Given your attitude, your name is so incredibly appropriate. If you like symbolism and care little about substance, McConnell at all costs.
If the Republic has any hope at all, we will have a majority without McConnell, because a majority with him is darn near meaningless.
Get me a path to 51 without Kentucky. And also put South Carolina in the Dem column with Lindsay Graham by your same definition.
The fight is over. McConnell is a RINO, but he’s better than the alternative — a hard-core liberal. Then fight within the caucus to make sure he does not ascend to Majority Leader.
Unfortunately, control of the Senate is going to have to include the likes of McConnell, Lindsay and McCain. It is what it is. It’s way better to be able to set the agenda and have the entirety of the House in opposition to Obama. I shudder at two more years of Harry Reid.