Posted on 08/14/2017 1:39:50 PM PDT by cotton1706
In the last seven years, there hasnt been one ultimately successful conservative primary challenger to an incumbent Republican Senator.
The last successful challenger to an incumbent liberal Senate Republican was Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah. That was in 2010, and Lee won at a nominating convention, rather than a traditional primary election. In 2012, Richard Mourdock defeated incumbent Senator Dick Lugar, R-Ind., in the primary, but he went on to lose the general election.
Dissatisfaction with Congress remains at an all-time high among Republicans, with only 16 percent of Republican voters approving of the performance of lawmakers on Capitol Hill. It is not unreasonable to hazard a guess that the failure of Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to lead the GOP conference to passing President Trumps agenda plays a part in that dissatisfaction.
Seven years is a remarkable amount of time to make constant promises, only to break them when it counted. Thats exactly what Republicans under McConnells leadership did with their campaign pledges to repeal Obamacare, all of which amounted to nothing. Yet McConnell continually backs candidates for the U.S. Senate who are hostile to conservative principles in the GOP.
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ROY MOORE, LEAVE MO IN THE HOUSE. GET RID OF ESTABLISHMENT APPOINTED STRANGE. JUDGE MOORE IS VERY CONSERVATIVE, CONSTITUTIONAL, PRO LIFE, GOD, GUN. AND SUBORN ENOUGH TO STICK TO HIS PRINCIPALS, HE DOES NOT CAVE IN.
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