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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

McConnell didn’t need to vote for those things because he knew the democrats would pass them anyways.

Where McConnell reveals his true colors is in the cloture votes. He always votes for cloture and carries a contingent of paid off GOP establishment senators with him. Then he votes no so he can tell the folks back home how conservative he is.

Ted Cruz exposed this cloture hypocrisy in McConnell, Cornyn and many others. And those two hate Cruz for revealing their true natures.

Vote for the GOP Arlen Specters and watch their smoke and mirrors antics while they grow federal government bigger and bigger.

By the way Thad Cochran and Haley Barbour were democrats and are still covert democrats. They are only republicans for convenience just like Mike Bloomberg was a republican for convenience. Now if you want to support these snakes, you can’t call yourself conservative; simple as that.


45 posted on 08/18/2014 11:32:36 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Hostage

With respects to Barbour and Cochran, just about EVERYONE in MS was a registered Dem at one time, at least prior to the 1980s.

McConnell’s voting record is FAR more conservative than that of Arlen Specter.

McConnell DOES in fact vote conservative on just about every policy question imaginable.

1) He is pro-life
2) He supports lower taxes
3) He has voted for the Balanced Budget Amendment
4) He supports the Keystone Pipeline
5) He supports increased drilling, drilling Alaska (ANWR) and offshore drilling.
6) He supports natural gas drilling
7) He supports coal
8) He supports nuclear power
9) He opposed Obamacare
10) He opposed the Porkulus
11) He opposed Dodd-Frank
12) He opposed Cap and Trade
13) He opposed BHO’s Supreme Court Appointments
14) He supports a strong military
15) He supports gun rights
16) He supports spending restraint
17) He supports the death penalty
18) He supports tort reform
19) He supports business in general and reining in unnecessary regulations and overreach by agencies such as the EPA and IRS
20) He opposes same sex marriage

I could go and on.

Is he 100% perfect? Of course not! no one is.

I live in CA and have to put up with likes of Boxer and Feinstein for over 20 years. I would kill to have a US Senator like McConnell over the two far left wing ding bats I am stuck with. It would be great to have someone in there who represents you most of the time as opposed to none of the time.

I used to live in Ohio and there I did some volunteer work for the late Congressman John Ashbrook, one of the most conservative and principled congressmen ever IMHO. For a number of decades, the late Sen. Jesse Helms R-NC was my all time favorite US Senator with a near perfect voting record.

But I also learned to recognize and acknowledge that congressmen and senators of that caliber are few and far between. Hopefully others will arise over time and certainly Ted Cruz has bright future ahead of him.

Fact is McConnell is right on just about every issue I agree with. I think it is nothing short of insanity to sacrifice a GOP Senate seat just because of some tactical and procedural disagreements.

As long as BHO is president, nothing positive will be accomplished from our point of view. BHO will simply veto anything he doesn’t like even if the GOP ends up controlling both houses of Congress this fall. The best we can hope for right now is to keep BHO in check and not pass anything until a new POTUS is elected.


46 posted on 08/18/2014 12:05:15 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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