The ways these guys seem to find to snatch defeat from the jaws of success never cease to astound me. Here they are, with voter dissatisfaction with Democrats at a high not seen since the Carter administration, and Republicans still laboring under the delusion that making nice with the Democrats will get them results, no matter how may times it has failed and come back to bite them between the hip pockets in the past. What’s the old saying about the definition of insanity?

If these ‘leaders’ in the Republican party are going to be this stupid, they deserve to be the minority party. And if we’re stupid enough to keep voting for them,, we deserve it, too.

Why does AZ have such moderate Rs?

Also if MM (Mitch McConnell) barely won his own race in KY, than how comes he gets to be majority leader? Seems he has lost touch with his state, how he supposed to lead the R Sens. for the whole country. He has done a good job of minimizing his repsonsibilities by making sure there are fewer and fewer Rs to keep in line.

to make conservatives despair. It is hard enough having to battle against the democrats and the traditional media outlets without having to constantly battle more than half of the republican party as well. Glad we have places like Red State to continue in the good fight against foes foreign (the dems) and domestic (the Kyl repubs).

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Harry Reid.

Besides, who would we get instead? Diane Wood? Cass Sunstein? Maybe Goodwin Liu could just skip the 9th and go straight to the Supreme Court. It’s not like Obama’s not going to nominate someone who is hard left.

The good thing with Kagan is that the Kennedy already thinks she’s an idiot, so are his swing votes more likely to be with her or against her? I say against.

Who paid them off, where did the bribe come from? This is not at all right.

a difference in the two parties. A “conservative” who doesn’t fight for conservative principles is just a bad as a liberal who does fight for liberal principles.

Just a few years ago, we made the case quite strongly that filibusters of judicial nominees weren’t allowed under the Constitution. I accept that people can be convinced that they were wrong and, consequently, that there can be legitimacy to a change in view. I have yet to see an explanation, though, of what has changed outside of the Party making the nominations and the party in power in the Senate. That’s not enough.

I don’t like the Kagan nomination. I wouldn’t have nominated her. Senators and activists can certainly make the case that she is insufficiently experienced and that her attitude toward the military disqualify her from service on the Court. I haven’t yet had time to read her thesis, but from the little I have read about it (haven’t read everything that’s been posted on this site), it appears that there is sufficient material therein to justify a vote against confirmation. There could very well be statements in the hearings as well that give the right reason to oppose her nomination.

That said, we lost the election. The case we made a few years ago, even if the Democrats disagreed, was the right one. The Constitution requires that the Senate give its advice and consent on nominees, and a minority of Senators does not have the right to stop a majority from doing so even in “extraordinary circumstances”. The implications of that now, for lack of a better way to put it, suck.

Unfortunately, adherence to the Constitution in the modern political environment could reasonably be defined as unilateral surrender. Adherence to that Constitution, though, is essential to the survival of the Republic. The Democrats have already abandoned it. If we follow suit, what hope is left?

If you cannot lead the Republicans, then you should get the [censored] out of the way.

Mitch and Jon Kyl have to go as leaders of Senate Republicans. They have not provided the type of Leadership we need and deserve in these times of national emergency.

When I see all the candidates Jim DeMints’ Senate Conservative Fund is supporting and trying to elect, I feel there is still hope for the conservatives.

Since the day BHO announced the nomination of Kagan, I have been asking the Senate Republicans to block her nomination-delay, filibuster or derail till November so we can get back in majority. But Kyl has already thrown in the towel before the fight even begins. Disgusting!

I sure hope he is not like his father.

As much as grassroot conservatvies are upset with the Establishment, both sides need to work together to win. Case in point, look at Scott Brown. Tea Party people and the McCain-Romney operatives brought Scott Borwn to victory. Another example would be Rubio. Jeb Bush operatvies worked behind the scenes to help Rubio overcome Crist’s huge primary lead. The Establishment & Grassroot Activists need each other.

As much as grassroot conservatvies are upset with the Establishment, both sides need to work together to win. Case in point, look at Scott Brown. Tea Party people and the McCain-Romney operatives brought Scott Borwn to victory. Another example would be Rubio. Jeb Bush operatvies worked behind the scenes to help Rubio overcome Crist’s huge primary lead. The Establishment & Grassroot Activists need each other.

I am simply appalled that republicans won’t stand on principle. There is no way ANY republican, regardless of whether they are a true conservative or moderate, can honestly say that this woman is QUALIFIED to serve on the SCOTUS. What seems to be lost in this discussion is the one of qualification. Why is that? Just because the Messiah picks someone does not automatically make him/her qualified to serve. Obama is but ONE branch! He is NOT, or at least not supposed to be, a dictator. It seems to me we have not done away with “with the advice and consent of the congress” just because Obama is in office. The house and senate have a DUTY to make sure this pick passes muster. Republicans would have to have their head stuck in a very dark place to truly believe she is QUALIFIED. That is the question that needs to be asked and if the answer is NO, which is clearly the case, they should do whatever it takes to defeat the pick. We The People deserve nothing less! Anything less is COWARDLY and should be remembered come election time.

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In my more rational moments, I can now argue that . . . a new, revitalized, perhaps more leftist left will once again come to the fore. I can say in these moments that one election year does not the death of liberalism make and that 1980 might even help the liberal camp by forcing it to come to grips with the need for organization and unity.

Then ask them who wrote those words back in November, 1980 while she was at Princeton and writing a thesis about the history of socialism in New York City in the early 20th Century.

And then ask if Sen. Kyl is going to ask Kagan even one question about her views on socialism, such as:

“Ms. Kagan, your Princeton thesis lamented the failure of the socialists in New York City in the early 20th Century and then you said, in a letter published on November 10, 1980,

In my more rational moments, I can now argue that . . . a new, revitalized, perhaps more leftist left will once again come to the fore. I can say in these moments that one election year does not the death of liberalism make and that 1980 might even help the liberal camp by forcing it to come to grips with the need for organization and unity.

“With that in mind, do you classify yourself as a socialist? A progressive? A leftist? A communist? Do you still favor a more leftist left over a less leftist left?”

No, Sen. Kyl won’t ask such questions. Keith Overbite might call him a bad name.

Pathetic. Don’t expect any courage from Sen. Kyl. I don’t.

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Kyl is surrendering without a fight! How does he know there won’t be enough votes for a filibuster? Every day I read something more damaging about Kagan, and public sentiment can certainly be rallied against her. If a filibuster is threatened, Kagan’s opponents in the Senate will be interviewed by the media. In those interviews they can explain to the American people why Kagan is dangerous – and not in line with their values. The more information is disseminated, the more people there will be opposing Kagan. The more opposition, the easier it becomes to gather the votes for a filibuster. It is, after all, an election year – and with enough public sentiment against Kagan, even a few Democrats could perhaps be persuaded to vote against her. Their loyalty is, after all, to their careers and not to Obama.

Read The Obama Timeline and learn how we got into this mess.

The problem with motivating the Republican senators to fight is that there are not enough conservatives INSIDE the Republican Party as “card carrying members” — precinct committeemen — UNITED to help put together a primary challenge to them at their next election. Kyl, for example, is not up for re-election until 2014. And, although the conservative Republican precinct committeemen have been recruiting other conservatives like crazy since the 2008 election, going from having 31.8 per cent of our PC slots in Maricopa County, for example, filled to now having about half of them filled. But, still, despite all that’s happened, most conservatives in Arizona who happen to be Republican , go to Tea Party meetings and protests and think they are making a difference.

Tonight I went a Tea Party meeting and gave a 15 minute pitch on why the half of the audience that was there needed to step up to the plate and get involved in party politics as precinct committeemen. There were about 30 potential new recruits. They all profess to want to “do something.” Even when told WHAT to do and HOW to do it, some just can’t bring themselves to spend an hour or so going door-to-door in their neighborhood/precinct to get a few signatures on a nominating petition. I asked them to come see after the meeting to get more info — only three or four did. Weird. They have the time to go to a Tea Party meeting, but just can’t jump into the Party and do something that really matters politically. Maybe I’m just an awful recruiter.

Sen. Kyl looks out a Republican Party that is only at half strength now in the PC ranks, despite all alarm bells going off in Washington as to coming crises, and he sees that the average registered Republican just doesn’t care to get involved in Party politics. And that means that the status quo hasn’t changed much. And may not change enough between now and November, 2014. Sen. Kyl certainly is not encouraging conservatives to become PCs. I’ve heard him speak at several conservative gatherings and he never utters a word about the need for conservative Republicans to get into the Party as precinct committeemen. Why? Because he knows it’s not in his self-interest that they do so.

So, if the Party doesn’t change much in the grass roots PC ranks between now and his next primary, Kyl knows that means he’s got, probably, a 95 per cent chance of getting re-elected. “Why should I stick my neck out?” he asks himself.

On the other hand, if the Party had already gone from having less than one-third of its PC slots filled to having all of them filled, and most of the new PCs had been hard corps conservatives from the ranks of the grass roots conservative gr oups (Tea Parties, 9.12, WeSurroundThem, etc., where I and others recruit), then maybe Kyl might have already seen the need to stiffen his spine a bit and stick his neck out a bit and actually FIGHT for our rights by mounting a concerted effort to expose Kagan for what she is (or was — see my comment above).

Kyl’s motivated by one thing, and one thing only: political survival at the ballot box. With no real change in the Party ranks, he knows he’ll be able to get the vote out better than any primary challenger. On the other hand, if the Party suddenly became about 80 – 20 per cent in favor of conservatives in the PC ranks, with 80 per cent in a position to get out the vote in the primary for a more conservative, more courageous conservative challenger to Kyl, then, just maybe, Kyl might decide to fight for our rights rather than just going along to get along.

Half the PC slots in the Party nationwide are empty. So this state of affairs applies, on average, to all of the other Republican senators.

It’s “we the people’s” fault. Or, “we the conservative registered Republican people’s” fault. Not enough conservatives are actually involved in Party politics where it matters — INSIDE the Party. We’re all too busy writing the next blog post that is going to somehow change the world or cause a charismatic leader to come forward — or something.

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For Liberty,
ColdWarrior, PC (that’s “precinct committeeman,” not “political child!”)
Conservatives, UNITE! CHANGE the Republican Party and save the world by UNITING INSIDE the Party as precinct committeemen. NOW!