Posted on 10/17/2014 11:04:33 AM PDT by sunmars
Seventy-six percent (76%) of Kentucky voters say they have already made up their minds how they are going to vote, and McConnell leads 55% to 45% among these voters. Among the 24% who still could change their minds, the candidates are tied at 41% apiece, with 17% opting for a third-party candidate or undecided.
Among the 84% of Kentucky voters who say they will definitely vote in this contest, McConnell leads 53% to 44%.
Grimes has the support of 73% of Kentucky Democrats and 16% of the state’s Republicans. McConnell earns 83% backing from his fellow Republicans and 24% of the vote from Democrats. He also has a 21-point lead among voters not affiliated with either of the major parties.
ANY Republican that can help Republicans control the Senate if a conservative President is elected in 2016 is of value. A conservative President with vision, a mandate AND a Republican controlled congress is the only hope for real change in the near future. McConnell will carry the water for such a President.
You're like a black welfare recipient blaming racism for everything and accomplishing nothing but making others feel around you feel miserable.
You have no political strategy. Why not just stop following politics and start planning the second civil war?
At the very least, they'd reverse anything polls were telling them is unpopular.
Your pessimism is revolting and undermines anything conservatives can hope to accomplish.
Not if conservatives can stop eating their own and nominate and elect a conservative President that will set the political agenda. McConnell will carry the water for the President under that scenario.
But, any conservative elected is going to need a Republican majority in the Senate to get things done.
It's up to the newly elected conservatives and ones already there to stop them from doing so. The Republican party is moving to the right regardless of McConnell or Boehner.
And you’re the reason that we have leaders like Mr. Obama and Mr. Reid. Enjoy wallowing in your delusions. If you think that Ronald Reagan would have every behaved like you, you are beyond help.
Ronald Reagan would be celebrating. Of that you can be certain.
Nonetheless he VASTLY preferable to his liberal Dem opponent.
Last I checked McConnell is....
pro-life
pro-Second Amendment
pro-traditional marriage
pro-coal
pro-oil
pro-nuclear
pro-drilling
pro-Keystone
pro-business
pro-defense
In addition, he voted against....
1) Obamacare
2) The Porkulus
3) Dodd-Frankenstein
4) Crap and Trade
5) Harry Reid
6) BHO’s SCOTUS appointments.
Is he perfect? Of course not. No one is. Ronald Reagan would be called a RINO by some people around here. There is no satisfying purists. Nothing in life is perfect, least of all politics. We have to work with what we have.
I admit I've done that a couple of times in my voting history. And I expect I'll do it on occasion in the future. The GOP does not own me.
It's quite another thing to go off on tirades about how Sen. Roberts is a leftist tool, or how Mitch McConnell is worse than Obama. Clear signs that the tinfoil is impeding brain activity, IMO.
Some people were attacking him. He doesn’t have the right to fight back?
George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan also supported various forms of amnesty too.
But I would still enthusiastically support them over their opponents.
TBEL: “Last I checked, McConnell had a lifetime ACU rating of 96%.
You never can trust the ACU rating anymore. “
And what is the conservative rating of McConnell’s Dem opponent AND the Dems in the Senate?
THAT is the choice — as a “conservative” — do you want a Republican or a Dem controlled Senate? Do you want to keep Harry Reid as Majority Leader or not?
The reason I put “conservative” in quotes, is because anyone claiming to be a conservative, criticizing Republicans but wishing for a Dem win is hardly a genuine conservative.
Top 10 Bad Votes by Mitch McConnell
1. McConnell Voted to Let Harry Reid Fund ObamaCare (2013, RCV 206) Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted to end debate and allow Senate Democrats to re-insert funding for ObamaCare into the Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government. Although McConnell did vote against the final bill, he and all Republicans knew that voting for cloture to end debate would allow Senator Harry Reid to fund ObamaCare by a party-line vote, and thus a vote for cloture was a de facto vote to fund ObamaCare.
2. McConnell Voted for the Fiscal Cliff Tax Hike (2012, RCV 251) The fiscal cliff was a fake crisis created by Congress and the president. In which President Obama threatened to shut the government down if Republicans refused to massively raise taxes. In response, Senator McConnell personally negotiated with Vice President Biden and produced a New Year’s Day 2013 fiscal cliff deal that raised payroll taxes on 77 percent of U.S. households and contained no real spending cuts.
3. McConnell Voted for the Ineffective “Super Committee” Debt Hike (2011, RCV 123) During the 2011 debt ceiling impasse, McConnell came up with the idea of allowing President Obama to increase the debt limit three times in exchange for allowing Congress a symbolic vote of disapproval each time. McConnell’s idea carried the day and he voted to pass the Budget Control Act, which allowed over $2 trillion in new debt. In return, taxpayers got stuck with the “super-committee”, which failed to come up with any agreement on targeted spending cuts and gave us the across-the-board sequestration cuts instead.
4. McConnell Voted for the Wall Street Bailout (T.A.R.P.) (2008, RCV 213) Senator McConnell voted for the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. Taxpayers should never have been forced to pay for the reckless lending practices of the big banks. McConnell took credit for being a major part of negotiating the bailout, and called the passage of T.A.R.P. “the Senate at its finest.”
5. McConnell Voted to Bail Out the Housing Market (2008, RCV 186) Senator McConnell also voted to bail out the government-sponsored mortgage lending companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The risky lending activities of these organizations were a major factor in creating the housing bubble that led to the financial collapse of 2008, yet McConnell and the Senate voted to allow Fannie and Freddie to borrow up to $300 billion of the taxpayers’ money.
6. McConnell Voted to Increase the Federal Minimum Wage (2007, RCV 42) Senator McConnell voted for the Fair Minimum Wage Act that increased the federal minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to $7.25 per hour in 2007. Raising the minimum wage is a bad idea because it reduces employment especially among low-skilled workers. The cost of raising the minimum wage is passed onto consumers in the form of higher prices for goods and services.
7. McConnell Voted to Give the Government Unprecedented Surveillance Powers (2006, RCV 25) In spite of warnings by 4th Amendment and privacy advocates, Senator McConnell voted to make most of the USA-PATRIOT Act’s provisions permanent in 2006. He also voted for the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which granted immunity to U.S. telecommunication companies for giving information about their customers to the government without a warrant (2008, RCV 168). Together, the “Patriot Act” and the FISA Amendments Act authorized unprecedented surveillance powers that have been used by the FISA courts to allow bulk data collection on U.S. citizens without a warrant. Yet McConnell called the Patriot Act “one of the most important and overdue pieces of legislation in a generation”, and declared that perhaps “it did not go far enough”.
8. McConnell Voted against Eliminating the Federal Ethanol Mandate (2005, RCV 138) Senator McConnell voted to table an amendment that would have eliminated the federal mandate that forced ethanol to be blended into the fuel supply. The ethanol mandate is a market-distorting disaster that has increased the cost of gasoline, while environmentalist groups admit that it is actually bad for the environment (not to mention your car).
9. McConnell Voted for Massive New Energy Subsidies and Regulations (2007, RCV 430) Senator McConnell voted for final passage on an omnibus energy bill that created massive new subsidies for green energy development, while also tightening environmental regulations in some areas. The bill massively tightened fuel mileage requirements for passenger vehicles and created a new renewable fuels standard, both of which have increased the cost of both cars and fuel. Also, this is the bill that started the infamous phase-out of incandescent light bulbs.
10. McConnell Voted for Medicare Part D (2003, RCV 457) Senator McConnell voted to pass Medicare Part D, a massive entitlement expansion that conservatives rightly predicted would tremendously expand the deficit and add trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities to the federal rolls.
And how did Harry Reid vote — do you want him to continue to be Majority Leader?
But we have a number of folks here who think it's best that they spend all day kicking people out of the tent.....kick!! kick!! kick!!....until lo and behold, there are only two of them left and they start eyeing each other suspiciously.
No wonder this site does not have anything like the political clout it used to.
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