Many predictions about the in the United States are dire for the GOP: a wipeout in the House and perhaps losing the Senate majority as well. The GOP could weather the electoral storm that almost always chastens the party of a president finishing his sixth year in office.
But the GOP wont avoid a “thumpin” as put it after the 2006 rout of the GOP at the polls if todays dont step up and loudly proclaim the wisdom of beginning the battle with , as well as the facts that we are not only winning the battle decisively but that the world will be a much better place when it is over, even if President Trump declares, as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant did in May 1864, that “I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”
Grant prevailed within the year, but it was indeed a long and hard slog through Northern Virginia to the encirclement and eventual capitulation of Richmond and the Confederacy and the surrender of General Lees Army, even as other Union armies won on other fronts.
There will be no “Appomattox” in the battle with Iran, but there will be victory, and the GOP has to preach that inevitability as well as the great wisdom and necessity of the battle.
Every candidate in every partisan race has to make the case, which is easy to make: The Islamic Republic of Iran is an evil regime, one run by “lunatics,” as Secretary Rubio declared as the battle began, one which has always terrorized its own people and the entire region (murdering tens of thousands of its own people in January), and one which has attacked 14 countries after America and resumed their battle with it as it would have done so â with nukes! â had it been able to obtain such weapons, as the left in America and refuses to see or admit, much less discuss.
It was not “a war of choice,” which the ignorant opponents of the battle spout almost daily, but rather one of the necessary preemptions of an existential threat to the region and the world.
The U.S. Navy and the probable return of combat operations will inevitably bring the radical junta atop the rump regime to heel, but it will take time.
President Trump has correctly informed his advisers this week (and the news was reported by The Wall Street Journal Tuesday night) that he is . Bravo.
Americans have lost the muscle memory of victory. It will quickly regain an appreciation for resolve once the conflict is over.
The prediction of electoral catastrophe for the GOP would mean losing statewide races at least in (Sen. Collins), Ohio (Sen. Husted), North Carolina (open) and either Texas (Sen. Cornyn) or Alaska (Sen. Sullivan) â a result which seems so unlikely as to almost pass over without comment, but that extraordinary result is possible if the GOP stays in its crouch over the battle with Iran. Each senator facing challenges and every House member must repeatedly explain the “why” and the “how” of the battle. If they do, the electorate will agree.
The GOPs candidates must the battle with Iran was long past due, that while the cost of 13 American lives and scores of Americans wounded is incredibly high for the families who bear that burden and the nation that mourns that loss, the battle and the blockade are stunningly successful and will inevitably crush the remnants of the old regime if the president has resolve. It seems certain that President Trump is not about “to go wobbly.”
The president understands the stakes and has made his resolute purpose known. Bravo.
The GOP must applaud and support him and explain that the cost felt at home at the gas pump is nothing compared to that borne by the families of the fallen and by the wounded, and the extraordinary benefit of a humbled Iran cannot be overstated.
That battle to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons is in its eighth week and is going very well (except in the eyes of media, but of course I repeat myself).
It has crushed the Iranian , and now the blockade
