Yes.
Some people seem to think that if McConnell loses to the rat then Cruz or Sessions or some other “true conservative” will then be the leader and all will be right with the world.
More than likely it would be Cornyn, maybe as the minority and not majority leader. That sound like a good idea to anyone?
And indeed even if a Ted Cruz or a Jeff Sessions became leader, how long before that role makes some people see him as “RINO scum”. Best recipe for making Ted Cruz the most hated man around here? Make him the leader. I think you gotta go back to Ev Dirksen to find a Senate leader that anyone remembers fondly. Nature of the job unfortunately makes them compromise too much.
Look at Eric Cantor, he was very well liked by conservatives. Now he’s LOATHED by some to the point that people are wasting their time promoting a desultory challenger to him.
One thing is certain, electing some commie witch to a 6 year Senate term to replace someone who’s voted 90% Conservative would be a major step in the wrong direction.
Everyone knew it was a foregone conclusion that McConnell would win easily after Bevin self-destructed by talking to a bloodsport group. He was a long shot to begin with, and that story put the final nail in the coffin. Every poll showed McConnell was leading by double digits. If anything, the results on election night showed Bevin did BETTER than most people expected, because he was expected to get crushed. Anyone who thinks this election was "stolen" with vote fraud is delusional. I can't believe the number of Bevin fanboys here who are "shocked" that McConnell won. News flash: Bevin losing easily is as much "news" as updates about the new Godzilla movie revealing that Godzilla breathes fire and knocks down buildings. Bevin got his butt kicked because he was a piss poor candidate, his fan club here needs to get over it.
I'm no McConnell fan (I wasn't even a McConnell fan back when it was "popular" around here and the same people calling him evil RINO were worshiping him as the great conservative champion taking on the eeeeeeeeeevil John McCain over campaign finance reform). He is what he is: a status quo Republican in Washington who usually votes the right way but is a don't-rock-the-boat kind of guy. If some freepers think it would be better served by having his lose to a hardcore marxist RAT, knock yourselves out. I doubt you'll get your wish but we're still suffering from the "conservatives" who were content to let Al Franken win to "teach Norm Coleman a lesson" about not being a perfect conservative.
I have a DIABLO (Democrat In All But Label Only) Senator who really is a "progressive socialist" and so liberal that he calls himself a "Republican" but supports partial birth abortion, gay marriage, and Dick Durbin's re-election, so spare me the hyperbole about how McConnell is in that category. If you really think that's the case, I will GLADLY trade my Obama loving liberal DIABLO for McConnell since there's "no difference" (and again, ironically, a bunch of freepers were begging me to vote for the far-left abortion loving socialist because "we need a majority").
We're used to calling liberals crybabies because they scream about how it was "STOLEN!!" every time they lose an election and didn't get their way. Sadly it seems some "Tea Party" have the same attitude. "Nobody liked my candidate!!! WAHHHHHHHHHH!!!NOT FAIR!!! VOTE FRAUD!!! THE OTHER GUY IS ILLEGITIMATE AND STOLE IT!!!!!!!"
Pathetic.