The Senate confirms Supreme Court nominees. If we conservatives lose the Senate to the Progressives, the Court will move to the Left in terms of majority opinion, and the country will have been fundamentally transformed . . . . . . just as Obama promised.
If that happens as a result of a Trump candidacy, the GOP will have been effectively silenced as a nominal messenger for the conservative opinion, in this country. Not only will we have lost the ability to stem the tide with regard to the buffer a "conservative" Senate offers, but party politic in the GOP will have died, in terms of intelligent debate and pragmatic conservative ideals. I mean, look at the comparison between the Dems and the GOP in the recent debates. We are undeniably looking at a clown show versus reasoned debate. And if you do not agree, you really need to stop reading this blog.
When I use pejoratives, they are based on fact. "Obama is as close to a communist as one can get," is a pejorative bit of hyperbole, and I know it . . . . but I can argue the point. "Little Marco" and "Lying Ted," and "he's weak and has low energy," are all terms that belie a certain degree of mental retardation. These are 3rd grade tactics used by a grown man . . . . . the very definition of "mental retardation."
Folks like myself are about to abandon the political game we play in this country. The Progressives no longer believe in Constitutional values (the 1st Amendemt, the 2nd, the 10th and 14 th are all targets of their angst) they lie as a matter of process (the end justifies the means- see Saul Alinsky) and, in the case of the Clintons, could not be more corrupt in their personal dealings. The GOP has made a habit of taking power given to them by its conservative base, and telling that base to go to hell. Boehner did not offer a single chairmanship to congressional members of the teaparty movement and lied about [virtually] every promise made to the conservative constituency. More than this, the Boehner/McConnell leadership refused to admit to their reality, to the point that, even in the face of the present conservative revolt, they believe they can survive a "dump Trump" campaign.
I keep saying, "I am no Trump fan," but the man has to be beaten "fair and square." If not, the GOP loses its base permanently, and that is what I mean when I predict the end of the GOP. If your voting base walks away, you as a political party, are dead.
In the end, if we don't have a voting base but somehow hang onto the Senate, we have time to rebuild what has been torn down . . . . not probable but certainly possible. If we lose the Senate, Trump's imagined election will be little more than an exclamation mark in the annals of conservative betrayal. One thing for certain, we are looking at the end of the teaparty movement in terms of a major influence. It (this movement) has been deserted by some of its leaders (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin and Sean Hannity to name a few) and over-run by the Confederate exDemocrats in the GOP. folks who want to reconstitute the Confederate South complete with its pretense for evangelical values.
Reaganism died during the Bush 43 years. Now, we are witnessing the end of the new conservative movement, and, conservatives, such as myself, have no one left to trust. Palin ran into the arms of Trump, Boehner killed the conservative movement in the House, and the evangelical church acquiesced to the dark side (acquiesce: to accept something reluctantly but without protest).
I will follow politics until November, and then go fishing, if you know what I mean.
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