Just Walker on by....

[Prometheus]

Dems will maintain control of the Senate regardless of what happens in Georgia.

[permutojoe]

The Republicans are a complete clown show. Lindsey Graham crying like a girl on national TV. Hannity pretending he doesn't know how the "red wave" talk got started so the braindead voters won't feel bad about being duped. And to top it all off, running a literal mental retard former football player who clearly got hit in the head way too many times for US Senate.

[merh]

Nov 14, 2022 2:15:21 GMT permutojoe said:

The Republicans are a complete clown show. Lindsey Graham crying like a girl on national TV. Hannity pretending he doesn't know how the "red wave" talk got started so the braindead voters won't feel bad about being duped. And to top it all off, running a literal mental retard former football player who clearly got hit in the head way too many times for US Senate.

ABBEY doesn't think Walker has any damage.

[abbey1227]

Nov 16, 2022 8:43:16 GMT merh said:

Nov 14, 2022 2:15:21 GMT permutojoe said:

The Republicans are a complete clown show. Lindsey Graham crying like a girl on national TV. Hannity pretending he doesn't know how the "red wave" talk got started so the braindead voters won't feel bad about being duped. And to top it all off, running a literal mental retard former football player who clearly got hit in the head way too many times for US Senate.

ABBEY doesn't think Walker has any damage.

He may have.........he played football for awhile. My point was simply he didn't have all that much to damage in the first place.

He has always struck me as a pleasant, but not too bright fella.     It's amazing to watch the MSM dig deep whenever they find the need to destroy a political opponent........after they've covered up and looked the other way for their team.

[permutojoe]

Nov 16, 2022 10:29:08 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 16, 2022 8:43:16 GMT merh said:

ABBEY doesn't think Walker has any damage.

He may have.........he played football for awhile. My point was simply he didn't have all that much to damage in the first place.

He has always struck me as a pleasant, but not too bright fella.     It's amazing to watch the MSM dig deep whenever they find the need to destroy a political opponent........after they've covered up and looked the other way for their team.

He likely has a sub 80 IQ.  Should I be surprised that you support him? 

[Prometheus]

Nov 16, 2022 12:17:29 GMT permutojoe said:

Nov 16, 2022 10:29:08 GMT abbey1227 said:

He may have.........he played football for awhile. My point was simply he didn't have all that much to damage in the first place.

He has always struck me as a pleasant, but not too bright fella.     It's amazing to watch the MSM dig deep whenever they find the need to destroy a political opponent........after they've covered up and looked the other way for their team.

He likely has a sub 80 IQ.  Should I be surprised that you support him? 

Nope. Abbey loves right-wingers who have a higher IQ than him....

[abbey1227]

Nov 16, 2022 12:17:29 GMT permutojoe said:

Nov 16, 2022 10:29:08 GMT abbey1227 said:

He may have.........he played football for awhile. My point was simply he didn't have all that much to damage in the first place.

He has always struck me as a pleasant, but not too bright fella.     It's amazing to watch the MSM dig deep whenever they find the need to destroy a political opponent........after they've covered up and looked the other way for their team.

He likely has a sub 80 IQ.  Should I be surprised that you support him? 

He's a successful black man running for office.

As long as he supports similar politics to me, why wouldn't I?      

[permutojoe]

Nov 16, 2022 12:52:40 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 16, 2022 12:17:29 GMT permutojoe said:

He likely has a sub 80 IQ.  Should I be surprised that you support him? 

He's a successful black man running for office.

As long as he supports similar politics to me, why wouldn't I?      

Did you really just virtual signal race AND voting for a functional retard for US Senator, at the same time?

[abbey1227]

Nov 16, 2022 13:03:17 GMT permutojoe said:

Nov 16, 2022 12:52:40 GMT abbey1227 said:

He's a successful black man running for office.

As long as he supports similar politics to me, why wouldn't I?      

Did you really just virtual signal race AND voting for a functional retard for US Senator, at the same time?

We currently have a functional retard as POTUS ........and his party's previous winner was elected in part because of virtue signaling..........just as the latest appointment to the SCOTUS was.

[permutojoe]

Nov 16, 2022 13:07:04 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 16, 2022 13:03:17 GMT permutojoe said:

Did you really just virtual signal race AND voting for a functional retard for US Senator, at the same time?

We currently have a functional retard as POTUS ........and his party's previous winner was elected in part because of virtue signaling..........just as the latest appointment to the SCOTUS was.

Biden isn’t retarded. Just a little sleepy. And virtue signaling is what the dems do. Now you can’t even call that out since you went along with the right doing it.

[Prometheus]

Nov 16, 2022 13:07:04 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 16, 2022 13:03:17 GMT permutojoe said:

Did you really just virtual signal race AND voting for a functional retard for US Senator, at the same time?

We currently have a functional retard as POTUS ........and his party's previous winner was elected in part because of virtue signaling..........just as the latest appointment to the SCOTUS was.

Saying that Dems virtue signal is like saying, "water is wet" or "women have secrets." It's their stock-in-trade. Did you think it was some sort of big reveal?

And Grandpa Sniffy isn't retarded. He's just a "dad joke" made flesh: weird and goofy but ultimately harmless and maybe even worthy of a few chuckles.

Yerboi, Donnie, OTOH, to call him retarded is an insult to retarded people.

[merh]

Nov 16, 2022 12:52:40 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 16, 2022 12:17:29 GMT permutojoe said:

He likely has a sub 80 IQ.  Should I be surprised that you support him? 

He's a successful black man running for office.

As long as he supports similar politics to me, why wouldn't I?      

What does playing football to do with politics?

You let him do medical procedures on your dog?
Successful black athlete. 
Must qualify him to do anything 

[abbey1227]

Nov 18, 2022 15:07:21 GMT merh said:

Nov 16, 2022 12:52:40 GMT abbey1227 said:

He's a successful black man running for office.

As long as he supports similar politics to me, why wouldn't I?      

What does playing football to do with politics?

You let him do medical procedures on your dog?
Successful black athlete. 
Must qualify him to do anything 

I'd let Dr. Oz do it before Fetterman.........and Hershel

He supports a few of the more conservative ideas I approve of.........now his religious stuff? I can do without. But it ain't like Warnock is gonna be my choice, right?

[merh]

Nov 18, 2022 15:11:42 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 18, 2022 15:07:21 GMT merh said:

What does playing football to do with politics?

You let him do medical procedures on your dog?
Successful black athlete. 
Must qualify him to do anything 

I'd let Dr. Oz do it before Fetterman.........and Hershel

He supports a few of the more conservative ideas I approve of.........now his religious stuff? I can do without. But it ain't like Warnock is gonna be my choice, right?

As I keep saying, I want the Dem to win for the voting block, but I can't vote for or against them any more than I can vote for or against McConnell or Pelosi or MTG.

I don't see the ire that sent people to the Capitol looking to harm Pelosi. 

[merh]

Nov 17, 2022 6:23:16 GMT Prometheus said:

Nov 16, 2022 13:07:04 GMT abbey1227 said:

We currently have a functional retard as POTUS ........and his party's previous winner was elected in part because of virtue signaling..........just as the latest appointment to the SCOTUS was.

Saying that Dems virtue signal is like saying, "water is wet" or "women have secrets." It's their stock-in-trade. Did you think it was some sort of big reveal?

And Grandpa Sniffy isn't retarded. He's just a "dad joke" made flesh: weird and goofy but ultimately harmless and maybe even worthy of a few chuckles.

Yerboi, Donnie, OTOH, to call him retarded is an insult to retarded people.

How many "Infrastructure Week!"'s did we get out of Donald?
Biden got an infrastructure bill thru.

The party in the White House tends to lose 3 Senate seats & 27 House seats. 

The current makeup

Democratic (220)
Republican (213)
Vacant (2)

They are trying to figure if the GOP is going to have 220 or 219 so they picked up no more than 7 seats.

Donald lost the GOP seats in 2018, 2020 & this year.
Last I saw his candidates who were not currently in office all lost.
Because he just wants people who will kiss his ass, not people who will actually push conservative values & try to help the voters.

But it means Biden held more seats at the midterm.
He has returned the presidency to something we don't have to hear about every other day. 

Remember that?
When the President maybe made the news once a month or so?
When Ford tripped or HW puked on the Japanese ambassador (or whoever it was) ?

When people were pissed the President was going to pre-empt their shows addressing the nation that night?

When we did our day in/day out without DC crazy crap on the news every night?

[abbey1227]

Nov 21, 2022 6:17:48 GMT merh said:

Nov 18, 2022 15:11:42 GMT abbey1227 said:

I'd let Dr. Oz do it before Fetterman.........and Hershel

He supports a few of the more conservative ideas I approve of.........now his religious stuff? I can do without. But it ain't like Warnock is gonna be my choice, right?

As I keep saying, I want the Dem to win for the voting block, but I can't vote for or against them any more than I can vote for or against McConnell or Pelosi or MTG.

I don't see the ire that sent people to the Capitol looking to harm Pelosi. 

Then you better figure out a way to better leave them alone

[abbey1227]

Nov 21, 2022 6:33:45 GMT merh said:

How many "Infrastructure Week!"'s did we get out of Donald?
Biden got an infrastructure bill thru.

The party in the White House tends to lose 3 Senate seats & 27 House seats. 

The current makeup

Democratic (220)
Republican (213)
Vacant (2)

They are trying to figure if the GOP is going to have 220 or 219 so they picked up no more than 7 seats.

Donald lost the GOP seats in 2018, 2020 & this year.
Last I saw his candidates who were not currently in office all lost.
Because he just wants people who will kiss his ass, not people who will actually push conservative values & try to help the voters.

But it means Biden held more seats at the midterm.
He has returned the presidency to something we don't have to hear about every other day. 

Remember that?
When the President maybe made the news once a month or so?
When Ford tripped or HW puked on the Japanese ambassador (or whoever it was) ?

When people were pissed the President was going to pre-empt their shows addressing the nation that night?

When we did our day in/day out without DC crazy crap on the news every night?

so much for your homework doing.    I don't even keep track of them, but I know JD Vance won right off the top of my head.

The reason you don't hear about it every day is because the MSM is complicit with DC corruption. How's that proxy way in Ukraine going? Anyone getting rich off of it?

It was only 'crazy' because the MSM all agreed they would not allow Trump to be president for one day unchallenged. And your old nag even threw out illegitimate non-stop.

[merh]

Nov 21, 2022 7:19:03 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 21, 2022 6:33:45 GMT merh said:

How many "Infrastructure Week!"'s did we get out of Donald?
Biden got an infrastructure bill thru.

The party in the White House tends to lose 3 Senate seats & 27 House seats. 

The current makeup

Democratic (220)
Republican (213)
Vacant (2)

They are trying to figure if the GOP is going to have 220 or 219 so they picked up no more than 7 seats.

Donald lost the GOP seats in 2018, 2020 & this year.
Last I saw his candidates who were not currently in office all lost.
Because he just wants people who will kiss his ass, not people who will actually push conservative values & try to help the voters.

But it means Biden held more seats at the midterm.
He has returned the presidency to something we don't have to hear about every other day. 

Remember that?
When the President maybe made the news once a month or so?
When Ford tripped or HW puked on the Japanese ambassador (or whoever it was) ?

When people were pissed the President was going to pre-empt their shows addressing the nation that night?

When we did our day in/day out without DC crazy crap on the news every night?

so much for your homework doing.    I don't even keep track of them, but I know JD Vance won right off the top of my head.

The reason you don't hear about it every day is because the MSM is complicit with DC corruption. How's that proxy way in Ukraine going? Anyone getting rich off of it?

It was only 'crazy' because the MSM all agreed they would not allow Trump to be president for one day unchallenged. And your old nag even threw out illegitimate non-stop.

www.politico.com/2022-election/results/trump-candidates-endorsements-11-8-22/

Are Trump's riskiest picks winning or losing?
Amid a sea of safe choices, the former president backed some candidates that could deeply dent his endorsement reputation. Here's how they're doing.
Last updated: Nov. 21, 2022 11:39 p.m. PST


VICTORIES
9
DEFEATS
9
3 RACES REMAINING


The Senate
Trump's preferred Senate candidates have won in Ohio and North Carolina, while Johnson eked out a win in Wisconsin. But in the contests that really put his endorsement power to the test — Georgia's upcoming runoff among them — decisive victories are still far out of reach.

POLITICO predicts
Lean Democratic

No endorsements.

POLITICO predicts
Toss-up

Total wins:
1 out of 3

Candidate Result
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson

WI Senate

R+1
Blake Masters
Blake Masters

AZ Senate

D+5
Mehmet Oz
Mehmet Oz

PA Senate

D+5
Herschel Walker
Herschel Walker

GA Sen. (General)

Goes to
runoff
POLITICO predicts
Lean Republican

Total wins:
2 out of 2

Candidate Result
JD Vance
JD Vance

OH Senate

R+7
Ted Budd
Ted Budd

NC Senate

R+3
Tracking endorsements made before Oct. 1, 2022.
As Walker heads to a runoff, Trump's record with his more unpredictable candidates remains up in the air. Though three out of his seven risky Senate endorsements have won, votes are still trickling in for Arizona and Nevada.

Marissa Martinez, State policy & politics reporter

The House
By stacking the endorsements deck in his favor with plenty of incumbents and open seat races, Trump’s fingerprints are all over the House races. But even as vote counts continue to roll in, he already notched more definitive losses than wins last night — and the remaining races still show slim margins.

POLITICO predicts
Lean Democratic

Total wins:
0 out of 3

Candidate Result
J.R. Majewski
J.R. Majewski

OH-09

D+13
John Gibbs
John Gibbs

MI-03

D+13
Steve Chabot
Steve Chabot

OH-01

D+5
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin

AK-AL

POLITICO predicts
Toss-up

Total wins:
0 out of 3

Candidate Result
Madison Gesiotto Gilbert
Madison Gesiotto Gilbert

OH-13

D+5
Bo Hines
Bo Hines

NC-13

D+3
Jim Bognet
Jim Bognet

PA-08

D+2
POLITICO predicts
Lean Republican

Total wins:
6 out of 7

Candidate Result
Monica De La Cruz
Monica De La Cruz

TX-15

R+9
Ashley Hinson
Ashley Hinson

IA-02

R+8
Eli Crane
Eli Crane

AZ-02

R+8
Ken Calvert
Ken Calvert

CA-41

R+5
David Schweikert
David Schweikert

AZ-01

R+1
Zach Nunn
Zach Nunn

IA-03

R+1
Joe Kent
Joe Kent

WA-03

D+1

So he's 50% right now with 3 outstanding

[abbey1227]

Nov 22, 2022 7:58:39 GMT merh said:

So he's 50% right now with 3 outstanding

Which were the long shots?

If nothing else, he's doing about a well as most of the NFL.........lucky to be at .500

[merh]

Yet the dems bitched the party didn't spend enough to help some candidates win.

GOP's lackluster fundraising spurs post-election infighting
BRIAN SLODYSKO and AARON KESSLER
Sun, November 20, 2022 at 9:11 PM

ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trailing badly in his Arizona Senate race as votes poured in, Republican Blake Masters went on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program and assigned blame to one person: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

“You know what else is incompetent, Tucker? The establishment. The people who control the purse strings,” Masters said before accusing the long-serving GOP leader and the super PAC aligned with him of not spending enough on TV advertising. “Had he chosen to spend money in Arizona, this race would be over. We’d be celebrating a Senate majority right now.”

Masters not only lost his race against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, but he also trailed every other Republican running for statewide office in Arizona. There’s another problem Masters didn’t acknowledge: He failed to raise significant money on his own.

He was hardly alone.

As both parties sift through the results of Democrats' stronger-than-expected showing in the midterm elections, Republicans are engaged in a round of finger-pointing, including a failed attempt by Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who led the Senate GOP's campaign arm, to challenge McConnell for his leadership post.

But the recriminations obscure a much deeper dilemma for the party. Many of their nominees — a significant number of whom were first-time candidates who adopted far-right positions — failed to raise the money needed to mount competitive campaigns. That forced party leaders, particularly in the Senate, to make hard choices and triage resources to races where they thought they had the best chance at winning, often paying exorbitant rates to TV stations that, by law, would have been required to sell the same advertising time to candidates for far less.

The lackluster fundraising allowed Democrats to get their message out to voters early and unchallenged, while GOP contenders lacked the resources to do the same.

“This has become an existential and systemic problem for our party, and it’s something that needs to get addressed if we hope to be competitive,” said Steven Law, a former McConnell chief of staff who now leads Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC that spent at least $232 million on advertising to elect Republicans to the Senate this year.

“Our (donors) have grown increasingly alarmed that they are being put in the position of subsidizing weak fundraising performances by candidates in critical races. And something has got to give. It’s just not sustainable," Law said.

In key Senate and House battlegrounds, Democratic candidates outraised their Republican counterparts by a factor of nearly 2-to-1, according to an Associated Press analysis of campaign finance data.

Consider the handful of races that helped Democrats retain their Senate majority.

In Arizona, Masters was outraised nearly 8-to-1 by Kelly, who poured at least $32 million into TV advertising from August until Election Day, records show. Masters spent a little over $3 million on advertising during the same period after Senate Leadership Fund pulled out of the race.

Meanwhile, in Nevada, Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto raised $52.8 million compared to Republican Adam Laxalt's $15.5 million. And in Pennsylvania, Democratic Sen.-elect John Fetterman took in $16 million more than his GOP opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz. That's despite the celebrity TV doctor lending $22 million to his campaign, records show.

Similar disparities emerged in crucial House races, including in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia, helping limit House Republicans to a surprisingly narrow majority.

When it came to purchasing TV ad time, Democrats' fundraising advantage yielded considerable upside. Ad sellers are required by law to offer candidates the cheapest rate. That same advantage doesn't apply to super PACs, which Republican candidates relied on to close their fundraising gap — often at a premium.

In Las Vegas, for example, a candidate could buy a unit of TV advertising for $598, according to advertising figures provided to the AP. That same segment cost a super PAC $4,500. In North Carolina's Raleigh-Durham media market, a $342 spot cost a super PAC $1,270. And a $580 candidate segment in the Philadelphia area cost a super PAC nearly $2,000, the advertising figures show.

Republicans also found themselves playing defense in states that weren't ultimately competitive.

JD Vance, who won his Ohio Senate race by more than 6 percentage points, was outraised nearly 4-to-1 by Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan. To shore him up, Senate Leadership Fund poured $28 million into the state. The group's advertising ultimately accounted for about 70% of all Republican media spending from August until Election Day.

A similar situation played out in North Carolina, where the McConnell-aligned super PAC was responsible for 82% of the Republican advertising spending during the same period. GOP Rep. Ted Budd won his Senate race by over 3% of the vote.

But money woes weren't the only complicating factor.

Donald Trump elevated a series of untested, first-time candidates. They included Masters, Vance and former NFL star Herschel Walker, whose complicated backstory includes threats of violence against his ex-wife, false claims of business success and allegations that he pressured two girlfriends to get abortions, which Walker denies. Then there was Oz, who moved to Pennsylvania to seek the seat and also secured Trump's endorsement, but was pilloried by Democrats as an out-of-touch carpetbagger.

The former president gave them his endorsement, but he was parsimonious when it came to sharing some of the more than $100 million he's amassed in a committee designed to help other candidates. He ended up spending about $15 million on ads across five Senate races, records show.

Meanwhile, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, led by Scott, often worked at cross-purposes with McConnell's political operation.

Early on, Scott ruled out getting involved in primaries, which he saw as inappropriate meddling. McConnell's allies, meanwhile, moved to fend off candidates they saw as poor general-election contenders, like Don Bolduc, a far-right conservative who lost his New Hampshire Senate race by nearly 10 percentage points. McConnell forces also defended Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a GOP moderate, against a conservative challenger.

“Senate races are just different,” McConnell said in August. “Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome."

In response, Scott took a shot at McConnell without mentioning him by name, suggesting in an opinion article published in the Washington Examiner that any “trash-talking” of Republican candidates was an “act of cowardice” that was “treasonous to the conservative cause.”

But his committee also struggled after making a series of bad bets, including a costly investment to boost the committee's online fundraising.

An internal document obtained by the AP, which was previously reported by The New York Times, shows the committee invested $23.3 million to build out their digital fundraising program between June and January of 2021. But the NRSC raised just $6.1 million during that time — a deficit. Then, as inflation soared, the stream of cash from online donors slowed to a trickle.

Chris Hartline, an NRSC spokesperson, said the document showed a direct return from one part of the investment and did not reflect the total raised through the program, which he said topped more than $15 million, a figure that is still lower than what the committee put into the effort.

That prevented the NRSC from spending as much on TV ads as in years past, even as Scott made bullish predictions of picking up as many as five Senate seats. The digital fundraising effort was a boon, however, for consultants, who collected at least $31 million in payments, disclosures show.

Some Republican senators are now clamoring for an audit of the committee. In an at-times heated Senate GOP lunch at the Capitol last week, Maine Sen. Susan Collins questioned Scott's management of the NRSC.

Scott's aides dismissed suggestions of financial impropriety, saying that the payments to consultants were ordinary and part of the effort to grow the NRSC’s online fundraising. They also accuse McConnell of undercutting the committee.

During a Senate GOP lunch in August, Scott asked senators for donations to the NRSC, which is now at least $20 million in debt. Then McConnell addressed the room and told the senators to instead prioritize giving to Senate Leadership Fund, according to two people familiar with the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe it.

The interaction was part of a broader pattern by McConnell to sabotage the NRSC, said Hartline.

“There was a very clear implication to donors that they should not give to the NRSC," Hartline said. "And the result is it hurt our ability to boost our candidates and get their message out.”

Scott has also said improper bonuses were paid out by the committee before he took over. And in a statement, he suggested that Senate Leadership Fund should be audited, too.

McConnell allies, however, believe Scott has ulterior motives and has used his post to burnish his own image at the expense of the party, potentially working to set himself up for a presidential bid, according to senior Republican strategists. They were not authorized to discuss the McConnell allies’ conclusions and did so on condition of anonymity.

The gambit failed, as did Scott's challenge of McConnell's leadership position last week.

Faced with the prospect of solidifying their majority with another seat during a December runoff election in Georgia, Democrats were happy to offer unsolicited guidance to Republicans.

“My advice is to keep on doing what they are doing,” said Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, who led Senate Democrats' campaign arm this year.