There Are Now 18 House Republicans Retiring. What Does This Mean For 2020?

[BULLDOG]

No one knows. All we have to do is look at all the polls over the past several years to realize even the so called professionals haven’t a clue. However, I wrote to the DNC some months ago telling them I had had enough and that I would never be voting for anyone with a D by their name again. Their party needs to be removed from power, too many wannabe socialists and tyrants.

You never were a Democrat.

You know what? You don’t know me. So you don’t know what you’re talking about.

I was a registered Democrat and voted for Carter (in retrospect, I believe that was a mistake). I have voted for independent candidates, a number of Libertarian ones (Andre Marrou was the only presidential candidate I have ever been enthusiastic about) and republican ones since the democratic wing has gone off the cliff. I was registered in Maryland as a Libertarian until this election cycle and switched to Republican because the L party did not get enough representation in the state.

You should learn the difference between knowledge and belief and stick to what you actually know.

So, your pathetic ass voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976 or 1980 and never voted Democratic since then and you consider that being a Democratic Party member?

And being libertarian just means you're a selfish bastard. Can you point to one country that has successful used that greedy economic model with any success.


I know your type.

There you go again, being an arrogant know it all and in fact knowing nothing. I was a registered Democrat for a number of years. I also voted for McGovern but Carter was the only democrat I ever voted for that won. You don’t know my type because all you know of me is a few typed comments in a forum. I realize it’s probably difficult for you but try not to be so obtuse. There’s an entire movement called WalkAway that consists of people fed up with and leaving the Democratic Party.

Regarding the Libertarian party, learn what it is about. It’s about liberty, the ability to do, think, read, say, be, think anything you want unless and until it infringes those same rights in others. If you think the 2 parties we have now are that wonderful, it is you who is the pathetic ass. Crawl back under your rock and eat crow.

The entire WalkAway movement exists only in the minds of wishful right wingers. Otherwise, nobody has ever seen any sign of that so called movement.

Ha! Continue deluding yourself. Go to their site and have a look. Is it a movement sweeping the country in large numbers? No, probably not. Is it a movement? Duh, yeah.p said he would
put them back to work in the coal mines.

The #WalkAway Campaign I Patriots Fighting for America I Home

The #WalkAway Campaign is a true grassroots movement of American patriots, founded by former liberal, Brandon Straka in 2018. The #WalkAway Campaign encourages and supports those on the Left to walk away from the divisive tenets endorsed and mandated by the Democratic Party of today.

www.walkawaycampaign.com

You have about 12 or 15 people making videos and traveling around the country claiming to be the Walk Away movement. I have yet to see anyone that wasn't part of that core group. That's kinda odd, don't you think?

Anyone of a core group walked away in 2016.

I’m not sure I understand your point but taking it at face value, I’d say yeah, it was like there was a mass migration from all quarters.

The core group that walked away from Democratic Party was former industrial workers from the Rust Belt states. With the union and their jobs gone, why vote for a party that supports abortion and is anti 2nd Amendment...and nominated a candidate that went to West Virginia and Ohio to tell coal miners she was going to put them out of work?

Trump said he was going to put them back to work in the coal mines. What happened?

 

[Porter Rockwell]

So what do we know about these recent retirees other than the majority of them are from safe Republican districts? Well, age could have played a role in many of these departures. Combined, these seven retirees share about 150 years of experience in the House and Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, for instance, is the second-longest serving House member, having first been elected in 1978. But only two — King (75) and Sensenbrenner (76) — are actually older than 70. The others are still in their early-to-mid 60s, which isn’t that far off from 58, which is the average age of a congressional member in the 116th Congress. In fact, because Reps. John Shimkus of Illinois, Mac Thornberry of Texas and Greg Walden of Oregon are all still in their early 60s, the relatively young age of these retirees reinforces the idea that Republicans might have misgivings about winning back the House.

The article suggests that these retirements came about because they felt the GOP cannot win back the House in 2020. And, it’s my guess they’re Never Trumpers who know the president won’t support their reelection.

So, the question is: Will the RNC come up with viable, pro-Trump candidates for these positions? And, will they be able to beat the leftists the DNC and people like George Soros will put up to take their seats?

And, finally, will enough independents support the president to help elect his people to these and other seats?

The future of the country is going to be decided in 2020.

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Donald Trump is a sleeper politician. He is actually a Democrat that has made the Republicans look so bad that Trump will be the last "American" president. From here, on out, look for America to become a socialist democracy before adopting outright socialism. Unless you're deaf, dumb, blind and stupid, Donald Trump never wanted the job of president. Who, in their right mind would make the outrageous statements he's made? Who would try to control the content of every cabinet member and advisor they've chosen? Where would Trump find anyone with the qualifications to step up to the plate and take Trump's controlling attitude?

Since Biden threatened the American people and has shown a disdain for the Constitution to the point that a competent Attorney General would be advocating for Biden's arrest on charges of sedition and treason, no true American can cast a vote for him. So, we're stuck with voting for the lesser of two evils, but the Republicans are history once this is over. Neither party is supportive of the values of our forefathers. The nation conceived in Liberty has died. Everything else is idle chatter.

 

[OldBiologist]

The influence of party politics is peaking and we will suffer because of it.

““There cannot a greater judgment befall a country than a dreadful spirit of division as rends a government into two distinct people, and makes them greater strangers, and more averse to one another, than if they were actually two different nations. The effects of such a division are pernicious to the last degree, not only with regard to those advantages which they give the common enemy, but to those private evils which they produce in the heart of almost every particular person. This influence is very fatal both to men’s morals and their understandings; it sinks the virtue of a nation, and not only so, but destroys even common sense. A furious party spirit, when it rages in its full violence, exerts itself in civil war and bloodshed; and when it is under its greatest restraints, naturally breaks out in falsehood, detraction, calumny, and a partial administration of justice. In a word, it fills a nation with spleen and rancor, and extinguishes all the seeds of good nature, compassion and humanity.””

George Washington’s Farewell Warning

Partisanship would lead to the “ruins of public liberty,” our first president said. He was more right than he knew.

www.politico.com

 

[Frankeneinstein]

I feel sick------I am a life-long Democrat. ------the donkey is VERY PIXILATED

THIS^

 

[task0778]

Wonder how many democrats are retiring. How many of them are in purple or red states? It's hard to believe after all the bullshit that the Dems have have been doing for the past couple years in the House isn't going to catch up with them. BUT - in the larger scheme of things, it's more important to keep the WH and the Senate because they are the ones that confirm federal judges and SCOTUS justices. Which I think could be a big deal over the next 4 years, the next presidential term could see 2 or 3 new SCOTUS members.

So - the House may or may not flip, but ultimately they mostly just noisy asshats that can do nothing without getting the Senate and the President to sign on.

 

[OldBiologist]

Some decent info here.....

2020 United States elections - Wikipedia

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[task0778]

Bottom line, it's still May and there's plenty of time left until election day. And stuff can happen, Trump is always just a moment away from saying or tweeting something stupid, and of course the Dems are exactly the same way. At this point, the big thing is whether the idea of loosening restrictions to allow people to get out of the house and go back to work at least in some places will backfire and we have a relapse in terms of more people getting COVID-19 and dying. That's going to hurt Trump more than anything else IMHO, but on the other hand if it works out then he looks to be a shoe-in in November.

As for the House and Senate, who the hell knows. The polls are completely untrustworthy, just as they were in 2016. Totally unpredictable IMHO.

 

[OldBiologist]

.....The polls are completely untrustworthy, just as they were in 2016. Totally unpredictable IMHO.

No kidding. After that debacle in 2016, I don’t have much faith in any poll. What is amazing to me is how completely and utterly wrong they were. Whatever they were doing, they should trash it and try something different because the “tried and true” is broken. IIRC, the only poll that was even close was the LA Times and they were touting some new methodology at the time. Maybe some of these polling outfits should pay attention.

The USC/L.A. Times poll saw what other surveys missed: A wave of Trump support

For most of the last four months, the USC/L.A.

www.latimes.com