Posted on 02/17/2016 5:14:20 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
GOPe "got the message" with Chris McDaniel, and they pulled out all the stops to keep Thad in office.
IMO, history will show this was a Pyrrhic victory that doomed the GOPe candidates for this presidential cycle. The GOP lost millions like me who are saying "no more." The GOP stands for maintaining their perks and power in DC, not for upholding the Constitution.
IOW, I'm no longer swayed by the argument that, if I don't vote for the eventual nominee, I'm essentially casting a vote for Hillary. I'm still Cruz #1, Trump #2 (though it's getting tougher), and there is no #3.
I held my nose for McCain and Romney, and look where that got me. McConnell flat out lied to us, and proved it by going hard left the day after he was handed the Senate.
As I keep pointing out, the only reason Obama issued those executive orders on clean air and immigration that were subsequently struck down was because Congress refused to pass the legislation he wanted.
McConnell folds.
We knew it was not a matter of ‘would he’. It was only a matter of ‘when would he’.
3 days since his ‘tough’ {snicker} stand earlier.
Is Levin running for President?
Why always deflections to “well, so did...” from Trump supporters? Your whole justification for supporting him is he’s different, yet your only defense seems to be he’s the same.
Defend Trump’s decision to help McConnell.
McConnell will NOT back down. His position in the first place, though he mumbles differently, is Obama gets whatever Obama wants.
Cut and run from their firm belief that Obama gets whatever he wants? or merely from one of the things they have muttered about?
And herein lies one of the worst examples of the hypocrisy of the Trumpettes. Virtually every Trump supporter will blame Cruz for supporting Roberts when he was nominated for SCOTUS, even though there was absolutely no evidence that he would be anything less than a constitutional conservative on the the court, and even though there was NO ONE on the conservative side that was raising any concerns about having him on the court.
However, back in 2014, every conservative already KNEW McConnell was a RINO squish, and McConnell had publicly proclaimed that his goal was to defeat every Tea Party candidate and had been working hard to accomplish that very thing, and Trump was supporting him over Bevin - and the Trumpettes have absolutely no problem with that. Heck, I've seen the Trumpettes blaming Cruz for not doing more to support Chris McDaniel in Mississippi as vice chair of the NRSC (ignoring what he did to support McDaniel as part of the Senate Conservatives Fund), and ignoring the fact that Trump was supporting McConnell who was instrumental in defeating McDaniel!
THey haven’t denied that man in the hut anything else up until now, why in the world would we expect them to start opposing him now? It’s a one party state right now.
I don’t think so. Harry Reid’s staffer is dreaming. Thre is no way Mitch and the boys are going to let a SCOTUS appointment get away. They may play the hearings game to run out the clock.
In the Winter of 2014 Cruz and Paul cut a deal with McConnell that they would not oppose incumbent Republicans in exchange for McConnell not opposing their run for President. Cruz was added as a vice chair of the NRSC. Cruz raised money for the NRSC and either supported or stayed quiet on all the Senate races including Bevin vs McConnell.
That is fact.
Yes Cruz in the Spring of 2015 found out how much he could trust McConnel and called him out. Too little too late. Dis his calling McConnell out have any effect? None except to help awaken some the grassroots.
It’s what Vichy collaborators do...
First time I ever heard of bending over referred to as backing down. Of course McConman will do what his party desires, he is nothing if not a loyal democrat.
McConnell fears the stuff Barky has blackmailed him with more than he fears pitchforks and tar.
I just knew that McConnell’s tough talk about not holding hearings or confirming Obama SCOTUS nominees was just bluff.
Didn’t Mark Levin support McConnell in his run against Bevin?
No, he did not.
True, but he didn’t make good on his empty threat that he’s “this close to leaving the Republican party”; he rejected arguments from callers who suggested voting for McConnell’s Democrat opponent in the general. This, when we (and he) already knew what McConnell was.
McConnell can’t be bargained or reasoned with. He needed to be taken out, and to do that, you go full scorched Earth. So, the Senate is short one Republican. Having that one vote hasn’t helped us at all. You wait for the next election to replace the Democrat. Republicans win over and over in Kentucky, so it shouldn’t be hard.
It’s what he would do, and what he did in Mississippi. He didn’t care if a Republican lost his seat due to his actions, he just wanted to exercise and maintain his hold on power. Did he show any gratitude for being able to move from Minority Leader to Majority Leader thanks to the Tea Party? Did he learn anything from his time in the minority? No and no.
Until Republican voters in Kentucky understand that this is what has to be done, and do it, all our threats (and all Mark Levin’s threats) are meaningless.
“Why would you imagine he would do anything other than what McConnell does?”
He wouldn’t have been the Majority Leader if elected, someone else would have been. So by that mere fact, he would have been an in improvement; not to mention that it would have put the new ML on notice.
I don’t think so. Harry Reid’s staffer is dreaming. Thre is no way Mitch and the boys are going to let a SCOTUS appointment get away. They may play the hearings game to run out the clock.
If it gets to hearings it’s over. The kenyan will win. A couple GOPers will flip on the committee. Then McConnell will hold a vote.
Really, I doubt McConnell minds a liberal Obama SCOTUS. It takes the heat of Congress. He a no principle careerist and might even prefer a liberal SCOTUS.
My guess is that as soon as Trump wraps up the GOP nomination he will start putting the pressure on Mitt to block Barry’s nomination. I know I would.
Point conceded!! LOL he would be the junior senator on the worst, lowest committees....that said, he is doing lots of wonderful pro-life stuff here in Kentucky but with 1.3 million out of 4 million on Beshear’s “Expanded Medicaid” and a pension fund only funded at 17 percent, you would think the business brain would be able to stimulate the economy with ONE tax cut and he couldn’t come up with one!!!
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