Republicans chances of recapturing the U.S. Senate increase
When a far left Democrat such as Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor uses his campaign advertising to offer quotes from John McCain to distinguish himself from U.S. Rep Tom Cotton, his conservative Republican opponent, it’s clear there is a trouble in Liberalville.
Pryor ‘s latest ad features McCain’s quote that “anyone who calls it amnesty is not being intellectually honest,” fires back at a recent Cotton campaign ad, saying Pryor “voted for amnesty and citizenship for illegals.”
“Mark Pryor voted the same way as John McCain and many other Republican senators,” Pryor’s ad defends. “Secure the border first.”
Very McCainesque, indeed.
For border state Arizonans, the unanswered question has always been, “First before what?” The illegal invasion of our sovereign nation looms as a major 2014 campaign issue even in places as far removed from the border as Arkansas —- a state that is rapidly trending red.
How telling is it that Pryor, the sole remaining Dem in the state’s congressional delegation resorts to bragging of his alignment with McCain on such a key issue in this squeaker of a race?
U.S. Rep. Cotton is a genuinely impressive. He holds undergrad and law degrees from Harvard, did a stint at the Claremont Graduate University —- including a Publius fellowship in conservative political thought at the Claremont Institute —- completed a federal clerkship, and served two tours of combat in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Cotton left the Army with the rank of captain and numerous medals including a Bronze Star.
Real Clear Politics provides the most recent polling, Scroll down to see the latest encouraging numbers in what is emerging as a very winnable race. Cotton, 37, an eloquent conservative spokesman is ahead in most polls.
Human Events does the math, writing, “Today, there are 45 Republican Senators and the GOP needs a net gain of six seats to win control of the 114th Congress in January 2015. But winning a bare majority in 2014 is not enough. Republicans need to pick up enough seats in 2014 to ensure they have 51 or more Senators after the 2016 election where Republicans will defend potentially vulnerable Senate seats won in the GOP landslide year of 2010.
If Republicans win six seats they will control the House and Senate for two years but still face the Obama veto for both years. But if they capture the nine seats needed to be comfortable that GOP control of congress would continue in 2017 and 2018 then, if they are joined by a Republican President after the 2016 election, they can begin undoing much of the damage of the past eight years and enact the Ryan budget plan that begins the U-turn away from our present path to socialism. That is winning.”
Sure thing!
Seeing Red AZ 
ANYTHING that allows illegals to stay in the country IS amnesty. so tired of word games and parsing of language by these buttheads.
no votes, no time, no money for ANY amnesty supporter. they are choosing illegals over American citizens
I agree, it is intellectually dishonest to think McCain is not offering amnesty. McCain is a dishonest politician who now has his hands in the State Republican Party. Beware out there.
How right you are, Delilah! When McCain says he’s “trying to stay out” of the Arizona governor’s race, ihis claim is beyond bogus. He had his puppet surrogate Jan Brewer, a lame duck with nothing to lose, endorse Scott Smith, since Smith holds the same views amnesty McCain does. Smith has perfected the McRINO talking points on the invasion of the USA.
Scott Smith doesn’t even attempt to hide the fact that he puts illegals before Arizona and American citizens. It’s right on his website. He says he “will fight for an immigration process that balances practicality and compassion, solid business sense and a commitment to justice. People living in the shadows need to get right by the law.”
How much clearer can his amnesty position be?
Scott Smith is a member of the LDS (Mormon) Church. Despite the of conflict of interest with the 12th Article of Faith, which reads, “We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law,” it’s important to keep in mind how the Church benefits from the continued influx of illegals.
The LDS Church leadership understands all too well that the continued flood from Mexico, South and Central America provides a clear-cut way of increasing membership and the accompanying tithes. Now most concentrated missionary efforts are directed at these people, and illegal or not, they are esteemed by the Church.
As one who comes from a family of generational Mormons, I cannot abide the LDS’s stance on illegal aliens who disregard our laws, distain our history and language, are using the stolen identities of millions of American adults and children and account for astronomical crime rates. The issue of “compassion” has no place in this discussion. America cannot take in the population of entire globe that lives below our standards.
Although Americans rightly take aim at “Sanctuary cities,“ it’s well to remember that Utah is now a “Sanctuary state.” For years, the Church has duplicitously continued to claim that it had no position on legislation relating to illegal immigration, though all the while supporting passage of McCain/Kyl/Flake endorsed legislation that includes guest worker or full-blown amnesty provisions.
The Washington Times made note of even more duplicity as far back as November 28,2005:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/nov/28/20051128-122403-6535r/
“The Mormon church arranged for a Utah senator to write a law to shield churches from prosecution for knowingly allowing illegal aliens to be ministers or do volunteer missionary work for them.
“Kim Farah, a spokeswoman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, released a statement saying the church asked Sen. Robert F. Bennett, Utah Republican, to sponsor the provision, which she called a ‘narrow exception to the immigration act.’“
‘The law permits churches to use the volunteer services of their undocumented members by insulating the churches from criminal sanctions for doing so,’ she said. “She said she would not answer any further questions, including why the church needs access to illegal alien volunteers
These reckless and self serving positions are causing lifelong members to peel away from the Church and bear all that entails within the family and community structure..
I apologize for the overly long comment, but these are facts that expose the amnesty position of Scott Smith
East Valley Conservative: I think a lot of people have forgotten that Jan Brewer endorsed the McCain-Schumer amnesty bill then backflipped within 24 hours. She either never cared about the amnesty issue or only used it to fundraise ironically so she can spend that PAC money against actual conservatives.
June24, 2013:
@SenJohnMcCain
“Pleased @GovBrewer supports #immigration reform. NRO: “Brewer Backs Senate Immigration Bill:‘Victory for Arizona’”
https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/349192502068260866
Jan Brewer must have got heat for the comments and backflipped within 24 hours.
https://twitter.com/GovBrewer/status/349236267130695680
@GovBrewer
“I am confident House Republicans will improve this bill and make it workable for the American people. #immigration”
https://twitter.com/GovBrewer/status/349235681224163328
@GovBrewer
“For the record, I have not endorsed the Gang of 8 #immigration bill.”
So at the time she trusted John Boehner, Matt McSalmon and Eric Cantor to come up with a good bill.
Luckily Steve King, Bentivolio, Stockman, Rohrabacher, Jeff Sessions, David Vitter and others undermined leadership of both houses.
As bad as Gosar is, he saw the writing on the wall and joined Team Steve King. McSalmon thought he was in the cool kid’s club with Boehner. What a privilege to have Boehner invite him into the border gang with fellow pro-amnesty House Republicans like Diaz-Balart.
I think Brewer claimed she only endorsed the optional bogus border surge that Bob Corker and John Hoeven created with the permission of Chuck Schumer. John Hoeven, Kelly Ayotte, John McCain and Mark Kirk need to be primaried in 2016.
Here’s an interesting eye-opener about snakes molting their skin. Every mailer I get from Justin McPierce and his PAC friends is a lying attack ad on Wil Cardon. The surprise is that they are the same exact mailer templates that Jeffie “Blonde Boy” McSnake used in his 2012 senatorial primary to fool the low-information voters. They just took off McSnake’s leering photo and replaced it with McPierce. This is déjà vu, McGOP style.
Nice to see who lays with the McRat Pack in this race. No wonder the labor unions heart McPierce. Beware the McTraitor crowd – the McSnakes are poisonous.
God bless America.
Lately, John McCain has become a fixture on CNN. So much so that CNN liberal viewers are complaining. Talking head Candy Crowley told McCain, on air, that the viewers are asking why CNN continues to invite him on.
Silly Liberals, don’t you know that CNN is just where he belongs?
On another note, it is being reported that Bush 41 has been meeting with Gabby Giffords regarding gun control.
Yes, let’s push gun control while the barbarians are at the door.
Gabby Giffords and her hubby have a bit in their mouths for fame. Arizona hasn’t seen the last of her, though it is a tragedy that the people who were killed in the shooting are not remembered but Gabby is the new Joan of Arc. She and the lesbian congresswoman are extremely dangerous but as Arizona becomes more SEEING BLUE, they are both apt to end up elected to higher offices.
Giffords will not be running for office again. That’s a take it to the bank fact.
Unfortunately Cotton isn’t a natural politician and Pryor has a long family pedigree in Arkansas.
Cotton has a good educational background but I am extremely skeptical of someone who serves a bit in the military and throws him or herself on the flag and expects the people to elect them. More private business experience instead of public where raises and benefits come naturally and in largess as compared to most Americans.
Arkansas should be a republican state but my money is on Pryor squeaking it out.
Your assertion that U.S. Rep Tom Cotton “served a bit in the military” reveals your leftward bias. He refused to go in as a JAG officer, opting for the infantry in both Iraq and Afghanistan. For his valor, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Combat Infantry Badge, and Ranger Tab.
Cotton served nearly five years on active duty, and completed two combat tours. In Iraq he was with the 101st Airborne, where he led an infantry platoon in daily combat patrols.
Between his two combat tours, Tom served as a platoon leader with The Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetery. He then served in Afghanistan as the operations officer for a Provincial Reconstruction Team
Are you a veteran? Where did you serve? Get you facts straight, dude!
Thanks, but that alone doesn’t make him a politician, and I don’t thin he is.
I am no more leftward than you but don’t buy a pig in a poke and if you are from Arky you know the Pryors.
McCain is hated by people in the south. Look at the votes on 2005 enforcement, 2006 Senate amnesty, 2007 Senate amnesty, 2010 Dream Act and 2013 amnesty. Most congress members from the south voted against McCain-Flake amnesties. Many blue dog southern Democrats from 2006-2010 voted against amnesty.
Tom Cotton is from the anti-amnesty & neocon wing of the GOP. The Steve King wing. Steve King is almost McCain on foreign policy. He is wrong on foreign policy. Bachmann is probably similar. Steve King believed that Reagan should have kept troops in Lebanon in the 1980s after the bombing.
Steve King brought out Tom Cotton to torch Paul Ryan’s and Boehner’s amnesty agenda. Boehner tried to claim they were only going to do immigration when they were ready. Cotton said the House and Senate were “galaxies apart”.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/353386/picking-tom-cotton-robert-costa
McCain is hated in the south. Romney and Huckabee won a lot of the states in the south in 2008. Thad Cochran as bad as he is on other issues, has never voted for amnesty and in 2008 said McCain was a hothead he wouldn’t want. The Democrat Senate candidate in Mississippi is the only Democrat senate candidate running against amnesty.
David Vitter, Jeff Sessions and Jim DeMint were the main Senators who helped stop the 2007, 2010 and 2013 amnesties.
Jeff Sessions is so popular in Alabama he has no general election opponent. The first time Democrats won’t run a candidate in history. It was Jeff Sessions who went to the Alabama and Mississippi house delegations and told them to stop Boehner.
Cotton should get Senator Boozman(who destroyed Blanche Lincolon on amnesty), Vitter and Sessions to come and campaign with him. They have nothing to do in November.
NumbersUSA and Tancredo endorsed Santorum in 2012. He won a lot of states in the south. Gingrich won his home state Georgia and South Carolina(who elect Lindsey Graham).
The best race is in New Hampshire. Scott Brown who is anti-gun and holds a buch of liberal views is solid on immigration. He is hitting Jeanne Shaheen on immigration. So Shaheen is claming it is not amnesty because Mccainiac Ayotte voted for it.
Either Giffords or her hubby will be on a ballot, and very soon. They love the public eye too much. Tae that to the bank.
I don’t think McCain is hated in the south. Those in uniform look at him with awe, without knowing much about him. Most outside Arizona don’t know him well except for the Vietnam part.
I think his immigration views are not popular in the south. Most times it has been Senators from the south who have opposed McCain’s immigration plans.
Look at the people they’ve elected: Lindsey Graham is about the only southerner to survive with McCain’s views.
He almost cost the GOP, Georgia’s electoral college in 2008. One of the biggest examples of disunity in the 2008 GOP was both Georgia Senators being booed over immigration.
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/19/audio-saxby-chambliss-booed-at-gop-convention-for-defending-amnesty-bill/
True, most in the South are against illegals. But McCain doesn’t get tarred with that brush much outside Arizona. Graham is a major grandstander. Both are eager to continue to waste huge amounts of $$$$ on out of control military spending.