*ONLY* liberals raise their eyebrows like that while talking.
Posted on 10/22/2017 9:09:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has become a flashpoint for Republicans running for Senate in 2018.
The Hill asked nearly two-dozen Senate candidates this week if they would support McConnell as leader if elected. Not one campaign said outright that they would support McConnell, although two candidates appear to have expressed support for McConnell in the past.
Several candidates declared their opposition to McConnell and attacked their GOP primary opponents for not taking a stance on the question. Other candidates deflected, or spoke on background about the bind they’re in over the question of McConnell’s leadership. Most candidates were eager to avoid the question entirely, and ignored multiple requests for comment.
The candidate survey underscores the tricky balancing act facing Republican Senate candidates in 2018, which is shaping up to be a proxy war between the party establishment and its grassroots base.
On one side is McConnell and his deep ties to the national party’s donor network, a prized asset for any candidate facing a tough primary. On the other side is Breitbart chairman and former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon, the anti-establishment provocateur with the influential news outlet who is asking candidates to oppose the majority leader. …
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mcConnell, who I defended for quite a long time, is patently a loser (at best) and a DNC-enabler otherwise
he must be retired...ASAP!
There aren’t two dozen RINOs up for re-election next year, so how do they come up with that number? There are eight on the normal re-election path, plus Corker, and maybe, if we’re lucky Cochran and McLame.
You can say the same thing about the voters of Maine (Collins), Alaska (Murkowski), and any number of other states, too.
I don’t recall us ever liking the majority leader...if he was replaced it would just be someone else we eventually wouldn’t like. Him being replaced wouldn’t suddenly cause those 3 Senators to change how they vote on legislation.
Pretend to be reluctant..?
we agree fully about McShame and Lindsay and Murkowski and Collins..
what is intersting however is that Nancy Pelousy managed, as house leader, to get 100 percent Democrappic vote for ZeroCare, whereas McConnell either can’t or won’t try to round up his deranged stray cattle
to vote for republican bills
I do not like communist-style blind voting like under the Pelousy dictatorship in congress, but let’s at least acknowlege that we do have a party system (we were warned against allowing political parties, but USA has done so)...
and that Pelousy succeeded leading her party while McConnell fails on every major significant republican bill
somewhere in all the above, there should be at least a middle ground whereby the R party “leadership” at least manages to get some of the major bills through
the bills most of us voted R to get passed
I do not have a perfect answer. You are correct, Arizona and Alaska and Maine and Lindsay’s Carolina especically have screwed America
we need a really active, well-financed PAC and political movement on the ground to replace these communist-enabler RINOS, ASAP
*ONLY* liberals raise their eyebrows like that while talking.
>> I’m trying to figure out how it’s somehow his fault that the voters of Arizona (for example) send an @sshole like John McCain to Washington <<
Don’t try to be so logical. Not necessary around here.
“I don’t recall us ever liking the majority leader...if he was replaced it would just be someone else we eventually wouldn’t like. Him being replaced wouldn’t suddenly cause those 3 Senators to change how they vote on legislation.”
A good point. We have had a succession of duds as majority and minority leaders: McConnell, Bill Frist, Trent Lott. But they are the result of the Republican senators we elect and keep reelecting.
However, consevatives have started doing battle with the centrist, big government Repugs the last few cycles and have made a little headway. That is why McConnell and the Chamber of Corruption are going all in in the primaries now.
Maybe with the. Senate Conservatives Fund, Breitbart, Bannon, and various tea party groups we are on the verge of seeing some big change.
If a number of conservative senators are elected next year the milquetoast Republican senators will be paniced enough to ditch Mitch, though they’ll still form the majority of the Senate Republican caucus.
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