Posted on 11/18/2022 7:03:32 AM PST by Dr. Franklin
The Turtle, Mitch McConnell, is perhaps the most unpopular American politician in the country at present. Yet, he won the job of Republican Senate leader 37-10 with one abstention. This RINO won, and won big, despite sabotaging Republican chances in AZ and AK, NH, and probably somewhere else that I am missing. How did he do that? Many have noted that the Turtle controls the money for Republican Senate candidates. That is the simple answer. Well, Trump also controls large sums of political money. Trump is more than capable of supporting MAGA Senate candidates, and holding rallies, which may be more useful than McConnell's money.
McConnell has more political support than his poll numbers warrant. So why is McConnell still so powerful while being so unpopular? Could it be that McConnell protects RINOs from Dem election fraud, and that crossing McConnell results in an end to such protection? In a land ruled by massive election fraud, why should anyone think differently?
That’s funny.
Source of power? McConnell is a high-ranking minion of the Uniparty.
PA, GA (pending.)
Did Trump actually spend money on behalf of candidates?
In any case, it is shocking but sadly not surprising that McConnell got re-elected. Other senators are evidently afraid of him.
Don’t forget Lauren Boepert in Colorado. She’s suffering an agonizing, slow loss, just like Cari Lake in Arizona. Unfortunately.
His power is cronyism. He retains his stature while ensuring all of his pals stick around by any means necesary, including looking the other way if folks in his own party get shafted or in certain cases turtle giving them the shaft himself.
Trump’s MAGA, Inc. PAC spent 750,000 on advertising for Hershel Walker
Good. Thanks.
“How did he do that?”
By withholding money. Bolduc in NH was outspent in the Republican primary 20/1. McConnell funded the other guy. Just like two years ago they did the same thing. They funded Corky Messner instead of Bolduc. Messner lost to Shaheen in the general election.
In the general election the Dems outspent Bolduc 40/1. It is hard to get your message out when you are constantly having to defend yourself against the lies being promoted by your opponent.
He is an interim House Speaker until the new Congress elects its new Speaker. When you leave out the word ‘interim’ you join the propagandists touting the ‘win’.
It’s nowhere near that sinister.
McConnell has been at this game a long time, he has greased palms with favors, committee assignments, and earmarks for well over a generation. He also holds a lot of influence in the donor circles, and can steer campaign donations toward or away from anyone he so chooses. His staffers also wield similar influence and as legislative language gets drafted, those staffers decide who gets to influennce what in thaf language.
If you are a senator, you know all of that. You also probably have a few numbers in your head, votes needed in the next election, money needed to be raised for thst next election, money needed to be steered to my state and donors who can make all that easy or hard.
Also as a US senator, you are practically above the law (in that you can write parts of the criminal code to exclude you from punishment when others would be arrested). They see themselves as “above” a lot of the conflicts and partisan whims of the riff raff who elected them. You are one of 100 in a rather exclusive country club. The partiaan divisions are nowhere near as sharp as you believe them to be. McConnell only leaves his role if he croaks, if the other senators see him as a liability to their own futures, or if McConnell chooses to leave.
Yes, and also state governors.
The fraud rigging apparatus is larger than we can imagine.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4106441/posts
There is power to take down candidates or let them through untouched.
It’s the uni party, the 17th Amendment damaged our Republic and now you have the parties with the power and the money along with lobbyists, look what happened in New Hampshire.
In New Hampshire the Demoncrats selected Buldoc knowing he was going to be a little bit too far right for most of New Hampshire via the open primaries which the Republicant party in NH loves... it gives the parties the power.
When it looked like Buldoc wasn’t doing well the Republicant Party pulled his funding, securing the senate seat fir Hassan another communist uniparty hack. If she has a stroke, she will be right in there with Fetterman.. she has a 100% voting record for the party, not NH.
Add in PA, the Republicants run a flawed candidate with no support against a brain damaged communist.. look who really won.. the uniparty in DC.
All proof the 17th Amendment needs to be repealed
It’s time for a Constitutional Convention of States with 2 line items:
1. Repeal the 17th Amendment
2. Eliminate the senior executive service.
Our Founding Father’s were not stupid!
Is the bright spot more rinos showed themselves ??? Also showed how powerless the People are to stop the rinos …… sigh
The difference is Trump doesn’t spend ANY of his own money. He relies on campaign contributions, just like any other politician.
Who would be in a better position to know “things” than the leader of the R branch of the Uniparty? Who would be in a better position to know the wishes of the Chinese?
When I hear hoofbeats I think horses, not zebras. Whoever the GOP sent are leader is would control the bucks. I think the answer supported by the evidence is the the GOP as a group are not aggressive, and not imaginative. They’re also deaf as the the PR effect of their whisking cowardice.With the three “Mc’s”, McConnell and McCarthy have already been rewarded for their failure. Will Ronna McDaniel be likewise? Probably.
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