    candidates must realize that now is the time to become more offensive towards
    all the corruption caused by their democrates and their marionette leader Obama.
    Surely Americans must be aware that this party does not tolerate the extreme
    Socialist/Communist laws and future plans that the Obama administration has
    forced upon you, and will continue to do so, if they are not stopped!
    I have written recently that we in Europe miss the close and friendly contact
    we used to have when we used to have pres. Reagan. While most Europeans
    are now realizing that the Islam terrorist threat is growing, we must revive
    relations on both sides of the Atlantic…to support each other and prevent
    the Islamic Take-Over. Since the Obama administration shows very little
    interest in relations with Europe, it’s now up to the Republican Party
    of America to restore this, because we will soon need each other more
    than ever before.

    • Demo P. Seal; PouponMarks

      Americans don’t like wimps, and sensitive losers. Or at least, they didn’t used to.

  • Wakeupcall

    Why?

    Because there are at least 50% of the people who want government to take care of them. Marxist communist democrats, although they are now admitting they are socialist or communists lite by announcing that in January they are changing their name to the Socialist Democrat Party to be more in line with their European friends according to Ms. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

  • SkiBum

    They’re afraid of the overwhelmingly liberal media and their ability to distort, twist, and pervert everything that they say. Therefore they end up saying nothing.

    • Michael Garfinkel

      It’s not a “liberal” media.

      It’s a statist, elitist, anti-traditional Leftist media – and it will relentlessly seek to destroy any politician that opposes its aims.

      It failed against Ronald Reagan; it succeeded with Sarah Palin.

      Newt Gingrich went after CNN in the 2012 election cycle, and the effect was electrifying – momentarily.

      Then he quickly got back in line, and later took a job – at CNN!

      • ricpic

        Who says Palin’s done? Things get worse, and they probably will, I can see her doing a Joan of Arc either with or without the Republican Party.

  • Demo P. Seal; PouponMarks

    We need a third party, which would be called Constitutional Conservative Party, based on Tea Party ideals. Establishment Repooplicans are just Democrat Lite, in it for the privileges, perks, money.

    Mittens Wrong Knee is their mascot, and John McCaint and Mooch McDoggal are his droppings.

    When the kind of Republicans David wishes for (Bachmann, Sessions, Cruz, M. Lee, etc.) do speak up, Establishment Republican traitors and suck ups like John McCain, Linseed Graham Cracker, John Bonehead do the Democrats dirty work for them, e.g., Michele Bachmann decrying Mudslum Brotherhood infiltration into the Federal Gummint, as well Hillary Clinton’s assistant, with ties to terrorist organisations.

  • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

    Horowitz precisely nails the Republican problem: a failure to make a moral and intellectual case against the disastrous policies of the Democratic Left. The Establishment is congenitally incapable of doing this. Conservative control is the one hope for the Republican Party.

    • truebearing

      Look at their only victory since Bush was reelected. It came as a result of the Tea Party, led by the irrepressible Sarah Palin. She took no prisoners and the Tea Party actually had the gumption and courage to take the protest to the streets. They are the reason the GOP won in 2010, not the limpdick Republican leadership.

      • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

        Yes. I doubt Tuesday’s victory will be of the same magnitude that 2010′s was for that reason.

        • truebearing

          I hope you are wrong, but I’m afraid of the same outcome.

        • Ginger Li

          I would not go counting chickens before they hatch. The democrats, even now, are cranking up an election fraud machine the likes of which we have never seen – and has never been challenged by the republican party.

          • fistdeyuma

            I see it the same way. The only way to win election against Liberals is to not make it close. Anything close and they will cheat, lie and fraud their way to victory. Sadly most of the races this year are close, which gives them a lot of targets. They only need to swing a few to hold on to control. In any case Obama will spend the next 2 years campaigning for Hillary and screaming about those scary Republicans who will not do what they are told. Every bill, every statement, every word will be blame shifting spoken with anger. We thought Clinton’s banging on the desk was bad, Obama will toss a screaming fit and the press will be impressed with his passion.

          • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

            I agree with both your points – massive fraud is certain and I would not be at all surprised to see it make the difference in Colorado and perhaps other places. And we must always be wary of mistaking Republican victories for Conservative ones. Just getting people into office with an “R” after their names isn’t good enough – we must move the country to the Right to save it.

  • Joel Cairo

    All together too many people no longer understand or treasure individual liberty. The Republican Party does not know how to tap into the remaining people and build more. They cannot do so without becoming fighters. They are too scared or gutless to fight, so they go along with what they think will maintain, at least, their status quo. The result is diminishing power for their party and diminishing liberties.

  • canalway

    Horowitz is right. There are a lot of useful idiots and perverts out there.

    I thank God that I’m not one of those tools who stand behind Obama in his photo ops. I could have easily been one because I come from a large family of Democrats and but saw the light after Ronald Reagan’s 1st term. “Government is the problem, not the solution.” I like living by that.

    I would never stand behind Obama or any other Democrat for that matter.

  • JVR

    The Senate races are close because America’s demography has changed, and is continuing to change. Democrats now have a lock on national office (President and Supreme court judges), and soon will lock up a majority of Senate seats because of the changing demography is many states.

    For now, the House can still be won by the GOP, because middle America is still not diverse enough — but this will also change over the next generation.

    • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

      Demographics are the cop-out. Republicans need to change their ground game to recruit new voters (without compromising their values).

      • JVR

        You have eaten the leftwing manna.

    • JB Ziggy Zoggy

      Not diverse enough? You mean too White. And you know
      what? Blacks vote Democrat but it doesn’t matter because they only comprise 11% of the population and they don’t bother to vote unless a Black candidate is running for office. Mexicans are culturally conservative but they vote Democrat for the free handouts. Once Republicans offer the same free goodies, they’ll turn. Or when islamic terrorists nuke a city or otherwise kill a burrito load of Beaners. Whichever comes first. Asians tend to be conservative. So do Whites, and that includes immigrants from India, who are some of our best and brightest.. But most important of all? Only a third of the population is stupid. That means voters will eventually figure out the Dems are poisonous, no matter how corrupt our education system is. The establishment media don’t matter anymore because only the brain dead trust them.

      Most people despise political correctness and are itching to cut loose against it. And really, political correctness is all the Dems have besides corruption and unsustainable entitlement programs.

      • JVR

        Your belief that inside all peoples there is a (conservative) American struggling to emerge is a old canard, false, and ultimately, self-defeating. The world has moved on, it is not 1950 anymore, and Europe (and her former colonies) are not in control anymore. To believe that the rest of the world are just like Europeans is to miss the point in its entirety. Regards.

  • cree

    A few, too few Constitutional republicans emerged out of the 2010 race. They chose to enter into the political fray because they saw the need spoken by the Tea Party movement. That movement was a realization of what complacency has allowed to happen: The New Left had finally obtained the opportunity for the “transformation.” Obama admitted it, the regime meant it and the moral right in the country was shocked of the reality, “we are losing our country to delusional ideologues.”

    It’s hard to believe, it seems the rest of the republican party is incoherent to the real crisis. David Horowitz saw the crisis growing years ago. He emerged from it; he warned without ceasing, to this day. He has become a leader for many to counter the threat.

    The republican complacency apart the Constitution checks and balances seems to have occurred in a drastic way surrounding the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. The complacent establishment slide has created for itself elitism. The two parties became the political game that has created chaos for the whole republic. The Constitutional rule of law protected by oaths of office in honor to the people is our way back. Hopefully election day next sets us on that course.

    • sendtheclunkerbacktochicago

      There is NOT one Constitutional Republican in Congress. If there were, they would have challenged Barry Soetoro (aka Barack Hussein Obama) as not being a “natural born Citizen” and they didn’t proving they are all phonies or cowards for not doing so. There is ample proof that Barry Soetoro is a DUAL CITIZEN adding to the reasons he is not Constitutionally eligible. We now have men in the Republican Party who are not “natural born Citizens” who seem to want to be presidential candidates and no one is willing to challenge them (Cruz, Rubio and Jindal being the most obvious). Shameful,isn’t it?

      • cree

        Can’t disagree that as far as is known, no republican has outwardly challenged Obama’s eligibility. (Any one out there know?) If there are, evidently they are too few to convince the republican cowards from day one Obama usurping the office. It is unlikely from here on out that any will for the rest of Obama being in the presidential office. So, what are we left with but frustration and the realization that the whole of the American nation has been screwed royal?

        There are NOT to few who realize what the nation is faced with. Obama’s “The New Left” machine used our system to initiate a coup; all we are left with is to use our system to get it back. Even then, getting unconstitutional republicans to return the “enumerated powers” designated by Constitutional rule of law is going to be a very long road challenge to correct. It will require future generations knowing what they have to do.

        Since our representatives have failed over way too many years to constrain the federal govt. to its restricted Constitutional enumerated powers, through their oaths of office to do so, has created exactly what the founders intended to never to happen. The founders evidently thought honor towards oaths of office would suffice representatives consciences to do their duty. They have not. Therein then is the solution: we citizens and their representatives must insist on the rule of law; from ONLY pieces of parchment and oaths DEMANDING compliance.

  • nimbii

    The left have become masters of the subversion game from Lenin to Obama.

    They knew to take over slowly and without general notice, our academe, arts, government and the media. They have achieved the formidable position of telling their version of the world to largely disinterested and disengaged believers also known as our voting populace.

    Once they had the media, who could stop them from telling any lie to voters?

    So, when we say that conservatives and Republicans do not shout our views from the rooftops, remember, we have no rooftops, we’re shouting from inside manholes.

    At least in the suburbs, some courageous individuals removed the manhole covers.

    We must take the Senate get to the rooftops, we simply must.

  • RMThoughts

    Obama. A caricature of a leader. Arguably America’s worst ever. A serial liar. A moral coward. A shameless head of state. A deplorable one. A dangerous one. A lawless one. A ruthless one. Neoliberal, reactionary, belligerent, pro-war, pro-monied interests, anti-democratic, progessive but anti-progress, anti-populist, anti-labor and anti-social justice.A world-class thug.

    If the GOP can’t make a case against Obama in clear strident tones, they don’t deserve to exist much less govern.

    • Rosasolis

      How about supporting Michelle Bachmann?

      • ricpic

        I love Michelle Bachmann. But Republican voters, when given a chance to vote for her in the 2012 Republican primaries mainly did not. She’s a gutsy straight talker. That apparently scares off most Republican voters. The problem with the party is not just in its Establishment, the problem is in a lot of the base as well. The base, a lot of it, fears a no holds barred fighter against the Left.

  • Cappy1437

    Good article. Americans who supported Romney with what they could give saw him hand the election over to Obama in one of their debates. We were dumbfounded. We wanted someone who was strong and who could fight back against the Left. It didn’t happen. Sometime after the election I saw Paul Ryan on Bill O’Reilly’s program and he would not speak out against Maxine Waters because he considered her a friend even though she was saying terrible lies and spewing political garbage about Conservatives and what they support. I was dumbfounded and very disappointed in Paul Ryan. Conservatives need to fight back. We need people who are leaders and aren’t afraid to attack those who spew this political garbage against Conservatives. I am very hesitant now to give money to the Republican party. I felt like I threw my money away on people who would not fight back. We want strong candidates. I would love to see Ted Cruz or even Trey Goudy in the future. They’re strong, no nonsense people. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that tough Conservative fighters are in our future. Those who aren’t afraid to speak up and tell Americans the truth.

    • WhiteHunter

      Exactly right, Cappy. Republicans are afraid of “offending” somebody or “alienating” some group, and would rather lose in a gentlemanly way than stomp the Democrats into the ground in a bloody brawl–as the Democrats have not the slightest hesitation about doing to them.

      Stop using euphemisms about Obama and his loyalists like “misspoke” or “I don’t know what his intentions were when he said/did that.” Use the real words, like “lie,” “liar,” “bald-faced lie,” and “Obama’s seething, lifelong hatred for America and his determination to weaken and destroy our country,” and “the Obama organized crime syndicate” or “racketeering enterprise, engaged in a pattern of racketeering as defined in the RICO statute.”

      NEVER give Obama or any Democrat the benefit of the doubt. NEVER. Because they’ve proved again and again that they don’t deserve it and can’t be trusted either to tell the truth or to keep promises (does the “Immigration Reform Act of 1986″ ring a bell?).

      And when the Democrats set the trap of “Well, what’s the REPUBLICAN plan?” point out that Step One of the Plan is to prevent Obama from doing any further damage to the country and the Constitution.

      Compare it to EMTs arriving at a bloody crash site–or a massacre committed by one of Obama’s friends who “misunderstands islam”: FIRST, stop the bleeding. THEN get the victims to a hospital for surgery. THEN, when they’ve started to heal, start them on physical therapy to learn how to walk again. I think it’s an apt analogy.

      Don’t bother pandering to “the Hispanic vote” if that means open borders, amnesty, and bilingual programs–we’ll never win a majority of them no matter how much we give away or how much further damage we do to our own country. And don’t pander to the other half of Obama’s base, either–the rioters, looters, and arsonists of Ferguson and their ilk in every filthy slum in every filthy, corrupt, Democrat-run big city. They belong in cages or on chain gangs, not in street gangs swinging billyclubs at white voters on election day.

      Finally, slap Karl Rove in the face and send him packing, and stop stabbing fellow Republicans in the back, and start embracing the solid ideas and tremendous energy of the Tea Party, instead of being “embarrassed” by and ostracizing these mainstream, middle class American patriots.

      Obama and the Democrat Party of today are the enemy of America and of our way of life. They are thugs, liars, traitors, gangsters. Crush them, then stomp them into the ground. Give them no quarter.

  • pupsncats

    We as individuals are to blame. We have failed again and again to live and act in responsible, moral, ethical, and virtuous ways. We have tolerated greed, infidelity, corruption, lies, debauchery, deviancy and devilish ideologies because we erroneously believe defense of liberty requires acceptance of all speech, all acts, and all opinions. Evil does not require tolerance. It simply grows and grows, as we see in our country today, and eventually destroys all that is good, right, wholesome, and necessary for true liberty.
    So since we tolerate all kinds of evil, can we really expect a good future? Or any future outside of domination by either Islam or its only current rival, Communism?

  • MrUniteUs1

    So what does Horowitz like about Democrats?

    • truebearing

      There is nothing to like.

  • MrUniteUs1

    Should be a landslide victory for Dems. Dems saved the economy. Zero American soldiers lost in Iraq, since we finally left.

    • American1969

      Been drinking the bong water again? If you think the economy is in good shape and the country is heading in the right direction, you’re delusional.

    • truebearing

      Hitting the crack again? As usual, wrong on every count.

      • MrUniteUs1

        No but I’m feeling good about the stock market hitting new highs.
        What about you? Are you in or did you listen to Hannity and get out back in 2009, before the stock market doubled.

        • truebearing

          The stock market high is a result of printing billions in funny money. It hasn’t helped with the job market, especially blacks, so why are you feeling so good? Feel good now because the stock market is a giant, manipulated bubble.

          • MrUniteUs1

            Hopefully you’ll stop listening to Hannity, and invest in the stock market and make some money, then you’ll feel good.

            How are you doing trubearing? Are you able to keep up with bills? Are you able to get your clothes of the cleaners when there ready?

          • I_Am_Me

            Your name is a crackup. The only thing Progressives are capable of uniting is a sock with their foot.

          • JB Ziggy Zoggy

            The ebola stock market? Imbecile. Cracker.

  • American1969

    Excellent article. It’s time for the GOP to get off their butts and stop being wimps. So what if the MSM doesn’t give you good coverage? They don’t anyway! Time to call out the leftists for their anti-American agenda.

  • badbadlibs

    The left have effectively silenced the few “voices of republicans” that do speak out. Senator Ted Cruz is their arch enemy, but he continues to speak the truth. Sarah Palin was so demonized that it has finished off any real efforts of the right to speak out loudly. I wish they would all the same, it takes courage and the likes of Karl Rove and his henchmen don’t possess any courage.
    The real truth is that democrat has become synonymous with fascist. IF we had a press that embraced truth and more courageous men like Cruz, we might stand a fighting chance.
    Now, the left is brazen in it’s voter fraud. They change the votes before the very eyes of voters and cry that it’s republicans that want to suppress voting. And get away with it!
    It really is a sickeningly amazing thing we’re watching.

  • Erudite Mavin

    The La. and No. Carolina race are a basic tie or the Democrat 1 or 2 points ahead.
    Both places have Wing Nut third party candidates taking around 5 points.
    These Libertarian and tea party third people are more concerned in making a point than defeating the Democrats

    • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

      In LA, Mary Landrieu has to win outright. Most polls have her leading after Election Night, but losing a runoff. NC needs to have a runoff system.

      • Erudite Mavin

        Exactly.
        It would be simpler and less costly if the single digit third party crowd who suck off just enough votes who on most occasions to hand elections to the Democrats, would knock off their adolescent enabling Democrats by attempting to make a point.
        Landrieu has foot in mouth disease.

        • Sheik Yerbouti

          You are describing their exact purpose. All the way back to Perot.

  • http://geoffreybritain.wordpress.com/ Geoffrey_Britain

    There’s another explanation for why the Senate races are so close. This election is a referendum on Obama’s incompetence, NOT his actions and policies. Half of America still refuses to recognize socialism’s fatal flaws. That half is upset that Obama is not being more decisive and effective at making socialism work but they still believe in the entitlement State. They still believe that socialism can work.

  • Arafat

    FrontPage commenters please make a difference. Take the time to support Bill Maher’s invitation to speak at Cal Berkeley. There are a half dozen articles you can write a comment to at Cal Berkeley’s student newspaper.

    Take the time to do this!

    • I_Am_Me

      There would be nothing better for American Liberty than for Bill Maher to be denied speaking there. He may then become a turncoat against the Left like Horowitz did. Maher would at least get to use a few shows on HBO before he got cancelled to speak against the real Left that he idiotically is still aligned with.

  • marlene

    Waxing poetic with tired analysis is irrelevant to this election. Wherever the race is “close” voter fraud is operating. Wherever the numbers of the race belies the overall numbers of the people, voter fraud is operating. Whenever the percentages exceed or are under the overall population percentages, voter fraud is at work. The republicans need a theft-proof majority to surpass the fraudulent “close” scam. CALLING ALL VOTERS: if your state’s candidates are running “close,” you need to vote AGAINST the democrats to even the playing field or you too won’t have one after the democrats steal it.

  • hiernonymous

    If I were a Democrat, I’d pray that the Republicans listened to Horowitz and adopted his every suggestion.

    • Demo P. Seal; PouponMarks

      If you weren’t a liar, you would not have posted what you did.

      • hiernonymous

        What are you jabbering about? What do you suppose I lied about?

      • hiernonymous

        Crickets?

      • hiernonymous

        3 days, still no lies. Not ready to back up your slander?

      • hiernonymous

        Still mulling it over, Sparky? You are a bit slow!

  • dwayne roberson

    We do have a dog that won’t hunt in the Republican party. We do have alternative allies! Rebel Pundit Youtube is going very viral!!

  • I_Am_Me

    The radicals think they are the ones who are morally right, and that they themselves will bring the greatest betterment of mankind ever: Harmonious Utopia.

    Know thy enemy. Horowitz, Jamie Glazov and others have spelled out the idiotic vision of the Left in several books. Get mentally prepared for battle.

  • sendtheclunkerbacktochicago

    Why are the Senate races close? The answer is pretty simple, because our Federal Law enforcement agencies didn’t investigate the fraudulent felony crimes committed by this Fraud in Chief (Forged BC; Forged Selective Service Registration; Flagged SS# 042-68-4425). The U. S Congress refused to investigate the Fraud in Chief for his crimes despite being hand delivered the evidence. The Conservative media for the most part were afraid to expose this fraudulent felonious activity with the exception of WND and American Thinker thus finding themselves in bed with this Fraud in Chief. Fox News was intimidated by this administration threatening them with the FCC investigations if they covered the crimes and they buckled to the pressure and acted cowardly. I don’t know why Horowitz and Company have refused, more than likely they have been threatened also. It seems the only brave patriots left in this country reside within the Arpaio/Zullo investigation. They will eventually be our heroes and the Conservative media the chumps.

  • Demo P. Seal; PouponMarks

    Establishment Republicans are content with an occasional stalemate in the political, social, education, etc, arenas, while Tea Party Constitutional Conservatives fight for CHECKMATE, winning, dominating, and ultimately destroying Marxism in all its forms in America.

    It’s the same as containing a fire, keeping it from spreading, versus extinguishing it.

  • Bellerophons_Revenge

    Elections are close because candidates are identical. Big government has failed and no longer inspires the left to vote. The right has abandoned small government and discouraged supporters of liberty.

    Candidates seek to differentiate themselves from their opponents by claiming that their opponents are crooks, liars, plagiarists etc. Competitions between candidates over who’s the most corrupt will suppress voter turnout and let random elements control the outcome of a campaign. When the results are random then the elections will always seem close.

    • Erudite Mavin

      You lose the argument with the they are identical.
      Republicans vote against Obama’s agendas.
      The allies of the left are the Libertarians who support Amnesty such as Rand Paul, David Koch, tea party Express, etc.
      Republicans do not support Iran,
      RINO Rand Paul believes Iran is not a threat and has no problem with Iran having Nuclear Weapons. Libertarian Rand Paul voted against sanctions
      on Iran.

  • kevinstroup

    If you scream compromise in a room full of Establishment GOP they all bend over and grab their ankles. Bunch of corrupt statist.

  • KlugerRD

    “They are close because Republicans are paralyzed by a political cowardice that makes them reluctant to fight fire with fire.”

    David you are so right.

    Republicans should be going into black neighborhoods and asking, “you’ve tried liberal policies for decades and they haven’t worked, so let me tell you what will work.”

    They should be doing that in every neighborhood of every democratic stronghold so that the only remaining votes for Democrats are the climate loons and elitists.

    The reason you think this election will be close are polls that in most cases over sample in favor of democrats and who base turnout on either the ’12 or ’10 elections and there is every indication that the turnout for democrats in this election will be far less and with African Americans sitting home out of disgust.

  • MrUniteUs1
    • kevinstroup

      National debt is still going up every day. 17 Trillion dollars and counting.

      The U.S. Census Bureau reported in September 2014 that:

      U.S. real (inflation adjusted) median household income was $51,939 in 2013 versus $51,759 in 2012, statistically unchanged.

      In 2013, real median household income was 8.0 percent lower than in 2007, the year before the latest recession.

      Real median household income averaged $50,781 from 1964-2013, ranging from a low of $43,558 in 1967 to a high of $56,895 in 1999. – Wikipedia

      Average American carries approximately $3,000 of credit card debt at all times. – From my memory of an article I read.

      In an April 2012 Gallup poll, 53 percent of respondents said they had money invested in the stock market. That was the smallest percentage in any poll since Gallup began tracking the number. The high was 67 percent in June 2002. – http://finance.zacks.com/percentage-americans-invest-stock-market-6880.html

      I am not so sure we are doing well. My stocks are rocking based upon the Fed pumping money into the system. It will all come crashing down. It has done so before. It is called an economic bubble.

      • MrUniteUs1

        That could be bullish. The market tanked during the Bush years.
        53 sounds more bullish than 67. Think about it.

      • MrUniteUs1

        Yep National Debt quintupled during the Reagan Bush years, and more than doubled during the Bush II. Nary a peep. In fact Cheney said Reagan proved that deficit don’t matter. The good news is the Budget Deficit has been cut half since President Obama took office. Mainy due to more people working.

  • MeJane

    Obviously Republicans have the same disease as ANY “career” politician. They don’t want to insult anybody lest they lose a vote and cannot get re-elected. It is not supposed to be a representatives job to get re-elected, their job is to represent the people of their State or district and it should not be a career but a public service. What I wouldn’t give to see ANY politician just be honest, tell it like it is, call everyone out on their crap not caring about what happens afterward. What a missed opportunity…….

  • gerry

    There are several reasons here are the two main ones.America got an abundance of people with congenital defects and they all vote for the Democrats.In the US the votes are rigged.Just look around the world,the French voted against their president.In Australia the libtards were voted out.In those countries the votes are not rigged and they have less people with congenital defects,

  • mtnhikerdude

    All the testicles in the Republican Party are on the women.

  • hopkins

    Republicans should speak honestly about our future by highlighting what is happening in Europe with regard to Islam. A policy of closing all immigration of Muslims should be considered by Republicans. If they are afraid they could even focus group it. There are assuming that Americans are not ready for straight talk. They could be wrong.

  • odoctorow

    The bottom line is that it is too dangerous to criticize domestic dictators in a melting pot nations like the USA. We’re now a triple dictatorship: economic (Big Govt, Big Corporations), minority ethnic, minority sexual. No nation that I know of has so many dictatorships in one.

  • Nyfarmer

    Why so close ? Gee golly — perhaps it has to do with how many are dependent upon some government payment, favorable regulation, or contract.

  • fistdeyuma

    The problem is that the only solutions will reduce the power of Government. Republican’s goal is to transfer that power to themselves. When they had all but a total lock on the Government they did little good and much harm. Yes, the Democrats did far greater harm but we need better than “less harm.”
    I don’t see much changing even if the Republicans win big. It might even hurt as they will be able to ignore the Tea Party, the only group holding their feet to the fire.
    I thought the Republicans had learned their lesson in 2006. They surely talked a good game after that. However talk and actions are very different things. I surely hope I’m wrong and that this election will not just be the start of Obama running against Republicans for the next 2 years, with Hillary in the wings. Unless Republican leadership can get the guts to really push for reform of our broken system and take the message to the American people, we will see nothing done and the Democrats will be back in charge.