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Mia Love Wins Her Primary

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Legal Insurrection has a solid roundup of firsts Mia Love racked up when she won her primary in Utah.  I’m perfectly happy to welcome another conservative and her win, firsts or not.  Among the things I’m hoping she’ll help do is balance the budget and tear a huge, gaping hole in the Democrat race narrative.

African-Americans fell into line with the Democrats a while back and it hasn’t served them well.  It’s not something the Democrats want widely known though, and they go out of their way to destroy any minority that doesn’t fall into line with them because they don’t need them disrupting their narrative.  That needs to be fixed, because a better life for everyone, minorities included, isn’t in the direction the Democrats are leading.

I’m hoping she can help just by her example.  She isn’t doing things the Democrat way, and yet she succeeds.  The trick now is to get enough people to notice.

Think Senator Murkowski To Broaden Your Horizons

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In these times of large contributors backing worthless establishment sorts against candidates who can meaningfully distinguish themselves from Democrats,  it’s helpful to remember the trendy new way of looking at primary results brought to us by Senator Murkowski.  Yes, her defeat of Miller did serve some useful conservative purpose, though I doubt she was thinking along those lines at the time.  We should thank her regardless.

The Murkowski example is very simple.  If the establishments sorts win primaries because of their money advantages, just vote for the one you want in the general election anyway.  It’s not as though anyone can argue primary results are sacred anymore courtesy of the distinguished lady from Alaska.  If this catches on, I’m sure the establishment GOP will appreciate the fact us rubes have finally started seeing things their way as they lose one seat after another.

On a more serious note, I really don’t see any other way to force the issue at this point.  The status quo is the definition of insanity.  Every two years the hype starts up again and we help elect another batch of same-old-song-and-dance sorts who then proceed to betray us.

Some reason we should do it again when the GOP can’t even be bothered to produce acceptable candidates?  This time, you know who they are and can vote around them (use the write-in block) while you continue to help get conservatives elected rather than staying home and carpet bombing them all with a lack of support.  When enough of us do this because we still have the votes, it will be a tactic money can’t defeat.  Either produce worthwhile people, or lose the seat.

News link credit:  Protein Wisdom

What Did You Think Was Going To Happen?

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Orrin Hatch has a problem with the people trying to primary him.  He’s fed up and ready to sock someone.  Also, he’s perfectly happy to use liberal marginalization words with them, like ‘radical.’

How about a broader question to all those long time ‘reasonable’ incumbents who let the Democrats drive us this close to hell during their tenures in Washington.  We wanted you to stop them and you did nothing.  We got fed up with you, and you did nothing.  Then, in the Bush administration, you had it all and instead of doing nothing, you blew it.  That resulted in the back-to-back losses of 2006 and 2008, and you changed nothing.  Well, everyone’s sick of your nothing.

What did you think was going to happen?

The Democrats may be primarily responsible for the massive debt, national decline, and overblown government, but you come in a close second.  You ‘reached across the aisle’ and ‘compromised’ with them, and now here we all are.  No one can stand you anymore because you won’t do jack and they’re doing something about it.

Yes, you can throw hissy-fits and act righteously indignant now that your failures are coming due and you’re finding out those precious seats you hold aren’t really yours.  But they are your failures coming due.  The primary challenges are just an indicator of no one sitting on their hands anymore.  Wait until you get so vile enough of us decide it’s worth losing the seat to get rid of you should you win your primaries if that’s what it takes.  You’ll really be upset then.

Just A Reminder That Lamar Smith Has a Primary Challenger

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Don’t like SOPA?  Want to do something real about it?  Then it’s a good time for you to hear about the challenger of the tool that pushed it, Lamar Smith.  His name is Richard Mack, and he’d very much like to give Smith his pink slip from Congress.

Why is this real?  Congressmen and Senators understand one thing very well, and that’s losing their jobs.  No one is going to be eager to repeat a SOPA push if the guy who pushed it suddenly isn’t in Congress anymore because of it.  Motivating politicians with their own self-interest is a safe bet, and Mack can help do that.  “Would you like to be primaried like Smith” is a far better thing to say than just being loud when it comes to stopping future SOPA attempts.

You could make it happen.  Visit Richard Mack and see if you can’t help him out in some way.