Even though I don’t respect McConnell, I would vote for him. We need to GAIN Senate seats, not lose them because of a hissy-fit. We need the MAJORITY in the Senate. NOW!
Incorrect question. It should be- “Did Mitch McConnell doom his campaign by alienating his base?”
Sounds like a reverse Sarvis Effect. Ask anyone in Virginia about a “libertarian” candidate, who just happened to be funded by Democrats, who managed to throw the 2013 Gubernatorial Race to Terry McAwful.
And it’s apparently happening again, Sarvis is running in the Senate race, Warner vs. Gillespie. . .
McConnell IS A DEMOCRAT, defends their tyranny
and attacks conservatives.
It is the Romney-McConnell way.
VOTE THEM OUT.
Dear Fellow Conservatives in Kentucky,
If you like having Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader, than by all means, make your point about Mitch McConnell being a wimpy RINO (no argument there) and either stay at home or vote for a third party candidate who has. no chance of winning.
I think the TEA PARTY will just sit out this Kentucky election. Since the ENTRENCHED REPUBLICAN PARTY is at war with the TEA PARTY, two can play the same game. I think the TEA PARTY has realized that there is no difference in electing a (DEMOCRAT LITE) republican or a democrat. Maybe it’ll teach these PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICANS that we are very, very tired of them, and we want CONSERVATIVES on the ballot, or we won’t play.
I know I’m staying home in November. Makes no diff who controls the house or senate. They all suck. Let the branches and houses collapse under their own weight and then rebuild from there.
I'd love to think so, but like Mississippi, the fix is in. The only way to make effective progress with the entrenched establishment will be with TERM LIMITS.
The Tea Party is not going to sink Mitch. Mitch is going to sink Mitch.
Those polls showing that even a brain-dead Ashley Judd would have given him a run for his money were for real.
The thing that’s really becoming funny in this race is how Grimes and her campaign are cynically playing to every bad redneck stereotype in order to swing disaffected Conservatives over to her. Which is the same as that used to “win” Cochrane the runoff in Mississippi.
Grimes is completely over the top in support of coal. There’s that picture of her, that her campaign is actively distubuting, of her at a gun range wearing a tight tank top and jeans while aiming a scoped rifle. Now one of her surrogates is getting press for going after McConnell for having an Asian wife.
McConnell deserves a lot of cr-p for his behavior, but Grimes is really crossing some thresholds in acting contemptuous if her own voters.
How utterly stupid does a politician have to be to publicly declare war on the largest, most politically active group of voters in his party?
I damn sure hope so.
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Nothing else."~Epictetus
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We need to figure out with some confidence how many seats we are likely to win, and how many we can strategically lose and still hold the Senate.
We came close to winning the Senate in 2012, but all the Senate races collapsed after the convention. I blame McConnell's failure of leadership for the 2012 Senate losses. He failed to make retaking the Senate a national issue. He failed to get out in front of the news and make the news.
We may never retake the Senate because of McConnell, not due to a McConnell loss.
-PJ
