And the Mississippi run-off election for senator goes to…
…Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, as expected. Her victory brings the GOP Senate total to 53.
That’s good, because of the tendency of certain other Republican senators to bolt and to vote with the opposition.
But this particular race was a bit troubling nonetheless. First of all, the result will only last for two years, because Hyde-Smith is filling out the remaining term of the retired Thad Cochran. She will have to run again in 2020 if she wants to remain in the Senate.
The campaign also featured charges of racism against Hyde-Smith for things that seem more tone-deaf on her part than actually racist. But that’s what campaigns seem to have come down to in the 21st century. Just ask George Allen.
The final tally for Hyde-Smith vs. Espy was 54 to 46 in a state that Trump won by 18 points in 2016. That’s the sort of result we kept seeing in the 2018 midterms. Despite Trump’s relative unpopularity, many of the GOP’s candidates are even more unpopular in traditionally red states.
“Flawed candidates” is as good an explanation as any (although Trump was the original “flawed candidate”). It’s no wonder so many Republican candidates are flawed, though. Who would want to open themselves up to the combination of the Democratic Party, its donors, and the MSM in an all-out effort to search the Republican candidate’s entire past—everything that person has ever said or done, going back to childhood—for an Achilles heel or heels that can brand the candidate as a sexist or a racist or a rapist or some especially toxic combination of all three.
bye bye kamala
bye bye to the press
hello sweet duress
the dems are gonna cry….
“men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all alike can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required.” Thucydides
“words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them.” Thucydides
Thucydides – Corcyra’s revolution in 427 BC, the fifth year of the Peloponnesian War
Our Revolution – Angelo Codevilla
It may be over by the time you realize your in it given desire to avoid, distract and more until now, we have no way to stop it at all… but yet, this conversation started 10 years ago or more..
sadly… now you will find the changers that go the other way, because THAT is what happens when the other way wins… which is why you cant tell a good german from a nazi in 1942….
nothing could have prevented it just as i said 10 years to neo and she said i was quite negative… no, emotional i was not, negative or positive, depends on which side your on that day, and whether you switch…
but regardless of those actions, the condition will remain
Wont be long till ovens are fashiable again, how would one even start to stop what has gone on for so long barely opposed?
yes, sociopaths blame the victim for being weak enough to be their victim…
Codevilla is a treasure. I had the pleasure of meeting him several years ago when I still lived in California. I would also recommend this Tucker Carlson speech. He points out that the Republicans were lying to their voters for years before Trump came along.
Artfldgr on November 28, 2018 at 11:38 am at 11:38 am said:
bye bye kamala
bye bye to the press
hello sweet duress
the dems are gonna cry….
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LOL
MikeK on November 28, 2018 at 12:04 pm at 12:04 pm said:
Codevilla is a treasure. I had the pleasure of meeting him several years ago when I still lived in California. I would also recommend this Tucker Carlson speech. He points out that the Republicans were lying to their voters for years before Trump came along.
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It would appear from Trump’s election that Carlson’s conclusion was widely shared in 2016. However, it also appears that some of the GOP continue their lying nonetheless.
In re Thucydides — human nature hasn’t changed much over the millenia, and will not in the future either. I suspect our Constitution’s authors were well aware of his observations.
AeosopFan:
Did those dead white males know a thing or two? Are Greeks “white?” Thucydides is certainly dead (but not forgotten). Not to worry, we have a “living, breathing, constitution” now (and forever more). /s
Poor Senator Allen. The media carried hundreds of macaca stories. Even with the media being Pravda for the democrats, Webb didn’t win by much.
Southerners are pretty darn tired of “racist” allegations everywhere. Plus, this kind of thing detracts from actual, sure-‘nough racist behavior where it still crops up.
Kate: the Fake News Media is only exacerbating the problem.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/11/26/the-hate-signs-that-went-with-those-nooses-hung-in-mississippi-seem-kind-of-important/
“Her victory brings the GOP Senate total to 53.”
That’s good, but my big fear is that Sen. Mitt Romney will replace John McCain as the big GOP schmuck in the senate. Will 53 be enough? I say prepare yourself for some major disappointments.
AesopFan, I thought those nooses might be leftist-planted, and that appears to be the case.
TommyJay, the good news is there’s only one of Romney vs. three that were (McCain, Flake, Corker).
“… as three-fourths of Americans opposed bailing out big banks with nearly a trillion dollars, the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates joined; — in telling Americans that doing this was essential, …” — Codevilla
A goodly portion of the banking crisis was very real, but an even bigger portion was a good old fashioned banking panic fueled by a securities trading market run amok. The gov. made a killing on net. Cost to the taxpayer: -$350B roughly. Yet the myth lives on, and has captured the zeitgeist.
And if the bailout didn’t happen? Maxine Waters was just itching to nationalize the big banks. I saw the video of Waters, at the time, where she got 3/4 of the word “nationalize” out of he mouth before catching herself and replacing the word with something like “rescue.” A real Venezuela style nationalizing horror-show could have happened.
The much more important issue is why and how the credit crisis was created, but if people don’t understand the previous paragraph, then the deeper understanding is hopeless.
Ach! No edit! Two paragraphs previously.
Bring back the preview. Sorry, I know this all a big pain to you Neo.
The next too big to fail will fail. Why? It is too big.
Seabury and Codevilla wrote “War; Ends and Means”. It explains war and military affairs–including political and moral issues–to those who have no clue, which was most of their students. That being the reason for the book.
Each chapter is complete in itself and can be read for a complete handling of a given issue.
It is brutal in the sense that some of the conventional wisdom–from the libs, mostly–is dealt with most pdq with no fudging.