Posted on 05/29/2016 5:59:22 AM PDT by cotton1706
WASHINGTON — There’s no love lost for outside conservative groups in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s new memoir that hits bookshelves this week.
The Kentucky Republican, always a political strategist, makes the case in “The Long Game” that he could have ascended to majority leader earlier if not for forces like the Senate Conservatives Fund.
“As more dollars from patriotic Americans rolled in, SCF staff would direct those resources exclusively toward campaigning against the most electable Republicans from the comfort of their townhome on Capitol Hill,” McConnell writes, according to excerpts posted by Google Books.
“[R]eminiscent of what happened in 2010 in Delaware, Colorado and Nevada, thanks to groups like SCF, we threw away two seats with unelectable candidates, this time in Missouri and Indiana,” McConnell says of what played out in 2012, when Republicans ended up nominating Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, respectively.
The SCF endorsed Matt Bevin for Senate over McConnell in his 2014 re-election bid. Bevin had a second act, as is often the case in Kentucky, and he is now the governor of the commonwealth.
(Excerpt) Read more at fredericknewspost.com ...
And therein lies the cause of Mitch's open and vicious attitude towards conservatives! They thwarted HIS ascent to power!!
Especially after 2010, Mitch wanted to be Majority Leader, he ceded lots of power to Harry Reid in the Majority Leader position because he thought he would capture the position in 2012. They nominated a slew of "electable" senate candidates, and of course they had Mitt Romney at the top of the ticket, for they had succeeded in preventing a conservative nominee and got their "electable" candidate.
But millions of conservatives stayed home in 2010, taking down not only Romney, but also the slew of senate candidates.
And Mitch was out for blood and vengeance. He vowed to "crush" conservatives in 2014. And he did. And then as Majority Leader in 2015 he teamed up with his buddies the democrats to pass ANYTHING conservatives were against, and thwarted EVERYTHING the conservatives were for.
Mitch McConnell is very vindictive and bitter man!
I’m sure that one will be flying off the shelves! /s
Again, this is one of the hundred reasons why most people are negative about Washington insiders and their methods of running the nation. The memoir only proves why people are ashamed of the party apparatus.
The memoir only proves why people are ashamed of the party apparatus.
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The GOP is a club, and we’re not in it.
They work for their own interests, not ours.
They only want our votes and our money, not our principles or convictions.
it’s more likely that there will be flies sitting on them.
Trump will use the bully pulpit quite effectively. Both houses will remember that their polling numbers are almost single digit.
Both houses will remember that their polling numbers are almost single digit.
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McConnell has an 11% approval rating. I hope the people of Kentucky are aware of that.
Just spent a day on the infield at the Kentucky Derby.
If the drunks there were any indication of Kentucky voters then the world may be in trouble.
Mitch will be leaning on his wealthy donors for bulk sales of this turkey.
It may not be a valid statistical sample or a true indication, but it is nonetheless disturbing anecdotal evidence. ;)
just saying!
Romney was at the top of the ticket in 2012, not 2010.
Mitch is probably why Lois Lerner still gets a government check and not wearing orange jumpsuit.
A wimp of a man. Facial features say all one needs to know. That’s just the first level, to go deeper one needs waders.
Mitch and Paul are treasonous traitors
I agree.
McConnell is part of the problem
>Both houses will remember that their polling numbers are almost single digit.
Why? Will that change their paycheck/bennies? What do they care about the opinion of The People?
>McConnell has an 11% approval rating. I hope the people of Kentucky are aware of that.
11% in KY? I’d doubt that. He steers enough taxpayer plunder to make re-election a shoe-in. The voting public is ignorant, voluntarily so, rigged by the same State/D.C. cabals; and most would retort, “It’s the OTHER politicians that are bad, *mine* is fine.”
11% in KY? I’d doubt that.
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National poll. I should have said that. But you’re right, the people of Kentucky probably don’t care about appeasement, capitulation, and reckless spending as long as they get theirs.
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