Oh my!
Posted on 12/21/2015 2:13:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In his 2014 re-election, Mitch McConnell wasn't running on his personality, nor was he trying to make the case he was the most homespun Kentucky senator there ever was. On the campaign trail, everything McConnell said and did came down to one essential truth: a vote for Mitch McConnell was a vote for a Republican Senate majority.
Now, however a volatile and unpredictable presidential cycle could throw that majority into jeopardy and all of the building blocks McConnell's been laying through his three-decade career could fall apart if a bombastic or unpredictable GOP presidential candidate -- Donald Trump? Ted Cruz? -- wins the nomination and threatens his carefully-crafted majority.
"McConnell could orchestrate the perfect Senate race, but if the Republican presidential candidacy is a bust all of those candidacies could be washed away," said Kyle Kondik, an expert on congressional elections with the University of Virginia. "It would be interesting that here you have a man of the party establishment who played by the rules and at the time of what could be his ultimate triumph, the party establishment is thrown aside and all his work could be undone."(continued)
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I think there may not be enough time to have an impact in the primaries for the 2016 election year. If Trump indeed gets elected, he could have a bigger impact in the 2018 election year.
I was not aware that he HAD a personality, ever. See, you do learn something new every day.
True, but I think he’ll immediately put the fear of God into the RINOs in congress.
I think what they fear more is that a Trump-enthused public will sweep some of the McConnell voting moderates out of the senate in primaries.
For just look at these records:
Lee (UT) - 2016 - 99% (Average) - 100% (CReview) - 100% (Heritage) - 97% (CFG) - 100% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Paul (KY) - 2016 - 94% (Average) - 93% (CReview) - 87% (Heritage) - 95% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Crapo (ID) - 2016 - 88% (Average) - 76% (CReview) - 88% (Heritage) - 85% (CFG) - 92% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Rubio (FL) - 2016 - 88% (Average) - 80% (CReview) - 92% (Heritage) - 92% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 80% (FreedomWorks)
Lankford (OK) - 2016 - 86% (Average) - 60% (CReview) - 76% (Heritage) - 100% (CFG) - 94% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Shelby (AL) - 2016 - 86% (Average) - 66% (CReview) - 99% (Heritage) - 76% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Scott (SC) - 2016 - 85% (Average) - 85% (CReview) - 73% (Heritage) - 90% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Vitter (LA) - 2016 - 80% (Average) - 71% (CReview) - 83% (Heritage) - 60% (CFG) - 86% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Grassley (IA) - 2016 - 80% (Average) - 72% (CReview) - 63% (Heritage) - 91% (CFG) - 92% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Johnson (WI) - 2016 - 78% (Average) - 67% (CReview) - 47% (Heritage) - 95% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Barrasso (WY) - 2016 - 77% (Average) - 61% (CReview) - 70% (Heritage) - 71% (CFG) - 84% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Toomey (PA) - 2016 - 75% (Average) - 63% (CReview) - 59% (Heritage) - 86% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 80% (FreedomWorks)
Boozman (AR) - 2016 - 74% (Average) - 50% (CReview) - 76% (Heritage) - 65% (CFG) - 79% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Moran (KS) - 2016 - 72% (Average) - 62% (CReview) - 69% (Heritage) - 69% (CFG) - 75% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
McCain (AZ) - 2016 - 68% (Average) - 43% (CReview) - 53% (Heritage) - 88% (CFG) - 91% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
Coats (IN) - 2016 - 63% (Average) - 48% (CReview) - 59% (Heritage) - 63% (CFG) - 76% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
Thune (SD) - 2016 - 61% (Average) - 52% (CReview) - 59% (Heritage) - 59% (CFG) - 84% (ACU) - 50% (FreedomWorks)
Isakson (GA) - 2016 - 58% (Average) - 40% (CReview) - 64% (Heritage) - 53% (CFG) - 68% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
Burr (NC) - 2016 - 57% (Average) - 49% (CReview) - 41% (Heritage) - 74% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 33% (FreedomWorks)
Blunt (MO) - 2016 - 55% (Average) - 38% (CReview) - 63% (Heritage) - 47% (CFG) - 76% (ACU) - 50% (FreedomWorks)
Hoeven (ND) - 2016 - 52% (Average) - 26% (CReview) - 53% (Heritage) - 47% (CFG) - 68% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
Portman (OH) - 2016 - 49% (Average) - 54% (CReview) - 29% (Heritage) - 77% (CFG) - 68% (ACU) - 17% (FreedomWorks)
Ayotte (NH) - 2016 - 45% (Average) - 41% (CReview) - 29% (Heritage) - 60% (CFG) - 63% (ACU) - 33% (FreedomWorks)
Kirk (IL) - 2016 - 32% (Average) - 28% (CReview) - 17% (Heritage) - 36% (CFG) - 64% (ACU) - 17% (FreedomWorks)
Murkowski (AK) - 2016 - 31% (Average) - 20% (CReview) - 35% (Heritage) - 27% (CFG) - 41% (ACU) - 33% (FreedomWorks)
Yes, Cruz can debate Hillary for hours on the issues and she will lie, ignore or insult. The media will call it for her and a lot of the watching public will feel like she’s being beat upon or will stop listening to what Cruz is saying.
Trump will debate her on issues with a few short sentences, designed to hit her where it hurts. The public will remember what he says and see the truth in it. She will spend the whole time defending herself.
I too think down ballot a lot of new faces will ride in on his coattails.
With Trump’s ties to the Mob, there is no telling what dirt Hillary has on him. He may find himself on the defensive.
Hillary does NOT "debate" !
Cruz is a lawyer and a great debater; I'll give you both of those, but so was Rick Lazio and Hillary ate his lunch. She'll do the same thing to Cruz.
OTOH...Trump actually knows Hillary, he knows just how to push her buttons/get her goat and will DESTROY her, because he doesn't play by the debate rules either.
Non-foxhole opposition
In other words ?
Guys you do not want in the fox holes with you fighting against you instead of fighting with you against a common enemy.
Hillary is 68 and everything that you base your opinion on, is worthless, irrelevant, doesn’t matter at all.
“By the way, Trump’s coattails will ensure a Republican landslide nationwide, so screw traitor McConnell.”
Like LBJ and Obama I believe President Trump wouldn’t hesitate to make it known to McConnell his FBI, CIA, NSA, and private investigator files are full of juicy information he wouldn’t want to see in tomorrow’s newspaper. Would President Cruz be as ruthless? If Cruz can’t play hardball with every weapon at his disposal, we need someone tougher. After all we endured the last few years of the Bush administration watching Bush get sucker punched every day by Pelosi and Reid with no response in kind. A President Cruz, unwilling to fight dirty, will result in a Democrat victory in 2020.
LOL !
Unfortunately for Trump, Hillary has all the dirt on him, including his Mob ties.
He is a disaster of in him self without any outside forces or influence.
EXACTLY !
Honey I am so tired of your Trump’s ties to the mob. That is old and intellectually very dishonest. If that were so, it would have been yelled from the rooftops by the GOPe. They know it is not and don’t even dare suggest it.
I’m quite sure Trump has plenty of dirt on Hillary although I don’t believe he will use it if he can just debate on issues.
The unspeakable truth: McConnell, Boehner, and Ryan have simply bent over and given 0bama everything he wants. There is no meaningful difference between McConnell and Reid, between Boehner/Ryan and Pelosi. When given the opportunity, all of them proved themselves to be 0bamorrrhoids.
There’s far MORE “dirt” on the Clintons and Trump isn’t “tied” to the Mob, but the Clintons sure are.
Cruz doesn’t know how to play “dirty”; yes, he’s a backstabber, but he isn’t clever and doesn’t know how to make “deals”.
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