Mike Partyka (@MichaelJPartyka)

Because the midterms are so important for Republicans to win this year, especially as regards keeping the Senate, I thought of sending money to the Republican Party general fund for Senate elections, and then I heard something pretty disturbing: I heard that Ken Paxton -- the Republican Senate candidate I'll be voting for -- is short on funds. That...is troubling, for two reasons. First, it's troubling because I've seen the Republican Party be stupid before and shunt money to the wrong races. Instead of sending funds to races where the margin was thin, they wasted the money on campaigns where the GOP candidate's winning was a sure thing. Second, it's troubling because I know the likely reason Paxton is not raising enough money is his checkered past. His home life is a shambles. His political career is stained with alleged corruption. I get it: He's not the candidate our incumbent Senator John Cornyn would've been. Here's the thing, though: Like him or not, Ken Paxton is the Republican candidate for the Texas Senate seat Cornyn is having to vacate, and that means he *has* to win that seat if the Senate is to keep its Republican majority. Republicans who are thinking about not voting or, even worse, voting for Talarico, need to realize what's on the line here: If Democrats take both the House and Senate this year, they will be the ones setting the budget initiatives. We will likely face a government shutdown. Anything requiring a simple majority of the House and Senate will go however the Democrats want it to go. If you're a Republican, that scenario *should* terrify you, especially given the rise of the outright socialists within the Democratic Party. They are not a passing fad. They are that party's future at this point. And America is poised to give them the reins. I don't want that. It might happen, but I don't want it. And what I really don't want is to feel like I could've helped my fellow Republicans keep the Senate and didn't, either because I held my money back altogether or put it in a general fund for Republicans at the top to spend on the wrong races. There are three Republican candidates for Senate whose margins are close enough that I'm willing to send money to their campaigns directly: Ken Paxton (Texas), Susan Collins (Maine), and Mike Rogers (Michigan). I have already made my donations. In the comments below, I will put links to all three campaigns so that any like-minded Republicans can donate as well. Donating directly to a candidate is mostly a new thing for me. I don't have any particular love for any of these three Senate candidates themselves, you must understand. What I care about above all else is that Republicans keep the Senate. We have a chance. Let's not blow it. #Politics #Senate #Texas #Maine #Michigan #Election #Republicans #Donate