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The Bloom Is Off The Ruse – Report: McConnell Planning Early Exit Before Term Concludes
cth ^ | 3/4/21 | sundance

Posted on 03/04/2021 4:25:18 PM PST by dontreadthis

The Intercept is reporting on something CTH predicted after the 2020 election, Mitch McConnell is working with Kentucky legislature to plan his departure before the end of his term.

This is not a surprise. McConnell is fully exposed now; people can finally see through his schemes and understand his motives and maneuvers.

(Via The Intercept) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has compiled a short list of successors in his home state of Kentucky, preparing for the possibility that he does not serve out his full term, Kentucky Republicans tell The Intercept.

The list is topped by his protégé, state Attorney General Daniel Cameron, and also includes former United Nations Ambassador Kelly Craft, whose billionaire coal magnate husband is a major McConnell donor, as well as Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams, a former McConnell Scholar.

Under current law, the power to appoint McConnell’s replacement falls to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. But new legislation McConnell is pushing in the Kentucky General Assembly would strip the governor of that power and put it into the hands of the state GOP. (read more)

(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...


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To: colorado tanker

I suspect he’s been harassed daily and constantly from Trumpers in KY. I hope the worst on him. He’s a backstabbing, 2 faced liar. Didn’t attach Trump when he was IN the WH but after the elections, all that vile crap I knew would come back to bite..


21 posted on 03/04/2021 4:45:54 PM PST by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: dontreadthis

There’s something really jarring about this article title.

(The ‘bloom’ has been off of the McConnell ‘rose’ for many years.)


22 posted on 03/04/2021 4:46:41 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: gov_bean_ counter

#18 - oldie but goodie from the O’Jays.


23 posted on 03/04/2021 4:47:25 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Potemkin Joe - Everything about him is fake)
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To: dontreadthis

The Senators that need to be replaced in 2022 are :

Murkowsky, Thune, Hoeven, Blunt, Grassley, Lankford, Lee, Scott and Rubio.

They are ALL globalists like Mitch.


24 posted on 03/04/2021 4:47:32 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: McGavin999

I thought he handled the Breonna Taylor case very well. Did not bow to the mob.


25 posted on 03/04/2021 4:52:03 PM PST by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: theyreallthesame

He is merely negotiating his severance package.


26 posted on 03/04/2021 4:52:50 PM PST by blackdog (Joe Biden, Deep State Cuckold.)
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To: dandiegirl

That Trump karma

He ALWAYS wins


27 posted on 03/04/2021 4:53:21 PM PST by Jolla
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To: Rummyfan
Other than health reasons why would he step down? I don’t believe it....

No power. He's back in the minority. I think McConnell might stick around until the midterms and then retire sometime around 2023.

28 posted on 03/04/2021 4:54:14 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: joshua c

Yes and he was under tremendous pressure too. He was great at the Republican “convention”


29 posted on 03/04/2021 4:55:15 PM PST by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: Rummyfan

that pic of him all black and blue was disturbing


30 posted on 03/04/2021 4:55:30 PM PST by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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To: RummyChick

His exercise routine with Harry Reid didn’t work out very well.


31 posted on 03/04/2021 5:01:20 PM PST by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: dontreadthis

He and Elaine will flee to Beijing before the indictments hit.


32 posted on 03/04/2021 5:03:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The FBI used to go after communists. Now it is run by communists. The American Stasi.)
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To: dontreadthis
Under current law, the power to appoint McConnell’s replacement falls to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. But new legislation McConnell is pushing in the Kentucky General Assembly would strip the governor of that power and put it into the hands of the state GOP.

The Republicans hold a veto-proof majority in Kentucky, so they could override a veto by the Democrat governor. I wonder what the Kentucky constitution says on this issue. I imagine it would be a tough fight in the courts.

33 posted on 03/04/2021 5:08:20 PM PST by Magnatron
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To: dontreadthis

It would be ‘funny’ if Mitch left and Paul Ryan came back into the picture. Paul may think with Trump gone from the top spot, the coast is clear to promote Uber Globalism again.


34 posted on 03/04/2021 5:14:02 PM PST by lee martell
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To: dontreadthis

Go. Quickly. But just go. Curl up and die in some quiet corner. The more quietly and the quicker you just disappear the less public scorn will be heaped upon the sorry memory of an ignorant conceited oblivious traitor. And if you thought you could knife Trump in the back and take over his support base you were utterly shamefully stupid and conceited.

But Go. Now.


35 posted on 03/04/2021 5:20:04 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Rummyfan

“Other than health reasons why would he step down? I don’t believe it...”

He’s 79? years old, been in office for 36 years.
I’d want to retire too.


36 posted on 03/04/2021 5:20:37 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE (CENSORSHIP = VIOLENCE)
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To: READINABLUESTATE
He’s 79? years old, been in office for 36 years. I’d want to retire too.

You and me both but a lot of the Washington types hang on to the bitter end.

37 posted on 03/04/2021 5:22:27 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: dontreadthis

He may as well. He done his dirty work that he was put there for. He can count his blood money and enjoy it. The dirty traitor.


38 posted on 03/04/2021 5:27:52 PM PST by sport
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To: JonPreston

Lol! My wife has one of those on our pool deck. I pretend not to hear it. Haha.


39 posted on 03/04/2021 5:41:44 PM PST by Afterguard (Deplorable me! )
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To: dontreadthis

Load of crap, only an idiot would believe anything these dolts write.


40 posted on 03/04/2021 5:52:16 PM PST by RedStateRocker ("Never miss a good chance to Shut Up" - Will Rogers)
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