Posted on 08/31/2014 10:50:02 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
The re-election campaign of U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has gained momentum in the last month, propelled by huge leads over Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes in Western and Eastern Kentucky and among men, according to a new Bluegrass Poll.
With less than 10 weeks until Election Day, the poll of 569 likely voters shows McConnell with a 4-point lead over Grimes, up from a 2 point margin a month ago. McConnell now leads Grimes 46 percent to 42 percent...
(Excerpt) Read more at kentucky.com ...
That's in the future.
McConnell is just one of 100. But his continuation in office contributes to Republican fortunes, even if he himself is worthless.
Think of the possible outcomes:
Remember, the primary is over. It's too late to turn back the clock and keep Bevin out of the dog ring!
There is no reason in hell I’m voting FOR a tyrant who declared war upon me and my principles and vowed to crush us wherever he found us.
I’m writing in a Conservative and praying McConnell loses.
We’re better off with Grimes in that seat than McConnell, at least we will not have to be continually looking over our shoulder wondering when our so-called leader is going to stab us in the back again and betray us to the enemy behind the scenes.
Anyone remember what Mitch did for Thad Cochran just a little while ago?
Because people won't vote for your liberal republicans anymore.
The GOP-E won a lot of primaries.... let's see how they do in the general election without the votes of conservatives that they attacked.
/johnny
No liberal, especially a republican liberal should be rewarded with votes.
A 4 point lead is very weak for a sitting incumbent.
It's starting to smell like a loss for McConnell.
I hope that liberal does lose. He doesn't do anything to advance a conservative agenda, and does everything to advance Harry Reid's agenda.
/johnny
Going in, you don't know at this time how the 2015 Senate will shape up. Could be Democrat hold, narrow Republican victory, or surprise GOP wave.
If you vote for Grimes or third party or stay home, you are voting for Democrat hold. For Obama's agenda for America. And, remember, Obama is a traitor!
Therefore, your best bet is to hold your nose and vote for McConnell. If it turns out to be a wave, McConnell can be sidelined in due course. But if Republicans stay home, there won't be a wave, and the Won will do his best to cement his "legacy".
No, he's not. He's potentially the Majority Leader.
Harry Reid stays on as Majority Leader, Senator "Half his Age" Grimes caucusing with the D's. Nothing happens in the Senate that could possibly embarrass the Won nor the members with a D after their name.
I guarantee to you that the same will happen with McConnell at the helm. McConnell won't do anything to embarrass Democrats, either.
McConnell replaces Reid. The Senate moves once again, albeit substandardly, due to McConnell's congenital RINO nature.
The first thing McConnell will do is restore minority power in the Senate, handing effective control back to Harry Reid, who knows how to ruthlessly use power. McConnell will behave exactly like Boehner in the House, timid and easily cowered by Democrat huffing and puffing, but being the bully to his own in his own schoolyard.
The Tea Party takes over the Senate. McConnell caucuses Republican but is replaced as Majority Leader. The stage is set for 2016.
Not going to happen. See Mississippi for proof.
If this is going to be a wave year in the Senate, then take McConnell out now. We have the seats to give. Grimes will not be reelected in 2020 in red Kentucky.
-PJ
That's s wrong analysis of the situation.
The objective at this point, the primary being history, is to retake the Senate. Voting for Grimes or for a turd party candidate or not voting helps Grimes and Reid and Obama.
The time to deal with McConnell is January — elect enough Tea Party senators to keep the gavel out of McConnell's hands.
if there is no such thing as right and wrong, then why take a side at all?
That's not my objective at all.
My objective is to politically destroy all liberal republicans and see they never get elected again.
Now is the time to destroy a liberal republican.
If republicans were conservative, perhaps what you say might make some sense, but since republicans are overwhelmingly liberal, the liberal republicans must be politically destroyed.
/johnny
Are there enough still in the running?
Are there enough already in the Senate to make a serious bloc?
Look what McConnell did to Cruz. There are what, maybe three or four more standing with Cruz?
There is no way that enough Republican Senators will form a bloc to oust McConnell from the leadership. The only way to oust him is at home.
-PJ
Those intimidation scare-tactics don’t work on me. I will never again “hold my nose”. That is the reason why we are where we are today; with a Ruling Class UniParty Oligarchy in Washington.
I’m writing in a Conservative, period. Neither Grimes or McConnell deserve, nor will get my sacred vote (if it even matters anymore anyway).
There is a place for principle.
But it doesn't belong in the voting booth if it leads to self-destructive voting. The voting booth is a place to cast a vote coldly calculated to advance a principled agenda as best as possible under the circumstances. It is not a place to throw a principled temper tantrum that leaves you feeling better about yourself but is really just pissing in the wind.
The effect of which is to empower the Democrats and securely entrench the Welfare State and turn the US into North Argentina with an underclass so large that it can't be outvoted.
All because JRF wanted to do the right thing in the voting booth!
The Founding Fathers would be ashamed of you, sir. Lack of principles is why we’re in the mess we’re in today.
But that was whole other time, in which force of arms overcame the Rule of Law for the greater good.
They did, but at the time that was the British Parliament.
The problem was a Parliament that became increasingly intrusive and punitive towards the colonists, especially after depending on those colonists during the French and Indian War, and then taxing them heavily to pay off their war debt.
Kind of like what's happening right now. So why send someone back who has already proven to be punitive towards those he depends upon? He's just going to side with the others who think a bigger government is needed to pay off their accumulated debts.
-PJ
...”Empowering the Democrat party isn’t the answer to fixing the Republican party. Common sense is prevailing.”...
It is hard to imagine the people of KY voting for someone who is against coal and who is an avid Obama supporter. I don’t believe her Daddy’s money can buy that for her.
It would be interesting to know, but probably impossible to find out just how many of these “principled” patriots actually live in and vote in Kentucky. Not enough to effect the outcome of the Senate race I’m betting.
People are sick and tired of Congress for its ineptitude, its hypocrisy and its criminal activities. Yet we continue to elect the same perverts, liars and thieves.
Whose fault is it that we have such a Congress? Look in the mirror.
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