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McConnell Pledges to Avoid 'Scary' Excesses and 'Strident Stands' of 'Far Right'
Newsbusters ^ | January 5, 2015 | Tim Graham

Posted on 01/05/2015 9:27:44 AM PST by INVAR

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To: pgyanke

You should have read what he said about Conservatives and the Tea Party people during the primary. And yet, like abused wives, Conservatives and Tea Party people voted for him in the general. I suppose that hope springs eternal. And in their defense, they deserve to be pissed on. Or he would not piss on them. It is the old, “if you did not make me, I would not beat the hell out of you”.


41 posted on 01/05/2015 10:59:26 AM PST by sport
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To: INVAR

Grimes would have been less damaging to Conservatives than McConnell will be.

I was right there with you, FRiend. How I wish Kentucky would have made a statement by writing in Bevin, even if it meant Grimes was victorious. If only Kentucky's collective spine were made of sterner stuff, we could have acquired the Senate without McConnell ... a double victory.


42 posted on 01/05/2015 10:59:32 AM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: so_real

It’s always all about the money.

That is all the voters out here seem to care about. Whomever they think is going to feather their nests best, or because it is who their daddy voted for.

I voted third party and silently hoped there would be enough write-ins and third party votes from Conservatives that Grimes would win. But alas, flocking to a perceived ‘winner’ is human nature, and graft along with basking in the glow of rulers trumps principles that our people sadly, are grown ignorant of.


43 posted on 01/05/2015 11:16:17 AM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: INVAR

Who da boy make his “pledge” too? The “DemocRAT” wing of the Communist Party USA? LGBT? The activist Feral “judges”? SEIU? The Illegal Alien Invaders? Who?


44 posted on 01/05/2015 11:18:02 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Obama! You didn't build this economy! Somebody else built it!)
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To: INVAR

Those KY moderates have him in their pockiet.


45 posted on 01/05/2015 11:25:05 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Obviously, his pledge is to the Oligarchy and the Fundamental Transformation for which it stands.


46 posted on 01/05/2015 11:50:47 AM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: snowrip

McC originally called himself a “John Sherman Cooper Republican”, which is barely to the right of the late Edward Brooke.


47 posted on 01/05/2015 12:11:04 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: INVAR

And this is why Reid would be better off as being the majority leader cause with Mcconnel we will witness the GOP pushed further left.

All those who wanted Reid gone don’t bother whining about Mcconnel as you knew he was no better.


48 posted on 01/05/2015 12:31:56 PM PST by RginTN
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To: EternalHope
So... Time for a new party. Even if it means the Democrats “win” (no one could tell the difference anyway).

Here, here I agree.

I am done with them. As long as we stay in the tent we play be their rules and if they start to loose they will just simply change the rules.

Time to make a clean break like UKIP. We can take 50% of the GOP with us and 60% of the Independents who are nothing but pissed off former republicans anyway. Then we will see who the remaining thespians in the GOP want to show their backsids to. I am guessing they will go with the dems. So be it.

49 posted on 01/05/2015 12:39:55 PM PST by usurper (Liberals GET OFF MY LAWN)
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To: INVAR

Mitch “Newspeak” McConnell strikes again!

“Scary Excess” = Demanding that our federal government LIMIT itself to the specific power granted it by the Constitution.

“Strident Stands” = Refusing to stand silent while one’s individual rights are trampled.

“Far Right” = A group of people who believe that the Constitution of the United States is the greatest contract between a People and a government ever devised, and that said contract should be followed by BOTH parties thereto.


50 posted on 01/05/2015 12:53:03 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Unless, of course, he is actually on their side.


51 posted on 01/05/2015 12:54:32 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I’ll bet there are just many conservatives who are proud of who they voted for as there are liberals. They simply never learn. They’re no different from a liberal who bitches about everything the democrat party does then keeps voting for them.


52 posted on 01/05/2015 12:55:41 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy.)
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To: RginTN

The GOP has simply yanked the faux mask off to reveal that it is NOTHING BUT a part of the Leftist Oligarchy.

McConnell vowed to destroy Conservatives and has repeatedly sought to ‘redefine it’. We are ‘scary’ and ‘extremist’, which is why we need to be ‘crushed’ and ‘punched in the nose’.

Conservatism would have been better off with Reid still in charge, but perhaps this will wake some die-hard Loyalists up to the fact that Conservatives no longer have any representation in DC and need to go Guerrilla if our ideology is to survive.

it is already being rendered politically and culturally irrelevant by the GOP leadership no less.


53 posted on 01/05/2015 12:55:45 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: INVAR

And .. the “SCARY” they’re talking about is:

TA DA ....................Ted Cruz!!

I can hardly wait to see what they try to do to silence him.


54 posted on 01/05/2015 2:25:32 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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To: INVAR

Fock McTurd-le. The RINO has to go.


55 posted on 01/05/2015 3:02:39 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: INVAR

I hope Mitch enjoys being in the minority party again in 2016.


56 posted on 01/05/2015 3:06:51 PM PST by Fledermaus (RINO FReepers are delusional and come January 2015 will take it up the *** again when the GOPe caves)
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To: Fledermaus

He will, it’s what he lives for. No authority. no consequences, loud mouth fake posturing, re-election. Mitch is worthless and now everyone will see the republican party is not a conservative, small government political party.


57 posted on 01/05/2015 3:28:02 PM PST by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd (PBUH---Pigblood be upon him))
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To: Fledermaus

The GOP arm of the Oligarchy has no desire to be in the lead. They are content to simply enable the Fundamental Transformation Obama is bringing and funnel big Corporate cronyism into their coffers so they can remain in power and enjoy the Big DC Cocktail and Dinner Party circuit.


58 posted on 01/05/2015 3:32:08 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: INVAR
That the leadership in the GOP hates Conservatives more than Democrat Leftists do is becoming more self-evident.

It's because they threaten their majority, their power, their kickbacks, their open go-along-to-get-along deals, ability to make backdoor deals, fundraising, accountability, invitations to parties, reputation with media, other legislators not only federal, but their own state as well, and other countries abroad; and real Conservatives threaten their jobs.

Did I miss anything?

59 posted on 01/05/2015 5:41:42 PM PST by wastedyears (I may be stupid, but at least I'm not Darwin Awards stupid.)
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To: napscoordinator
They were saying that the Baby Boomers were going to pass on 58 trillion dollars to their heirs. They were saying that if they could get 18 trillion from that money, we could become debt free. They are trying to figure a way to do that. It would help the entire country according to them. It would still allow 40 trillion to be passed on which would be still a nice number. lol.

What monumental idiot had to give themself a lobotomy in order to wrack their brain to make that kind of statement?

60 posted on 01/05/2015 6:37:43 PM PST by wastedyears (I may be stupid, but at least I'm not Darwin Awards stupid.)
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