Posted on 05/15/2026 4:38:49 PM PDT by cotton1706
After Mike Lee defeated Bob Bennett in Utah in 2010 and then Richard Lugar was defeated in 2012, Mitch McConnell was pissed.
He thereafter ensured that EVERY Republican incumbent, no matter how awful, was to be protected from removal by fellow Republican.
McConnell and the NRSC would choose which Republicans sat in the Senate, not the infernal people.
Republican senators could either leave the Senate on their own, or be defeated by a Democrat. Those were the ONLY two options.
For fourteen years, in cycle after cycle, not a single Republican incumbent has been defeated in a primary.
This month however...
With Mitch McConnell now a doddering vegetable, incumbent awful Senators Cassidy and Cornyn are expected to lose their primaries and be REMOVED from the US Senate bodily.
It begins tomorrow.
“ I still shake my head that in the 2018 Texas Senate race, Beto won with native Texans 51-48%, while Cruz won with transplant Texans 57-42%.”
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Correction: Cruz won with voters who had chosen to be Texans 57-42%.
And after losing, in typical GOPe fashion, sat on their hands and did nothing to help Richard Mourdock (sp) and actually in many cases helped Democrat Joe Donnelly
Hard to move forward when your own side refuses to engage or shivs you in the back
Cornyn’s name will soon be on that list ... unless his political machine arranges an unfortunate ‘accident’ for Paxton.
Yep, it was a time of really bad blood. The GOPe wasn’t letting go of their grip.
In Indiana it has always been pretty red, but the RINOs hold a tight grip. That is probably what has helped get democrats into some key positions.
Last fall, I was driving thru Carmel, Indiana with my son. I had to laugh because in one of their opulent town squares there were a bunch of rich loons and a some high schoolers with fancy signs protesting ICE. I laughed because the only contact these people have are the housekeepers and yard crews in their heavily gated areas. None of them have a clue, and couldn’t care less, what the influx of illegals has done to people in poorer areas.
Most of the Carmelites play the virtue signaling game to make themselves feel better for championing the cause of the poor illegals. And well, also because they pay them to do their dirty work. LOL
So true even before he was officially.
“Mitch McConnell now a doddering vegetable”
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